Do me a favor. Go listen to, not Back to Black, which is a classic, but Amy Winehouse's first album, Frank. Compare it to 21. 21 fades away in comparison, all the humor, sauciness and passion of Frank becomes a dreary, bluesy bore on 21.These songs choke on love, they don't crack a smile, there is no ease and less swing.
How did this piece of crap become a phenomena?
Adele is the chick flick of singers: she is a Lifetime Movie, a broiling, bitter broken psychotic moaner. No wonder women love her. All the clingy, needy, demanding, bullshit men hate in women are manifested here: women saying men are uncommunicative, perhaps heavy metal with its sex and violence is an easy version of the male id. Men think women are Adele and women mistake her neediness for girl power.
Her best song, "Someone Like You" is terrifying. The guy is married and gone and she is still hassling him. Is there a more nervewracking verse in rock and roll than this one:
"I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over."
Do the words restraining order mean anything?
At least that song is good, what excuse is there for moldy blues riffs "Rumour Has It",that's the one where she goes after yet another girls guy (all she wants is the guys who are taken)? Or " One And Only" , a Gospel based piano song (she is at her best on the piano) with yet another bloke she is yearning for. And it goes on for days and days and days.
She oversings everything in sight. Did you read Henry Sins review of "Set Fire To The Rain"? Henry loved it. Me? I wanna know how she can react so loudly to such a crappy simile. She is unbelievable, she is like fucking one of those girls who scream if you so much as breathe in her ear. I wanna shake Adele, tell her to fucking relax. Perhaps if she acted like a normal human being, she could keep a guy for longer than a chorus.
Grade: C
I think that it is valid to criticize Adele’s music. I am personally not much of a fan. However, this article is extremely misogynistic. It’s fine to criticize Adele, but not fine to write a blanket criticism of “chick flicks,” “lifetime movies” and media which target women precisely because they target women (an not men). In addition, you argue that Adele essentializes men as uncommunicative, however, you reinforce the stereotype of the needy, clingy, psychotic woman. Again, you don’t have to like Adele’s music or the messages in her music, and you can very well analyze the gender politics of her music. It is simply shortsighted to criticize her music because it is girly stuff that girls like.
spot on najja, spot freaking on!
This is not misogyny. The stereotype exists for a reason, just as the uncommunicative guy stereotype exists for a reason. There are strong women who can balance interdependence in a relationship, and there are weak women who use emotional weapons to maintain codependence. I am married to the former, while many of my friends are married to the latter, and it makes their lives and our relationships with them suck.
Women aren’t sacred by virtue of being women. They have to grow the hell up too.
No, it’s misogyny. This review caricatures Adele and her fans using the tired old gender stereotype of the clingy, needy, emotionally manipulative woman and denigrates her and other women based on that. The author blames Adele for representing specifically *feminine* “bullshit men hate in women,” when the stereotype itself is the problem; meanwhile, the women who wouldn’t “mistake” it for girl power are praised for being less needy or for not essentialising men as uncommunicative (ironic given that Adele is being judged according to a gender stereotype). It’s misogyny, at its most basic. The broad stroke dismissal of “chick flicks” and “lifetime movies” on the basis of being traditionally feminine interests and aimed at a principally female audience hardly helps.
You’re right, though – women aren’t sacred. They’re people, and they shouldn’t be judged according to restrictive archetypes that categorise them as strong/weak, good girl/bad girl, virgin/whore, etc.
Adele is an angry bird….
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There is Angry Birds, and there is Adele.
I didn’t understand why they both became phenomenal.
Is this world in dire need of angsty chicks or what?
So horrifyingly boring and overrated.
Ok, so I am not the only one who is confused as to why this cd is so hyped.
I just don’t get it, it all sounds boring but look at the competition..Rihanna, Katy Perry etc they make Adele look like a goddess, hence the fact this cd has become so popular. A cd where someone actually sings is very unheard of these days and gets praised like no other because lets fact it, even though its not that good, it is unique in comparison.
The problem is that we have forgotten what good music truly is
You’ve got it spot on there. I didn’t think she’s really that good to deserve so many grammys but then I looked at who she was up against and she probably did deserve most of them.
I guess you’ve got a point.Her CD sucks