The Cole effect
I’m not talking about singing — though what I’ve heard of her new album, A Million Lights, sounds great and the likes of Kanye West are predicting a major US breakthrough.
It’s when she speaks — the expressive Geordie accent that can go from warm and lilting when she’s seriously considering a question, to soft and silly when she’s having a giggle at herself, to acid and disdainful when she feels like it.
