It's a TV show you may have heard of. Or even seen!
Anyway. I read this thing, where they were calling someone who sang on the show 'Australia's Adele', or something.
It irrationally irks me. They whole comparing someone to Adele thing. As if she's the end all and be all of singing, or the only singer that ever could sing. Ever.
Maybe you're a fan. I know I'm not. I can appreciate the fact that she's a fairly good singer, but I don't really think she's the best ever. It doesn't actually matter to me that she's not the best singer ever. I listen to lots of people that wouldn't be considered your typical 'good' singers'. But there's also the added problem of her songs/voice not really floating my boat that much at all. But if you think she is in fact all that, and more, that's perfectly fine. If ever there was something that was subjective, that is the so-called 'quality' of music.
It just annoys me that whenever someone has a fairly powerful voice, or, as it increasingly seems, just a voice at all, and they happen to be not a male, they're immediately given the suffix 'the next Adele', as if she's the highest benchmark in voicedom. Sometimes even when they are male. Although they then tend to fall under 'the next Justin Bieber' category, like it's something really cool.
Speaking of good voices, THIS JUST IN: Flight of the Conchords are putting on another gig on the 15th of July at Rod Laver. Which would be good, except that I'm still overseas. Sucks.
Let's relive one of their greatest moments. Right here.
Could somebody please, remove these, cutleries, from my knees?
Word of the Day: Adele
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