Is this the first horseman of musical "you're old"?
bassie
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Contemporary British blue-eyed female soul is not on my radar, but I saw a live performance of Someone Like You by Adele at the Brit Awards and I was struck. I would say maybe I was just in the right mood, but why make excuses? Rolling in the Deep is also amazing to me. (John Legend can bite a big fart for ruining yet another song, by the way. Just can't keep his middle-of-the-road mitts off!)
I've not heard her full records, but I like almost every single/YouTube video.
Yay or Nay, efriends?
I've not heard her full records, but I like almost every single/YouTube video.
Yay or Nay, efriends?
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tepid pop music.
also, this attitude doesn't endear her to me: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/may/25/adele-tax-grievances
am i TRULY missing something with her?
This is the camp that I'm in. All I know is that co-workers with highly suspect musical taste seem to be into her. My assumption has been that she is a safe alternative to Winehouse, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Adele is way more pop, safe and clean imo.
Church ladies will like Adele.
Incidentally, I just read the article about her fear of taxes (linked above) and one commenter described her music as "mum soul". Thought that was worth forwarding along...
That being said, her recorded work verges on over-produced. I ride for her live performances.
This. The first time i saw her (performing her first single on TV live) it was fairly easy to see she was going to be really succesfull because of the voice/appearance and being pretty young (19 at the time??). The single was 'chasing pavements'.
I guess this is very stylish vocals. Perhaps meant for an ear different than mine. Oh well, kudos to those that play it.
As for being musically old. Liking different musica doesn't have much to do with age. I figure age has a lot to do with how you feel.
serious question:
are you 19?
She is completely soul-less. She also has the charisma and the sex appeal of a grazing cow.
this is very irksome for me.
she's NOT trying to pretend that it's a reggae song, but she IS.
it's that vapid white-person over(under)-enunciation lyrical delivery of a stripped down song that merely lends itself to a reggae style that reeks of "i'm not trying to subvert a culture but look how much 'soul' i have" style of singing.
ps. i am white.
It's very easy for the strain of music-nerd that congregates on here to get all pissy about it and dismiss it as pablum for undiscriminating pallettes, but well-crafted MOR pop-soul has always had popular appeal. It's a waste of time getting upset about Adele's music the way people did on here when Winehouse broke big, and half of SS was acting like she was robbing the very food from Sharon Jones's table. But the fact is, anyone who sells millions of records automatically gets dismissed as someone making music for morons, whether they are or not. As for Adele herself, she does a remarkably good job of avoiding the pop-star bullshit which seems to go hand-in-hand with the sort of success she's currently enjoying so, if nothing else, she's proved it can be done. Good luck to her, but my world don't stop either way.
She has shades of Moyet & Lennox, although she not quite up to either mantle. A lot of people seemed to be touched by her Brits performance, so she must be doing something right.
Apart from that, I can only cosign what Doc said.
nb i hear Florence is a good singer IRL, i don't really like the way she sings on her records though. maybe the next album will be better.
the white boy soccer hooligan hand motions and chanting at 9:03-9:04 are amazing. what a bunch of clowns.
Yes. Hard to say now how much I'd like her if my first exposure wasn't a live performance.
I feel fine about liking her songs. And it's good to surprise yourself now and then.
Rolling In The Deep is a pleasant enough song that I probably wouldn't turn off and someone played me her cover of The Cure's Love Song the other day which was predictably over produced but rather nice in a Zero 7ish way.
Songs like the above mean I don't really see her as someone filling a hole left by Winehouse and in my mental filing she fits more easily into the kind of Moyet artist that Okem mentions - part of a long tradition in the UK for female singers.
Flagrant abuse of the 'speaketh not, on what thou does not knoweth' ruling. You're off.
I can listen to about 50% of both artiste's output. Glad they are doing things on their terms and not being given the cookie-cutter ride from The Record Company.
did you watch the specific moment of the video I referenced? that's exactly what they look like. ivebeentomanyUKsoccergames-related. it's that taunting the cop in the street post-game type thing going on. just my first reaction; don't take it personal!