As a male I don’t feel qualified to answer.
I’d probably buy her ex-boyfriends record though. I’d imagine he’d be a bit more Oasis / Blur.
No, you’re not the only one; I can’t switch stations fast enough. To me she sounds like she’s shouting, no wonder the guy left her.
Before she hit the big time: Adele on Rachel Fuller and Pete Townshend’s “In The Attic” webcast, May 2007
LOL. “Have you slagged him off good and proper”. I love London sometimes 
Pete looks cosy in the back there.
I have not heard the new single or any music from the new album.
This is not a “I’ve never heard of her or any of her music post, though.” I heard every single from her last album- They were unavoidable. I was very aware of her long-running success (the “flavor of the day” that lasted several years, I guess) of the last album, which sold and sold millions of copies for years and I think may have never left the top 200. And I was aware of her first album, which was well regarded and somewhat hyped if nowhere near the success of ‘21.’
Also, I’m a guy and I think I have a crush on her (while having no particular interest in her music), which goes against the conventional idea that she’s a great singer with no sex appeal.
I was siding with Honey’s comments. Honey said he/she wouldn’t know Adele if they fell over her, and Honey’s mother never heard of Adele. I said I HAVE heard Adele on the radio, I do recognize her voice, and I said so what? Merely expressing my opinion.
Aren’t you going to jump down Honey’s throat, too, for Honey’s opinion? Why am I the only one getting torn out a new orifice? (Sorry to drag you in, Honey).
Honey was expressing she’d never heard of her… that’s fine - it happens. You were expressing she is a ‘flavor of the month’, which is ridiculous.
Coming soon: what exactly is a discotheque?
As a bystander, I’m going to say the “so what?” part has a fairly snotty tone. I think the rest of Lemur’sresponse is pretty self explanatory.
Oh.
I didn’t jump down Honey’s throat because I know I heard Adele’s hits on the radio about 50,000 times before I knew the names of the songs or that they were sung by a person named Adele. It happens all the time.
Nobody says you should like Adele, or her style of music, or music, or that you have to justify your reasons for not liking X, Y, or Z before I’ll accept that you don’t like them.
What annoyed me was saying she’s the flavor of the month. That’s silly. You don’t like her, you think she’s over-rated, fine. But her month has been going on since 2008. To old fogeys like you and me 7 years of megastardom doesn’t sound like much, when we can go and see acts from our youth that have really stood the test of time at the Emerald Queen Casino for one night only next week. Back when music was really music, not this noise that the kids play!
So yeah, there are acts that have been touring for 40 years. Adele has not been touring for 40 years. That doesn’t make her the flavor of the month.
I got to agree with you on her being bland. Right now on Bravo, they have Adele: Live in London. I had it on for maybe 20 minutes until she got into her not so popular hits. The blandness of these song drove me to change channels pretty quick.
She has a great voice for certain songs but quickly runs out when attempting others. Just not enough range in her voice. She’ll definitely be more than the flavour of the month, but no more than flavour of the year.
Peak Adele will be next year when she puts out (excuse me, drops) an album called “26” and the hit song is about dying alone in a nursing home.
Based on the new single, I would agree–but her sophomore album was truly great. Adele’s got magical pipes.
She’s a throwback singer to the days of Lulu and Dusty Springfield, and until she died, Amy Winehouse was absolutely part of the revival of women that could fucking sing.
The latest single doesn’t do it for me–shades of Lionel Richie, and that ain’t a good thing.
Pretty sure Adele would say singing wise, she’s no Winehouse - and they were school mates for awhile.
Adele’s not so much bland, as sustainable - a normal range of emotionality; if you live life at Any’s emotional intensity it’s going to be shorter and way more powerful.
No, the rule is: dying at age 27, and preferably of a drug overdose.
In her case, ODing on barbituates because she still can’t get over that guy.
At any rate, it’s possible to sell a shit ton of crap. How many copies of “My Heart Will Go On” did Celine Dion sell?
My take on Adele? I can think of three songs of hers I’ve heard. There’s “Rumor Has It” which I didn’t realize until this thread was hers. Not a bad song, pretty good lyrics but heavy-handed delivery. There’s a song whose name I didn’t catch at the time, but was on the airwaves during her initial burst of popularity. Sounded like an Aretha knockoff without the spark.
And there’s “Hello” which is such painful listening that I hit the button for another station as soon as I hear “Hello.” (Goodbye.)* I’ve forced myself to listen all the way through once, so I could say I’d done so, since people seem to like it. It doesn’t get any less painful after the intro.
Anyway, the comparisons to Aretha in this thread…wow, Adele’s got more #1s! Competition was tougher back then: bands as good as Creedence got zero freakin’ #1’s. Aretha had a whole bunch of great songs that clearly didn’t get to #1, since she only had one of those during her prime years. It’s ~45 years since Aretha had most of her big hits, and people still listen to her stuff. Will anyone want to listen to Adele in 2060?
*If my reactions are slow and I hear “Hello. It’s me” I start singing, "I’ve thought about it for a long, long time,"a song in the same vein that’s always been too whiny for my tastes. But Adele’s making Todd Rundgren sound a lot better by comparison.
I was thinking something similar yesterday when my 78-year-old father, who is almost completely out of touch with pop culture, asked me if I know who Adele is.