what do you think about Adele?

Personally, I love her music and did before she really got so popular. I think she's gorgeous and I'd be damned thrilled to look like her.

That said, I think she makes poor choices in clothing which makes her look bigger than she actually is. Also, as a woman, I learned a few years ago the importance of a good bra and Adele could benefit from one.

...ok so from your standpoint then, you could take just about any opera singer in the world today and they would out sing adele no problem...but you probably just don't like their style....She doesn't have some crazy range or anything not really sure why you think she is so great vocally...

You saying she is the greatest singer in the past 30 years and only Whitney Houston is even comparable is laughable...You sir are a moron, and should probably take that flagpole that you are sitting on....and shove it right up your ass

She is to British pop what Alan Culpepper was to American distance running. Good, serious, hard-working performer but way too overexposed due to being around at a time when there's a shortage of top-class talent.

1. "I think rolling in the deep means having sex with a fat chick." = hilarious

2. this may have been said already, but she wrote an album getting back at the guy who broke her heart. that's a big reason why.

Yet here we all sit. Writing on a runner's message board. Where is she? The one you so harshly criticize?

Featured on 60 Minutes.

Picking up 6 Grammy's in one night.

Renting a huge mansion in the UK countryside to get away from the media and stalkers. I'm pretty sure we in here do not have that problem, do we?

She is physically plain. She is monumentally talented. As seen by people who gave her awards. People who know more about music than any of us.

Elton John loves her music. Does he have a good ear?

She is young. She can lose weight, like Jennifer Hutson did.

She is a great sensation. A big star about to become more famous than any of us will ever ever be, with wealth beyound anything any of us will ever experience. That's all.

a woooo wrote:

...ok so from your standpoint then, you could take just about any opera singer in the world today and they would out sing adele no problem...but you probably just don't like their style....She doesn't have some crazy range or anything not really sure why you think she is so great vocally...

You saying she is the greatest singer in the past 30 years and only Whitney Houston is even comparable is laughable...You sir are a moron, and should probably take that flagpole that you are sitting on....and shove it right up your ass

1) Opera singer - no, not every opera singer in the world could out sing her.

2) Crazy range isn't everything, but her range is just fine. Her voice is powerful and beautiful.

3) I'm not the only one saying she's all that brother. And she is. Again, go back 30 years and find one diva who even compares to Adele other than Whitney Houston in her prime...just isn't one.

4) I'm definitely not a moron. I am a musician with a great ear, and I know talent when I hear it. Adele has truckloads.

1) I didn't say EVER opera singer, I said just about any which would be a true statement...Sarah Brightman, blows Adele away....hell Celine dion which would fit your category of any singer in the past 30 years also out sings Adele.

2) Range isn't everything, no, I never said anything that she didn't have a great voice or isn't talented, in fact, I said that she did have a great voice.

3) Celine Dion, Myles Kennedy, Josh Groban, I could continue but you would disagree and these people AREN'T EVEN CLOSE TO AS TALENTED AS ADELE....wow

4) I'm sure you are just a musical genius and went to Berkley and studied with Andrea Bocelli and Steve Perry is your dad

formidable doer of the nasty wrote:

She is to British pop what Alan Culpepper was to American distance running. Good, serious, hard-working performer but way too overexposed due to being around at a time when there's a shortage of top-class talent.

his brother Tim is more famous IMO

Musical beatification rules indicate that if she has not been invited to sing a duet with Tony Bennett she can not be nominated for singing sainthood.

I do not think she's attractive. For pop songs, her music is ok.

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You are definitely not a moraon for liking Adele so much; I like Adele too, but comparing her to Whitney is a bridge too far. Whitney is in that special category of a dozen or so women are true iconic talents. Even as an Adele fan, she is 2nd tier at this point in her career. Btw, winning a lot of Grammy's as Adele did is partially a matter of who you are competing against that year. (Adele didn't have much competition.)

I am not sure Adele could have won Grammys in the mid-80s if she had to go up against Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi, Duran Duran, Guns & Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Madonna, Marich Carey, Luther Vandross, Cyndi Lauper, Phil Collins, Garth Brooks, Journey, U2 and Janet Jackson, etc. I don't think all of these artists were necessarily better, but they sold tons of records and won lots of awards and in one of those mid-80s years, Adele may not have won any Grammys. - 2011 was a 'very down year in music; Whitney won Grammys competing against icons.

With all of that said, I love Adele's voice. (Just keeping it real!)

1) Disagree.2) ok3) Celine Dion is definitely a Diva, but Adele sings better. I'm not impressed with Myles Kennedy, and yes Josh Groban is a good singer (as are all of these), but someone has to be the best of the lot, and Adele is it.4) I'm not a musical genius. I have though made money as a guitarist, keyboard player (primarily) and singer since I was 23, doing local scenes but also working as a session musician. I am not nearly as talented at anything though as the singers you mentioned are at singing (something I have to say because people always assume you think you are better if you compare in an unfavorable way), but Adele still remains better than all of them. Just my opinion brother.

a woooo wrote:

1) I didn't say EVER opera singer, I said just about any which would be a true statement...Sarah Brightman, blows Adele away....hell Celine dion which would fit your category of any singer in the past 30 years also out sings Adele.

2) Range isn't everything, no, I never said anything that she didn't have a great voice or isn't talented, in fact, I said that she did have a great voice.

3) Celine Dion, Myles Kennedy, Josh Groban, I could continue but you would disagree and these people AREN'T EVEN CLOSE TO AS TALENTED AS ADELE....wow

4) I'm sure you are just a musical genius and went to Berkley and studied with Andrea Bocelli and Steve Perry is your dad

Is she the best UK singer? Leona Lewis anyone?

Who?

Finally a post I...well won't say agree with, but understand. Pretty much we could go all day with this, I'm never going to agree with you, and you will never agree with me...just difference of opinions....was a nice little argument though there sir. I will retract my previous statement mocking you about music...heat of the battle....and ironically I play guitar and piano as well

Steeno wrote:

I prefer Of Monsters and Men

I don't mind Of Monster and Men (heck, I'd even say I like them), but c'mon, that one song by them is basically the broad talking during interludes separated by the same simple guitar riff over and over.

I have no problem with people who don't like Adele. People who think she is "bad" "crappy" or "talentless" are just dumb.

a woooo wrote:

I'm sure you are just a musical genius and went to Berkley and studied with Andrea Bocelli

Burklee? Cal Berkeley? Which do you mean?

You can't be serious.

I was onboard with you when it comes to liking Adele, but if you think she could have won Grammys in the mid-80s against the talent I mentioned above...I have to say you are not thinking logically.

-or, you are just pulling my chain, baiting me into an argument, which I have seen you masterfully do over the years.

I meant Berklee college of music...sorry about the spelling before.