SlaeUrAnus 14,743 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Here is mine in a short summary: From a period where music was all (mostly) about s-x, d--gs and money; Adele came around (when no one outside the UK knew who she was) with relatable lyrics, great productions (SFTTR and RITD are amazing) and single handedly outshone everyone in the industry with her voice. In my messy era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
inuborg 4,135 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 3 minutes ago, SlaeUrAnus said: Here is mine in a short summary: From a period where music was all (mostly) about s-x, d--gs and money; Adele came around (when no one outside the UK knew who she was) with relatable lyrics, great productions (SFTTR and RITD are amazing) and single handedly outshone everyone in the industry with her voice. I literally came here to say all of this. I root for you. I love you. You, you, you, you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Child 18,994 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Cause she was the anti Gaga while everybody else was a Gaga clone. Besides, GP was getting tired of Gaga. ‘If religion be the cause of disunity, then irreligion is surely to be preferred.’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bambino 23,630 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 You pretty much answered your question. The songs were love songs, relatable and simple, and she didn't have to do much to impress the public besides her great voice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky 466 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 1 minute ago, Bambino said: You pretty much answered your question. The songs were love songs, relatable and simple, and she didn't have to do much to impress the public besides her great voice. Exactly what I was about to say. Heartbreak is nearly universal, at least when it comes to adults (aka the majority of individuals who bought the album), and she's got a b---hin' voice, so it's not really hard to see why it was so successful. CRYSTAL CASTLES // AMNESTY (I) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlaeUrAnus 14,743 Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 7 minutes ago, Bambino said: You pretty much answered your question. The songs were love songs, relatable and simple, and she didn't have to do much to impress the public besides her great voice. I guess so, but there is tonnes of albums out there about love that never saw the light of day. In my messy era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed 7,716 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Relatable songs. Some fun some sad. Amazing vocals and exposure everywhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M I M I Z 946 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Rolling in the Deep Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetEscape 654 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 12 minutes ago, Bambino said: You pretty much answered your question. The songs were love songs, relatable and simple, and she didn't have to do much to impress the public besides her great voice. Well said tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiona Apple 13,006 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 It was at the right time. People was bored of dance music.. Also it had success because of Adele's voice and the AMAZING songs on the album Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mucinex 4,260 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 bandwagon and importance of looking cool and emotional in front of your friends. "i listen to drake and adele" made people think they were cool yet different and emotional i'm only half serious, there were of course people who enjoyed the music and for good reason, it is quality entertainment don't get me started on the tragic album design tho Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrawberryBlond 13,283 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 1) Being launched on an international scale at the right time. When the world was drowning in dance music, Adele seemed much more talented than she actually was. Any other balladeer could have been in her position. 2) Having a very supportive team and massive promotional budget behind her. She got the buzz that she didn't get from her debut and her PR was on fire. There was a lot of money and effort involved in making sure everyone knew and cared who she was in the run up to the album's release because suddenly, everyone cared about her for 21 whereas they didn't for 19. 3) The album was full of extremely cliched songs about heartbreak. Any hack writer can do this stuff. Most of her songs aren't better than what your average brokenhearted writer comes up with. But it sells, boy does it sell. Breakup albums are some of the world's bestsellers for a reason - people like relatable stuff like this, no matter how many times they've heard similar lyrics. 4) She looked and acted "real." The public were bored of pretension and big egos at this time, so in comparison, she seemed like one of us. By being a bigger girl and not being intimidatingly gorgeous, she was likeable to the very superficial public who tend to look down on very pretty artists, assuming they must be b---hy. I think if Adele was a size zero blonde Pamela Anderson clone, she wouldn't have sold anywhere near as much as she did because the public simply don't want to believe a beautiful, glamourous woman is real. Someone else will take her place in the next few years, just watch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riot Poof 2,236 Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 People incapable of finding similar music, thus praising the album to high heavens because it was so ~different~ and ~real~ made it so big. (Don't come for me... I'm legit listening to 21 rn.) I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I am something that you'll never understand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispering 18,865 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 What kept 21 at number one for months? What made 21 an album that sold 100,000+ week after week for months? Quite simply, it was mostly word of mouth...the most powerful marketing tool for any good or service! People that bought 21 early on told their friends, family members and coworkers how great the album was and those people then bought the album, loved it and then told their friends, family members and coworkers about it....and the impact became bigger and bigger! It was a great album that a wide demographic of people could relate to and they thought it was such a good album that they wanted to share that information with the people in their life. Word of mouth...can't beat it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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