Adele – as big if not bigger than Elvis, The Beatles and MJ?

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konebyvax

03-12-2015

Originally Posted by Anika Hanson:
“Well you are projecting into the future by saying she is as big as Mj, the Beatles and Elvis. Just as people can't see into the future and claim that she won't have the same impact as they have, you can't go into the future and say that she will have the same level of impact as those artists.”

Sighs. There's some basic reading comprehension skills missing in this thread. I have NEVER said she will be as big/not as big as the three acts mentioned (I'm leaving that nonsense for the usual suspects in here). All I have EVER said is at the moment she's dominating the industry at least as much as they did (and probably even more so). The future I don't know about and neither does anybody if we are being honest (no matter their current inflated level of outrage/ego). I genuinely don't know what I else I can write to make this simpler for people......

mgvsmith

03-12-2015

Originally Posted by shadesofblack:
“The question was is she as big as or bigger than. At this moment her collective work is not, obviously. The others have each had 5 decades and more. That's an insane amount of time. What's interesting is that the other three aren't, and never were, universally loved like the world seems to love Adele at the moment. Old white conservatives disliked all of those guys above.
It's interesting to see where this goes, as its unprecedented. If she stays out of the limelight and quietly releases a quality album every 4 or 5 years and tours for 1 year in 5, the sky's the limit. I think it will be a very long, successful career (stating the obvious).”

I think it is fair say that Adele has made a major impact in terms of sales of at least two records and a career of seven years. There are a lot of pop 'careers' that never last that long. The Beatles really only had a career of seven years. I have lived through a lot of eras were certain artists were touted as going to be bigger than The Beatles but it hasn't really turned out that way.

Yeah, I'm old and white but not conservative. Indeed, to be fair to many of the white British artists of the 60s, they provided an opportunity for many black artists to get a hearing when the same artists were a bit limited in the U.S. Hard to believe now.

I am interested to see where this goes with Adele, I would like to hear her develop a little more musically, be more experimental; her fame is assured, her fortune made, she can afford to do that. The long successful career will be interesting to me like say U2 or Springsteen if she develops her music and bring her audience with her. The sales of '25' suggest that she has that common touch thing, does she have that vision thing?

Smudged

03-12-2015

Originally Posted by konebyvax:
“Sighs. There's some basic reading comprehension skills missing in this thread. I have NEVER said she will be as big/not as big as the three acts mentioned (I'm leaving that nonsense for the usual suspects in here). All I have EVER said is at the moment she's dominating the industry at least as much as they did (and probably even more so). The future I don't know about and neither does anybody if we are being honest (no matter their current inflated level of outrage/ego). I genuinely don't know what I else I can write to make this simpler for people......”

If you stuck to at the moment, instead of making ill-thought out comparisons to different eras in music, you would make more sense. Also, you may not be able to look past sales figures but others can and there's nothing wrong with having an opinion on Adele's output so far when comparing her to other artists because music is about far more than simply how much an artist sells. If you don't like people having an opinion, a discussion forum is probably the wrong place to be.

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