Este ex inspiró al menos dos de las canciones de '25', asegura Adele en su entrevista a The Guardian. El periodista menciona específicamente 'Send My Love (to Your New Lover)' y 'I Miss You'. “La primera es mi 'canción que te den'â€, explica Adele. “Suena obvio, pero creo que solo aprendes a amar de nuevo cuando te enamoras de nuevo. Estoy en ese punto. Mi amor es profundo y verdadero con mi chico y eso me pone en una posición en la que por fin puedo tender una mano a mi ex. Hazle saber que ya lo he superadoâ€.La segunda canción, un tema que Adele comenzó a escribir una noche en la que no podía dormir, no molesta a Konecki. “Mi chico es lealâ€, señala. “Mi chico es fuerte. Así que hablamos y me dijo, 'Tus letras no tienen nada que ver conmigo'. Le parece bien. Y hace falta ser un hombre fuerte para ser asíâ€. Las metas de una relación, si alguna vez las hubo...Sin embargo, no todas las canciones de '25' son sobre su ex. En un tráiler de su entrevista para '60 minutos Australia', Adele interpreta “When We Were Youngâ€, una canción acerca del paso del tiempo y de hacerse mayores, y el segundo sencillo extraído de su álbum. .Adele tambiíén habla de la fama y de los locos acuerdos de promoción en su entrevista con 'The Guardian'. “¿A quíé he tenido que decir que no? A todo lo que te puedas imaginar. Literalmente a cada maldita cosa. Libros, ropa, comida, bebida, deporte... Esto es probablemente lo más divertidos. Me querían hacer imagen de un coche. De juguetes, de apps, de velas. Es como, 'No quiero ser embajadora de una línea de esmaltes de uñas, pero gracias por preguntar. O ¿un millón de libras por cantar en tu fiesta de cumpleaños? Prefiero hacerlo gratis si me apetece, gratis... Al final, dinero es todo lo que te tiran.La tentación es fuerte. “Es muy fácil ceder a ser famoso. Porque es encantador. Es poderoso. Te atrae. Realmente, es muy duro resistirse. Pero despuíés de un tiempo rechacíé tener una vida que no era realâ€. Una vida, describe Adele, en la que uno espera que “todas las cosas van a ser hechas para ti. He tenido algunos momentos así. Y eso me asustó. Creo que fue porque me había quedado sin ropa limpia. Y yo no tenía la iniciativa de lavármela. Estaba molesta por que mi ropa no estaba en condicionesâ€. Eso sucedió en la íépoca más alta de '21'. “Me dije a mí misma que ya estaba bien. Y fui y me hice la maldita coladaâ€. Y así fue como Adele puso los pies en la tierra.Visto en ELLE US
Está claro que Adele le ha cogido el testigo a Taylor Swift y se ha convertido en la gran protagonista del momento. Disco en la calle, anuncio de gira, resultados comerciales impresionantes, parodias, covers, nuevas versiones, cada día tenemos noticias nuevas de ella.Claro que hay alguien que ha logrado robarle algo de protagonismo. Un hombre que comparte con ella muchas de sus fotos captadas por paparazzi. La acompaña casi siempre y no es su marido sino su guardaespaldas que ha enamorado a miles de personasSe llama Peter van der Veen, es holandíés y está claro que está de muy buen ver. Fue culturista y consiguió el título de Míster Europa hace diez años. Y en esto de lidiar con cantantes ya tiene experiencia porque antes de Adele estuvieron Lady Gaga o Iggy Azalea.
Adele ofrecerá un segundo concierto en Barcelona el próximo 25 de mayo, tras agotarse, en apenas una hora, las entradas para su primera actuación en la Ciudad Condal, prevista para el día anterior.Tras encaramarse al número uno de la lista de ventas en España con su nuevo disco, «25», la artista británica ha vuelto a romper ríécords, lo que la llevará a actuar, por partida doble, en el Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona.Según informa la promotra Doctor Music, las entradas para este segundo concierto ya se pueden conseguir, aunque la compra será, en este caso, únicamente online, a travíés de doctormusic.com, ticketmaster.es y adele.com.Las actuaciones de Adele en el Palau Sant Jordi serán las únicas en España dentro de su nueva gira europea, que arrancará en Belfast (Irlanda del Norte) el próximo día 1 de marzo. La artista británica pasará tambiíén por Dublín, Manchester, Londres, Glasgow, Birmingham, Estocolmo, Oslo, Copenhague, Herning, Berlín, Hamburgo, Colonia, Zúrich, Lisboa, Verona, Amsterdam, París y Amberes.
