![]() ![]() If you’ve recently experienced heartbreak, your prescription is thus: take once a week with plenty of water do not exceed the stated dose. There isn’t a single shock over these 12 tracks, all of which sound, essentially, like Adele songs, but the nods to Hollywood scores, 1960s soul and even her own back catalogue inject the melodrama needed to pull off the more languished ballads. Nonetheless, you'd listen to Adele sing the phone book, even at this funereal pace. The almost seven-minute To Be Loved is as drawn out as a Taylor Swift short film, which will nourish the grief tourists and annoy the daylights out of anyone who wants to get on with it. Can I Get It swaps piano balladry for steely acoustic guitars and whistles, but while the background whoops in the verses might be a homage to Serge Gainsbourg, the chorus is more like Ed Sheeran at his most chart-focused. The thumping bass drum and handclaps of Oh My God hark back to the era of Rolling in the Deep, when she was caught up in the post-Amy Winehouse frenzy of jazz-inspired chart singers. Sonically, at least, it's not all doom and gloom. It’s a welcome injection of Adele the likable celebrity-who’s-just-like-us, before she batters us with woe again. “All right, then, I’m ready,” she says at the close of the song. Sweeping strings, mournful organ and Adele’s signature vocal range comfortably move through the paces. “I’ll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart,” she begins on Strangers by Nature, played with all the warm timbre of an old gramophone. ![]() What is on Adele Adkins’s mind at 33? The same heartbreak that fuelled her breakthrough, with 21, and shot her to global stardom, with 25, persists on 30, a record of melodrama, ballads and a hint of 1960s soul. Or you might be waiting for the delivery of some other artist's LP, cursing pop music and everything it stands for because Adele decided to press 500,000 copies of her latest album during a vinyl shortage. For that, she deserves applause, even greater than the adulation she received for her music.What is your relationship with Adele? Maybe you're one of the 277-odd million people who have streamed Easy on Me on Spotify, awaiting a return to permissible (even encouraged) long-form heartbreak. The teacher said that “girls need role models and last night Adele stepped up to the plate. Getty Images Adele accepting the Mastercard Album of the Year award. Despite the controversy, Adele picked up three trophies at last night’s event. That’s something to celebrate, not condemn,” she wrote. Here was a woman - who has sold tens of millions of albums - telling the world she was proud to be a woman. “Adele’s message to women and girls was inspirational. Adele - To Be Loved Official Video: https://ww. In an op-ed in the Spectator, teacher Debbie Hayton said that Adele risked joining the group of “talented women” like “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling who “have been pursued and persecuted mercilessly, simply for standing up for their sex.” Adele - To Be Loved (Lyrics) - watch this video with lyrics (and photos of Adele) and enjoy her angelic voice. “A decade ago, if someone had said a woman would for the thought-crime of saying she liked being a woman, I would have laughed at such a ludicrous suggestion. Getty Images Some complained that they had “lost respect for Adele” after her comments. Adele performed some of her new hits on the awards show stage. Female,” tweeted author and refugee campaigner Onjali Rauf.Īuthor and media consultant Jane Symons also said she didn’t know “whether to cry or scream” at the latest attacks. ![]() The attacks led many to spring to the 33-year-old star’s defense. Others complained that they had “lost a lot of respect for Adele” and would no longer “spend a cent on her music,” the Times of London noted. Especially the confused teenagers,” another long-time Twitter user posted. “Who’d have thought Adele was a transphobe and would use her platform to call for the destruction of the trans community. “Please, no, ADELE can’t be a TERF,” a “staunch feminist” performer named Jacob told his thousands of Twitter followers. Adele has since been accused of being a TERF, or a trans-exclusionary feminist. ![]()
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