After Semisonic, songwriter Dan Wilson is usually someone else's genius (like Adele)
by By Steve Knopper, Chicago Tribune
Sep 26, 2017
3 minutes
Dan Wilson noticed something curious about Adele. On live recordings of the smash they wrote together, "Someone Like You," the British pop superstar frequently avoids the impossible high notes she nailed so beautifully in the 2011 original. Wilson, the prolific songwriter and former Semisonic and Trip Shakespeare frontman who revisits the song on his own new album, "Re-Covered," has a theory about this: For Adele, and Adele alone, the climactic notes in her signature ballad make her voice seem ... sloppy.
"Those high notes were a point
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