Empress said:

babynoz said:

Adele can sing her ass off, period.

But I guess she's not "edgy" enough? No gimmicks? Not enough drama/stunts? No twitter beefs or tabloid stories?

Right - and she's also the wrong colour and size for some people too.

Please do explain.

Are you saying she's the wrong color for orgers?

Her size can't be too much of a problem. There's always been hefty female

singers in the game. It's just showcasing it in videos that may be a problem.

Size has nothing to do with the voice.

this album is way better than Thriller in my opinion and i haven't heard it all yet just the single "Hello" but i still think it's way better than Thriller and maybe even BAD by Michael Jakcson

phunkdaddy said:

GeorgieAto said:

this album is way better than Thriller in my opinion and i haven't heard it all yet just the single "Hello" but i still think it's way better than Thriller and maybe even BAD by Michael Jakcson

Uh, this is like comparing oil and water. Just dont boo...

V10LETBLUES said:

I remember the first time I heard her way back when with Chaising Pavements. I stopped what I was doing blown away but stupidly felt that becasue she was overweight she was not going to be the big star she dereved to be.

Then her next single dropped, and her next ...and it was obvious she was a badass and I knew I was a shallow twat for looking at her through the pop startlet norm/form metality i had grown acustomed to.

Needless to say, I love 19 and 21 and look forward to 25

Yasss, that song got alot of play on r&b station KMOJ here in Minneapolis, that was the first time I heard her and they continue to play her songs as well. I like Adele but not enough to buy the whole album. Just a couple songs

GeorgieAto said:

MotownSubdivision said:

Graycap23 said:

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Inside Adele's Life Now

She was awesome on SNL! Girl can sing!! Period!

She sold 2.3 million records here in 3 fucking days! How the fuck is she doing that? Why can't other people sell records?

2freaky4church1 said:

She sold 2.3 million records here in 3 fucking days! How the fuck is she doing that? Why can't other people sell records?

These numbers simply don't make sense.

This is a below ave sounding cd.

I don't get it.

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Everyone agrees on her? Except graycaps

Graycap23 said:

2freaky4church1 said:

She sold 2.3 million records here in 3 fucking days! How the fuck is she doing that? Why can't other people sell records?

These numbers siply don't make sense.

This is a below ave sounding cd.

I don't get it.

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Doesn't matter. The carryover from "21", plus the popularity of her first single, "Hello", I'm sure helped catapult these numbers where they are.

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Her emotional connection to her audience is uncanny though. I wonder if eliminating the streaming option had anything to do with it too. Probably not since most of her audience isn't illegally downloading music anyway. Much like how republicans one stop shop outlet for news is Fox News, I kind of see Ms. Adkins as such for the adult contemporary market.

Graycap23 said:

2freaky4church1 said:

She sold 2.3 million records here in 3 fucking days! How the fuck is she doing that? Why can't other people sell records?

These numbers siply don't make sense.

This is a below ave sounding cd.

I don't get it.

What is it you don't get Gray? The girl has a lovely voice and has so much emotion when she sings. She isn't shaking her booty all over the place and seems very modest and sincere. I'm not saying you have to love her, to each his own, but I don't get why you say the numbers don't make sense and why you seem to dislike her music so much. She is a breath of fresh air.

Cinny said:

Everyone agrees on her? Except graycaps

He doesn't like country music either and Garth Brooks is one of the biggest selling acts in history and Dolly Parton has a successful theme park called Dollywood. It's like Vainandy doesn't understand the popularity of Whitney Houston. Soft music has always been popular and often sold well, going all the way back to Bing Crosby and Connie Francis and easy listening acts like Percy Faith. Johnny Mathis popularized both the Christmas & Greatest Hits albums and he's still performing today and was a voice on a recent episode of The Simpsons playing a gardener at Bart & Lisa's school. Lawrence Welk's show was on air almost 30 years and PBS still show the reruns. There was the popularity of light rock acts in the 1970s like Gordon Lightfoot, Bread, America, Cat Stevens, Barry Manilow, & James Taylor. Kenny G was big in the 1980s. Songwriter Diane Warren is one of the most successful in history and there's The Wave smooth jazz radio format. New age was popular at one time, especially Yanni, Enya, & John Tesh. More recently, there was the big sales of Norah Jones' album. Not everyone likes funk, rock, rap, or R&B.

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Musicslave said:

I wonder if eliminating the streaming option had anything to do with it too.

Better believe it. I think the success of 25 is based on the past album and current hit, which promises a quality album.

Empress said:

Graycap23 said:

These numbers siply don't make sense.

This is a below ave sounding cd.

I don't get it.

What is it you don't get Gray? The girl has a lovely voice and has so much emotion when she sings. She isn't shaking her booty all over the place and seems very modest and sincere. I'm not saying you have to love her, to each his own, but I don't get why you say the numbers don't make sense and why you seem to dislike her music so much. She is a breath of fresh air.

Music should move u in some way. She bores me 2 tears...........but I like trying 2 understand why people enjoy certian types of music or artist. I just don't hear the attraction. Does she have vocal talent? Yes. is the material any good? Not in my book.

