https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lUewA6Dyao
― no hipster hats (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
we could have had it alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
― ok (Tape Store), Sunday, 26 December 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a hell of a song
― goole, Thursday, 30 December 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone Like You = a worldwide number 1 hit if ever there was one. A reminder just how powerful a simple ballad with just a piano and a voice can be when it's done right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHciwrfQQpU
― piscesx, Friday, 21 January 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
she shouldnt pull her hair back like that
― plax (ico), Friday, 21 January 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
is she the writer? both of these songs are fantastic. they feel like classics already to me. i'm really surprised because i hated that chasing pavements song.
― jed_, Friday, 21 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i kinda had the same reaction but the rusko remix of cold shoulder made me realise that its a kickass song and shes a great singer.
― plax (ico), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
a worldwide number 1 hit if ever there was one
always weirded out when people use this line to praise a song. so it's about as good as "the time (dirty bit)", then.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway re: adele, i wrote this at the jukebox, but i was totally shocked by "rolling in the deep" - i'd hated everything i heard off her first album, so to hear her do something w/genuine gravitas and personality was a surprise. what happened to her in those two years?
(i don't think it's quite amazing, though - still a bit reverent to its influences)
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 21 January 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah well adele was so clearly part of the a&r rush to replace winehouse before she ODed so its fair to assume that her first album might have been somewhat manhandled into shape whereas this one has the legitimation of **big name producer** rick rubin and I think that things like that tend to grant ppl a little more autonomy maybe. i mean obv this is speculation.
― plax (ico), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
xp yeah 'classic' isn't a word i'd bandy about willy nilly but that's what comes to mind to me too re: Someone Like You. writing credits are as follows:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_%28Adele_album%29very much the Florence vibe; writer shows up with bits/ideas/bare bones, Epworth et al finish em off, take a half/third of the publishing. Adele herself has said the writing is "60%" hers.
― piscesx, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
also a useful reminder not to write off artists based on debuts made when they were a teenager, even if the hype and press line are tedious - certainly i don't expect songwritery artists (which adele is, i guess) to find their voice at that stage, and if they do then they're a rare exception
xp
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
what age is this chick??
― plax (ico), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the clue is in the album titles - i know, such a lame thing to do ONCE let alone twice
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, January 21, 2011 11:11 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
i really like the song, but on a formal level, i'd state this differently. i think the "old motown" crowd would have had a little more play and spikiness in the backing. as it is this chugs along in a straightforward rock kind of way. i think if they had been reverent on that level it would sound less retro, if that makes sense. it's kind of white-stripes-y
― goole, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd go with that - i was referring more to her vocal being reverent. i really like the arrangement, though.
also i've just listened to "someone like you" and...not feeling it, it's leaving me as cold/bored as the stuff off the first album. brit school ersatz soul, you are never too far away :(
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shes my age
― plax (ico), Friday, 21 January 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
She's 22.
I definitely agree she has grown a whole lot since her first album (though there were a few choice songs on that one - "Right As Rain," "Cold Shoulder,"). 21 has some truly remarkable moments - I'd consider "Rolling in the Deep" a classic already, and other standouts for me "Set Fire To Rain," "He Won't Go," the bridge in "Rumor Has It" (incredible). She does have a tendency towards the maudlin and some of the songs are over-arranged, but yeah - I love how she melds all of these influences that I wouldn't necessarily like on their own - rockabilly, there's a definite classic rock influence on some tracks. Such a great voice too, obviously
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Rumour Has It is a barnstormer. dunno much about your man Ryan Tedder but hats off to him for his studio trickery anyway.
