TIMMI you are speaking the truth it is still hard in the UK and the US for our singers to get the respect and publicity that they are due.As you said Adele is doing what Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Fantasia and Marsha are doing yet she is everywhere selling millions and they are still in her shadow.Record companies from the time of Elvis have been putting a white face on black music styles and have not wanted to push black artitsts that only changed with Motown.Do not forget that MTV would not play black music videos until Michael Jackson came along with Thriller that is how bad it was.The UK acts are talented and I think Alexandra Burke,VV Brown, Tinnie Tempah, Taio Cruz, Chipmunk and Loick are all amazing but so much of there success is based on working twice as hard and always having to be consistent.The trouble with Cher is that she used to boast that she was bringing something different and wrote her own songs the truth is she is bringing nothing new other than people waking up to the fact that she really is not a good singer, rapper or dancer.