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She does get decent, safe material.... I'd compare her to Whitney in her prime, Celine Dion circa Titanic, and Norah Jones. Safe, safe, safe. She can change one vocal run in a live performance and people will think its some brilliant artistic flourish. Perfect for the dentist's chair, background music while grandma makes turkey, tame enough that your parents may only complain that they can hear her accent. I like her I just wish she'd go there. She did that smoking hot version of "Many Shades of Black"... thats the chick I was hoping would show for 25.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

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She does get decent, safe material.... I'd compare her to Whitney in her prime, Celine Dion circa Titanic, and Norah Jones. Safe, safe, safe. She can change one vocal run in a live performance and people will think its some brilliant artistic flourish. Perfect for the dentist's chair, background music while grandma makes turkey, tame enough that your parents may only complain that they can hear her accent. I like her I just wish she'd go there. She did that smoking hot version of "Many Shades of Black"... thats the chick I was hoping would show for 25.

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Keyword: Safe.

JKOOLMUSIC said:

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She does get decent, safe material.... I'd compare her to Whitney in her prime, Celine Dion circa Titanic, and Norah Jones. Safe, safe, safe. She can change one vocal run in a live performance and people will think its some brilliant artistic flourish. Perfect for the dentist's chair, background music while grandma makes turkey, tame enough that your parents may only complain that they can hear her accent. I like her I just wish she'd go there. She did that smoking hot version of "Many Shades of Black"... thats the chick I was hoping would show for 25.

Yep.

Graycap23 said:

Music should move u in some way. She bores me 2 tears...........but I like trying 2 understand why people enjoy certian types of music or artist. I just don't hear the attraction. Does she have vocal talent? Yes. is the material any good? Not in my book.

Just because it doesn't move you, doesn't mean it's true for someone else. Go read the comments on Jim Nabors, George Formby, & Slim Whitman videos on Youtube. You said you don't understand the appeal of The Beatles, but a lot of other people like them including me. I don't get why people put down AC or easy listening. I'm the opposite of people like Vainandy, I like "rhythmless" music. It doesn't have to be funky or R&B based. That's why I can listen to acts like Mediæval Bæbes and Renaissance Faire music. I like Sheena Easton's Morning Train more than Sugar Walls. I like old Hollywood movie musicals such as Singing In The Rain and Esther Williams swimming movies. I even have a few opera albums.

I haven't bothered with the disc yet, but from listening to Hello and When we were Young, both songs come off as an entitled heartbreaker who is upset that the one she treated like shit wont pick up the phone and let her relieve her guilt.

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Vicente Fernández, Julio Iglesias, & Luis Miguel could be considered the Latin music versions of adult contemporary and they're really popular. The ranchera genre itself is mainly romantic ballads.

MickyDolenz said:

Graycap23 said:

Music should move u in some way. She bores me 2 tears...........but I like trying 2 understand why people enjoy certian types of music or artist. I just don't hear the attraction. Does she have vocal talent? Yes. is the material any good? Not in my book.

Just because it doesn't move you, doesn't mean it's true for someone else.

I've never once said that my taste should be true 4 someone else.

I said I try 2 understand it. I don't because the music is weak. If others like it, so be it.

Adele performs “Water Under The Bridge” live On The Tonight Show.

Musicslave said:

ADELE ON TRACK TO SELL 5 MILLION THIS YEAR

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Adele looks set to sell a staggering 5 million copies of her new blockbuster, 25 (XL/Columbia), by the end of the year.

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Somewhere around 3m of that number is likely to sell in her gargantuan first week.

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The album has already surpassed the 2.4m first-week record set by NSYNC in 2000; what's more, Adele could well have as much as a 45% share of all albums sold. For comparison's sake, Taylor Swift sold 23% of all albums when 1989 bowed, while NSYNC's prior record-holder had a 15% share.

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Let's take a look at a week-by-week projection to see how she gets to 5m by new year's.

Will Adele hold onto the #1 spot through December, or could new releases from Coldplay and Rihanna overtake her? Stay tuned.

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http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=298671

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Let me say that depending on when they drop, (Coldplay, Rihanna, possibly Beyonce, etc.) They won't touch these projected numbers by Adele. Too large of a base to contend with. There isn't as much anticipation for any release as much as there is/was for Adele. I mean, Grandma is on her way right now to walmart or target to pick up her copy of that british gal's new CD.

MickyDolenz said:

Cinny said:

Everyone agrees on her? Except graycaps

He doesn't like country music either and Garth Brooks is one of the biggest selling acts in history and Dolly Parton has a successful theme park called Dollywood. It's like Vainandy doesn't understand the popularity of Whitney Houston. Soft music has always been popular and often sold well, going all the way back to Bing Crosby and Connie Francis and easy listening acts like Percy Faith. Johnny Mathis popularized both the Christmas & Greatest Hits albums and he's still performing today and was a voice on a recent episode of The Simpsons playing a gardener at Bart & Lisa's school. Lawrence Welk's show was on air almost 30 years and PBS still show the reruns. There was the popularity of light rock acts in the 1970s like Gordon Lightfoot, Bread, America, Cat Stevens, Barry Manilow, & James Taylor. Kenny G was big in the 1980s. Songwriter Diane Warren is one of the most successful in history and there's The Wave smooth jazz radio format. New age was popular at one time, especially Yanni, Enya, & John Tesh. More recently, there was the big sales of Norah Jones' album. Not everyone likes funk, rock, rap, or R&B.

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After reading this list of artists.............i just lost my lunch.