And here it is: “Hello,” the first new music from Adele in over three years.
The single is a straightforward ballad that sends Adele’s voice flying. Following up on her 2011 album 21, an extraordinary tribute to a dead relationship with a still-beating heart, “Hello” examines doomed love…
Even as she laments the end, “Hello” knows it’s just checking in, then moving on.
(Vox Culture, October 23, 2015)
Here, in part, is why I am probably the most cherished, unrequited love of her life:
In this age, when style too often triumphs over substance (e.g., think how indispensable style is to the performances of singers like Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj), she personifies the saving grace of pure, unadulterated talent. And she’s beautiful to boot….
(The Oscars: My Picks, The iPINIONS Journal, February 24, 2013)
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