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Join NOW!“Hello” is not really a compassionate breakup song, like Carole King and Toni Stern’s “It’s Too Late”—the breakup here seems to have happened long ago—but rather an acknowledgment that you can never really make a clean break, that the memories float around like emotional flotsam and sometimes still land ashore. Singer-songwriter Adele has made music […]
...moreSince the release of 25, Adele has—unsurprisingly—dominated music news. The singer has been breaking records all month. First her single “Hello” smashed record views on Youtube and, at release, the album sold over 900,000 copies on iTunes in its first day, and 2.5 million in its first week. Billboard projects the sales of 25 to […]
...moreRumors have been circling for a while now about Adele being close to ready to release her follow-up to 2011’s wildly successful 21. Now the singer has confirmed herself that the album will be called 25 and will be available in November, among other details. “My last record was a break-up record and if I […]
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