Adele opening her Notes app at 3am mid-anxiety attack and jotting down her thoughts. They projected human emotions on to the natural world – a shallow valley, a shelter in the rain.īut the singer of 30 is more literal. Earlier songs spoke in platitudes and broad strokes. Adele has always been forthright – every bad feeling you have felt, she has confessed to feeling too – but there is a new immediacy here. A tornado of self-revelation instead awaits. Next is Easy On Me, and any notion that 30 will be a happy jaunt down a yellow brick road is quickly dispelled. The song – a composition inspired by Judy Garland – follows suit. It is muffled but unmistakable, like hearing the opening credits of an old-timey Disney movie playing in the next room. Now she is back and ruminating on divorce – and the start of something new.Ī twinkly orchestra invites the listener into some misty glade. Across 19, 21 and 25, Adele has demonstrated a knack for explaining our feelings to us. We feel what she feels, and her songs make it clear she feels what we feel too. It is certainly why 10 million people tuned in to watch her recent sit-down with Oprah. She has called Beverly Hills home for years, but Adele is still the same woman from north London. She is crass and prone to throwing her head back in an open-throated cackle. In the rare glimpses we do get, we see a celebrity who does not care much for celebrity. The answer perhaps lies in her endearing online presence – no matter how small that presence might be. There is something else about Adele that makes her so appealing.
It yawns into unexpected shapes and makes intonation fun.īut there are many great vocalists out there who do not attract the same mass adoration. It is epic without resorting to showy affectations. Grounded in pathos, they tend to be handsomely crafted ballads about love and its various agonies – but it is her vocals that sell them.Īdele possesses that perfectly imperfect voice, at once gargantuan and frail. It is an alchemy she has honed over 15 years and just three records.
She gathers pain – hers and ours – and spins it into songs that go diamond or platinum. Ever since she was discovered aged 18 on Myspace in 2006, the singer has made weepy, diaristic soul music her metier. No one makes heartbreak as relatable as Adele.
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