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    #92
    Sunflower 27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭Sunflower 27


    Nodin wrote: »
    ......objection yer honour.

    Millions would disagree with you.


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    #93
    [Deleted User]
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    Nodin wrote: »
    If you want to listen to a pissed off woman, PJ Harvey is the (wo)man for ye.

    No. No thanks. :)


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    #94
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users Posts: 7,548 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    To be fair, like or dislike her songs, she does have a fantastic voice.

    I don't get the "brainwashed" concept. I mean, surely you would point that accusation towards generic, mass produced crap like One Direction and Justin Bieber (seriously, all of their songs sound exactly the same, if they aren't a rip off of other songs).


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    #95
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Misery. Her songs put a downer on the day.


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    #96
    [Deleted User]
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    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Misery. Her songs put a downer on the day.

    They really do. As successful as she is, she really is a streak of utter misery. She's obviously tapped into a market of people who like their wallowing normalised through the medium of song.

    She's like an aural version of the worst of Eastenders.


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    #97
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Candie wrote: »
    No. No thanks. :)



    Ahh go on. I'm a big Napalm Death/Slayer hard core fan and I give her a listen...


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    #98
    [Deleted User]
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    Nodin wrote: »
    Ahh go on. I'm a big Napalm Death/Slayer hard core fan and I give her a listen...

    Maybe. :)

    I just remembered Alanis Morrisette, another misery who made a career out of an inability to move on. Can't listen to her either. Luckily she's disappeared.


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    #99
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    yes, let the man speak...


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    #100
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Candie wrote: »
    Maybe. :)
    ...........

    Anyone with the bollocks (literal or otherwise) to rock an elvis suit deserves our support

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STxXS5lLunE


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    #101
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    Nodin wrote: »
    If you want to listen to a pissed off woman, PJ Harvey is the (wo)man for ye.
    If you want to listen to a pissed-off woman listen to Diamanda Galas.


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    #102
    Harry Palmr
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    Adele sells for the same reason Gloria Gaynors I Will Survive is a stereotypical choice for a girls night out drink and moanathon. It speaks to their sense of emotional entitlement.


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    #103
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I sing Adele songs to my cat on Valentine's


    Neeeeever mind I'll find someone like youuu

    How is she these days?


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    #104
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Anesthetize wrote: »
    If you want to listen to a pissed-off woman listen to Diamanda Galas.

    Gave it a go there - too arty for me. I'm a primitive creature at the end of the day.


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    #105
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Adele sells for the same reason Gloria Gaynors I Will Survive is a stereotypical choice for a girls night out drink and moanathon. It speaks to their sense of emotional entitlement.

    wtf is "emotional entitlement"?


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    #106
    [Deleted User]
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Adele sells for the same reason Gloria Gaynors I Will Survive is a stereotypical choice for a girls night out drink and moanathon. It speaks to their sense of emotional entitlement.

    I know you think you're saying something about girls there, but you're also revealing a lot about yourself.


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    #107
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Nodin wrote: »
    wtf is "emotional entitlement"?

    The lay-deez know.


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    #108
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    The lay-deez know.

    ....yes, but I'm not a lady, or even a woman come to that. Google doesn't give an answer so I'm forced to do the horrifically old fashioned task of asking somebody, in order that they bring light to the bleak darkness of my ignorance.


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    #109
    beks101
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    Well the media needs a darling, and she fits the bill fairly perfectly. She's relatable because she's not unhumanly beautiful and impossibly skinny like every other pop star, she hasn't "earned" her success by queueing outside a convention centre for ten hours and then belting a chart hit out in front of Simon Cowell, and we've all had that one arsehole ex...

    That and she comes across as a lovely, normal person fairly unaffected by it all. Like someone you'd meet at a bus stop and have a moan about how bloody long you've been waiting. She's got a good publicity team behind her, no doubt, and they tap into this very well. Those sound problems at the Grammys and the subsequent round of appearances on Ellen etc talking about how "mortified" she was etc. Pulling up local stars at her concerts, tweeting at that lad from The Voice of Ireland about sorting him out with tickets when she was gigging in Dublin a few nights later...a great team indeed. They know exactly how to endear her to the general public.

    She's from a fairly ordinary background and has a fairly ordinary appearance but lives this extraordinary life that we all aspire to. She makes it seem possible. That and a bloody fine set of pipes on her and the best producers in the world. Fair play to her.


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    #110
    Nodin
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    Shes no lemmy.


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    #111
    osarusan
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    That first big hit was ok (but got overplayed) and then the others I heard sounded kind of the same.

    But I've managed to avoid listening to/being exposed to her music to the extent that with the exception of Skyfall and that first big hit, I cannot recall even another song. Although, I probably know some others, just not that she's the one singing them.

    she can at least sing well, which makes her more deserving of success than plenty of others.


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    #112
    Wabbit Ears
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    ah come on, that video with the chick and the Room full of coke and a oversised toothpick and swirls and stuff, that was fantastic. I was so tripping absolute balls first time I saw that video, blew me away!!


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    #113
    camlinhall
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭camlinhall


    NIMAN wrote: »
    When it comes to music.....I always believe "each to their own".
    Is it really each to his own when we get an earful everywhere we go whether we're into the songs or not?
    I'm grand with Adele myself, but it has to be said: there's no escape!


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    #114
    camlinhall
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭camlinhall


    enzo roco wrote: »
    The music I listen to is so much cooler than the music you listen to.



    Some people like certain music, some dont.
    Who gives a poo poo???

    Maybe those who don't want to listen to it but get bombarded anyway? :)


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    #115
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Thank you for bringing back this thread from March, I just can't get enough Adele


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    #116
    riclad
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    The songs are well written ,she has a beautiful voice.
    She can sing live, without the aid of special effects .
    See her on carpool karoke , she can sing rap songs too.
    She is funny with a great sense of humour.
    She sings slightly old fashioned love songs .
    Many hits in the charts will be forgotten,
    people will still sing her songs in 20-30 years .
    She sings about her life ,love , relationships .
    So women can relate to that .
    Theres no singer that everyone likes .


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    #117
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Hello


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    #118
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    it's me


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    #119
    Outlaw Pete
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    Music to stalk to.


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    #120
    camlinhall
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭camlinhall


    beks101 wrote: »
    ... lives this extraordinary life that we all aspire to.

    I'm a freak so.
    Thanks for the heads up


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    #121
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Send my love to your new lover
    Treat her better!!


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