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.

Hahahaha !! La vidéo de la semaine est courte, mais elle déploie tout l’art humoristique de Laure. En mars 2009, M6 s’est installé au Zénith de Strasbourg pour sa série de concerts M6 Music Live, avec des artistes tels que Sliimy, Alesha Dixon (tombée dans l’oubli depuis), Cocoon, ou The Virgins… le tout présenté par la gourdasse Karine Ferri. Et heureusement que c’était gratuit.

Au final on s’est tapé fous rires sur fous rires durant cette immersion au coeur de la jeunesse prépubère, surtout quand de charmantes jeunes filles en fleurs ont balancé leurs soutifs sur scène durant le passage de The Virgins, un groupe qui ne demande que ça. Une fois le concert terminé, lesdites jeunes filles en fleurs se sont rapprochées de la scène vide et ont récupéré leurs sous-vêtements des mains des vigiles. Et la rousse de s’exclamer de sa voix insupportable: « Caroliiine, j’ai retrouvé mon soutien-gooorge! »… Laure ne pouvait évidemment pas s’empêcher de recréer ce moment, devant le nez de la principale intéressée  : )

One of the biggest excitements of my pre-summer has been CRUSHED because of a laryngitis. Adele cancelled the remaining of her US tour due to a total vocal rest forced upon her by doctors. HOWLS.

I was really frustrated to discover the program for this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival back in April and not to find Adele on it… I guess I just got an explanation for that. Here is Adele sharing some wise words recently in Q Magazine, in the midst of her superstardom:

« I think it’s shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be but I don’t want my name anywhere near another brand. I don’t wanna be tainted or haunted. I don’t want to be in everyone’s face. I’m a big music fan and I get really pissed off when it gets like that … and I don’t want people to get like that with me. I was furious when they did that on [re-releasing her debut album with extra tracks] 19. I said ‘No’ and they did it anyway. Just mugging off your fans.
I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me. I don’t think the music would work either. It’s all too slow. We had three nights on hold at The O2 and I was like ‘I wont play a festival. You think I’m gonna play a fuckin’ arena? Are you out of your mind?’ I’d rather play 12 years at the Barfly [small venue for indie bands] than one night at The O2! So I’ve made all those decisions and some people are pretty mortified. They think I’m mad. »

In the meantime, Adele still holds the #1 spot on the UK Charts for a 16th week! This has been the longest-running number one since 1978… And her debut album, 19 (released back in 2008) is #3 (as it has been for quite some time… ).  In the US, she’s been holding the number one spots both for her album (#1 for 8 non-consecutive weeks) and her single (Rolling In The Deep) for two weeks now. Her album came out in FEBRUARY! Oh, Goddess Adele.

I know I’ve been talking a lot about music lately, but isn’t it strange that my last two musical crushes, the two I’ve been swamping you with, are somewhat linked? Adele recently admitted that her 21 album has been inspired partially by her love for another great album, Mumford & Sons‘ 2009 Sigh No More… This is just crazy. And makes total sense. The love in my heart makes total sense.

Source: digitalspy.co.uk

C’est aujourd’hui que sort l’EP (comprenant 4 titres) de Beth Ditto, la folle au talent aussi démesuré que son poids. En s’accordant une mini escapade solo en parallèle à son excellent groupe Gossip, elle s’essaie à des sons différents, mais qui lui collent totalement à la peau – c’est tellement réussi!

Voici le premier single qui ressort de sa collaboration avec elle-même, I Wrote The Book: un titre super entraînant, accompagné d’un clip qui rend hommage aux vidéos de Madonna des années 80! SUCCULENT.