― piscesx, Friday, 21 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone Like You is in the itunes Top 20 and it's only an album track so far. The people have spoken! Currently the album is outselling the rest of the UK album chart combined. Hats off madame! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/sessions/2011-01-27_adeleliveloungespecial
― piscesx, Thursday, 27 January 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
okay her cover of "Lovesong" is great
― DJP, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought she did an amazing job on "Someone Like You" at last night's Brits. Clearly a song with direct personal resonance, as she was on the brink of tears by the end of it.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
"someone like you" has returned me to my original standpoint that she's a hack and a journeywoman. so dull.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The song is OK-to-good, but I thought the performance was outstanding, and highly affecting.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
No one with a voice that good can really be considered a hack, but she's just a bit... boring.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
bad thread-- blueski, Friday, January 4, 2008 2:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Linkit's here for the long haul, skip.― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, January 4, 2008 2:47 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
-- blueski, Friday, January 4, 2008 2:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
it's here for the long haul, skip.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, January 4, 2008 2:47 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
we did it
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
20/02/2011 - Adele equals Beatles’ record to lead Official Charts Brits BonanzaAdele’s Someone Like You rockets up the Official Singles Chart from last week’s number 47 to become the UK’s new number one after her powerful live television performance at last Tuesday’s Brit Awards, while her current album 21 heads the Official Albums Chart for a fourth week, the Official Charts Company announces today.Not content with achieving the chart double of simultaneous number ones in the nation’s Official Singles and Official Albums charts, the twenty-two-year-old artist boasts two more Top 5 hits this week; her single Rolling In The Deep and her debut album 19 are each at number four in their respective charts.Adele is the first living artist to achieve the feat of two Top 5 hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles back in January 1964 when their singles I Want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You were numbers two and five and their albums With The Beatles and Please Please Me were numbers one and two.Adele’s phenomenal achievement spearheads a huge surge in sales for all the artists who won or performed at the Brit Awards 2011. Total album sales for Brits’ artists were up 70% week on week with Laura Marling’s album I Speak Because I Can recording the biggest chart leap from last week’s number 80 to this week’s number 21.
Adele’s Someone Like You rockets up the Official Singles Chart from last week’s number 47 to become the UK’s new number one after her powerful live television performance at last Tuesday’s Brit Awards, while her current album 21 heads the Official Albums Chart for a fourth week, the Official Charts Company announces today.
Not content with achieving the chart double of simultaneous number ones in the nation’s Official Singles and Official Albums charts, the twenty-two-year-old artist boasts two more Top 5 hits this week; her single Rolling In The Deep and her debut album 19 are each at number four in their respective charts.
Adele is the first living artist to achieve the feat of two Top 5 hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles back in January 1964 when their singles I Want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You were numbers two and five and their albums With The Beatles and Please Please Me were numbers one and two.
Adele’s phenomenal achievement spearheads a huge surge in sales for all the artists who won or performed at the Brit Awards 2011. Total album sales for Brits’ artists were up 70% week on week with Laura Marling’s album I Speak Because I Can recording the biggest chart leap from last week’s number 80 to this week’s number 21.
― danzig, Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally listening to 21. I like her, but I really wasn't in a hurry to hear it I guess. Too bad, because this is great!
she's a hack and a journeywoman
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― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 February 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
She's no hack. Someone Like You is thumpingly predictable - seemingly designed for X-Factor cover versions - which makes the Brits performance all the more impressive.
― DL, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
It is really good, I was wondering whether you would like it or not.
― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Tiring though it is to be typing the words "Nabisco OTM" once again, this first para sums up exactly how I felt about the Someone Like You performance:
Sometimes you only really start appreciating someone like Adele when she’s singing a bad song. There’s some workmanlike, blandly tasteful arrangement lolling behind her like a boiled potato; the lyrics have gone all banal; the string section seems to be courting viewers of whichever network-TV drama needs to score a pensive montage ... and yet the main thing you’re thinking is: Who broke Adele’s heart, and why would they do that, and can they not hear how marvelous she is?
