What's your favourite Adele song?

[luka]

i am that very demographic. ive listened to it 5 times in a row.

 

[luka]

She's a master at what she does, you have to admire it

i think shes taken it to another level. this is better than what came before i think.

 

[craner]

It has an atomic melody and it soars well

She's good at soaring, her voice has a good soaring quality

 

[luka]

and the way she uses an american accent makes it more authentically and relateably english

 

[luka]

much more so than the stage-school cockney popularised by lily allen

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I don't like all the gesticulating - needs to sit on her hands or have them restrained.

 

[craner]

much more so than the stage-school cockney popularised by lily allen

She learnt from Lisa Stansfield

 

[luka]

its the absorption and total identification with american r&b singers, to totally inhabit it. the urge to sing comes from this childhood identification, and the knowledge of how to sing, the model emulated is american r&b in tone and technique and affect. you can see the child in front of the mirror when theres a made up amercian accent.

 

[luka]

the american accent is Universal.

 

[craner]

It's Dusty Springfield

 

[luka]

adele sings better though

 

[luka]

on my 6th listen now. its a masterpiece.

 

[craner]

Why do you think it's a masterpiece?

 

[luka]

Why do you think it's a masterpiece?

It has an atomic melody and it soars well

 

[craner]

It has an atomic melody and it soars well

That's why I think it's really good, why do you think it's a masterpiece?

 

[luka]

 

[craner]

It is vibrating with your current emotional state?

 

[craner]

Have you been hit in the solar plexus by a beautiful pop song?

 

[luka]

i dont think, i feel

 

[craner]

This is why you can't evaluate the power of a pop song objectively. They hijack your emotions and perceptions suddenly and temporarily.