Remarks:
This came out in 2015 and won the 2017 Grammy for Song of the Year. Adele, aka Adele Adkins, is British, from Tottenham in northern London. She sings in a soul style in English, a Germanic language. She says:
“‘Hello’ is just about reconnecting with everyone else and myself. From the other side, I couldn’t get over my guilt of leaving my kid to go and write a record and stuff like that. So getting over that— getting on the other side of that. It was just, you know, it’s in general, just hello to everyone.”
The video was shot in Quebec, Canada.
See also:
- songs, 2010s
- Welcome to Native American Heritage Month 2017
- This post was modelled on:
- The British – modelled on my post about the Iroquois
Great song, great artist
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Beautiful…
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..Sigh This is my life this week, thanks for gettin’ me all in my feelings Aba! Lbvs I lovez me some Adele tho, n Quebec too!
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Beautiful song. Beautiful achievement by Adele.
Although the interpretation of the theme can be seen as generic, the fact remains that the video suggests specifically the case of a love affair between a White woman (Adele) and a Black man.
So “the other side” can mean “another ethnicity”, “another race”, “another society”, or simply a broad “sociological other”.
At my age I can’t overlook the fact that decades ago, in some societies, love or even simple socializing across ethnic and racial boundaries was taboo, sometimes punished with death. Now many of such barriers have gone. How far have we progressed as humanity!
But ghosts of the past, once in a while, come to remind us of our ugly past…
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/georgia-cold-case-timothy-coggins-murder-motive/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
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Awesome song and artist
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I am so tired of everyone trying to pass off Adele as a soul or R&B singer because she’s not. They kept playing “Hello” on my local R&B station and, while the song was apparently very popular with black folks, no one wanted to here her, or this song, on black radio.
One day the DJ came on and said he was tired of everyone calling to complain every time the song was played and to give Adele a chance.
Because only black people as a listening audience can be disrespected and admonished to just listen to whatever the radio station chooses to play rather than what the listeners and customers for the ad revenue prefer.
Since that time, several more radio stations have sprung up that play black music so now that station has more competition and still every now and again, plays “Hello.” I change the station every time.
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Thank you !!!!!!
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“One day the DJ came on and said he was tired of everyone calling to complain every time the song was played and to give Adele a chance.”
Wow. The nerve of that DJ and that station! The wishes of the listening audience don’t matter——-if they are Black.
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Adele, the ‘Great White Hope ‘ of Soul and R&B! LOLZ.
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I love “When We Were Young” from the same album. I especially enjoy how it builds in intensity as it goes along. Like “Hello”, Adele co-wrote it.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyVS2N8aK-U)
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Reading back over what I wrote, I realize it may sound a bit mean-spirited and as though I don’t like Adele at all, which isn’t true. I will listen to the song, “Hello” at work (on white radio stations of course) and I like”Rolling in the Deep” and “Skyfall.”
But I think to understand how I feel about Adele, you’d have to read the article I’ve linked below explaining why her album “25” won the album if the year Grammy over Beyonce’s brilliant “Lemonade”.
“For a Black Artist to Win Album of the Year, They Have to Make an Album of the Decade”
http://www.vulture.com/2017/02/what-more-does-beyonc-have-to-do-to-win-album-of-the-year.html
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