Originally Posted by Foster
I've got this mental image of you opening the living room curtains only to stare in horror at the sight of Adele on the garden, disemboweling your pet dog.
Then as a solitary tear descends your left cheek and your body trembles with rage, she rips the organs out of the massacred corpse and rubs them over her face, laughing like a maniac and savagely eating poor laddie's heart.
She catches your eye, a dark grin develops on her face like a blot of ink on wet paper, and she tears off her clothes. Still maintaining eye contact she unleashes a brown Mr. Whippy onto the freshly cut grass, mouths 'I love you' and runs off between a gap in the shrubbery.
You both love her and hate her for it, she was your first bit of chunk and you ended it all because of the fear of what your parents might say. Now you know that every song she writes is about you, every pubic hair stuck to your car window each morning is hers, every word she writes is a direct reference to you.
You can't cope with this knowledge. You can't cope with her rising popularity and her friendship with Alan Carr. You'll bring them both down. You remind people she can't sing, her songs are forgettable and that Alan Carr is a camp git with bad teeth - but nobody listens.
The dog was buried where it was slain...
Right, I'm going to make a cup of tea
Bloody hell, there WAS a witness!
I just figure that she's an enlgish speaking singist... anyone who has english as a second language might not find her very interesting... add in any english speakers who, like me, find her a bit meh...If the number of people who have heard Adele/The Beatles/Whatever is not 14% we can go with your figure or meet half-way. BTW - I am halfway through your list of film recommendations.
The Beatles maybe I can believe as their music has has 5 decades to permeate even the least english-speaky-peoples consciences. Adele has been going a couple of years, I'd suspect there's enough people who never heard her music at all to be a limiting factor in her influencing the hearts and minds of a billion. Europeans tell me that they listern to a lot of music that's just never played in the UK, with a sort of inter-europe song exchange sort of thing going on, but over here it's only English songs (mostly).
With so many of the world having English as a second language I can accept that Adele isn't hindered by being english first, just that she might not be the most popular artist in say Asia which as a continent has about half the worlds population so to hit that 14% of the population mark she'd have to go some without thier avid support...
That's all.
And yay! on films.
仁慈的上帝，请带我走我将关闭自己的耳朵，我的心，我将一块石头
Just think how good that track could have been if James Bond had broken up with her.
...Skwy fwall
stand twaaaaaaall...
Mediocre song, lyrics and vocals.
She always sings like she's drunk. She has that 'slurry' vocal style of the average pub Karaoke singer after a few pints (where you slur from word into the next rather than annunciating).
Not big on the song, not a bad Bond theme but a bit too formulaic.
I like Adele though, not like I'd listen to the CD or anything, but If she comes on the radio I appreciate the good voice and soul roots of her music. I'd rather listen to Adele than most other things for might get on Radio 1 for example (not that I listen to radio 1 though)
As for highlighting the girls weight, well, I think it's a good thing that there is a role model around that probably more represents the average women anyway.
seconded, although the original comment about her weight makes me want to make an addition to the "shit that boils my piss" thread...
"they call him the demoniser..."
RE: Weight...
There seems to be a thing lately (and by lately I'm refering to the past few years) to think that ugly/fat people having a talent is a surprise.
Adele - she might be fat, but crikey she can sing (because all singists have always been annorexic)
Susan Boyle - I never knew ugly people could sing! (clearly never seen Rod Stewart)
Etc
Talent, whether musica, lyrical, mathematical etc etc is not really linked to your appearence... and I'm fairly sure we knew that before, but now it's AMAZING when ugs and fat'os can sing, or write, or think for themselves... it's like somehow as society started to accept that women or people not from your country are in fact equal, they found they needed a new group to look down on... and there's no legal discrimination laws against fat or ugly people so that's where the media and thus societ managed to end up
仁慈的上帝，请带我走我将关闭自己的耳朵，我的心，我将一块石头
Well said, and I hate Adele and laugh at the fat jokes.
The Susan boyle one was the one that made the news for weeks which annoyed me a lot.
Oh look at this ugly beast, surely no one with a face like that could possibly have lungs and vocal chords, obviously they have a swim-bladder and gills so will gargle hideously for a few minutes before being voted off the stage... oh my lord! She CAN sing! Quick, someone call the press, the first ugly singer has been found.
I also think it somewhat incredulous that Simon Cowell could be on a program where someone was judged negatively for their looks...
仁慈的上帝，请带我走我将关闭自己的耳朵，我的心，我将一块石头
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