If we only consider the music, I don't think there was anything that much more original or exciting about Amy Winehouse compared to Adele. They were both very good songwriters, and Winehouse was probably a slightly better singer (not by much, mind you). To say that Adele is "made bland and safe" gives her a disservice, because she's evidently not a pre-packaged product who's just been manufactured by an industry to make money (if she was, they'd have chosen someone more traditionally good-looking and not let her write her own songs). I don't see what makes a song like "Set Fire to the Rain" any more "safe" than a song like "Rehab", to be honest.
If anything, Amy Winehouse was just riding the wave of the vintage, soulful, Motown-influenced trend to the same extent Adele is riding the back of the stripped-down piano pop trend. Just because her style of pop wasn't quite as well-trodden ground as Adele's doesn't mean it much more unique per se :P
Is it normal that Adele is a magnet for hatred?
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If we only consider the music, I don't think there was anything that much more original or exciting about Amy Winehouse compared to Adele. They were both very good songwriters, and Winehouse was probably a slightly better singer (not by much, mind you). To say that Adele is "made bland and safe" gives her a disservice, because she's evidently not a pre-packaged product who's just been manufactured by an industry to make money (if she was, they'd have chosen someone more traditionally good-looking and not let her write her own songs). I don't see what makes a song like "Set Fire to the Rain" any more "safe" than a song like "Rehab", to be honest.
If anything, Amy Winehouse was just riding the wave of the vintage, soulful, Motown-influenced trend to the same extent Adele is riding the back of the stripped-down piano pop trend. Just because her style of pop wasn't quite as well-trodden ground as Adele's doesn't mean it much more unique per se :P