Am I the only one who liked the first album better? At least judging from the songs that I've heard from the new one, they seem kind of over-arranged to me. I liked the more spare arrangements on _19_. Also "Chasing Pavements" > "Rolling in the Deep".
― o. nate, Friday, 27 May 2011 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/29/adele-change-women-music-business
"XL's Richard Russell blames 'boring, crass and unoriginal' music on industry's over-sexualisation of female artists"
good thing we discussed all of this in advance of anyone saying it.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 30 May 2011 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
'A success, in pop, is never just a success – it's always ready to be spun into a triumph for some wider force.'says Tom Ewing http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jun/02/tom-ewing-adele-success?CMP=twt_gu
― piscesx, Friday, 3 June 2011 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
i miss when novelty hits were novel
― 51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Sunday, 19 June 2011 09:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn "Someone Like You" is depressing as shit.. I think I like this.
― billstevejim, Friday, 30 September 2011 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
it has a new video.. this was my first time hearing this song
― billstevejim, Friday, 30 September 2011 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
great cover of rolling: http://soundcloud.com/work-drugs/rolling-in-the-deep-adele
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/music/paul-epworth-on-producing-adele.html?ref=arts
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 February 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tell us a little about how “Rolling in the Deep” came about.
A. I had all these chords I thought would be perfect for her. You know, little musical riffs or themes. I tried all these out on her for about two hours. She literally sat there with a pen in her hand staring blankly, and she just went, “I’m not feeling anything.” And then she went, “I’ve got this riff, this idea, that’s going round and round my head,” and I went, “Go on then, what is it?” And she went, [sings] “There’s a fire.”
I said wow, and I just grabbed a guitar and quickly tried to figure out what the key was. She had all the verses, that thematic melody that she uses all through the song. I put all the verses down as one long recording, and then we put spaces in the track to start work on a prechorus and a chorus. We wrote the core of the song — her verses and the chords — in under 15 minutes. And the rest of it was structured over two hours.
Q. Her vocal track that you recorded that day for a demo ended up on the album. Why didn’t you redo it?
A. Adele was going through something. She had had her heart broken, and she was in pieces, and you can really hear that, her anger and her sadness. Sometimes I just don’t think you can recreate that or fake it. My hunch is that we captured something in her vocal performance that was going to be very hard to recreate
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 February 2012 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
The science of "Someone Like You":
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213010291701378.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Saturday, 11 February 2012 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
spare us a tenner til Monday?
http://www.nme.com/news/adele/62071
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
the headline "Adele shows off her new £7 million, 10-bedroom mansion in new video" makes it sound like the Hype Williams-directed clip for the Swizz Beatz remix of her new single takes place in her mansion
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 February 2012 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
French paper publishing Adele sextape tomorrow. Skeezy.http://www.jeanmarcmorandini.com/article-263995-une-sextape-de-la-chanteuse-adele-diffusee-sur-le-net-et-dans-le-magazine-public.html
― zappi, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
does anyone really wanna see that lol
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes. yes i do.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 17 February 2012 01:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
god, the leaked pic is disturbing enough. not sure if I'm gonna be able to watch it.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 17 February 2012 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's a still from a sex tape
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 February 2012 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
?
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Friday, 17 February 2012 02:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
une sextape
― buzza, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes, supposedly it's a still from the sextape. adele's image is ruined for me now.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 17 February 2012 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can't believe L'Académie française has not come up with a word for "sex tape."
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Friday, 17 February 2012 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
In other news, she's been moaning about paying tax again, hasn't she?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
somebody linked me this pic, but Adele really isn't the highlight:
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Friday, 17 February 2012 12:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
lmfaooo. i wish this were real
― teledyldonix, Friday, 17 February 2012 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Looking forward to the celebration-of-motherhood album then.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 June 2012 15:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
@JennyJohnsonHi5Adele's pregnant, man her next album is gonna suuuuuuuuck
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
I didn't realize Adele is younger than I am!
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Saturday, 30 June 2012 16:27 (10 months ago) Permalink