Adele

Were the two of you an item I would think that the talented, multi-million selling, international, singing superstar would be more concerned about having to top-up your betting account rather than you keeping her in cake.

She's wonderful.

For Allah's sake EO, please leave me one Woman-off-the-Telly that I can call my own. It's bad enough that you've purloined Rocco's Niece and The Former Chancellor's Daughter from my fantasy grasp.

big fan, her latest album is garbage.

Only a divorce will save her career.

**** me she has lost some weight.

**** me she has lost some weight.

Stunning woman. Beautiful singing voice, filthy cackle, loads of fun, rich, talented, beautiful.

Would trample all over a skank like Kate Moss (supermodel my arse) to get to Adele.

she sure can sing thats for sure

people going on about this adele and I wondered who she was

went on u tube on insistence of one of my daughters

it was at the albert hall  she comes on says somefink then says ..... fckin something or fkn great
and I fort !! I is going to listen to this ha ha  and couldn't believe how good her voice was

don't know about all the other sh!te but she sure can sing

hope this helps

She's Micky Flanagan in a blonde wig.

You heard it here first.

Liked, and own, the first two albums.

Have only heard new single from latest, which isn't up to standard - sounds overproduced.

Very attractive face.

Fat.

Seems a good sort.

Big hands.

Liked, and own, the first two albums.

Have only heard new single from latest, which isn't up to standard - sounds overproduced.

Very attractive face.

Fat.

Seems a good sort.

Big hands.

Great singer/songwriter and backed by what I thought were a brilliant set of backing singers/musicians. She really commands the stage and in a short time seemed to have the audience in her hand. Sounded good even on my poxy tv speakers.

"Stunning woman. Beautiful singing voice, filthy cackle, loads of fun, rich, talented, beautiful.
Would trample all over a skank like Kate Moss (supermodel my arse) to get to Adele".
Well said "Roger the Butler" ...couldn't agree more.
Love the woman...

Adele is said to be one of the few superstars who has enough influence to decide how she wants people to listen to her music.
Martin Talbot is from the Official Charts Company and told Newsbeat: "Her fans range from children to aunts and uncles. Not only does she have fans who will go out and buy the record for themselves, there's a huge potential for gift purchase as well."

Basically, he means people with sh!t taste.

Estimated worth £45 million

She'll do for me

she is brilliant

can`t sing.

Stunning?  Seriously?

Riff raff made good.

Wouldn't know one song she did apart from the Bond song ......dreadful stuff .
Middle of the road , dullsville music .

Quite like her but has she recorded any cheerful upbeat songs?

sixtwosix    21 Nov 15 14:18 
Wouldn't know one song she did apart from the Bond song ......dreadful stuff .
Middle of the road , dullsville music .

Exactly, 626, although you'd probably recognise the Someone Like You dirge if you heard it. Sh!t like this sells by the truckload - Dido sold 21 million copies of her first album, Adele's 2nd is the biggest selling album this century with over 30M. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Alanis Morrissette, and even the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack all make the top 20 best selling albums in history. People love bland.

You might think this ridiculous but, genuinely, I wouldn't know Adele or any songs despite my daughter raving about her!

I took a thirty second look at her and was totally underwhelmed!

Now, as she is the topic I took another look, and she was singing something I heard before, but which still didn't do it for me.

"Rolling In The Deep"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7UFm6ErMPU

I find her music boring but she does have an excellent voice and is quite easy on the eye.

watched and listened to a few of her songs on YouTube.

My conclusions:

1. Needs to lose a few pounds

2. Might sound better when her sore throat gets better

3. Somebody should tell her shouting is not singing

Underwhelming IMO ... the Sven Goran Erikson of music, i.e. completely and unwarrantedly overrated.

I nearly said she makes Lenny Henry seem good at what he does, but she's really not THAT bad.

She's ok  but I just get the impression the BBC is fawning all over her like she is royalty, especially with Norton saying the best Bond song ever

She invented the Adkins diet.

I had never really listened to Adele properly (despite Mr Makybe being a fan) until I watched her BBC show this afternoon.

I think she has a fantastic voice.