La cantante británica Adele ha agotado tambiíén las entradas para su segundo concierto en el Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona, el 25 de mayo, dentro de su gira del nuevo álbum '25'.Según ha informado la promotora Doctor Music en un comunicado, la artista ha agotado este jueves las entradas para los conciertos del 24 y 25 de mayo en menos de cinco horas.La actuación se enmarca en la gira europea de la cantante que se iniciará el 29 de febrero en Belfast y tendrá parada, en muchas con doblete, en Dublín, Manchester, Londres --cuatro--, Glasgow, Birmingham, Estocolmo, Oslo, Copenhague, Herning, Berlín, Hamburgo, Colonia, Zurich, Lisboa, Verona, Amsterdam, París y Amberes.
Adele supera el millón de ventas de su último disco Los últimos registros de Billboard muestran cómo Adele ha roto una serie de ríécords y se ha convertido en un hito de la música. Dos semanas despuíés de que la artista británica sacara su disco 25 a la venta, ya ha vendido un millón de copias.Es la primera vez que Nielsen vende un millón de copias en tan solo catorce días desde que la compañía comenzó a vender discos en 1991. Superó este ríécord por los pelos, a un solo día de que se le acabara el plazo para lograr tal objetivo.Al enorme número de ventas hay que sumarle que Adele haya conseguido colocar su disco 25 en el primer puesto de Billboard. Algo frecuente cuando sucede esto, es que el público muestre interíés por el resto de la obra de la artista.Por ese motivo, el íéxito de Adele no se traduce solo en que su single Hello se haya establecido como número 1 cinco semanas despuíés de su publicación. Tras el lanzamiento de su nuevo álbum, la cantante inglesa sigue manteniendo cuatro temas en la lista Billboard Hot 100.
Las probabilidades de ver a Adele en concierto antes del anuncio de su nueva gira eran de un 0.25%, es decir, 1 de 400. Hasta ahora son 240.971 personas las que han asistido a alguno de los 129 conciertos que la cantante ha dado a lo largo de su carrera, 78 en la promoción de su álbum 19 y 51 en su disco 21. Son datos de Ticketbis, la plataforma internacional de compraventa de entradas.Adele tiene preferencia por las exhibiciones más íntimas y la media de asistentes por actuación en las dos giras anteriores ronda los 1900 espectadores, sin embargo, con su apoteósico y esperado regreso, 25, es muy probable que las posibilidades de verla en directo aumenten. Según Ticketbis, los fans de la artista británica tienen más probabilidades de escribir un best seller (1 de 220), de descubrir que su hijo es un genio (1 de 250), sacar dos veces 6 al lanzar un dado (1 de 36) o de salir con un millonario (1 de 215).Además, este portal ha averiguado quíé porcentaje de los fans de Adele en redes sociales ha tenido la suerte de poder asistir a uno de sus conciertos para medir esta probabilidad. La cantante tiene 61 millones de seguidores en Facebook, 23 millones en Twitter y 1,6 millones en Instagram. A partir de este análisis, la plataforma ha identificado que solo un 0,39% de los fans de Adele en Facebook han tenido la oportunidad de verla en directo. En su primera gira, este porcentaje se reduce al 0,17% ascendiendo al 0,21% en su segundo tour. Asumiendo que este porcentaje de crecimiento se mantuviese constante las posibilidades serían de un 0,25%.Sin embargo, la nueva gira anunciada supone un punto de inflexión con respecto a los anteriores y las posibilidades de hacerse con una entrada para alguno de los conciertos aumentan hasta el 0,87%, es decir, las probabilidades son de 1 sobre 115. Las entradas para las dos citas españolas de Adele, el 24 y el 25 de mayo en Barcelona ya están agotadas.
