Adele

She has a very powerful voice, so I don't dislike her music due to lack of talent. I'm just sick of how everyone acts like she's a big deal and one of the best artists out there. She's way overrated. Her songs are played constantly and they aggravate me. They're always depressing or dull and they're just not my cup of tea. I feel certain that any celebrity is famous simply because of hive mentality.

Edit: also, I'm not trying to hurt anyone's feelings, so if I'm not dissing you, don't disrespect me.

One shop in the north west England has announced it will boycott the record completely because the 500,000 pressings ordered have taken over global vinyl production, and apparently caused major delays for other artists.

“She’s got half a million copies of her album pressed at a time when everybody’s struggling to get individual copies pressed,” manager of Skeleton Records Ben Savage, who has run the store in Birkenhead for six years, told The Big Issue.

He added the decision to press 500,000 copies of 30 was “incredibly selfish” and to show support for smaller artists struggling to get their music onto vinyl due to the global shortage, Skellies, as the store is known locally, will not be stocking it. Savage is also encouraging other indie shops to do the same.

Fair?

Taylor is projected to sell 2 mill first week for TTPd album, which is seriously crazy. As someone who finds pleasure in comparing sales numbers, our girl is never reaching that peak, is she :( ? I wish Adele and her team rocket launched the next album marketing with a proper rollout like 25. 30's rollout just felt like something was off about it.

And I know a lotta people say its not numbers, its about her having fun, Well, yeah, its good and all, but the numbers side to Adele is also a reason why people consider her a titan in the industry.

Adele Lyrics Challenge

I am her biggest fan. I know every song by heart. Give me a lyric in the comment section and I will

1. guess the song

2. finish the line

Good luck fooling me 😎

“This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening”

I’m not coming for her talent as a singer—her voice is stunning. And there’s plenty of songs of hers that I love. But realistically there’s absolutely no variety between albums.

19, 21, 25, and, likely as not based on the new single, 30, are all identical examinations of the same themes: heartbreak and regret. Granted, most artists make songs about that, but Adele shows no musical variety even. Everything is a wailing ballad with some piano accompaniment.

Consider ‘Chasing Pavements’, ‘Someone Like You’, ‘Hello’, and ‘Easy on Me’. Each a single from every album. What is the difference between them? Even the album covers are all the same—a close-up of her forlorn face, devoid of any detail. You could mix and match songs from every album to a brand new listener, presenting it as in cohesive record, and they wouldn’t hear any progression between them besides a slight ageing of her voice.

No experimentation, no reinvention, no evolving lyricism. At this stage in her career, and after so much success, I don’t think it’s too much to ask her to come up with something new. It’s the musical equivalent of a typecast actor, except she’s done it to herself and shows no signs of wanting to change.

Obviously it’s working well for her, but after 4 albums it’s tiresome now. I don’t understand the continued craziness that surrounds her anymore.

Her latest album bests Taylor Swift’s record with more than 500,000 copies sold within the first half of the week

It’s only been three days since Adele released her new album 30 and it’s already become the year’s top-selling album in the United States, Billboard reports. More than 500,000 copies of the album have been moved between November 19 and November 21, which bests Taylor Swift’s Evermore (462,000 copies have sold in 2021 as of last week). It’s also already had the biggest sales week of 2021, besting Red (Taylor’s Version), which sold 369,000 copies in its debut week.