Adele: here we go

Adele. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, one of the few people in the World with the power to dictate her own deadlines, has announced the release date of 'Easy On Me': https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58802096

Tool, Kate Bush, Ed Sheeran, Lorde, JK Rowling have the power to dictate their own deadlines, but I doubt they have the same amount of money deposited into their account that Adele does. To 'correct' myself, JK Rowling probably has more than Adele but don't quote me on that; Lorde, probably doesn't.

BBC: "Her tweet said Easy On Me will be released on Friday, 15 October, with her fourth album expected to follow.

It comes after posters and projections appeared around the world bearing the number 30, which is expected to be the title of the highly anticipated album."

I note she said herself she doesn't believe in trilogies if it's true about the name of her upcoming album.

I didn't initially really read or want to read the BBC article and didn't think I would because it would spoil the whole song. Also, seriously? You want to listen to a snippet of a song? The whole experience is about the whole song and the album. 

Yes, there's the social (and possibly financial) reasons to reveal a bit of a song. Personally, I'm not like that and I'm better for it.

But at a later point, I read the words and name 'Xavier Dolan', who directed "Hello", and I was so excited and happy because I saw his "J'ai tué ma mère" and he's a very young director (still) which I know is an -ism, but is unfortunately relevant. He's Canadian and that is a link to French and France for me, and a big part of the success of "Hello", which didn't actually break the internet, but of course caused a shit tonne of traffic. Last album and first song music video to drop from it was directed by Xavier Dolan// Upcoming album and first song music video to drop from it also by Xavier Dolan.

I just read back and realized it's the release of a song, not the album, and amended accordingly. 

In any case, Adele doesn't need to self-promote or any promotion, the subject, be it a song or album, does that in itself. ... But I'm not taking issue with that, I'm just putting it out there. And to go off at a tangent, her power also means people buy actual physical albums of 25, which is, let's face it, at least a bit unusual.

Another topic I'm  putting out there: do not hold thy breath for any concert or string of concerts or World Tours. She said it herself after her last one. Add in the covid-19 pandemic. 

She is Adele. 

The time to have seen her was when she was doing her World Tour and by that I mean her first proper one and the latest one, which I was lucky enough to go to, 'Adele commemoration', https://holandt.blogspot.com/2021/04/adele-commemoration.html .

- A.M.