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Originally posted by SebaMonster
This is what I've been thinking the whole time...
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I've had my head bitten off for saying it before. I think people equate analysis of Adele's success involving anything other than praise as being pressed, when really such a phenomenon is just asking for discussion.
It's certainly ironic how much time was spent discussing how "real" and without gimmicks she is and how it's all about the music and talent with her, over talking about the actual music. You've got to have a marketable quality in the business (i.e. a "gimmick"), and her being the anthesis of how contrived and extreme pop had gotten was hers.
In terms of her appearance, I just felt it was getting really patronising how often you'd see people congratulating her defying convention with her looks. She's hardly a troll. Furthermore, let's not pretend like Adele would be as successful as she is if she was a troll. She's big, but still beautiful. Big and ugly would not have worked.