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Anyone Else Really Tired of Adele?

#81
JAUQO III-X said:
You missed the whole point of my post.

Whether her genre appealed to you or not doesn't/wouldn't/shouldn't matter when you're getting royalty checks from a song that you wrote from a genre you're not into.




Exactly. When people get tired of hearing a song that you wrote that really is an indication of what your checks will look like :)
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When it comes to royalty checks, nothing would matter to me. I'm pretty sure receiving those would be something I'd never get tired of, no matter what genres were involved. My point, though, is that I have a tendency to not listen to music which I don't like. My taste in music is, in fact, narrow. This is not really something good, but it's just the way I am. I only wish this was my greatest fault, though, because I could make quite a long list of them.
 
#82
jmattbassplaya said:
True story - my band recently got picked up by a producer to come into his studio to record one of our songs under the premise that he'd shop us around (both to the label his own band is on as well as others).

Anyways, my band has a killer guitarist that plays some sick lines in our songs. However, when we went into the studio the first thing our producer said was, "we're cutting down the guitar parts in half and we're going to try and get as much of a synth tone out of them as possible." :eek:

The look on my guitarist's face was priceless! :D
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Synth is in with the current trends in rock music.
Thankfully we already had a keys player, and our guitarists enjoy a hefty dose of modulation.

slaps76 said:
Spring Break - what Adele gives her mattress when she leaves home for the road.

Rumour has it, Adele loves cheesburgers.

In all seriousness, I dig her music.
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I was told a funny (to me) joke about Adele last weekend, but I wont repeat it here because it isnt nice.
 
#83
I hadn't heard Adele, but had heard the name. We haven't had a television in thirteen years, and I haven't listened to pop radio in, probably, about the same amount of time. I don't mention this because I feel superior in my chosen life - just to explain how there are some of us still stuck in the stone age, when it comes to pop culture :)

I did just look up some Youtube clips, though. Not really my thing, but a very good voice.

As to looks, the conversation made me thing of Doug Stanhope's take on ugly people in society:


Not safe for work, and he is over the top in many of his bits, but I find him amusing - kind-of a modern branch on the comedy tree that includes guys like Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks.

So that this post has, at least, something to do with the OPs original question... I, personally, am not tired of Adele. Just heard her today. Can't say that I will be buying any of her tracks, but I wouldn't complain if someone played it while I was hanging out. For that "style" of singing, I prefer some of the gospel singers/music that I have come across over the years. I am not a religious person, but enjoy a great deal of religious art - not just music.
 
#87
MatticusMania said:
Synth is in with the current trends in rock music.
Thankfully we already had a keys player, and our guitarists enjoy a hefty dose of modulation.
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True. I just find it funny because 1. we already have a synth player, and 2. my guitarist was so anti effects for the longest time and only recently were we able to convince him just to things other than his wah.
 
#92
Adele's talented in her own right and owes nothing to Amy Winehouse.

We recently started covering "Someone Like You" though we re-arranged it more as a power ballad (or a "get out your cigarette lighter" tune as we've called it) instead of a solo piano/voice work. Goes over very well with audiences.
 
#93
In an age of auto-tuned-models being held up as musicians, I wouldn't complain about anyone like Adele whether her music suited my tastes or not.

Now, there are plenty of other pop stars that fall into the auto-tuned-models category that I would gladly declare YOU SUCK.
 
#97
I can totally appreciate the OP's point.

I don't listen to radio that much any more because I don't appreciate a good deal of what I hear on the Edge Alternative stations. The Classic Rock stations play the same music as do the Oldies station. My only radio salvation is the Acoustic Jazz station.

I have a ton of CDs and videos of music from 1940s-2000 I'm totally into (Swing, Fusion, Jazz Rock, Reggae, British Invasion, R&B, Motown/Stax, Funk, New Wave, Alternative, Blues, Blues Rock) that I won't get through it all.

I could spend my remaining years studying/enjoying Peter Gabriel, Prince, The Wailers, David Lindley, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Zappa, Elvis Costello, Jeff Beck, Chic Corea, Herbie Hancock, Aimee Mann, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Rush, The Funk Brothers, and now Lettuce,... and not feel like I'm missing out on too much of the new stuff.

The cover bands I play with introduce me to the newer material and I only have to listen to it long enough to learn it, then I get to hear cover band people doing it (much easier on the ears, to me).
 
#98
Toastfuzz said:
I couldnt figure out why I just couldnt dig the new emo hipster alternative/indie rock music all my friends listen to now. This must be why.
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Ive seen an increasing number of bands that have no guitarists in them, and instead are using keys.
I like synths myself, but I think they can be used without having to go back to that 80s-ish sound a lot of the "new emo hipster alternative/indie rock" bands have.
 
#99
T. Alan Smith said:
I know what your saying, and agree to a point. However, I strongly believe fitness is an essential foundation(remember Neil Peart riding bicycle from show to show?). And dancing, as another artform, only expands your creative palette...besides being fantastic fitness in itself.
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What I mean is, she doesn't need a ridiculously choreographed super-colossal light show with 50 back-up dancers plus Auto-Tune and/or lip-synching to get people to pay attention to her.
 
#100
jeffbonny said:
She was packaged and hyped as much as any superstar...regardless of your talent you don't get that popular without being packaged and hyped. The competition for your attention is far too great for anyone to grab that much of it without major league backing. There's too much money involved for someone to be allowed to come up like that without the control of serious management.

Diana Krall is another example of this. Without a heavyweight management company she'd have had a nice career but wouldn't have been anymore popular than say Tierney Sutton or maybe at best Dianne Reeves. Not bad but not a multi-platinum selling superstar.
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I never said there was NO hype. It's just that (and I'll quote myself from my latest post) "What I mean is, she doesn't need a ridiculously choreographed super-colossal light show with 50 back-up dancers plus Auto-Tune and/or lip-synching to get people to pay attention to her." Nor did she need a major physical makeover.
 

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