{"id":2486281,"date":"2026-07-03T09:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2486281"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:32:05","slug":"sienna-spiro-visitor-review-will-she-be-the-new-adele-not-with-this-merely-competent-debut-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sienna-spiro-visitor-review-will-she-be-the-new-adele-not-with-this-merely-competent-debut-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Sienna Spiro: Visitor review \u2013 will she be the \u2018new Adele\u2019? Not with this merely competent debut | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700\" class=\"dcr-1iwzucl\">W<\/span>e live in a post Die With a Smile world. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars\u2019 2024 megahit has nearly 4bn streams on Spotify alone: the people crave traditionalist AM radio ballads. Enter Sienna Spiro, a young soul singer whose ultra-traditionalist sound is backed up by posh pedigree: her father, Glenn Spiro, is a famed Hatton Garden jeweller; her mother, Arabella, is a high society figure who reportedly mixed with royalty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"9fa07a5e-3673-4c2f-8487-b9c4e0ab375c\" data-spacefinder-role=\"thumbnail\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-qsywgu\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-174mzkf\"><span class=\"dcr-vyhg7z\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">Artwork for Visitor.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">After breaking through on TikTok, Spiro first hit the UK singles chart in 2024 and has since had three US Hot 100 hits. Her much-anticipated debut album is merely competent pastiche, largely comprising Whitney-style piano ballads sung with a grittier and less agile voice. Spiro specialises in lyrical stubbornness: the image she paints of herself is that of a charming fighter, refusing to let an ex get away. Sometimes this really works: Die on This Hill is soaring and suffused with cathartic conviction. On We\u2019re Not in Love and Great Expectation, it\u2019s just exhausting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Spiro\u2019s other mode is full-band torch songs with intermittent signs of greatness. This Is My House, produced by soul revivalist Leon Michels, implies a totally different kind of album to Visitor, and is an unabashed highlight \u2013 save the unearned sample of civil rights legend Nikki Giovanni. But then there\u2019s the deeply misguided He\u2019s Not My Baby, I\u2019m His: written about a relationship with a man \u201ctwice my age\u201d, the vintage-styled track struggles under the weight of bad-taste lyrics: \u201cNo one feels quite as seen as when a child gets chosen.\u201d That excess is a common theme across Visitor \u2013 a little more subtlety and Spiro\u2019s \u201cnew Adele\u201d tag might actually stick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theguardian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a post Die With a Smile world. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars\u2019 2024 megahit has nearly 4bn streams on Spotify alone: the people crave traditionalist AM radio ballads. 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