There is this feeling, every time I read about another broken record or professed love through a big award for Adele. I catch myself feeling almost maternal and proud. Crazy! So you can easily imagine the bliss, when Goddess Adele so deservedly received the 6 Grammy Awards she was nominated for, including the 3 most prestigious prizes in the music industry: Best Song, Best Record, and Best Album of the Year…!

Coincidentally, it’s been a little bit more than a year since I started my loving tirade here, with a neverending set of boring overwhelming posts that were meant to warn you of the perfection coming right at your ears… and God did it come. What a year! And what a rise to success, in so many incredible ways, that was set in stone this Sunday, celebrating the triumph one of the best albums of the decade: 21.

I think it profoundly touched me all through the year because I had started enjoying this little gem from the very beginning, enchanted first by the album 19 and hoping for her to continue producing brilliant work later on. She is beautiful! It’s refreshing to have someone genuinely humble and normal and simple, with no need of choreography, über-sexiness, colored lights or special effects – she just IS there, not caring about anything but singing. And that this can still be recognized nowadays! Wow, there’s still hope.

And she is 23. Damn 23, people, meaning that there is SO MUCH MORE perfection coming!

Here are a few videos to enjoy, as a sort of mini Adele Report (you will have noticed that I tried to keep it short and not to write an essay!). Delight yourself with that visible confidence, constant cheekiness, and newly-found happiness of her!    : )

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xolmzz

I couldn’t resist to share some excitement with you, as a HAPPY NEW YEAR (!!!) gift. Without anyone apparently knowing it was coming, the Scissor Sisters have just released a new song, the first single off their upcoming fourth album (February/March 2012?) … and it’s pure SHAKE UP BLISS! The crazy thing is that it doesn’t sound like anything they’ve ever done before, there’s hip-hop vibes to it, it features/is co-written by Harlem rapper Azealia Banks (aka Krystal Pepsy), and frontman Jake Shears is even rapping! And yet, it’s totally Scissor Sisters.
They’re on a non-stop run… After the brilliant disco kitsch Ta-Dah in 2006, the perfect electro vintage dance Night Work in 2010, and a never-ending worldwide tour, the band managed to make of their new material one of the most anticipated albums of the year! It’s called Shady Love, but there’s nothing shady to it.

I know I haven’t posted in a while, and there will be a « proper » post soon… but this just made me pee in my pants. Behold the brand new, full UK trailer for the long-awaited The Iron Lady, with soon-to-be-Oscar-nominated-for-the-17th-time Meryl Streep, aka The Queen Of Them All… :

Ok, ok. I promise I will soon stop bugging you with my Adele posts. But after having watched this a couple of times since last week, I thought I really needed to share it, in case you haven’t seen it already… This is a prime example of Adele‘s perfection, delivering one of her best live performances ever on stage at the Brit Awards last week, a splendid (and, you’ll see at the end of the video, also emotional) rendition of arguably the most beautiful song off 21, her new album. Perfection is also when you get such a huge effect, without any light/sound/dance effect, but just a humble piano to accompany you. It’s crazy how Someone Like You absolutely works both in its acoustic version, as well as with a more powerful element to it for events like that…

By the way, personally, Adele also represents one of the only few things that I know for sure await me over the next few months: her concert in Los Angeles on June 9th! iiiiiiiiii!

… but I can’t help sharing this brilliance with you. Another video that just popped up of yet another new song (Someone Like You) from the delicious Adele, live on Later… with Jools Holland. ‘Overwhelming’ is the word…

… and she’s GREAT!

Lack of updates lately, I know and I’ll explain. But until I can find time to write again, I HAD to share my excitement, as the wonderful Adele makes her triumphant return with Rolling In The Deep, the first single off her highly-anticipated sophomore album, 21, on which she worked for two zealous years between Malibu and London, with some of the best producers of our time, including Rick Rubin. This will undeniably be a sensational follow-up to the critical and commercial acclaim of one of the best albums of the decade, 19.
Enjoy the perfection! Careful of chills.

The official video will premiere 3rd Dec. The album will be released Feb. 2011.

Instant extase…

Marion Cotillard (cette déesse Oscarisée) est depuis quelques temps la nouvelle égérie Dior. Après avoir été photographiée par Peter Lindbergh pour la collection Lady Noire (où elle se promenait en haut de la Tour Eiffel), voici la seconde partie de cette série Lady Dior (sur quatre en tout), Lady Rouge, dirigée par Annie Leibowitz…

Et pour l’occasion, elle déploie encore plus les cordes de son très bel arc. Elle a en effet enregistré un titre avec les magistraux écossais de Franz Ferdinand, pour accompagner la campagne… Rien que ça. Et bien sûr, au final, tous les éléments sont réunis pour l’extase visuelle et musicale…

Visitez le mini-site Lady Rouge, et voici The Eyes Of Mars (à écouter jusqu’au bout, trust me!):

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