by FirstLoveMusicBox » Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:23 pm
What got me interested in Adele is actually an interesting, but somewhat rambling, story.
Let me start by saying that I used to NEVER listen to music. I new some songs, sure, but I didn't have an iPod, I didn't want an iPod, and I didn't want any CDs. I'm somewhat home schooled (long story about how I'm only SOMEWHAT home schooled) so I don't get a lot of interaction with the outside world. One day, I had the idea that maybe I should listen to popular music to help me stay in the loop. I turned on KISS FM and then I quickly shut it off. I heard some strange rap artist I've never heard of, and then I heard Ke$ha... Not exactly deep music. Now it's important for me to say at this point that even though I never listened to music, I watched American Idol, just like every other American. I was pretty disappointed by the season until I heard Haley Reinhart perform Rolling In The Deep. At the time, I wasn't such a big fan of Haley, until she sang that fateful song. I thought, "Hey, this is a pretty good song!" And then Jennifer Lopez said something about it being the number one song in the country, and the number one album. That made my heart drop. I thought it was another stick figure, over-sensualized pop star. And then she said Adele's name. I thought I had found the artist that I had been looking for for so long! I'll try to keep this backstory short... I had been watching So You Think You Can Dance when I heard a song I really liked by an artist with a really strange name and I had forgotten about it until I head Jennifer mention Adele. The very next day, I went to Amazon.com to check out Adele's music. What I saw discouraged me again. With the album name being 21, and the picture of what looked like, at a glance, like a weird robot, I thought Adele was some weird electromusic group. I almost closed the webpage, but then I remembered what Haley had sang, and I changed my mind. I clicked on 21, and the I clicked on the little blue triangle next to Rolling In The Deep. I hear, "...keeps me thinking, that we almost had it all. The scars of your love, they leave me breathless, I can't help feeling, we could have had it a-" and I stopped the music. I knew that I was about to hear an amazing song, but I wanted the whole experience. I went to Youtube and what I saw shocked me. I went in expecting another Katy Perry, or another Lady Gaga, and boy was I wrong.An average-size woman sitting in a chair, not dancing around in scantily clad outfits. The best part was her voice. Her angelic voice... I was thrilled. That day, I must have hit the replay button about a million times. After obsessively listening to RITD, I went to Amazon to hear a bit of the rest of them, and I decided that moment to buy the album. After that, I became a music junkie, and everything I do has some amount of music involved in it. Even though I have so many new songs and albums that I have listened to, Adele has remained my favorite. Thanks for reading this incredibly long post... I promise they won't all be like this XD! Oh yeah, and sorry about my spelling... I can't spell to save my life!!! Oh yeah, one last bit of info I forgot to mention was to this day, I still have no idea who that artist was that I loved from SYTYCD...