Really good show tonight She seemed like she was feeling it, very chatty and upbeat about the past, future, etc. She told a pregnant woman she should give birth in a Walmart and said she listened to Best Think I Never Had for 11 straight hours post-21
She said something about Walmart giving you stuff if you give birth there Cheap Queen
Mess I misheard the SLY, here I was thinking she finally fixed it when she was still extra tonight... "I don't know if I'll see you again soon" not "I hope I'll see you again soon".
Maybe I'll watch the scope again until it's good. A Groundhog Day tea.
I just don't get what the SLY speech ending adds to the shows, it's not dramatic it's just annoying... if she wants to take more extensively long time off at the end of the tour, it's her risk to take. But there's no need tell us from the very first interview of the era through every single show that we already waited 5+ years for that she needs more time to sit around in one of her multimillion-dollar homes and not work so she can be "relatable" to us when she has to know a) she won't be and b) none of us enjoyed it the first time. It's like telling someone you're allergic to peanuts and they keep offering you Reese's, and you're just like 'no, I really don't want any, but you can have one if it makes you happy, just keep it away from me if you would because it makes me sick' and then they come back and ask again. (Terrible analogy but it's late and I'm admittedly a bit pressed... )
All of this is her reality, that's what drives me nuts about this "real life" phrase she's decided to go with. Taking a cookie cutter to what she thinks is normal experience because she thinks anything spawning from her abnormal career or public life is "fake" and undeserving of material is actually more fake than just living and exploring it all, and it's going to limit the content and scope of her writing if it continues. I'd rather believe a record of someone willing to analyze directly the interplay of influences from all parts of their life, even if they are unique influences I may never see in my own, than hear a record with many bases that are either intentionally vague (Hello) or entirely made up (All I Ask) to provide an illusion that I'm relating to a life, or rather mostly relationships in that life, that are really very different from my own. I don't believe that record, because I don't believe it's sharing the whole truth.
Anyway, let me go dream of self-titled, ha masterpiece fourth album arriving 2018 or 2019, supported with a sold-out summer stadium tour, adventurous like 19, organic like 21, experienced like 25, and finally, truly about (all of) her
I'd rather believe a record of someone willing to analyze directly the interplay of influences from all parts of their life, even if they are unique influences I may never see in my own, than hear a record with many bases that are either intentionally vague (Hello) or entirely made up (All I Ask) to provide an illusion that I'm relating to a life, or rather mostly relationships in that life, that are really very different from my own. I don't believe that record, because I don't believe it's sharing the whole truth.
I can't blame you at all, Daydreams. I keep hoping that all of this "disappearing again" talk is just another example of her bluffing (Adele confirmed for a 2018 release! ), but in all honesty, we all know that's not the case. She likes living a normal life and having privacy and being out of the spotlight, and she obviously wants to go back to that. We're really lucky she came out of her shell so much this time around and did a world tour. That being said, she's also enjoying touring more than she ever has, and I'm hoping that that will prevent her from taking an extended break again.
Last time, she had a bit of an excuse to be gone for so long. She honestly has no reason to disappear for 5 years this time around, though. I know it sounds a bit selfish on my part, and again, we'll probably never completely understand her reasoning because she doesn't talk openly about her personal life, but it seems a bit ridiculous. She can live a normal life and not take 5 years off; the music will still be relatable. As someone brought up earlier when this topic was addressed a few weeks ago, normal people go to work every single day, so if anything, it would be strange for her to not do anything for years. I'm not saying that all she should do is work on new music, but for Christ's sake... Angelo is going to be at school, and Simon has a job that he'll be preoccupied with. She'll have plenty of time to at least work on music.
Honestly, she needs to have more confidence in herself. She waited so long on this album and it was fantastic. One of her problems is that she doubts herself and is overly critical of her own work, which I can understand. I think we all can relate to that. But the longer you take, the more time you have to think and overthink on something, and sometimes that can lead to butchering something that was amazing to begin with.
She needs to just relax. I don't care if she takes her time on this next record, but I don't want to have to wait that long for another album again. I know it's not her fault that she has a life and it's probably just us being selfish, but I hate having to wait so long and not hearing anything about it and having to believe bullsh*t rumors for five years.
I can't blame you at all, Daydreams. I keep hoping that all of this "disappearing again" talk is just another example of her bluffing (Adele confirmed for a 2018 release! ), but in all honesty, we all know that's not the case. She likes living a normal life and having privacy and being out of the spotlight, and she obviously wants to go back to that. We're really lucky she came out of her shell so much this time around and did a world tour. That being said, she's also enjoying touring more than she ever has, and I'm hoping that that will prevent her from taking an extended break again.
Last time, she had a bit of an excuse to be gone for so long. She honestly has no reason to disappear for 5 years this time around, though. I know it sounds a bit selfish on my part, and again, we'll probably never completely understand her reasoning because she doesn't talk openly about her personal life, but it seems a bit ridiculous. She can live a normal life and not take 5 years off; the music will still be relatable. As someone brought up earlier when this topic was addressed a few weeks ago, normal people go to work every single day, so if anything, it would be strange for her to not do anything for years. I'm not saying that all she should do is work on new music, but for Christ's sake... Angelo is going to be at school, and Simon has a job that he'll be preoccupied with. She'll have plenty of time to at least work on music.
Honestly, she needs to have more confidence in herself. She waited so long on this album and it was fantastic. One of her problems is that she doubts herself and is overly critical of her own work, which I can understand. I think we all can relate to that. But the longer you take, the more time you have to think and overthink on something, and sometimes that can lead to butchering something that was amazing to begin with.
She needs to just relax. I don't care if she takes her time on this next record, but I don't want to have to wait that long for another album again. I know it's not her fault that she has a life and it's probably just us being selfish, but I hate having to wait so long and not hearing anything about it and having to believe bullsh*t rumors for five years.
