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“Adele: Anticipation builds for new music”
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Brexit, Covid and now 30.
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I like her. There, I’ve said it.
I like her too. Some great songs and she has a great voice. Saying all that, I never play any of the albums after three or four listens. I don’t think that’s because I’m a music snob but there’s a fair chance that’s the main reason
I bought her 3 albums to date for pennies in chazzas. 19 and 25 went back after a couple of listens failed to make the slightest impression, but 21 is a keeper.
I hope she hurry’s up. I’m using her album titles for lottery numbers.
Arf!
I thought the numbers were her age at release which made sense to me,not the case apparently
I think it’s age at time of writing / recording, rather than release.
I dont have a problem with her to be honest and I like the fact that she swears like a trooper.
She’s ace, has incredible pipes and some absolute stone-cold brilliant songs. So what if her CDs sell well in Tesco? Bless her, I say.
I hear they’re the only thing that is being sold in Tesco at the moment.
We’ve got (I think) the first one. For some reason we always seem to play it on a long drive, and I sing along. Not sure I need another but it’s great. I saw a live content on the telly when it came out and she was great, plain speaking, sweary, airs – free. Sang the roof of the Albert Hall clean off. Diamond.
“Faaaaaaakin’ diamond”, shirley…?
Pretty much.
I was in the O2 singing my lungs out, rude boy, you’re never too big for Adele.
She has a great voice and seems like a good down-to-earth person. I don’t like enough of her music to own any of it.
That’s just MY problem, though. Loads of other people seem to love her records.
I think she’ll have as long a career in music as she chooses, because there’s real talent there.
Well, quite. She obviously has talent, even if it’s not for me.
And she almost single-handedly saved the music biz for a year.
It’s the “anticipation” that got me. I suppose “World shrugs shoulders at news of new Adele record” doesn’t make such a good headline.
Or reflect reality.
Just corporate hype. Making sure the punters know that it’s coming.
It’s enough of an event to justify the press/media attention and The Industry are gagging for world-wide mega-hits.
It’ll sell/be downloaded/be streamed in millions, no doubt about it.
The upside is that it’s brought the release of Red (Taylor’s Version) forward a week, now falling on the same day as Kylie unleashes the mahoosive Disco Superdeluxe set. New ABBA, new-old Taylor, new-collab Kylie… November has spawned monsters. What a time to be alive!
I like her. I like lots of her songs. I have found her voice a little too much for a whole album. Her ballads are genius. “Someone Like You”, “Make You Feel My Love” and of course “Hello” which I love more than is normal are wonderful songs, beautifully yet simply written. Modern with just enough of a nostalgic twist. I’ve convinced myself that she’s a Del Amitri / Justin Currie fan, her songs are sad enough and reliant enough on heartbreak. Then there’s this from “Hello”…
“Hello, how are you?
It’s so typical of me to talk about myself, I’m sorry
I hope that you’re well
Did you ever make it out of that town where nothing ever happened?”
Rolling In The Deep is a fantastic choon. And Skyfall is a proper Bond theme.
Agree with RITD. Skyfall gets very close to Vic Reeves (Elton John) pub singer mode. Just about gets away with it, just…
Bryan Ferry’s version of the Dylan song is better, tho.
Oh yes. A quick “Adele Dylan song” Google and there it is. Learn something new every day…
She does good cover; ergo Lovesong on the first one. What will it be on this one?
Word on the street is that it’s I Hate Nerys Hughes.
Oi, you horrid Moose. Leave our Nerys out of this. She visited my primary school to present awards and I was a recipient. She told me that she loved me. I have still to get over this.
The single is out, and it’s ace. She’s ace.
It’s good. Not the sort of stuff I buy, so I won’t.
So apparently it’s a big deal that she’s written songs about her divorce. And that, gasp, people can actually relate to the emotional content of her songs. Wow, that’s radical.
I have to ask, have these people even listened to any music, ever?
After all, this after 20 years of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry and Lily Allen having huge hits with songs that are basically “I Ditched You Because Your Penis Isn’t Big Enough”
In the middle of all this flummery, Adele herself is ace. Of course.
Wow – that’s some interpretation of Roar, Fireworks, Blank Space, Bad Blood, Smile – none of which refer to penis size as far as I can make out.
Makes me wonder what would happen if you took a Rorschach test.
Brings to mind a great Cannon & Ball sketch (no, really):
Bobby is shown an inkblot by a Doctor (Tommy) and is asked what it represents:
Bobby excitedly describes in great detail the curves of a sexy woman.
(Same thing happens a couple more times, each time Bobby gets carried away)
Doctor concludes that he’s a sex maniac.
Bobby says – “Well you keep showing me mucky pictures!”
I like the fact that she is seemingly in complete control. She’s everywhere for a year or two and then takes about three years off – until she’s ready again.
The new song is how you’d expect it sound – but Rolling in the Deep and Water Under the Bridge are examples of her unique talent and hopefully 30 has a few of those.
It’s known as the Kate Bush Stratagem. The original and best.
Unique talent?
What makes her unique and different to any other female singer with a good set of pipes?
