inspiration

I love Adele. I absolutely adore her voice. Her music is the music that is always stuck in my head. All of her songs melt together inside of my head, but i can tell you practically all of the ins and outs of them. I can tell you which hook is from that song. Which phrase is from this section on this part of the album. (Realistically my skills are limited... but I am not going to tell you that because it will take something away from the magic of this moment)

She is coming out with a new album on February 22, 2011. And I am going to get it.

I was just about to crack down on finishing this TrueWind project when I stumbled across this interview with her. There are two video sections. I watched it, and even listened to the last song on her new album. (I am fairly certain that it cuts to it after the first interview video is over -that is what happened to me. And you have to physically click the link to part two of the interview)

What I really loved was this quote from the second video

"I made a huge effort to just swim in music for a while. I want to be a career artist. I want to show growth and development and progression and stuff like that. So I literally just sat in my house for three weeks and didn't really leave apart from to take the dog for a walk, and just listened to loads of music, catalogues of music. Loads of hip-hop, loads of country, loads of pop, loads of stuff I like already, loads of stuff I don't even like, and just trying to understand what it is about a song that moves me; where it peaks, why I think it peaks, stuff like that, just kind of studying it. I don't think this record is perfect or nothing but I think the songs are a massive step up from the last one."

I love it when artists that I admire actually put effort into their work. When I can see that they are trying to better themselves and their voice. That they are not just some tool of the media. That they care about their own personal development as well as my need for their music.

The videos are really interesting because you can really see that she has a fairly large personality. She'll just laugh about whatever, and make references to things that I may not be aware of. Because she is normal. Who doesn't like normal people?