Adele: Billboard's Woman Of The Year
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Adele: Billboard's Woman Of The Year
SHE DOESN'T NEED RAW MEAT DRESSES OR shocking pink tresses to command attention: All Adele has to do is open her mouth and roar raw emotion.
The 23-year-old British songstress has been stealing thunder all year long from pop music's reigning princesses. And she's done it without schlock gimmicks and on the merits of pure, irrepressible talent.
Today the singer made music history by becoming the first woman to top Billboard's 200 Album chart for 21, the Hot 100 song chart for Rolling in the Deep and the Top Artists chart in the same year -- culminating in Billboard naming her "Artist Of the Year."
Adele seems nonplussed by all the fuss made about her albeit grateful in an interview with the music mag.
"When it comes to staying myself -- my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me,'' the singer tells Julianne Escobedo Shepherd. "So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind."
The interview reveals a star still untouched by fame particularly when she says: "I see no appeal in having a very specific plan as an artist. Who fucking cares if people don't get it or don't like it? I'd rather trust myself, to like what I've done and stick to my guns than make music I don't like, wear clothes that don't suit me and flutter between genres because I'm scared I won't be relevant if I pass my "sell by" date."
Good advice for anybody who aspires, eh?
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Comments
You saw her? I'm totally jealous -- as I am of her voice. Such power.
Posted by: EC | December 9, 2011 07:41 PM
What she is most of all is shrewd. She has learned to play the game very well and it has paid off equally as well for her. She has talent and a big voice. I actually got to see her perform in Philly and she was very good indeed.
Posted by: patrick coady | December 9, 2011 06:00 PM