I love this, Million Years Ago
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http://youtu.be/RuJD14w-suk

Rolling in the Deep
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http://youtu.be/rYEDA3JcQqw

How come Adele has passed me by until now

where have you been, her first 2 albums were brilliant.

Her and amy winehouse are top notch.

I've assumed that Adele won X-Factor or something. I couldn't be more wrong. I have just been reading up on her on Wilki.

I liked Skyfall when I heard it on the film but never really thought who was singing it

Yes, love Amy WineHouse. A terrible loss

Can't have "Hello" at all. Asides from ripping Lionel off at the start it's pretty dull.

"Someone like you" is much more like it, but like all good artists, she's probably going the wrong way.

Will have a listen to Hello.

Oh yes, I know that. It's ok.

Some of her songs are l little depressing.

Best songs come from troubled souls.

Some of her songs are l little depressing.

don't forget she's from Tottenham.

Thanks, I will check it out.

I never listen to radio so miss a lot of things.

You seem a discerning sort Diva but as Sonka says the best songs tend to come from troubled souls and for me Adele is at her best and most soulful when she's pouring her heart out. Mona Lisa may have looked a bit miserable but then......

If you want something a little more upbeat there are a good few with Hometown Glory and One And Only springing to mind. She also did a wonderful cover of an old Bob Dylan song Make You Feel My Love and she did a howitzer of a release song Set Fire To The Rain on her last album.

alun

Sorry I didn't reply. A harem is in vogue these days I believe but I don't want to leave you out. I'll send all the mothers in law round for your delectation.

PJ Harvey's truly brilliant Let England Shake has sold about 250,000. Adele's 21 has sold 30 million. Bland sells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpHTeqlwTAM

There's plenty of room for both Mikael. There's nothing bland about Adele. She's just different to PJ who is a fine artist in her own right. I remember a mate of mine took me to see Harvey in concert before she made it big and she was underwhelming.

Sure Adele is gutted at being called fat, a bad singer and bland by the super sexy, multi talented BF forumites.

She is natural, has a great voice and is down to earth. Whether you are a fan or not I think her voice lends itself to the heartfelt numbers she belts out. Cannot see it fitting 'I've got a brand new combine harvester' or 'Agadoo.'

I've mentioned neither her singing nor her size. I stand by bland though. Same as the other artists with 30M+ selling albums I mentioned. And Dido.

Just had a look on youtube. Over 450 million views for Adels's latest single, from an album I've seen fans describe as 'garbage.' I guess she can churn out any old sh!te and people will buy it.

Her music is dull as fúck.  No idea what she's like as a person.  Good on her for being so successful, but I'm not chewed about listening to anything by her.

The bottom line is Massive Attack would never use her for any of their tracks

Unlike the greats...Liz Fraser,Tracy Thorn,Sinead O'Connor etc

you don t seriously buy all this shoite about all her songs been about old flames etc,do you seriously believe a woman with a husband and kid would still be writing about old love affairs broken hearts etc unless the sed husband was in on the gig,if true any man worth his soul would show her the door ,who would live with someone still besotted with people from her past,dont no the hubbys circumstances maybe he,s using her as a cash machine,if so she,s as looney as him

A rare talent indeed.

Shame some feel the need to be not very nice about her.

Mikael D'Haguenet 23 Nov 15 01:10 
" I guess she can churn out any old sh!te and people will buy it."
Pretty much sums up the world of pop music.

Yes but that's just Mikael D'Haguenet opinion. Many obviously disagree with him.No view is right or wrong.

Not correct, there is a right or wrong view.

Whether music or art is good or bad is something that is above and independent of peoples opinion, like a mathematical formula.
Not everyone understands that.

bigmo    23 Nov 15 15:53 
Yes but that's just Mikael D'Haguenet opinion. Many obviously disagree with him.No view is right or wrong.

Indeed bigmo but, as I said in my post, it was an Adele fan who described her new album as 'garbage.' I've never listened to any of her albums. I already knew they were garbage!

Tbh, I'm kinda glad that Polly Harvey can only shift 250k copies of a masterpiece, while stuff I consider to be junk sells in the tens of millions. Nowt like a bit of cultural snobbery!

