In another time, Taylor Swift would’ve been classified as a rock star—she’s a singer-songwriter who plays confessional songs in basketball arenas, like Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, or Sheryl Crow. But instead she’s called country or pop. The same could be said of Adele—she’s part of the diva continuum with Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and Celine Dion, but she also belongs in the history of singer-songwriters with Carole King and Joni Mitchell, who were lumped under the rock umbrella in the seventies. That’s two of the biggest pop stars in the world with rock in their DNA, but they are
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