No hace ni un mes que Adele publicó 25 y batió todos los ríécords con su primer single Hello, y a la británica ya le llueven criticas y acusaciones. Si hace unos días os traíamos las declaraciones del cantante de Oasis en las que decía que la música de la británica es una porquería, ahora es el turno de la mismísima Shakira.Según diversos medios internacionales, la colombiana ha acusado a Adele de plagio ya que considera que la canción Million Years Ago de la británica se parece mucho a su Hay Amores, tema que forma parte de la banda sonora de la película El amor en los tiempos de cólera.Además, tambiíén se ha encontrado que Million Years Ago se parece a Acilara Tutunmak del turco Ahmet Kaya.
Realmente os he echado de menos. Síé que he estado en silencio. y solo quería volver y sorprenderosâ€, con estas palabras explicaba Adele el motivo de sus lágrimas al finalizar una de sus canciones durante su concierto en el Radio City Music Hall de Nueva York el pasado 17 de noviembre.La artista ha estado una larga temporada alejada de los escenarios para centrarse por completo en su nuevo álbum 25 y confesó que estaba muy nerviosa por volver a cantar en público. La cadena NBC ha emitido el show de la artista británica en el que empieza preparándose en el camerino y cuenta con una introducción de Jimmy Fallon, amigo de la artista con el que recientemente la vimos versionando Hello con instrumentos de juguete.25 ha roto todos los ríécords hasta la fecha vendiendo más de 5 millones de copias solo en Estados Unidos impidiendo incluso que Coldplay hayan alcanzado el número 1 con A Head Full Of Dreams como es habitual con sus lanzamientos.
On a chilly November night, Adele takes the stage at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan for her first show in the U.S. in four years. It’s also the first stop on a stateside publicity tour to promote her new album, 25. After singing her No. 1 smash “Hello,†an orchestral ballad that aches with regret, she kicks off her shoes center stage and sighs. “How are you?†Adele asks the audience. “Are you all O.K.?†The crowd cheers. “I’m sorry,†she says. “I’ve got gas because I’m nervous.†Laughter erupts in the hall.“I don’t think she even realizes how beloved she is,†the woman next to me says to her friend in a loud whisper. “She’s literally a national treasure.â€Judging by Adele’s commercial success, at least, this is less opinion than fact. Prognosticators anticipated that 25 might sell a million copies in its first week, an extraordinary figure in an anemic music industry that has seen physical record sales wither. Selling 2 million units would be miraculous. The last time that happened was in 2000, when ’N Sync’s blockbuster No Strings Attached sold 2.42 million copies—albeit long before streaming services obviated the need to buy albums. But by the first week’s end, Adele had sold 3.38 million copies of 25, making it the biggest sales week in history. Then sales passed another million the following week. Then another.Adele can’t account for how she pulled off the seemingly impossible. Reclined on the floor of her hotel room a few days after the concert, she says she has “no idea†why she’s sold so many records. “It’s a bit ridiculous. I’m not even from America.†The 27-year-old sets down her cup of tea, brightening. “Maybe they think I’m related to the Queen. Americans are obsessed with the royal family.â€This is a little disingenuous, but only a little. Her last album, 21, was the best-selling record of 2011 and ’12, racking up a staggering 30 million copies worldwide. The lead single on 25, “Hello,†also shattered records: its music video was viewed at a rate of 1.6 million times per hour on YouTube. It stood to reason that she’d do good business. Still, Adele’s return to the spotlight is unlike anything the music industry has ever seen. Says Keith Caulfield, co-director of charts at Billboard, which tallies music sales: “She’s a unicorn.†Even compared with 2014’s biggest blockbuster—Taylor Swift’s 1989, which sold less than half as many copies during its debut week—that isn’t hyperbole.Adele, of course, is more than a set of stratospheric numbers. In a stunted pop economy in which her contemporaries try to sound simultaneously like each other and like what might be trending next, Adele does the opposite: she sounds like the past. Her music is dignified, even stately, cutting across demographics. On 25, as on her previous releases, she cements her reputation as pop’s oldest soul with songs that are intimate and simple.And then there’s the voice.“She studied Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole—all the old greats,†says Ryan Tedder, lead singer of the pop-rock outfit OneRepublic, who wrote two singles with Adele on 21. “You have a voice that’s been trained on the greatest singers of all time.