I think I first realised it when she did that Graham Norton prank about 6 years ago.
She was put into a group of Adele impersonators (one of which was male). She was disguised by having a false chin and different hair. She changed her speaking voice and even her walk. The others had no idea it was her as she talked and nervously mingled with them.
She watched the others, one or two of them really very good. Adele then hesitantly took to the stage. Everyone watching is casually hanging around,, not that interested.. Within about 10 seconds, the whole group is paying full attention – some getting quite emotional. Why? Because her voice is so incredible, so exceptional that they Immediately know it must be the real Adele. I do think she is on another plane.
What makes her unique and different to any other female singer with a good set of pipes?
She’s sold 120 million albums, written some of the most popular music of the last 25 years and speaks very directly to the lives and hearts of a vast listening audience. So there’s that.
She’s indisputably authentic and has stayed real, no matter how much glossy makeover is lavished upon her. People probably warm and relate to her.
Additionally, she has a track on her new album called I Drink Wine, so she’s also got the best song title of the year.
I must have missed your laudatory posts on behalf of Katy Perry (143 million albums) and Celine Dion (200 million)
She’s not unique. She’s 9th.
Have all female singers with a good set of pipes sold upwards of 100 million albums then?
As for “unique”, I think you’ll find that each of us is as singular and precious as a snowflake.
Except Lodestone.
Would that he were unique. Unfortunately, nature occasionally repeats its calamities.
I’ll have you know. Something. Or other.
Tracks include The Bastard’s Taken the Good Casserole Dish .
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/are-you-hard-enough-to-listen-to-a-whole-adele-album-20211119214423
Albums not written in the aftermath of a divorce or breakup may be available. Who knows?
I think the reason quite a few people have a problem with Adele is that she’s lumped in with the aimed-at-people-who-only-buy-two-albums-a-year-and-usually-from-ASDA artists, e.g. Buble or Ed Sheeran. Both Ed and Adele have done some good songs, but neither are for me; this is no different to my opinion of The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand or, dare I say it, Bruce Springsteen.
I think Adele is a classic example of the debate about singing. Pitch perfect yadda yadda but give me Dylan and his ilk anyday It is emotionally barren stuff IMO.
This was amusing – Aussie journalists neglects to listen to new album before interviewing her. Even more amusing was the description in the piece of her as “one of the most influential women in the world”.
FFS how could that possibly be?
https://www.theage.com.au/culture/celebrity/a-million-bucks-for-adele-inside-the-world-of-celebrity-interviews-20211122-p59ayh.html?btis
Because she’s been the most successful and famous musician on the planet for over a decade.
Fabulous singer, in my view. I have no idea whether she’s pitch perfect, but she absolutely knows how to land the emotional heft of a song, which is a big part of why her music has connected with so many people. Albeit all the wrong people from the perspective of this community, as Hamlet notes above.
Yes. Adele opens her gob and the world listens. That’s influence.
There is nothing she has done that has landed any kind of emotional heft for me. It’s popular, but just ticks no boxes for me at all.
I reckon she’ll live.
Influential does not mean “I like them” and “They influence me, myself, personally”.
@Bingo-Little , @Moose-the-Mooche
How has she had an influence on anything? Genuine question.
What has she expressed an opinion on, campaigned for or against, shown leadership on that might warrant the term “influential, let alone “most influential woman in the world” ?
I think you’re confusing having an extensive reach/influence with regularly exercising it for political causes.
By the premise of the question above, the Queen of England wouldn’t be a particularly influential person, whereas she clearly is.
Adele has a vast audience. When she chooses to speak on a subject (as she has done recently re; marriage/mental health), it has a material impact on attitudes/the discourse.
The fact that she’s not a political campaigner doesn’t change that at all. There are tons of musical acts who have been hugely influential without being particularly political.
Ok, are women starting to take fashion cues from her?
Is there a distinguishable sound in the way women are singing that can be regarded as the “Adele sound”.
Are her food preferences influencing people’s eating habits?
Is her way of speaking being copied?
I don’t think reach should be conflated with influence.
“ I don’t think reach should be conflated with influence”.
I think you need to figure out whether you’re trying to understand why Adele is considered influential or whether you’re trying to construct a definition of influential that’s sufficiently narrow to exclude her.
For what it’s worth, I’m sat here typing this dressed as Adele.
Re below. LOL.
I am about to go to bed and the thought of Bingo Little dressed as Adele risks being my last thought for the night.
I am happy for another defintion of influence other than shifting a lot of units. And the ..in the world bit really got me scratching my head.
I drink wine.
Doctor! My eyes!!
Well, I’d be interested to see how many women are filing for divorce come January…
I love her voice and her personality. I really enjoy her covering other people’s songs.
I must admit I’ve only done minimal research on this – I haven’t checked spreadsheets of sales figures or formed a judgement on Adele’s personality and authenticity based on her chat show appearances. I’m afraid all I’ve done is listen to her record.
And it’s quite good. Pleasant tunes, and she has a good voice if a mannered style of singing. It’s the kind of thing which you could hear on Jazz FM on one of their smooth jazz sections and it would blend right in. But it wouldn’t stand out either.