Adele Fan Challenge! My ears are steaming.

[YoungWerther]

WTF? Adele doesn't have the kind of fans Gaga does? Step up, Adele fans, stans, and lunatics. Clearly it's time to send your burning fan love to Our Girl:

www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a369001/a ... -star.html

[Mods: please feel free to move this to the articles thread eventually. I put it here to share my righteous indignation with everyone.]

[naturalcitizen]

The majority (and I'm not saying ALL) of Gaga's fans are insecure teenagers who were just "born this way". *rolleyes* It makes me wonder, is there a celebrity who didn't try to capitalize on their sad bullying story from high school era. Yep, there's Adele and I find it fascinating. Just to be clear, everyone gets picked on at one point of their life, but I think people are making such a big thing out of it. We are praising all these "amazing" people who overcome problems, and I am asking - where are the people who were never afraid? What about people who weren't physically strong, but managed to keep their shit together? I am sorry, but I find it a little exaggerating when people just go and kill themselves because they're not being considered part of the "cool gang" or are being made fun of because they're smart and studious. I blame society for this.

Anyways, to get back to the topic - I don't think Adele even wants to have fans that are as 'crazy' as Gaga's. Yep, you call it passionate and unifying (WTF?! o.O) and I call it not really having a life of your own and going crazy over a person who doesn't even know you exist. She's a brilliant marketer, that I must admit. Her "little monsters" are her biggest "love" and that's why she makes zillions.

[sandrine_]

omg that is ridiculous. Just because we aren't mean and set up twitter campaigns/blog/websites to attack other artists doesn't mean we're any less passionate about Adele. I think the fact that Adele's fans are nice actually shows we respect Adele more. Imagine how she would feel if she knew her fans were setting up websites for the only purpose of hating on other people and trying to bring them down? She probably wouldn't be too happy about that, and even though I can't read Lady Gaga too well, I would imagine she doesn't appreciate that too much either (or maybe she does, who knows with her!)

Either way, I think we are just as devoted to Adele as Lady Gaga's "monsters" are to her, if not more, but just in a different way.. plus Adele has a very different fanbase than most other artists in mainstream music. Her fanbase pretty much knows no age, gender, race, whatever! I can't imagine too many grandmothers listen to Lady Gaga haha, but I know my grandmother loves Adele! But that's why she doesn't usually win fan-voted awards, because alot of people who love her aren't gonna be spending all day, online, making multiple emails to vote for her.. doesn't mean we love her any less.

[NJLuvsAdele]

Hi Sandrine! I agree with you. Having heard a few gaga interviews, I do not believe she would approve of any negativity or hate groups forming in her name. As a matter of fact, I just saw her with oprah and her mother talking about this new organization she is forming, SSO. I forget what it stands for but the general idea is educating to prevent treating people poorly. I don't follow other stars' fan sites, but I do know Adele has a huge fan base spread across ages and demographics and that's what makes her sell so any albums. My mom loves her and she's 70!

[SylviaSatisfaction]

Well said Sandrine! Xxohh

[Leon]

The majority (and I'm not saying ALL) of Gaga's fans are insecure teenagers who were just "born this way". *rolleyes* It makes me wonder, is there a celebrity who didn't try to capitalize on their sad bullying story from high school era. Yep, there's Adele and I find it fascinating. Just to be clear, everyone gets picked on at one point of their life, but I think people are making such a big thing out of it. We are praising all these "amazing" people who overcome problems, and I am asking - where are the people who were never afraid? What about people who weren't physically strong, but managed to keep their shit together? I am sorry, but I find it a little exaggerating when people just go and kill themselves because they're not being considered part of the "cool gang" or are being made fun of because they're smart and studious. I blame society for this.

"I am sorry, but I find it a little exaggerating when people just go and kill themselves because they're not being considered part of the "cool gang"".... That's exactly what is happening, though. Kids are killing themselves all the time, not just because they're not 'part of the cool gang', it's because they get ridiculed and beat up everyday for who they are. Gaga is sending a good, strong message to them kids.
I find it strange you find that a bad thing to do. If you are in a position to reach out to kids all over the world, to try and give them some hope, that can only be a good thing to do.

I'm not a Gaga fan, but I know she is doing good with the 'born this way' campaign. Her telling the stories of her being bullied is an attempt to show kids that is gets better. Yes, she probably does use that to get her some more fans, but it's still a good message to get out there.

On topic- I just think Gaga needs to be defended more. Also, we are less crazy... most of the time.

[once]

My ears were steaming too. That article annoyed me. I usually don't respond to such ignorance, but I couldn't help myself. Errrrr.....

[sandrine_]

Hi Sandrine! I agree with you. Having heard a few gaga interviews, I do not believe she would approve of any negativity or hate groups forming in her name. As a matter of fact, I just saw her with oprah and her mother talking about this new organization she is forming, SSO. I forget what it stands for but the general idea is educating to prevent treating people poorly. I don't follow other stars' fan sites, but I do know Adele has a huge fan base spread across ages and demographics and that's what makes her sell so any albums. My mom loves her and she's 70!

It's good to know Lady Gaga has that foundation. She does seem to promote lots of good things like acceptance, no judgement. So it's kinda bizarre to me, that for someone who promotes so much love, can have so many fans who are so mean. I know they're not all like that, of course, but the ones who are mean are really mean!

I was reading on NME the other day (because Adele was nominated for an award, but she lost) but they had posted this article on how Born This Way is the most pretentious album ever or something, and omg haha.. the comments left by her fans were hilarious! I mean, if someone posted an article like that about 21 I wouldn't be too happy about it, but their comments were just out of control. There is a way to defend someone without swearing and threatening with violence to other people. Somewhere along the way, it seems Lady Gaga's message got lost and some of her fans have turned kinda crazy. But it does not mean they love her more than any other fanbase. I'm pretty familiar with Christina Aguilera's fanbase and Taylor Swift's (as I am a part of them haha) and between them and Adele, I think they are by far the nicest fanbases, lots of love, no hate. I would much rather be a part of something like that, than be associated with a group of people who attack anyone or anything that goes against their "mother monster". Because not all of her fans are like that, but thanks to the actions of some of them, they kinda all have a bad image now.

[once]

I'm not a Gaga fan, but I know she is doing good with the 'born this way' campaign. Her telling the stories of her being bullied is an attempt to show kids that is gets better. Yes, she probably does use that to get her some more fans, but it's still a good message to get out there.

I support Gaga's campaign too. It's a fantastic message. I just don't think her fan base is "better".

[YoungWerther]

Thank you, fellow Adeleans. I feel better now. The lager helped, too.