I never doubted the existence of a break, nor denied her right to take one, after the tour. I do have some suspicions about exaggerations more recently, e.g. "many, many years", but whether that's an intentional bluff or anxiety about the great post-tour unknown, i.e. she liked the tour a lot more than she thought she would and is like '****, now what?', one can't be certain. Rather, without a better way to say it, I just want her to shut up about it There is absolutely no need to continue to detail something that nobody else there but her likes, like everything else is so awesome with the shows, it's such a downer note when the real takeaway from the show is and should be what she talks about right before it--where she was when she was when she was writing SLY, how it changed her life, and how in the end was for the better: "I found my someone like you".
Everything about how 5 years wouldn't work again was said by CC and Mike a couple weeks ago, and I agree with them as well a lot of what you said here, and I already made my argument regarding supposed "relatability", so I'm not going to rehash on those things. Ultimately, I don't find it selfish to want your favorite musician to make and promote music more than twice (or once, if we're going off the current tabloid's creation... mess) a decade, especially if they're signing massive contracts with the most major of majors that would seem to suggest that doing such is their intention... otherwise it seems like a having your cake and eating it too situation.
Also in case any of you guys are into his stuff, since we talk about new releases a lot in here, Ed Sheeran showed up at Jamie Lawson's last show on tour and performed his first new track in a while, "Can't See Straight". Not sure what his plans are for it, hopefully his album (featuring the Edele collab ) is on the way, but I liked it, kinda Thinking Out Loud meets Love Yourself.
Preach, Daydreams. Pretty much hit the nail on the head with the last few posts! As for the Ed Sheeran song, I'll check it out in a little bit when my WiFi doesn't suck.
Also, this video is the greatest thing I have ever witnessed:
This girl getting slayed by 25 is literally like, reliving the first time I heard the album! And she's hilarious!
"Melt My Heart to Stone" is easily in the top 3 best songs on 19, I think. I seriously love that song SO much. It's so underrated and I wish she would've included that in the setlist for the Adele Live tour instead of "My Same." (I still love "My Same," though!)
"Love in the Dark" is seriously so flawless, too. I was listening to it in my car the other day (because I only keep Adele CDs in my car so I can sing along ), and Lord... The strings in "Love in the Dark" SLAYED me endlessly.
Also when I was searching for that gif one of the links that came up was to an article "Adele Promises Her Kid Won't Be a 'Dickhead'" Queen of Bizarre Unintentional Headlines tbh.
While Gareth Malone is used to reducing the nation’s TV viewers to tears as he cajoles the most unlikely members of the public to sing, Britain’s most beloved choirmaster is disarmingly old-school, endlessly patient and quietly spoken.
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‘I am seriously concerned about Adele,’ he says. ‘The way she sings is wrecking her voice, and her voice is her instrument.’
The award-winning choirmaster was alarmed to witness her disastrous appearance at this year’s Grammys, when she sang her hit from the massive-selling 25 album, All I Ask, sounding powerless and flat.
Afterwards, she took to Twitter to blame her equipment, saying: ‘The piano mics fell on to the piano strings, that’s what the guitar sound was. It made it sound out of tune. S*** happens.’
Malone shakes his head in disbelief. When it comes to singing, he is not a man who can be fobbed off – even by the world’s most successful female artist.
‘She’s damaged her voice,’ he says. ‘The way she sings – and the way Sam Smith, Jess Glynne and Ellie Goulding sing, too – is just very bad for the voice. Adele lets in too much air, which irritates the throat and the vocal cords, and she pushes her voice with too much force. It gives it emotion, but it’s a style of singing that can only work in a recording studio.
‘If you go out and try to perform like that on a tour, then you are going to end up in trouble, like Adele did at the Grammys. You just cannot sustain a voice like that. You can’t push it like that every night. Look at Led Zep’s Robert Plant. He can’t sing like he did when he was younger because when he sang in his 20s he was just wrecking his voice.’
He pauses, furrows his brow and takes a sip from his filtered white coffee.
‘I absolutely know Adele understands what happened that night, which is why she had a blackout day the following day. She just wanted to hide under a blanket. It’s mortifying. I actually felt sorry for her.
‘It makes me worry about who is looking after her, why such little care is taken about the instrument that her whole career is based on. Record companies don’t really care about the health of their artists, which is why so many performers have issues with their throats and their ears.
‘It’s a lesson. If I saw Adele I would say something to her. She’s had surgery on her vocal cords, as has Sam Smith. They are in trouble. They need to look after their voices.’
All I Ask @ the Grammys was indeed a horrible performance. But it was also one performance. One unique instance of a performance going bad quickly. You can't possibly judge her vocal skills on one single 5 min. performance, especially if that performance was literally her worst. She may be pitchy here and there, but she's never delivered a performance anywhere close to AIA@Grammys before or since.
And that tweet wasn't excusing her bad vocals for that night, it was explaining an actual malfunction that happened with the sound (the guitar noise with the piano) that was completely out of Adele's control. I can't at him saying she "blacked out" like no, she knows she delivered a bad performance, she admitted herself that she's pitchy.
She's not a perfect singer, and she knows and acknowledges it, but she's not completely **** either
Anyways, I don't think he had malicious intent. He's right that the music industry takes these voices for granted, and immediately throws, sometimes forces, them to do these extensive and exhaustive tours without allowing them to preserve and take care of their voices. Which is why I hope Adele doesn't do another 100+ date tour. You can tell Adele sounded amazing in the first few months, but quickly her voice gets tired and exhausted, which is what happens when you do too many shows without lip syncing. A stadium tour with much less dates would be preferable.