no adele thread yet?

her general pose re: authenticity/being ordinary etc tbh reminds me of plan b more than anyone else

lot of similarities

Really? Plan B plays on artifice - the whole Strickland Banks persona, the shifting genres. All they have in common is that they're white working-class Londoners - and both funny and candid - so maybe their personalities signify "authenticity".

yeah, the whole 'no bullshit, i tell it like it is, i dont care about sugarcoating my opinion' thing is def a big common thing. and the whole MOR sound in spite of that 'tude is also something they share. there were some other things too but my minds preoccupied.

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".

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.

'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

i miss when novelty hits were novel

damn "Someone Like You" is depressing as shit.. I think I like this.

it has a new video.. this was my first time hearing this song

great cover of rolling: http://soundcloud.com/work-drugs/rolling-in-the-deep-adele

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/music/paul-epworth-on-producing-adele.html?ref=arts

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

The science of "Someone Like You":

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AF961A_ADELE_G_20120210234610.jpg

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213010291701378.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5

spare us a tenner til Monday?

http://www.nme.com/news/adele/62071

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

ha

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

does anyone really wanna see that lol

yes. yes i do.

god, the leaked pic is disturbing enough. not sure if I'm gonna be able to watch it.

that's a still from a sex tape

?

une sextape

yes, supposedly it's a still from the sextape. adele's image is ruined for me now.

Can't believe L'Académie française has not come up with a word for "sex tape."

In other news, she's been moaning about paying tax again, hasn't she?

somebody linked me this pic, but Adele really isn't the highlight:

http://i41.tinypic.com/zkijvl.jpg

lmfaooo. i wish this were real

Looking forward to the celebration-of-motherhood album then.

‏@JennyJohnsonHi5
Adele's pregnant, man her next album is gonna suuuuuuuuck

I didn't realize Adele is younger than I am!

Regarding the decline of the music industry thread elsewhere, it might be interesting to discuss "21". As in, why did this particular album actually go on to sell in numbers otherwise unheard of in the 2010s? Not being on Spotify until 2013-ish may have helped, surely? And appealing to a somewhat older audience? But, really, 30 million copies (probably even more as this is the sales by 2014). That is just so enormously much more than anything else released in the 10s. So why?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/18/adele-new-music-25-x-factor_n_8326472.html

tristan wilds' biggest role since the wire tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A

new song firmly in my head :/

Because grandmas and old women like Adele and they don't stream or download.

it's pretty fucking dreary

good iD interview here

Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth, Bruno Mars all on the album. supposedly it sounds like 70s soft rock!

https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/adele-exclusive-full-cover-story-i-d

obvious point but still interesting to me how much "hello" clings to yet inverts the emotional drama of "someone like you"- this is the guilty other side answer song to her previous hit- how do you manage the nostalgia you feel for a relationship that you ended? it's subtler, less self-indulgent, i guess more "mature", and it manages to loop her listeners back insofar as it's a reminder song about reminded, so the career arc and lyrical situation both click

er, about being reminded

adele is such a fucking plodding pedestrian bore

adele should probably scrap the new album and redo it with this guy from "the voice" doing all the lead vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCzkD-vu84g

guy pwnd that song!

music videos w long intros = duuuuud and whats up with all the dialogue and noise? also just a lot of useless belting, as if that's supposed to make her sound like a good singer... esp lol when they zoom in on her at 2:50 and belting is out of sync, who edited this vid?

yes it is all so dull and poorly executed that it's.... more popular than star wars, huh

I was def impressed by the view count

well, something's connecting with people, is my point.

to me she kinds sounds off the rails on this song. "when i call you never seems to be home" - oh he's home, adele. he's home.

does popularity magically cancel out boring art?

I don't think the song is as poor as the execution, but I think - and this may ofc just be projection - that she has a lot of goodwill and that may account for some of the popularity

i just find it amazing that you can take this massively successful pop object and slate it on technical, craftsmanship grounds, when it's like, if it were that poorly executed surely you would not get that many people liking it?