Potent Quotables: Adele's Anguish

"The last thing I want to do is write a song." --Adele
The singer and recent 'SNL' musical guest said she's struggling on her second album, calling four of her new songs "really bad."
Posted by Kim Davis on Nov 21st 2008 1:00PM
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Reader Comments(1 of 2)
jbjg24mat 11-25-2008
THAT IS ONE UGLY WOMAN!
Shifterredat 11-26-2008
WHY? Because she's a little heavier than some stars? She's got a clean complexion, bright eyes, and sleek shiny hair. As far I know she has all of her teeth and seems to have a decent personality.
GROW UP
Ozoneat 11-30-2008
NO shifterred, she's f'ing ugly.
Andie Wuvs Me :)at 11-25-2008
Uh Ms Beef-A-Rillo, why not get a song writer to help you? DUH Stop Hitting the Buffets and Hit some music writing clown up, share Da' Wealth with them and VOILA you just may have a chance! Glad to help you darlin'
Jon Boyat 11-25-2008
Oh man...
Overweight women are more likely to have had sex with men
http://www.curiousread.com/2008/11/overweight-women-are-more-likely-to.html
xSavannahsaysat 1-04-2009
why r u all being soooo mean about her weight ys that matter
risque74at 11-25-2008
maybe a diet coke with your next whopper?
hpowell77at 11-25-2008
What the hell does her appearance have to do with her crappy song song writing skills?....People amaze me. It's known that lack of intelligence is usually substituted with insults.
Amandaat 11-25-2008
I absolutely LOVE Adele - that woman has the most soulfull voice that I've heard in a long time, particularly seeing and 95% of todays music is crap! And if her songs for her second album are anything like the first I'm sure it will be fabulous!
trc1979at 11-25-2008
It's obvious that she has weight and depression issues.
This is getting compounded by pressure from the recording industry to write new songs, and causing her to binge, hate her passion (music), and self.
This is rather predictable. The real trick is if she can identify it, be willing to work out of it, and have someone she can trust to help her.
Either this short term fix or Time will pass and absorb up her life like it has done to others.
Ms. Beckyat 11-25-2008
Oh my GOSH. When are you shallow people going to realize that our bodies are just the house that our spirits and souls live in? While it is important to have a "healthy" body, that could be a different weight for each person. It has NOTHING to do with the way a person looks!! I am a healthy size 12 and I have always been attractive. However, I don't go around cutting other people down who aren't attractive because I know that my outward appearance is just a shell that is housing my soul. Our bodies grow old and wrinkly. Our teeth decay as we age. Our bones become weaker. It's our hearts that need to stay strong so that we are capable of caring about other people. One day, those of you who make fun of overweight or unattractive people, are going to wake up and I hope for all of you men who had to have the size 2 wife, she gains 200 lbs during childbirth and can't lose an ounce of it so you are stuck with her. I hate to wish that on the innocent wife, but it's the only way these empty-hearted males are ever going to learn what is important in life. Family, friends and compassion for our fellow human beings. As for Adele, I hope she realizes that truly talented, intelligent people don't judge us for our outer beauty. It's the no-talent losers who do that while they sit at home, jobless because they're too dumb to set an alarm clock to get out of bed each morning.
Calebat 11-25-2008
The fact that she is admitting her new songs are crap makes her a decent artist.
Justinat 11-25-2008
The obese can be hard to look at, It cannot help a musical career. Great voice or not, she needs to empower herself by losing some weight. this will cheer her up.
Shifterredat 11-26-2008
"The obese can be hard to look at"
WELL. Good thing that singing shouldn't have CRAP to do with looking at people then, huh!
Whatever. This girl can out sing any size zero coke-addict pop star that dares to gyrate and lip-synch to over-"fixed" crap sounds before thousands of fans who go to "look at her".
If you honestly look at this woman and think "she can't be a singer, she's too fat to look at!" then you have serious issues and I sob and weep for the future of the music industry.
I don't suppose anyone even recalls a woman called "Aretha" who was not exactly a small woman but could sing practically any woman under the table?
No. Of course not.
simpleman2020at 12-02-2008
Yep--actually she's a very pretty "BBW" & at least she's honest about how she feels about her tunes.What's happening with her I think & I'm a songwriter so I can relate is she's trying to force the tunes for the 2nd album(probably due to contract obligations)& if you do that the songs will be weak.Songwriting takes inspriration & if there's no inspiration you're going to write 2nd rate songs.She should back off it for awhile & wait til it starts to flow again naturally.If she tries to force it her 2nd album is gonna bomb.
Mark Iscariotat 1-02-2009
Shiftered: Singing has nothing to do with looking at people? Unless she does something ala Gorillaz with the artists performing behind a screen, you have to see and interact with the fans. Why do you think pop stars are all thin and attractive?
Pull your head out of your ass please.
Sashaat 11-25-2008
You people disgust me! Grow up... really...
Claudiaat 11-25-2008
I'm sure that all the people critisizing this lady are beyond any human imperfection themselves.....I'm even sure that they have astounding lives which makes them so much better then us lesser folks.....
Andyat 11-25-2008
Look at that face. She is a classic english beauty. Leave her alone and let her create!
jillianat 11-25-2008
what the f--- does her weight have to do with anything? Look at Bill Parcells..Andy Reid..John madden..3 whales whon we never refer to weight about. and even tho woman are overweight they can still have sex..unlike men when fat can barely get it up and even then you have to find it before faking it! ha!