Celeb News: Music Times: Adele #1 Original Oscar Performances

Ichinaru19

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01) "Skyfall" by Adele (2013 ceremony)

Adele was having somewhat of an "off" year during awards season in 2013 (she had only won one Grammy, compared to the six she had won a year earlier) so she made sure to bring her best to her live performance of "Skyfall" from the James Bond film of the same name to The Oscars. We were surprised to see she didn't take a cue from Newman and set herself behind the keys as she often does in live performances, but she didn't use a backing track either. She had a miniature orchestra with a brass section and a line of background vocalists to prop up her performance. It was brilliant. We may complain about the buttoned-up tendencies of The Academy but Adele's performance, in her black dress against a blackened stage was a black-tie affair, throwing back to the era of cinematic royalty that the Oscars have always sought to replicate in the modern day.

http://www.musictimes.com/articles/2...asons-sing.htm

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Mike91

I hated the performance.

The band drowned her voice out. Plus she was clearly nervous and it was affecting her vocals.

Poe Dameron

Let It Go being in that list though

gueranegra

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Originally posted by Mike91

I hated the performance.

The band drowned her voice out. Plus she was clearly nervous and it was affecting her vocals.

Her mic was not turned up either

Like all things wrong but she still won

Ichinaru19

Adele ha power even when her mic is not on fully

Vespertine

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Adele was having somewhat of an "off" year during awards season in 2013 (she had only won one Grammy, compared to the six she had won a year earlier)

I hate when people throw in stuff like this to try and spice up their stories, even though it makes no sense to include. Why would anyone have expected her to win multiple Grammys in 2013 when her last album came out in 2011?

Anyways I thought it was actually a pretty lame performance for Adele's standards.

Ichinaru19

Yeah I saw that as well, she was only nominated for one category and she won it so like what? And yeah I agree it wasn't her best performance but the technical difficulties kinda throws the whole performance of as well. I'm just happy she was able to kill the performance in the end