†That voice is a mighty instrument, clean and muscular. But most of all, says Tedder, who also co-wrote the ballad “Remedy†on 25, Adele’s appeal is her authenticity. “When she writes a song,†he says, “it doesn’t sound like songwriting by a committee. It’s just her.â€When you talk to people about Adele, pretty much everyone uses the word authentic sooner or later. But over the course of a week with her, it’s not one she uses to describe herself or her music. Nor is she into other industry jargon. At one point, she volunteers that she hates the word brand, for example. “They all use that word,†she says. “It makes me sound like a fabric softener, or a packet of crisps.â€Unlike nearly all her peers, Adele has no product-endorsement deals. She seems uninterested in the contemporary practice of working to maintain a specific image. She just doesn’t want to be perceived as a jerk. “Some artists, the bigger they get, the more horrible they get, and the more unlikable,†she says. “I don’t care if you make an amazing album—if I don’t like you, I ain’t getting your record. I don’t want you being played in my house if I think you’re a bastard.â€Adele will be played in a lot of houses in 2016. Her voice has the impact of a thousand tons of bricks. The zeitgeist can’t seem to get enough—the memes spawned by “Hello†alone were numerous enough to clog social media for weeks. Yet she’s the only pop star you can listen to with your grandma. That’s the reason she can dominate as fully as she does: Adele bridges pop music’s past and its future.In person, Adele is frank and funny, peppering her speech with profanity and self-deprecating asides. Perhaps that’s why it’s startling to register how young she still is. 25, like the two albums before, is named for the age she was when she recorded it. Born Adele Laurie Blue Adkins and raised in the working-class London neighborhood of Tottenham by a single mom, she recalls her childhood through the lens of being a new mother. Her son Angelo is 3. “The environment in which my kid is growing up couldn’t be further away from the way I grew up,†she says. “But there was never any embarrassment about showing love in my family.â€Early on, she was inspired by R&B artists such as Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys, along with legends like Etta James. At 14, she earned a spot at the BRIT School, an elite performing-arts school that also counts Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis as alumnae. She was scouted on MySpace and signed with indie label XL at age 18. When she began recording her debut album, 19, her expectations were low. “I was a brand-new artist,†she says. “No one cared.†But a warm reception in the U.K. and a high-profile performance on Saturday Night Live in 2008 showcasing her single “Chasing Pavements†garnered buzz in the U.S. That winter, she won the Grammy for Best New Artist.Superstardom came the following year when she released another single, “Rolling in the Deep,†a stomping anthem that set the tone for the record that followed and topped charts around the world. Released in 2011, 21 was largely about the end of a relationship that hit on classic themes of heartache and empowerment. Her songs often sounded simpler than they were. The easy melody and spare production of a track like “Someone Like You,†for instance, makes it seem universal. Yet it’s also an emotionally complex piece of writing.By the time Adele was a household name, she was ready for some time off. After giving birth, she did the most radical thing an artist at her level could do: she went mostly dark to spend time with her boyfriend, charity executive Simon Konecki, and their son Angelo. “I was very conscious to make sure that our bond was strong and unbreakable,†she says. “I had to get to that point before I’d come back.â€This left her with little in the way of material for a new album, however. First she tried writing songs about motherhood, most of which she tossed. “I loved it,†she says “For me, it was great. Better than 25. But he’s the light of my life—not anyone else’s.†She didn’t want to write about the issues in her partnership with Konecki. “We’re in a grownup, adult, mature relationship,†she says. “I didn’t want to write about us, because I didn’t want to make us feel uncomfortable.†Nor did she want to resort to shallow material. “Can you imagine if I was singing about texting?†She cackles. “You would never get me singing about having a drink in the club.â€It wasn’t until Adele turned the lens back on herself that she was able to make progress. “That’s when I decided to write about myself and how I make myself feel, rather than how other people make me feel,†she says. She also decided not to rush it. “It doesn’t matter how long it takes,†she says. “You’re only as good as your next record.