Adele - CANCELLED

British pop-soul siren Adele is bringing vocals back. She didn’t end up with the year’s biggest-selling album, “21,” because of vampy videos, big-dance beats and an array of guest stars on her songs. She did it the old-fashioned way — with passionate vocals rendering her deeply emotional words set to memorable melodies (thanks to Minneapolis’ own Dan Wilson, who cowrote three songs). In concert, she’s always nervous, which could mean she’ll turn into a chatterbox or become strikingly introverted. Either way, Adele, 23, delivers songs like no other current pop star. Jon Bream