History Music / Adele

* GenreTurningPoint / GenreRelaunch: Her second album ''21'''s massive success singlehandedly change the landscape of pop music, with the absolute collapse of club music and bring back R&B and neo-soul genre to the mainstream.

-->''"Hello. It's me."''

* BreakupSong: Pretty much the entirety of ''21''. Almost all of the songs are sung to a (recent) ex.

On October 23rd, 2015 Adele released her first single in 3 years, "Hello," creating a massive buzz worldwide and paving the way for the release of ''25'' on November 20th. The album it came from, ''25'', fared just as well as ''21'', and while it didn't fare ''quite'' as well with critics and listeners, it was still hailed and praised from coast to coast, America and Europe.

At the 59th Grammy awards on February 12, 2017, she ''ever'' again'' swept the major three categories, winning "Album of the Year" with ''25'' and "Record of the Year" and "Song of the Year" with "Hello".

On October 23rd, 2015 Adele released her first single in years, "Hello," creating a massive buzz worldwide and paving the way for the release of ''25'' on November 20th.

'''Adele Laurie Blue Adkins''' (born 5 May 1988), usually known by only her first name '''Adele''', is a British R&B singer who has gained fame for her soulful vocal performances. She won Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Performance for "Chasing Pavements" from her album ''19'' at the 2009 UsefulNotes/{{Grammy Award}}s.

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* AudienceParticipationSong: "Rolling In the Deep" and "Someone Like You" as seen in her ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall'' concert video.

!! Adele provides examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Reviews of her live concerts frequently comment on her candor with the audience, and for good reason - Adele is a brassy, vivacious dork.

* BeehiveHairdo: To go with her classic diva aesthetic, of course.
* BreakupSong: Pretty much the entirety of ''21''.
* CelebrityResemblance: After losing some weight recently, people have said she looks like actress Creator/SarahPaulson.

* FeedTheMole: Did this with her staff to find out who was leaking stories about her to the press.
* FirstNameBasis: Very few people call her Adele Adkins.
* {{Hello}}: The first single off ''25''. It's an introduction to a former lover, [[SignatureStyle of course.]]
* HeroicBSOD: In an interview, she remembers crying because of her vocal illness, and losing her voice.
* HeroicRROD: She's spent 2011 struggling with a vocal illness brought on partly by overtaxing her voice, which has forced her to cancel a lot of tour dates in America.

* LadySwearsALot: When she's not singing, she's a self-confessed profanity lover.

* OddFriendship: With rapper Music/TinieTempah & flamboyant chat show host Alan Carr.
* PaperThinDisguise: A few days before the realease of ''25'', she applied a fake nose and chin and joined an audition of impersonators. Nobody recognized her until she started to sing.

* TheRival: The British music press seems to be quite keen on setting her up as a rival to Music/LadyGaga. The singer herself doesn't seem to buy into it. In fact, [[https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/657680554750402560 they appear to get along with each other]].

* WomanInBlack: There's barely a concert where she doesn't wear a black dress.

* BreakupSong: Pretty much the entirety of ''21''. Justified, as it was written after a particularly messy breakup.

* LyricalDissonance: The "Lovesong" cover is one big example of this. "You make me feel like I'm home again" to some of the most darkest production ever

* FirstNameBasis: Very few people call her Adele Atkins.

* BeehiveHairdo

* FirstNameBasis

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* CelebrityResemblance: After losing some weight recently, people have said she looks like actress SarahPaulson.

* PrecisionFStrike: When playing "Box of Lies" with Creator/JimmyFallon [[note]]A game in which two one player selects a box which contains a ridiculous item (hidden to the other) and can choose to either describe it to the other player or make up their own item. If the player guesses a lie or a truth correctly, they get a point.[[/note]] and he correctly guesses that she was telling the truth about her toy giraffe with doughnuts around it neck. Adele's response is to simply say "Bitch!"

* SingingVoiceDissonance: When she speaks, she retains her very strong East London accent, but you couldn't tell it from her singing voice. After she swept the 2012 Grammy Awards, "Fank you" trended worldwide on Twitter.

* ChronologicalAlbumTitle: Each album thus far has simply been how old she was at the time the album was released: ''19'' was released when she was 19, ''21'' when she was 21, and ''25'' when she was 25. Each one also manages to be quite evocative of life at that age.

* ChronologicalAlbumTitle: ''19'' and ''21'' both indicate how old she was when production started. ''25'' will follow suit.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Music/AmyWinehouse. Also recognized as spiritual successor to Dame Music/ShirleyBassey at the 2013 Oscars due to her success with the theme from ''Skyfall''. She herself openly loathes this notion, however, claiming that she only shares with other British singers like Amy the "gender, not the genre".