â€This is also the DNA of her songs on a compositional level. Much of what’s on the radio is cooked up by A-list producers and songwriters who churn out hooks, snippets of melody, lyrics and song concepts. Their work is then mined for precious No. 1 hits. It’s a sound rooted in the late ’90s, when artists like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys began recording tracks written by superproducers like Max Martin and his Stockholm team of songwriters, who expertly blended American R&B and European dance music. Nearly two decades later, Martin is still shaping hits for artists including Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.Top songs are also often written to track, which means a producer makes a beat, then a songwriter listens to it and attempts to generate words that fit that beat, sometimes singing nonsense until the language begins to take shape. It’s more about how lyrics sound than what they mean. This has become a bedrock part of the industry, as laid out in John Seabrook’s recent book The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. And it’s how you end up with something like Ariana Grande’s dance-pop confection “Break Freeâ€: “I only wanna die alive … Now that I’ve become who I really am.â€While every artist has a different level of involvement with the composition of their songs—Swift writes her own material, for example, and wrote her 2010 album Speak Now without the help of any other songwriters—there remains a widespread sensitivity to hit potential that guides the process. The songs on the radio are catchy because they’re engineered to be. “Mathematical songwriting†is how Tedder describes it. “It works if you’re someone who gets called on to write hits,†he says. “But it doesn’t lead you to a place like Adele. That sh-t doesn’t work on her.â€Adele’s dismissal of this is a big part of why she reminds people of the way music used to sound—she writes it the way music used to be written, decades ago, before that teen-pop boom of the late ’90s. “I’m not precious about writing credits—it’s whatever makes the best song,†she says. “But I can’t do that. I can’t write a song based on a track.†Her songs aren’t a Frankenstein’s monster of her best ideas, either. “I write a song from beginning to end,†she says. “I don’t go in sections. It’s a story.†Even though she, too, recorded songs for 25 with Martin, their cut—“Send My Love (To Your New Lover)â€â€”doesn’t have the stitched-together feel of many radio hits.Greg Kurstin, who co-wrote and produced “Hello,†says Adele’s process is increasingly rare. “She would start out with actual lyrics,†he says. “I don’t see that in the pop world.†Accordingly, Adele’s songs stand out against much of what’s popular now. “I’m not saying my album is incredible, but there’s conviction in it,†she says. “And I believe the f-ck out of myself on this album.â€A few days later, Adele is in the green room of the Today show. By this point, 25—five days after its release—has already been cemented as the fastest-selling record since Nielsen began tracking first-week sales in 1991, breezing past all previous record holders, including albums from ’N Sync, Britney Spears and Eminem. Accordingly, the mood is high among her entourage. She is being primped and prodded by a swarm of makeup artists and hairstylists and looks every bit a diva. But when a dog barks in the hallway, she rushes out to pet it, barefoot in her Burberry gown. Suddenly her manager, Jonathan Dickins, rushes in, calling to Adele’s stylist, Gaelle Paul: “Gaelle! Gaelle! We’ve got to get a new frock! The dog’s had a wee on this one! Where’s the Givenchy?†Paul, panicked, races out of the room. Once she’s gone, Dickins cracks up—it was a prank.A few minutes later, Adele takes the stage to perform “Million Years Ago,†a nostalgic ballad. As soon as she starts to sing, the room falls silent. It’s a haunting song, dirgelike in its starkness. Halfway through, one of the producers dabs at his eyes. The artist who’s endlessly self-deprecating in conversation is instantly commanding when she opens her mouth to sing.Unlike many of her contemporaries who use social media to telegraph relatability, Adele thinks the web is a big part of why stars get oversaturated. Not to mention artistically distracted. “It’s ridiculous that high-profile people have that much access to the public,†she says. “How am I supposed to write a real record if I’m waiting for half a million likes on a photo? That ain’t real.â€She’s not a Luddite, but there is a nostalgia that even comes across in her music. “Hello†is a song about calling someone on the phone, not Snapchatting them. “People were going on about that I was calling on a landline,†she says. “I still use landlines.†Much was made of the fact that she uses a flip phone in the song’s sepia-hued video, but that, too, was conscious. “It is so unlikely I’d have a flip phone in this day and age,†she says. “Call me old-fashioned, call me ignorant, but whatever. Take it or leave it.