she's just performed it in the live lounge and i actually forgot it was live for a sec 😱

I am loving this more and more with each listen, I was a fan of the last album anyway but this is really spectacular and has me very excited for album 2!

Emeli! *.* Her and Alicia have really surprised me this year!! 'Hurts' is what Emeli needed to come back big imo. It's still very much her sound but more of a progression rather than trying to recapture the magic of OVOE.

 

It's like an antidote to My Kind of Love.

 

Yah this is like Well Well Well. Not exciting at all.

In what universe?

I'm glad to see some of the hate be somewhat quietened by this release.

 

Sure, she was overexposed back in 2012 but that was 4 years ago and she has always had one of the best female voices in the UK and a great ear for music. I knew she'd have something up her sleeve.

omg I love it...so beautiful <3

Yah this is like Well Well Well. Not exciting at all.

take that BACK :cry:

She has been absent for so long in the pop world that I thought it would be impossible for her to have a successful comeback, but with this song she might be able to pull it off? I think it'll be a bit of a slow burner.

 

I don't know how I feel about the song yet personally. It's definitely intriguing.

This is pretty good - a great comeback from her!

I'm not totally feeling it myself (at least right now) but it's clearly an excellent, classy, intricately formulated, multi-dimensional track that'll impress on a big scale, so a very smart career move. I forgot how gorgeous her voice is.

 

I do wonder though, given she's dictated her career from the off by forcing her to go by her middle name, how long Emeli's been sitting on this/waiting to release something considering Adele had been threatening a comeback for so long, and then of course took her audience hostage along with the rest of the world for the last year. :lol:

 

she's just performed it in the live lounge and i actually forgot it was live for a sec 😱

Completely!

 

It was an instant click with me !

Not getting the general overwhelming response to this song at all but at least it's a lot better than I was fearing, definitely won't mind hearing it on the radio but still sounds like something I'll get sick of pretty quickly.

Insant Hit with me!

I do think Emeli will struggle in the streaming era so although this could've made it to the top in the digital age I'm worried she'll fail to go top 10 with this.

If you're not a random dance act / Justin Bieber / singer/songwriter you're not going to do well in the charts.

I wasn't really getting the overwhelming response to this either at first, as much as I wanted to. Like, I could totally appreciate what she was doing and her fantastic vocal ability, but something wasn't impacting on me in the same way other marching rhythmed, OneRepublic esque songs did.

 

I'm happy to say that it is growing now, especially after her phenomenal Live Lounge performance.

I know it probably won't get as much love in here but offaiah has remixed Hurts and it's amazing.

 

WOW. :dance: :music: :dance:

 

offaiah hits it out of the park again