Tag Archives: Adele

Adele ‘Butterdance’ Video Explained

By | Posted on April 25th, 2012

So there’s a mildly viral thing that’s doing the rounds in which a very stern faced lady in a little black dress and formal shoes attempts to perform a dance routine on top of a pile of butter, to the tune of “Someone ...

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Guess What? Adele’s Up For Some MORE Awards!

By | Posted on April 17th, 2012

It’s time for the Ivor Novello Awards again, in which songwriting achievement is given the respect it rightfully deserves. All those other music award ceremonies focus may heavily on performance, sex appeal, sales, the artistic ...

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Iconic British Things Part 6: The Stiff Upper Lip

By | Posted on February 22nd, 2012

It’s always nice to make a feature out of a fault, if only because it helps the person with the fault psychologically manage it, and not worry that they’re faulty, or that the fault is something which requires immediate ...

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Adele’s Six-Grammy Sweep Signals Embrace of ‘Real Music’

By | Posted on February 13th, 2012

“Adele‘s performance is the best tribute to Whitney,” comedian Mo Rocca tweeted during tonight’s Grammys (February 12). “Brilliant unvarnished VOCALS.

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10 Greatest British Tracks of 2011

By | Posted on December 19th, 2011

As the sun sets on another year, and the bloggers post their final compilations, attempting to make sense of quite a disparate musical landscape, the Anglophenia music obsessives have been busy in conference, trying to work out who ...

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Adele Caps Record-Breaking 2011 With Six Grammy Nominations

By | Posted on November 30th, 2011

That Adele would cap her astonishing, record-annihilating 2011 with a slew of Grammy nominations was a foregone conclusion. She is Grammy voter catnip. (She already won Best New Artist a few years back.

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Five Great British Adele Alternatives

By | Posted on November 30th, 2011

Seeing as the great lady herself is somewhat incapacitated for the time being, and we’re feeling public spirited, here are five British singers who could serve as a temporary stand-in for the great Adele, until she’s feeling ...

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Adele Fans Panic As Cancer Rumor Sweeps Across Twitter

By | Posted on October 31st, 2011

Social media is a lot of things; engaging, fun, a source of perpetual gossip; but it is not to be relied upon as a source of factual information, unless each tweet comes with a link to a respected news source.

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British Star Adele Leads with Four American Music Award Nods

By | Posted on October 11th, 2011

Adele — who, even as she cancels tour dates, can apparently do very little wrong these days — has been nominated for four American Music Awards, more than any other artist this year. She’s up for Artist of the Year, ...

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News Roundup: Adele’s Throat Unharmed By Smoking

By | Posted on October 10th, 2011

I know, it’s the first thing I thought too. Here’s Adele with a recurring throat problem, in which she blows her own voice out time and again, and apparently it has nothing to do with her fondness for the gaspers ...

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