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JK2006 |
I reiterate - it's her singing that is superb; the songs are sometimes (co written) great like Skyfall, the best Bond theme in decades, and sometimes ordinary like Hello. |
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Simon's Specs |
Adele co-writes all of her material, so the 'shit' stuff isn't just her fault. You know, she originally wanted to get into A&R, not performing, Thanks to a friend of hers posting some of her demos in MySpace, the rest is history.  |
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K |
In 2011 21 proved that the record buying public wanted well written "traditional format" songs (verse, chorus etc.) sung by great vocalists and played by great musicians.
"Huge toons" with 1 note melodies, cool artists who can't sing or write, sexy singers in skimpy outfits, songs which rely on cool sounding synths, badly written melodies/lyrics/structures etc etc were clearly not what the public wanted.
4 years later Adele sticks to the tried and tested method and proves once again that this is what the public want.
Will the industry sit up and take notice this time? |
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JK2006 |
Yes the terrific sales for Adele highlight the abominable (and collapsing) sales for everyone else. Don't blame streaming. Blame the utterly useless executives in the music industry - both the A&R and promotion departments and, naturally, the ones up top. Significant that the only two executives praised by The Tip Sheet in the late 90s were Simon Cowell and Richard Russell. Where would the industry be without One Direction and Adele? |
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GG |
Part of the problem is that the masses aren't used to real talent in 2015. You have saturation viral marketed pop stars that literally can't sing a note, marketed to directly to young teen girls, and generating large revenue.
Anyone that saw Katy Perry melt down at the Beatles tribute, or ever saw Swift sing live (anywhere) know what I'm talking about. Driven by label funded viral marketing with ubiquitous social media presence.
Then you have Adele. Absent from social media for what, three years? Then you hear THAT voice.
That video shot at the Church was devastating. JK, you have to admit it harkens back to Burt Bacharach in 1968! There is Adele, and there is everyone else.
There is a whole demographic of adults dying for this music, sales to which would constitute a major career in and of itself.
Yet clearly the astronomical numbers over this week prove this is beyond a single demographic.
I won't getting into dissecting the songs, except to say I wish she had used one of mine.
I recently told Jonathan Dickens that Adele was Dusty Springfield 2015.
She's the best that we've got. A breath of fresh air. I hope she continues to push herself (which may be unlikely) because I believe the best may be yet to come.
Hope you're well JK
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