Stone Cold Sober Stone Cold Sober "Stone Cold Sober" is the debut single by English recording artist Paloma Faith from the album "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?" (2009). It was released on 15 June 2009 and entered the UK chart at number 17. The theme of the song is the predicament of appearing to be one thing and actually being quite another. Faith told "Q" July 2009 about the "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?" album: "My vocal style suits the subject matter of my album. It's about the human condition, the constant striving for love and companionship.
Singer-songwriter took the lead in merging folk and rock, and in July 1965, released "Like a Rolling Stone", with a revolutionary rock sound, steeped in tawdry urban imagery, followed by an electric performance later that month at the Newport Folk Festival. Dylan plugged an entire generation into the milieu of the singer-songwriter. Often writing from an urban point of view, with poetry punctuated by rock rhythms and electric power, Dylan's fusing of folk and rock freed up emerging singer-songwriters to use elements of both traditions to tell their stories. In the mid- to late 1960s, bands and singer-songwriters began to proliferate