Posted on 12/08/2015 7:01:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A petition addressed to Adele, President Obama, and Billboard on Change.org demands that the singer admit that she has "little talent" and is succeeding mainly because of her white privilege.
"Adele sold over 3.38 million copies of her album '25' and the media is praising her as if Adele's success has everything to do with talent," reads the petition, written by Rhianna Jones.
"Rather, it's her white privilege that has put her on top," it declares.
The petitioners also "demand that Adele donates her money to African-American causes such as #Blacklivesmatter."
It's not clear why exactly the petition is also addressed to President Obama -- perhaps Ms. Jones is outraged that the leader of the free world hasn't pushed the less important issues like ISIS aside to deal with the more serious ones like a singer's being white and successful at the same time. (I mean, would an executive order requiring Adele to admit she is only successful because she is white and give away her money to people who are not white in order to stay in the country really be too much to ask?)
Honestly, Adele is an interesting target for this kind of criticism. First of all, despite the fact that some might think this would be impossible for a white person, Adele actually had a pretty tough upbringing: Her father was an admitted drunk who walked out on the family when she was just three years old. Second -- white or not -- hardly anyone thinks of Adele as having the typical look of a successful female performer. Whether someone is calling her fat or asking her how she manages to handle weighing more than others in her industry, any discussion of her image concerns how different she looks and how tough it must be to look that way.
Although Jones's petition had just 31 supporters at the time of publication, its very existence is ridiculous enough -- and for so many reasons. After all, even if Adele did have a privileged upbringing and was a size 0 with D-cups, saying that she has just "a little talent" is objectively wrong. "A little talent" is the kind of phrase you use to describe someone who had the best voice in the high-school choir before going on to realize she needed to get a real job. Fan or not, anyone with ears and the ability to know what words mean would have to admit that Adele falls into a different category.
-- Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
We’re supposed to believe not one single black person has ever bought her CDs.
Because we've heard you sing........LOL
I discovered Ruhan on Pandora
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-FCgE2FQQ
The girl you posted is amazing and a winderful voice.
Love her transitions and attenuations.
Dear Mizz Jones,
A donation has been made in your name to the All Lives Matter Fund.
The All Lives Matter Fund. Money For All Lives.
She is married and was before the baby arrived IIRC.
Thanks for the link. Beautiful voice.
Like your girl, I can’t understand a word but, wonderful voices.
Not Maria Callas but, wonderful never the less.
She also considers hardcore rap and hip hop music, so yes, she is stupid!
Have you seen the Barberettes? Or Barbarettes? I forget which. They are adorable Korean girls.
Sadly, no.
“White privilege” does not give you the power, range, and richness of Adeles voice. People are getting crazy.
No doubt she’s crying all the way to the bank.
Tell the critics to f*** off, Adele.
White privilege.. the calling card of a loser.
They had her on the muzak loop at work here ... talented lady, but I’ve had more than enough.
I think that for me the thing that bugs me is her music mostly seems so ... oh, dark, baby done me wrong, unhappy kind of stuff. Soulful, but sometimes you don’t wanna sing (or hear) the blues all the time.
Considering the domination of some music genres by people other than ‘white’, where’s the beef?
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Had to check it our on youtube. The lady has a set of pipes and isn’t singing out her nose like so many do any more.
I think you mean "Milli Vanilli".
I forgot, Miley Minnelli... Liza's kid.
They gave it back once they were exposed as frauds.
Then when is Obama giving back his two Grammies?
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