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Postby Viazon » Oct 23, '15, 2:08 pm

Anyone else think this girl is completely overrated?

Maybe overrated is the wrong word. But maybe, over hyped. People make such a big deal out of her. Like she is the music industry's second coming of Christ or something.

Sure, the girl can sing. I won't deny that. And yeah, I think a few of her songs are decent. But I swear, people act like she is the best thing to ever happen to music.

So apparently, during last weeks episode of X-Factor, one of the commercial breaks featured an advert for her new album, which featured simply a short clip of one of her songs. And it seemed like everyone went nuts. In the newspaper the next day, it had a two page spread about her. Hyping up the album like crazy and just generally talking about how amazing she is and how much of a huge thing this is. It's a singer releasing a new album. It's not a huge deal.

Then a few days later, it had an explaining from her, going into great detail as to why it has been so many years since her last album and basically saying how good it was having her back after her being gone for so long. It's been four years. They make it out to be an eternity.

Now, after her new single was released today, the paper was again heaping praise on her and calling today the biggest music moment of the year. It just seems like so much hype. I mean, it's just a singer releasing a new album after a few years off.

I get people like her and yeah she is talented but she is not the greatest thing on the planet.
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Re: Adele

Postby SlightlyJames » Oct 23, '15, 2:10 pm

Looks like we can expect a song about Viazon sometime soon.
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Re: Adele

Postby Viazon » Oct 23, '15, 2:44 pm

I will expect royalties.
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Re: Adele

Postby PorkChop » Oct 23, '15, 2:57 pm

I actually had the same conversation with my family today. I've never seen so much hype for an album before, and I don't really understand why it's getting so much attention. It's really weird.
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Re: Adele

Postby prophet » Oct 23, '15, 3:42 pm

She's super talented and isn't an attention whore like pretty much every one of her peers. That's why people like her so much; she's just a really good singer/songwriter...that's it. Sure the radio will play the fuck out of her music for the next few months but that's what they do with everyone isn't it? I actually think her three/four year hiatuses between records are the reason they get so much hype, because we haven't heard anything new from her in a while. As for the thing about the media outlets devoting so much time/space to her, that's just good marketing :lol
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Re: Adele

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Oct 23, '15, 4:17 pm

Only two songs I've heard of hers are Pavements and the Skyfall theme and I liked both - and as said above, she seems to be nice in a world of music where you have attention seekers and annoying fucks like One Direction and all that nonsense.
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Re: Adele

Postby Everlong » Oct 24, '15, 8:22 am

prophet wrote:She's super talented and isn't an attention whore


This so much.

She's an outstanding singer, a very good lyricist and has a much classier, more relatable image than many of her contemporaries. Some of her songs do get overplayed, but at least they're really good music. I think she's excellent.
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Re: Adele

Postby Daz » Oct 24, '15, 11:39 am

Yeah, she's really good at what she does, and isn't a megalomaniac with a god complex. That's pretty much the best you can hope for in popular music.
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Re: Adele

Postby SortaCreative » Oct 24, '15, 11:40 am

She's better than Kanye.
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Re: Adele

Postby Everlong » Oct 24, '15, 12:16 pm

SortaCreative wrote:She's better than Kanye.


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Re: Adele

Postby War Daddy » Oct 24, '15, 1:43 pm

Everlong wrote:
SortaCreative wrote:She's better than Kanye.


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Re: Adele

Postby Kein » Oct 24, '15, 9:41 pm

War Daddy wrote:
Everlong wrote:
SortaCreative wrote:She's better than Kanye.


THEM'S FIGHTIN WORDS ROUND HERE


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