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The official Adele thread; New album "25"
Topic Started: Dec 5 2010, 11:30 PM (14,948 Views)
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The official artwork for "When We Were Young"! Soooo cute. :D

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my unofficial personal artwork for like a virgin is even cuter

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:lmao:
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The video for WWWY will premiere by Monday.
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this just has to be the most disastrous performance by an a-class act in years (no, not even madge's near death scare at last year's brits can match this painful audio horror - at least our prime bitch resurrected within seconds after the fall).

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It was atrocious. In her defense, one of the piano mics fell into the piano and was causing that awful off-key string sound throughout the performance. However, it doesn't excuse those horrific flat top notes in each chorus. She was fine for maybe 70% of it, but when she was bad, she was REALLY bad.
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Yeah, a piano mic problem did not make those awful notes come out of her mouth.

The bottom line is Adele is a thoroughly average vocalist who thinks she's Maria Callas. Her voice lacks booming power and her upper register is nearly nonexistent. Thus her belts are beyond strained and all the high notes she attempts to hit are completely outside of her natural range. She's even off the key on a good bit of the "Someone Like You" record, and this Grammy performance is very reminiscent of that hideous BRIT performance.
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I agree somewhat. That acclaimed BRITS performance always had me scatching my head. She was sooo flat for a good deal of it.

I do adore her recorded voice though and I love the songs. She rarely reproduces that voice in a live setting, but feck it.
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Ouch at that video. I hadn't watched the performance 'til now. Pretty painful.

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04/02/16 Billboard Boxscore

2 Adele
Manchester Arena Manchester, U.K.
March 7-8, 10-11, 2016
$7,243,160
63,209 / 63,209
4 / 4
$135.11, $49.78
SJM Concerts
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25 has now passed 17.5 million sold worldwide.
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Apr 3 2016, 10:50 PM
25 has now passed 17.5 million sold worldwide.
good gawd
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The album could still hit 20 million.

"When We Were Young" stalled at #9 on the UK Singles Chart and #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. No 3rd single confirmed yet.

While she technically avoided becoming Norah Jones 2.0 by getting a 2nd huge selling album, it's looking like the success of "Hello" and the upfront sales of '25' were largely down to hype of her finally following up, and the goodwill generated by, '21'.

Not that she cares, there's rumors she's either gonna retire or take a long ass break after the tour is over.
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why the need for another single campaign? the album's still going strong on its own.
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The album could still hit 20 million.

"When We Were Young" stalled at #9 on the UK Singles Chart and #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. No 3rd single confirmed yet.

While she technically avoided becoming Norah Jones 2.0 by getting a 2nd huge selling album, it's looking like the success of "Hello" and the upfront sales of '25' were largely down to hype of her finally following up, and the goodwill generated by, '21'.

Not that she cares, there's rumors she's either gonna retire or take a long ass break after the tour is over.
I hope you're not implying that it's a dodgy album that only sold well because of its predecessor? It's a top notch album. Of course the singles after "Hello" aren't doing that well. Have you seen the shit in the singles charts these days?

The album is continuing to sell extremely well. Last I looked it was still the third biggest selling album in the world last week. It'll probably end up around 25m when all's said and done. That is an incredibly impressive result. Heck, even if it never sold another copy after today, it can only be seen as a major success.
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21 had no problem getting follow-up hit singles for months. If she doesn't get any more hits from the album and sales continue to trail off it will be pretty obvious why the record sold nearly AS MUCH as it did.
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The cover to Send My Love(To Your New Lover), probably from the video!

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Video snippet:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFdzSzUgfDS/

Premieres May 22nd.
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She allegedly just signed a new record contract with Sony for £90 million.

Literally every gigantic record contract like this that was signed in the past ended up crashing and burning spectacularly. The labels give these contracts once the acts have been huge for at least a few years already, obviously as you have to build up the pull and name recognition, but it's completely ridiculous as huge peaks are only maintained for a certain number of years.
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