| ADELE | DUFFY |
One word name | Adele | Duffy |
Best song | 'Chasing Pavements' | 'Warwick Avenue' |
What they say | "As soon as I got a microphone in my hand, when I was about 14, I realised I wanted to do this." | "I don't think I can remember life without singing so I don't know how I started." |
Influences | Jill Scott, Etta James, Billy Bragg, Peggy Lee, Jeff Buckley and The Cure. | Patsy Cline: amazing. |
Can you dance to her music? | No | No |
Boringness | 22% | 68% |
Welshness | 0% | 100% |
Ability to win pub brawl | 81% | 12% |
Vocal ability | A+ | B- |
Hair | C- | C+ |
Capacity for booze | 89% | 56% |
Tendency towards black and white photography | 61% | 98% |
Tendency towards carefully lit photography | 91% | 42% |
Are they going to release any amazing poppers o'clock remixes of their songs? | Probably not. | Highly unlikely. |
Are they better than Foals? | Maybe | No |
Chances of going totally off the rails and pissing everything up the wall | 67% | 1% |
Will their second album be better than their first? | Yes | No |
Would they have been signed if Amy Winehouse hadn't broken through? | Yes, but would have been a harder sell | Yes, artists like this are signed about 80 times a year |
Likelihood of being mean about Girls Aloud | 50% | 22% |
Likelihood of saying anything interesting at all in entire album campaign | 100% | 19% |
Largely irrelevant elephants in room not explicitly acknowledged by media coverage | Not slim | Fit |
Chance of million-selling greatest hits in six years | 49% | 12% |
Do they own a dog? | Unknown | Unknown |
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