Is Adele the anti-Gaga?

[Morphine Prince 104,564]

Adele is all about her voice, her emotional songs, appeals to nearly everyone, and doesn't use any gimmicks. 

Gaga, although vocally talented and a songwriter, isn't recognized  as such by the general public. Gaga is recognized by her gimmicks, her fashion, her behavior. Not her music.

Is Adele the anti-Gaga? After years of other Pop stars emulating Gaga's looks and persona, has the public grown tired of this? 

Is Adele's skyrocket to success in 2011 and her continued growth a product of an audience tired of eccentricity? 

[Nino 12]

Yes. In literally almost every way possible.

The only thing they have in common is how much they slay us all  

[Paco 3,040]

Adele is the anti 2010 Gaga

[ManuelColon 702]

I think Lana is the anti-Gaga. The public has even called her this way in the past.

[Serendipity 7,821]

Katy is the anti Gaga 

[Didymus 34,379]

She is. The exact antithesis.

Adele only became famous in my opinion because she came at the exact right time, a moment when a lot of people were fed up with gimmicky, tired pop stars and needed real sounds to take over the radio again. Adele not only provided the sound, her whole physical presence also made her relatable to millions of people and only increased the amount of respect people had for her. She did not conform in any way to the standard, while being attractive to a mass audience. That's the key to success.

I don't think people are tired of eccentricity but the problem is that you need to keep catching people's attention. It's easier than ever for people to just click away and find something else so one eccentric trick is only gonna work for a very limited amount of time. The stuff that Adele personifies is not eccentric, it's classic, relatable and comfortable and it can last forever because her artistry is something you can trust. You can trust eccentricity too, but it's a lot harder for artists to keep it up. And Gaga failed to do that, I think mostly because her whole act was based on constant self-transformation which, ironically, fell flat after barely two years.

[Truth 90]

She is to some extent, I agree.

[monketsharona 75,630]

yes she is and that's quite funny both of them are friends while they are completely different 

[RBNLM 1,640]

Adele success came thanks to the extra that was all over the the place during her 21 era now is living the hype of the huge smash it was, when the people we'll be bored by "all about emotions/voice/altenative **** " then they'll love again the over the top performances and acts, history repeats itself

[Morphine Prince 104,564]

7 minutes ago, Didymus said:

I don't think people are tired of eccentricity but the problem is that you need to keep catching people's attention. It's easier than ever for people to just click away and find something else so one eccentric trick is only gonna work for a very limited amount of time. The stuff that Adele personifies is not eccentric, it's classic, relatable and comfortable and it can last forever because her artistry is something you can trust. You can trust eccentricity too, but it's a lot harder to keep up. And Gaga failed to do that.

At what point do you think Gaga lost control of this?

I feel like she was on track up until late 2010 (after the meat dress) and then when BTW rolled around her aesthetic was too much for the public. 

[Bitter 3,640]

no since adele is talented.

[Iwontell 7,312]

I don't agree entirely, but I doubt that that's not an element to Adele's success.

[Hexxx 2,244]

Gaga just needs a love song. i don't really think it needs to be a ballad. 

[Didymus 34,379]

Just now, Morphine Prince said:

At what point do you think Gaga lost control of this?

I feel like she was on track up until late 2010 (after the meat dress) and then when BTW rolled around her aesthetic was too much for the public. 

I think it's completely rooted in her fanbase solidifying and Gaga responding to it. In late 2010 a lot of people started to get the idea that to be a fan of her, you had to be either a bullied girl or a bullied gay guy who loved eccentric fashion. Her antics were also starting to become predictable: you didn't know exactly what she was gonna do, but you knew it was gonna be over the top and I think that's when a lot of people hung up the phone, especially when Gaga was starting to become absolutely obsessed with presenting her fanbase as a separate social category and literally made statements like: "Gay people understand me because we love the same things." etc.

BTW was just a grotesque explosion of everything she had already done, the singles weren't current enough to attract a mass audience, everything she did was just in a separate category instead of her being ahead of the pack. Other pop artists started to experiment with an EDM sound, notably Rihanna, and Gaga just became the gay pop act, I mean she didn't even really try to be anything else. If she had completely switched things around à la Madonna (sorry, I had to and there's a good reason for bringing her up - she never pandered to her fanbase and kept surprising global audiences with total reinventions, not just in outfits, but in character, vibe, music, personal life, projects,...) and cared more about attracting more than wannabe artistic misfits to her crowd, I'm sure she would've been able to be an actual competing force instead of being a talented but predictable singer who had made her niche and now could just sit in it - the absolute opposite of what she promised to do in 2008.

But who knows. The future is wide open.

[VenusBlackStar 1,301]

I think Lana is the anti-Gaga. She and Gaga are like polar opposites stylistically while still sharing similarities with what they do. Adele sits outside of that because she doesn't share quite as many similarities that make the differences seem greater (if that makes any sense)