Adele: I’m Having a Baby
"Go to the ends of the Earth for you / To make you feel my love"
June 29, 2012 - 4:30 pm
via ADELE: I’ve got some news….
Im delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time. Yours always, Adele xx
and we should care, why?
Who?
Adele is a young singer from Britain who’s achieved a great deal of success in the last few years, and she’s the real deal. The lady has a ton of class and one hell of a voice. If such things interest you, go to YouTube and find her performance at the Grammys, it was truly inspirational.
Nope.
Congratulations to Adele. I hope it’s all she wants it to be.
As for her music, I despise her fakery, faux-souling and uninformed retro-wannabe arrangements. There’s not a hint of real artistry, true emotion or historical awareness. I find her music artistically cynical not uplifting, like someone doing a James Cagney impersonation but not telling you and not getting it quite right anyway. This is American Idol, not art.
The real deal in this area, was the effortless artistry of Amy Winehouse; her Jools Holland performances and other live performances on youtube before she got into drugs are a wonder. When they did a documentary about Winehouse, it was about seventh chords and the inner workings of the music and her art. When they do one about Adele, there’ll be none of that, because there’s nothing there. There’s actually a video on youtube of them singing one after the other in quick succession on a British awards show – the difference is stark.
Have to completely disagree with you. Adele is and continues to be the better artist. Adele used her talent, Winehouse used drugs.
There’s an 80 min. documentary about Winehouse on youtube called “The Girl Done Good” made 3 years before she died. Jazz and music history and vocal coaches put her artistry in context. You’ll never see such a piece about Adele – not in a thousand years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxDNTcRY1tw
Adele sings her songs the same way every time – youtube is loaded with 10 year old girls singing Rolling In the Deep. Winehouse never sang a song the same way twice – and she wrote them. They are beyond the ability of any American Idol contestant or little girl to sing. She was the brightest talent of her generation bar none. There’s 20,000 people in the world who can sing like Adele.
I think you need to get a little more information. The reason why there is a documentary on Winehouse is because she is dead (and many people knew she was going that way years ago).
So you are saying “Rumor has it” is the same as “Rolling in the Deep”? Have you actually heard more than one Adele song (or any)? Because it seems like you dont know what you are talking about. Oh, and Adele wrote (or co-wrote) all of her songs (with the exception of the cover of “Lovesong”).
Maybe there are people singing Adele songs because they like them and wish to emulate her. Maybe people are not singing Winehouse songs because they do not wish to emulate a booze hound…
Oh and Winehouse has won 3 Ivor Novello songwriting awards while Adele (so far) has won 2. VH1 lists Winehouse as number 26 in their “Top 100 Greatest Women in Music” and Adele at… number 5 (oh!). Winehouse had 2 albums (a third posthumously) and Adele has… 2 so far.
Maybe if Winehouse could keep away from the booze and smack she would prove you right, but unfortunately it is now up to Adele to continue on and move past Winehouse.
Song-writing and singing are two different things.
The notion that a performing artist is superior because she writes her own material is a ridiculous hangover from the expressionistic, pretentious 60′s.
How many of the truly great singers, from Sinatra to Fitzgerald, from Nat King Cole to Aretha Franklin, wrote their own material? And most of the best song-writers are not good vocalists. The two talents only rarely coincide in one person.
Accordingly, when someone says “Ooooh! Susie writes her own songs!” the probability is that she is either a mediocre vocalist or performs mediocre material. (Probability, not certainty.)
What does the English phrase “3 years before she died” mean?
And I watched Adele’s full concert at Albert Hall on youtube recently. The songs are boring and she can’t hit and hold notes – kinda weird for a person known as a great singer.
And what do I care about awards? I don’t buy music based on a list of awards. Adele’s a karaoke singer of herself. Her music’s not just not good, it’s bad. It reminds me of Bette Midler and the kids all choked up about the wind beneath her wings or Celine Dion.
And Adele writes some of her songs too. They’re still crap. She’s the Michael Bolton/Buble of her set. Enjoy.
FailBurton frequently comments on music here, and he (she?) rarely knows what he’s talking about.
Fail Burton, what planet are you on?
I’m middle-aged, and I have been stirred by several of her songs – the lyrics (not sex sex sex), the emotion (raw, unedited), the true talent (cross between Mama Cass and Janis Joplin).
She is not on drugs, she is not leading a completely degenerate life like Amy Winehouse.
People, ignore this person and make up your own minds.
Watch the documentary.
Winehouse was far closer to being a Janis Joplin than Adele could ever pretend to be. Yes, Adele has talent but the other two were true artists.
Adele, the “real thing”?
Pfffft.
She’s not fit to sniff the steam off Bessie Smith’s or Aretha Franklin’s or Sarah Vaughan’s high heels.
Fail Burton has the truth of it. Faux soul and a proven lack of authenticity in a bloaty pale skinned package that zaftig female yuppies find non-threatening because she looks a bit like them.
So classy she’s having an illegitimate kid. Yup.
“…in a bloaty pale skinned package….”
Interesting music criticism.
If I never hear Adele again, it will be too soon. Nothing sends me reaching for the knob to change the channel on the radio faster than “Rolling in the Deep.”
And no, I don’t really care if she’s pregnant. Actually, I do…if it keeps her from recording any more music for awhile, I’m all for it.
I own the music DVD of Adele live at Royal Albert Hall. I have a big screen home theater system. I am 58 year old male. I have hundreds of concerts on DVD. I really love Adele. She has god given talent.
Yeah, what an incredable voice
Well, the real question is – compared to what? Winehouse is a legitimate successor to Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn and as good as any of them were. But you have to have an interest in such things to appreciate them or you end up with unfocused white trash stereotyped interpretations of what people think a jazz singer sounds like.
It’s a question of vibrato, the power in restraining power, an awareness of music history and the artistic space you occupy. In this sense, Winehouse was a history of jazz singing wrapped up in one person in a wonderfully informed way. Adele is Michael Bolton. For the uninformed, a clue is that a real jazz singer never repeats themselves – it a whole new song each time.
What an odd thread this has become.
Some people like music that other people don’t. Big deal, get over yourselves. If the music speaks to you that’s a very good thing. That’s what it’s for.
And if some music doesn’t appeal to you, so what? No need to be a dick about it.
It’s a conservative website, not the place for political correctness that says everything’s good and criticism is hating. Criticism is not hating, it’s saying, compared to what?
I have a thing for authenticity, I have commented on it. I doubt if Axel Rose, Adele or Arcade Fire have ever had an authentic moment on stage in their careers. When I first heard of Adele I thought “Great, we need more of this kind of music.” What I found appalled me. Lazy arrangements played by indifferent musicians channeling fake retro that skims the surface of the genre without the least understanding of the genre itself. And Adele has set historic records for sales in the UK, even surpassing The Beatles.
My question is, if people “love” music like this, why not support that music by delving into it rather than by falling in love with whatever a record company happened to throw in front of you that in fact subverts that genre. People are also greatly and routinely emotionally moved by American Idol performances. This is the reality of art but it doesn’t mean I have to celebrate it.
Look what Mr. Spock’s arching an eyebrow has done to science-fiction literature – the pop culture blowback has gutted it. And if anyone takes the trouble to notice, fine art photography has also been similarly gutted because of what the crowd “likes” as opposed to a sense of what’s good. Ironically, rock and roll made it’s bones by challenging the “experts,” but this is not that, not a revolution, but a sliding back.
Enjoy – consume.