― DL, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Full review here:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/adeles_21_its_the_singer_not_t.html
Why is everyone talking about how it's intentionally constructed for future television use? The songs sound pretty honest to me. I'm I just not as cynical as I used to be?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 25 February 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
There's something very generic about the chord changes and arrangement of Someone Like You - it seems calculated and I think the honesty is all in the voice, ie in spite of the song rather than because of it. But then these days it's pretty hard to write a straightforward big-sounding piano ballad that doesn't sound like the closing scenes of Grey's Anatomy.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i fuck w/ this -- the world needs a good dramatic piano ballad every once in a while
― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
her voice gets kinda weird tho when she goes into her upper registers
― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i loved "chasing pavements" too
― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like rolling in the deep
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 25 March 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like rolling balls deep
― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Snrub otm, it's a great single! don't really care for anything else i've heard, but i haven't heard all of 21 yet
her Lovesong cover is an abortion btw, DJP u mad
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Saturday, 26 March 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the cover of lovesong is awful, easily the worst track on 21.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 26 March 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, it's better than the 311 version, at least, though...
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
What is with you people over there:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/04/adele-breaks-madonnas-album-record
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 April 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Adele is some hot garbage son.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
crazy how massive she is now
― just sayin, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lol fat joek
― A Zed and Two Nults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of despise this woman so it rather irritates me how much I love 'Rolling in the Deep' and 'Set Fire to the Rain'. Thankfully 'Someone Like You' is utter tosh!
― uberweiss, Sunday, 8 May 2011 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
True they are better songs. Can't stand her voice though. I just can't understand why she is so popular. Her image seems to appeal to people this kind of 'realness'. The matey, realness in interviews is such a turn off.
― mmmm, Sunday, 8 May 2011 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Maura notes something:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/05/adele_selling_out_commercials_festivals.php
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to the last track because a friend asked me to. It was okay!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
i was interested in this because of the inflo involvement, but the best tracks for me are "all night parking" and "my little love" (though the latter features voice notes that are almost uncomfortably intrusive), which are greg kurstin productions. he's also responsible for "i drink wine" which is probably the worst song on the album. all in all, i probably concur with ufo that it's generally a step in a more compelling direction but i'd definitely reach for joy crookes' skin or cleo sol's mother over this (which are but two recent albums using a similar sound palette)
― monotony, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
yeah i absolutely thought 'if only it was more like mother'
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link
I've heard it couple of times when driving with my BF and although it's decent, couldn't get rid of the thought that I 'cannot wait' to get back to another recent divorce album, kacey's star-crossed
― krewki, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
Oof, talk about damning with faint praise.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
Here’s a secret: she’s not 30I know this is a small detail but lol
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
I guess she needed some time to kind of figure out what it felt like to be 30
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
this album sounded trippy af to me, the first side anyway
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Not really an Adele nerd, but aren't her titles the age she was when started on the album?
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:43 (two years ago) link
it’s okay this is a safe space
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
I can only imagine what this album sounds like. “Ooh, thirty…thirty now”
― calstars, Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
why is she balling about not having a concert? jfc
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
bawling rather lol it's just weird
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
Because she's so sad. Maybe she'll release an album about it. She could call it "Lost Vegas."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 January 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
I always wished I caught this show The timing was ridiculously perfect - like they booked these small venues before she really turned into a megastar, and things just rapidly blew up during the course of the tour. Apparently even then-mayor Rahm Emanuel pulled some strings to get into the show.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgpJL9WzXMYFyIvA7gJ0XTtTB27hwT3HU
― birdistheword, Friday, 21 January 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
Honestly, those are my favorite kinds of shows, where you catch the act at a place you are already well aware they will never play again.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 January 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
I worked at Tower Records in Manhattan in the early 90s. Nirvana came in and did about a 45 minute set in the store right when Nevermind was released. My biggest memory of the event was that they were fucking loud.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 January 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
It's especially perfect when they're doing their best material. Nevermind goes without saying, and in Adele's case, I actually think her albums have gotten worse each time out - the first is still my favorite, the second is uneven with great highlights, and both were the only ones she could draw from when she did that tour.
― birdistheword, Friday, 21 January 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
I thought she sounded like Amy Winehouse when I first heard her.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 January 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
she was a huge Amy fan - iirc Amy was why she started singing!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 January 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
i saw what i think was adele's first american show. she was fine but i think i left early.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 January 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
Aw, this warms my heart:
https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/adele-facetime-fans-las-vegas-residency-apology.html
― birdistheword, Saturday, 22 January 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link