â€This ethos has guided her in other ways too. When reports surfaced that 25 would not be immediately available on streaming services such as Spotify or Apple Music, there was criticism from fans and industry insiders. She says she was under pressure from both sides—to stream and not to. (Artists, even mega-stars, make considerably less streaming their music as opposed to selling it.) “I don’t use streaming,†she says. “I buy my music. I download it, and I buy a physical [copy] just to make up for the fact that someone else somewhere isn’t. It’s a bit disposable, streaming.†How much her decision helped boost her sales is tough to quantify. “I know that streaming music is the future, but it’s not the only way to consume music,†she says. She believes “music should be an event.†(25 could yet come to streaming services in 2016.)Her decision recalls Swift’s removal of her music from Spotify in 2014 and subsequent open letter to Apple asking that the world’s biggest music retailer change its policies on how artists are compensated, which Adele says she admired. “It was amazing,†she says. “I love her—how powerful she is. We’ll get lumped together now because of it, but I think we would both feel the ability to say yes or no to things even if we weren’t successful.â€This is important to her: the ability to make her own decisions and work at her own pace. She could have released 25 earlier to make it eligible for the 2016 Grammys, but instead it arrived when she was ready. In an era when artists release albums like clockwork and every morsel of information is meted out to generate news, Adele thinks we should slow down. “The speed with which we discover and get over things is too fast,†she says. “I’m frightened that I’m not going to be able to relate to my kid.â€The artist who has forged an extraordinary career by spinning her vulnerability out to the world is especially tender when she talks about Angelo. “He makes me so proud of myself,†she says. “He makes me like myself so much. And I’ve always liked myself—I’ve never not liked myself. I don’t have hang-ups like that. But I’m so proud of myself that I made him.†She plans to bring him with her on tour in 2016, which she says will be an ambitious production. “I really would like to fly through the arena for the beginning, but no one’s having it,†she says, laughing.Back at her hotel for a photo shoot, someone suggests playing Beyoncíé might set the mood. As soon as the opening chords of “Love on Top†start to play, Adele starts to dance. “Good choice,†she says. Then Angelo streams through the room, a whirlwind of energy. Eventually, he joins her in front of the camera, so the photographer moves closer, shooting her from the neck up, while Angelo sits beside her, out of the shot. He gazes up at her as she looks into the camera, then reaches for her hand. She grips it tightly. Her eyes light up and her mouth curves into the faintest smile.
Alex Sturrock, exnovio de Adele, ha publicado unas imágenes íntimas de la cantante en su página web. Seis años han pasado desde que la cantante y el fotógrafo dieran por concluída su relación, hasta tal punto forma parte del pasado que nadie les recuerda posando en «photocalls» y en alfombras rojas. Despuíés de aquella ruptura, Adele publicó «21», un álbum por el que Sturrock demandó a su exnovia al considerar que se había enriquecido sacando tajada de su relación, ya que algunos de aquellos grandes íéxitos hablaban de la relación que habían mantenido.El litigio no prosperó y, cuatro años despuíés, algunos medios han visto en la publicación de estas imágenes de Adele una venganza por parte de Sturrock. Unas fotografías donde la imagen de la cantante no se ve, ni mucho menos, damnificada. En ellas sale tumbada en la cama muy sonriente o haciendo muecas en actitud divertida.Las diez instantáneas fueron tomadas durante una gira por Estados Unidos en 2009. En todas ellas se puede ver a una Adele autíéntica y espontánea, bailando bajo la lluvia, leyendo un cómic o envuelta en un edredón.
Adele, al igual que otros artistas como Justin Bieber o One Direction en su momento, se ha sentado en el asiento del copiloto de James Corden para compartir un viaje en coche de lo más divertido."Hello, it's me, I was wondering if after all these years you’d finally like to meet".Así empieza el vídeo, con James hablando por telíéfono con Adele y utilizando la frase más famosa del momento, algo que vamos ha aceptarlo ya, todos hemos hecho.Despuíés de esto, todo son risas, bromas, canciones y buen rollo. Adele y James Corden cantan a dueto los íéxitos de la artista como Someone Like You, Hello y Rolling In The Deep. Pero la cosa no acaba aquí, ya que mientras conducen por las calles de Londres, a Adele se le cae la bebida encima, demuestra lo bien que se le da rapear a ritmo de Monster de Nicki Minaj y confiesa que es una gran fan de las Spice Girls mientras canta su famoso Wannabe.