I dispute the 'rare talent' part btw. I've provided names of several 'artists' who churn out middle-of-the-road stuff that gets lapped up by the masses. It's fairly well established that we're a bunch of middle-aged white blokes on here. Most don't bother listening to new music at all, and haven't for years. They do occasionally hear something from the mainstream and latch on to it though.

Mikael D'Haguenet 23 Nov 15 01:10 
" I guess she can churn out any old sh!te and people will buy it."

Speaking of sh!te I notice that this weeks top 40 contains 7 tracks from that little Canadian turd.

I'm sure we could cite plenty of fans of any musician who would complain that an album is shiite. Even the great PJ Harvey. I don't subscribe to lfc's view. I remain convinced that such things are subjective and my subjective view is that in my lifetime I can think of four truly great female interpreters of popular music from this country. Two of those I'd class as power singers being Bassey and Winehouse and two who were singers who elicited emotion or what some people call soulful singers. These were Springfield and now Adele. That's how highly I rate her. A measure of which is that she's often better live than on record.

We'll just go round in circles debating this.I guess We all get a little precious if we rate something and others label it trash.I'm sure you would feel the same if I labeled your favourite artist as trash.

Adele is just one of many wide ranging artists I enjoy listening to.I think it's unfair to label her work as trash though as some posters are.

Let me explain why a work of art/music and its value must exist outside and above peoples opinions. It is simple an exercise in logic.

Have you ever(most people have but not all) listened to a piece of music say at age 13 and thought it terrible or it just had no effect on you. A nd then, perhaps a year later you play again the same piece of music and something starts to happen, you play it a few more times and it hits you like you have discovered something beautiful. And you have.

Now what has changed, it is the same piece of music which is now a masterpiece. It hasn`t changed, you have....this is why it is the music that exists and its beauty independent of people and you may or may not find it.

PJ Harvey is just a Bjork wannabe but without the voice.

I love Björk too. She's a big PJ Harvey fan.

Singing ability barely registers with me, otherwise I'd be listening to Mary J Blige all day.

Wife bought the new CD so I have heard it several times, bit boring re-cycled songs and dwelling a bit too much on the past and with poorer songs. Just my opinion but wife loves it. I do like Adele and thought she was very good on the BBC Special last week.  But this album is the same formula, a few very good tracks but rest so bland and forgettable.

the popularity of her is a sad reflection on the state of UK youth musical taste.
When I was young it was meant to be something your parents didn't like, approve of or even understand.

my home is a adele free zone miserable b1tch

One could argue that if todays music was better Adele wouldn't get a look in. Sadly most of it is a pile of pants.

yep

time for a revolution, musically

I like Set Fire To The Rain. Thanks, EO

Oh no!!!!

My smileys have gone all bonkers again. I had this trouble the other day.

Sorry EO. Didn't mean fr that to be the devil

It looks like a happy smile to me Makybe_Diva.

The devil has the best tunes, MD.

(it's a on my screen btw - not sure what you're looking at!)

Oh no!

In that case I have just posted a right load of rubbish to Boxing, on another thread. He will think I am mad

What smiley can you see in that last post?

Weird, I'm convinced it was as I posted but now it's the less smiley

Maybe we're all mad!

Your last one was

Lol, Mikael.

What can you all see in Bigmo's post at 21.47?

Thanks, that's what I posted but it actually said 'crazy'. Which is probably what I am.

Hope I haven't confused everyone.

I might have to ring the Betfair help desk in the morning. Imagine explaining all this to them (insert laughing smiley here)

Bigmo's 21:47 post is

Thanks, that's what I see.

Was wondering if he was trying to confuse me

Sorry for completely mucking up the Adele thread

No need to apologise MD. Just a bunch of 50summats chewing the fat. (Heh, see what I did there? I hope charwell sees it!)

Makybe_Diva absolutely no need to apologise.

she,s alegedly lifted the lyrics from someone elses song and set them to a melody she,s used numerous time already,hardly cutting edge is it,if you played that hometown song she sang on the bbc back to back with that loons james arther,s version, you,d think he was the new lennon or macartney,says it all really

well played adele

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http://thechive.com/2015/11/24/adele-enters-adele-impersonator-contest-video/

Brilliant!

3:40 made me laugh.