Posted on 05/28/2011 1:00:47 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
Is Adele the bravest, craziest, most downright wonderful star in the history of pop? After what she has just told Q magazine on the subject of tax, I think she might well be.
Here’s what she said: “I’m mortified to have to pay 50 per cent! [While] I use the NHS, I can’t use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are ––––, and I’ve gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from [her album] 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.”
The reaction from Guardian readers online has been typically unpleasant: “£4 million is nothing compared to the money the NHS needs for the psychological damage her painfully bad excuse for music has inflicted,” quips Ianl. “So not only a purveyor of boring mum soul, but a bloody Tory too?” says JohnnyVodka.
Which, of course, makes the 23-year-old London soul singer’s outspokenness all the more admirable. She’d have known the effect her remarks would have on her audience. Yet with the insouciance of a woman who has spent most of the year topping both the UK and US charts, she has apparently decided that becoming British pop’s answer to Sarah Palin is a fate she is big enough to handle.
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Very cool! I didn’t know they owned a hotel. I will definitely check it out when I make it to Dublin someday. Thanks for the tip. :-)
U2 orginated in Ireland. Bono and the rest of the U2 are all Irish.
They moved their publishing company to the Netherlands to avoid Irish taxes. They are now a Dutch band. Maybe they can sing some songs about their outrage of the effect of thw Belgian Revolution on their new homeland.:-)
Adele wrote “Rolling in the Deep” after her relationship with a much older ma failed. She said that the song is her reaction to being told her life was going to be boring and lonely and rubbish and that she was a weak person if she didn’t stay in the relationship. She was very insulted, and this song was her of saying ‘F* you.
Adele wrote “Rolling in the Deep” after her relationship with a much older ma failed. She said that the song is her reaction to being told her life was going to be boring and lonely and rubbish and that she was a weak person if she didn’t stay in the relationship. She was very insulted, and this song was way her of saying ‘F* you.
Welcome to Planet Earth, era of Karl Marx, kid. Brace yourself, it’s only gonna get worse.
“Did not notice her music until Haley Reinhart performed her hit — ROLLING IN THE DEEP on American Idol.”
Um, yeah. I downloaded “21” the day it hit the US back in February.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/adele-hits-number-one-on-huge-digital-sales-20110304
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/yet-again-adele-tops-the-charts/
I’d never heard of her until this thread. Clicked on the video...listening to it for the second time. If the rest of her stuff is this good, she just gained another fan. Wow.
She is riding a wave of artists who are actually talented, write their own music, and it’s music worth listening to. My 17 year old introduced me to her - she’s very popular.....a breathe of fresh air all the way around.
Here, here!!!
She has defied all entertainment stereotypes,,she is a rather large girl n an industry full if emaciated ska is. She dresses appropriately and the biggest of them all..her music is not overly produced. Just good, old fashioned melody and lyrics. Good on her!
Adele’s first televised appearance in the United States was, to my knowledge, on the same SNL episode as Sarah Palin’s infamous moose shooting rap. There was a live thread on FR for that reason.
I liked her sound, sort of smoky and bluesy, she’s lived enough life even at (then) 19 to have seen a few things and gone through a few things and you could hear it.
Many FReepers leapt to the immediate conclusion that she was the usual entertainment industry leftard and lit into her, calling her a whale, you name it. She is a big girl. Wears it well, though. A very confident young lady. I’m glad to hear she’s got all the balls and bravery you’d expect a fat singer to have. She’s fended off her share of barbs to get where she is.
The song on SNL was “Chasing Pavements.”
Thanks for bringing Adele to the Freepers!
She won the Grammmy for best new artist (beating the Jonas brothers), and no one heard of her then, but rightfully winning, as a true pure talent.
live performance of “someone like you”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemWRToNYJY
Now watch and tell me that is not the best live performance EVER....of anyone!
Listen to all Adele’s music here. If you click on the song title, you’ll be able to listen to the whole song and see the song’s video.
http://www.last.fm/music/Adele
Wrong. The GREAT Frank Sinatra’s ‘Comeback’ show at Madison Square Garden was. It was a while back, you might be to young to remember it.
Wrong. The GREAT Frank Sinatra’s ‘Comeback’ show at Madison Square Garden was. It was a while back, you might be to young to remember it.
More music from Britain; this time an American “discovered” in his 60s.
Seasick Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtIWkjjjojo&feature=related
Cool. Never heard of her. Thanks for posting.
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