Posted on 05/28/2011 1:00:47 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
Is Adele the bravest, craziest, most downright wonderful star in the history of pop? After what she has just told Q magazine on the subject of tax, I think she might well be.
Here’s what she said: “I’m mortified to have to pay 50 per cent! [While] I use the NHS, I can’t use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are ––––, and I’ve gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from [her album] 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.”
The reaction from Guardian readers online has been typically unpleasant: “£4 million is nothing compared to the money the NHS needs for the psychological damage her painfully bad excuse for music has inflicted,” quips Ianl. “So not only a purveyor of boring mum soul, but a bloody Tory too?” says JohnnyVodka.
Which, of course, makes the 23-year-old London soul singer’s outspokenness all the more admirable. She’d have known the effect her remarks would have on her audience. Yet with the insouciance of a woman who has spent most of the year topping both the UK and US charts, she has apparently decided that becoming British pop’s answer to Sarah Palin is a fate she is big enough to handle.
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I am now her biggest fan. Buying CD today.
Should 5 per cent appear too small
be thankful I don’t take it all
Did not notice her music until Haley Reinhart performed her hit — ROLLING IN THE DEEP on American Idol.
She’s different from most musicians today... hers is the jazzy kind of sound unlike the slut music most girls like Rihanna, Fergie or Beyonce sing nowadays.
She reminds me of Basia or Swing Out Sister.
Hmmm...I’m going to have to check out some of her music. I think I’m already a fan.
Paging U2. :)
Don't mess with U2. I think they are the most popular Dutch band of all time.
Fantastic, beautiful singer. I have her album and love watching her singing on You Tube as well. As a singer we are all singing her stuff right now. Simple, honest, beautiful lyrics and vocals.
I love Adele. Her album “21” has been #1 in the Billboards for 10 consecutive weeks. And to think she’s only 23.
well said.
Someone Like You is also a nice song. So simple but powerful as well.
I thought they were Amish. lol. :-) (just kidding of course)
Its really good
Turning Tables also wonderful. Hell the whole of her work is just pure joy listening to and also singing. I also love how simple her performances are. They focus on her vocals, words, melody instead of the nasty sexualizing of self as many female singers do as regularly as breathing these days.
Ha ha ha. When I went to Dublin in Ireland years ago, I stayed at The Clarence Hotel, owned by Bono and The Edge. It’s a very nice hotel, though a bit expensive.
On the first listen through of 21, I realized I knew all the words to one of the songs. I kept thinking, “Why do I know the words to this song? Was it in a movie or something?” Then it hit me, it was was Lovesong by The Cure! The new arrangement made it cool, smooth jazz song. LOVE that album. If it were vinyl, I’d have worn it out already.
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