What's your favourite Adele song?
- Thread starter luka
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I hear this in Adele though. You're not from London so you don't have the same background in 80s boogie, rnb and shit. It's arguable that 80s rnb is even popular than 90s rnb specifically in London. I'm not talking amongst the youth but the city as a whole. That stuff is still played on Sunday pirate radio. Loose Ends, D-Train, Kleeer, the lot.
Nah it's all forced. she should sound more London.
This is why Jessie J was far superior to Adele. But people never understood this.
Jessie doesn't pretend to hide her lack of vocal training in pseudo-rnb affectations she just resorts to the classic british diva malisma. We only do things good when we get them wrong. Dance music, rap filtered through fast chat, and so on.
She doesn't have to do it in her tottenham voice. She just needs to be pub soul, not american.
She's awful, stupifying suburbanite wank. Kenny G for the millennial authentocrat generation.
The mistake in approaching this stuff is to think that all popular London music is popular chart music.
Dido was not seen as relevant in ldn, whereas you could not escape Sizzla - Volcano at one point. Inescapable. Always blasting out of cars at every time. with shola ama - imagine club asylum remix, amira my desire etc.
Dido was not seen as relevant in ldn, whereas you could not escape Sizzla - Volcano at one point. Inescapable. Always blasting out of cars at every time. with shola ama - imagine club asylum remix, amira my desire etc.
I think the first two Dido albums are great because they disguise really bleak, alienated sentiments in the language of post-club pop techniques, she might sound posh and plain but lyrically there's some really direct and heavy stuff about modern life that makes more sense to me the older I get
I mean I find Adele and Dido guilty of the same sin. exagerratedly rehearsed performance. Not enough spontaneous alchemy. What you criticised what's their face up thread for.
Like, the problem with Adele is not that she's soulless (in the rnb sense) but precisely that she's too soulful. Far too soulful and rote. I'm saying its not cheap music. If it was cheap music it would be redeemable.
Conversely happy hardcore is relatively soulless in the rnb sense, but if we want to talk about evoking emotions of the human experience it has more genuine and accidental intent in it.
Conversely happy hardcore is relatively soulless in the rnb sense, but if we want to talk about evoking emotions of the human experience it has more genuine and accidental intent in it.