Concert Critique: Adele

Let’s start off with a fun fact: 25 sold more albums in one week than Taylor Swift's 1989 sold in one year.

Basically, her album crushed records and had the single largest sales week in the history of Nielsen Music, which began tracking point-of-sale figures in 1991. That means Adele overpowered Eminem, Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys at the height of their popularity.

With this being one of  the most popular albums ever, this concert was a historic event.

And let’s just say, Adele did not disappoint. First off, we all know she has the voice of an angel, but she is also a doll. I really feel like I got to know her better after Tuesday night (yes we are now BFFs), but actually I think we would be great friends. She seems so chill and down to earth and like she doesn’t care what other people think. She was talking about how she was going to burp up her Nando’s Peri Peri during one of her songs and how her ass is so big when she twerks it hits her in the back of her head (LOL). She had us all howling. She could be half singer and half comedian! It’s crazy she says she has stage fright - she doesn’t seem it at all. I love someone who can be happy and also be able to poke at themselves. She is such a (seemingly) confident woman, and rightfully so.

I loved getting to know her a little better and learn more background on her songs. It gives a whole new meaning to songs when you know more about why/when/how they were written. Now I want to just sit and listen to all the words of every song and get that feeling… I’d definitely be crying within five minutes.

But we weren’t really there to see her comedy show (even though that was definitely a bonus), we were there to listen to one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard. Her voice is just effortlessly beautiful. It seems to come so natural to her, and it takes every being of me to try to hit the notes she does, which I still do unsuccessfully. Some of her songs - they are so fun to belt out! But let’s just say I felt sorry for the people sitting next to me… One of them may or may not have plugged their ear at one point…

Overall, Adele put on a great concert. She had some cool stage effects, but really it was all about the music. She never changed outfits, there wasn’t much dancing besides her swaying to the songs, it was just pure music. And it was beautiful. She was a passionate performer and the songs were raw. It was everything you’d expect from a live Adele performance. Her sounding even better than she does on her CDs.