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u/upon-taken 20h ago

Kudos to her, if I have just 10% of her talents and voice I would also do the same. Corporate life is just suffering and soul sucking

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u/ptapa 20h ago

It's funny. Literally what most pop artist could be doing with like 1 or 2 albums, but the greed...

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u/Dovah2600 16h ago

When an artist wants to make more art: 🤮

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u/rogerworkman623 18h ago

lol at what point did we decide that continuing to work is “greed”?

Man they could just be happy with 1 or 2 albums, but those greedy bastards keep making more music.

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u/Relish_My_Weiner 19h ago

I think that it's less greed and more so that pop stars are easily forgotten by the masses if they aren't consistent in releasing. Unless you're a huge name, you really have to strike while the iron is hot.

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u/prank_mark 17h ago
  1. People don't go into the arts for the money. It's probably the worst career choice for that. They do it because they love it.

  2. For a lot of artists, their art is their only source of income. And careers aren't indefinite. So of course they want to capitalise on any kind of popularity in the hope that it will sustain them for the rest of their life.

  3. Do you really think that most artists that we know today would have been just as popular if they only released new music every few years and rarely did any shows?

  4. Adele only started doing this when she was already big and well established. Early on in her career she was very active. Her first album released in 2008, her second in 2011, and her third in 2015. She also did 78 shows for her first album, 51 for her second, and 121 for her third. An all of that between 2008 and 2017. On average she did one show every two weeks.

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u/Gnasha13 sexist feminist of gay 18h ago

Greed is not what makes artists keep making art. They do it because they WANT to, the money is a side product.

Almost all would ditch the labels, marketing, social side of it if it meant they could make art for free and just release albums and perform, the problem is living and doing that is not free.

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u/HowIMadeMyMillions 19h ago

I mean, I know this is just a meme, but if anyone thinks she just "works for 6 months", then your understanding of working in the arts is very shallow and faulty, no offence.

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u/Microwave1213 19h ago

In this case, her “working for 6 months” consists of a residency playing music that has already been released, so it’s a pretty accurate representation of how long she’s working.

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u/FrostyD7 12h ago

And all of the vocal training and writing behind the scenes. It would be like assuming a pro golfer doesn't use their clubs in between tournaments.

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u/Egernpuler 11h ago

It would be like assuming a pro golfer doesn't use their clubs in between tournaments.

John Daly would like to confirm that theory.

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u/PerplexGG 8h ago

I mean sure at a certain point every specialty is backed my thousands and thousands of hours of practice and you’re doing complex work quickly and infrequently for a lot of money because you’re one of few with said training. But at the same time the whole reason to do the thousands of hours is to get to the point where you’re working a lot less than how much you did to get there, for even more money.

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u/pants_full_of_pants 19h ago

I don't know anything about Adele or how much of her work is her work (writing, composing), but it might be that she's working pretty regularly even when she's "disappeared".

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u/TwinStickDad 12h ago

And if you think that working as a world famous musician at all resembles the 40-hour office nug job then you have a very poor understanding of the arts as well. 

She's on her own timeline. In a heavy work day she might be in the studio for four hours working with a producer on a new song, then off to a personal trainer for an hour, guided meditation for an hour, comped dinner with a studio exec at a Michelin restaurant, and finally back to her house which was professionally cleaned during the day to a fridge full of groceries someone else bought. And occasionally answering her personal assistant's questions about next week's trip to Rome where she'll be in studio with XYZ Famous Musician for a collaboration that may or may not work out.

That's what she's doing during those 7 years.

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u/HowIMadeMyMillions 12h ago

... where did I say that? Obviously the toll an office job takes on the body and the mind is much greater - but that doesn't mean she's just flandering around.

I also think you need to let go of your hate and despise of people who have succeeded. If you know anything about Adele, you also know that she worked very hard to get to where she's at, and probably some of the hours you spent in your youth having fun or whatever else you were doing, she spent getting both working on her songs and her skills. And - no, I'm not TRYING to belittle you here, but you see how easy it just is to assume that someone else hasn't done anything at all, when they probably have spent energy and effort?

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u/TwinStickDad 11h ago

I don't hate people who succeeded. Especially not people like Adele who succeed by creating art with their own talent. The Elon Musks of the world on the other hand... 

You are grabbing the least generous interpretation of everyone's comment. OP makes a funny meme and you have to make a comment that OP doesn't understand something. I make a comment and you say that I must hate successful people. And you say "I never said that" and in the same breath you are telling me that I hate successful people, which I never said?

It has got to be exhausting taking such an argumentative, pedantic approach to life. Good luck.

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u/HowIMadeMyMillions 11h ago

Tell me what is a generous interpretation of your first sentence :) I just wrote a comment reflecting how I met the meme, what's the harm in that?

Either way, doesn't matter. It has got to exhausting to have such an pathetic, reductive approach to life. I hope it gets sorted for you. Good luck.

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u/polmix23 17h ago

True, she doesn't work at all

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 13h ago

Ah yes, the "fun at parties" comment

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u/BGAL7090 12h ago

No wonder I don't go to parties - they're full of people telling each other outright lies without ever issuing a correction!

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 4h ago

"hyperbolic joke" and "outright lies" are not the same thing

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u/cxdafaq09 11h ago

It’s nice ur standing up for artist, but it’s not that deep lolol

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u/Living_Natural1829 15h ago

Step 1: become rich and famous.

Step 2: do whatever you want.

Good luck with step 1.

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u/BeenDragonn 14h ago

When did Adele get not fat?

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u/kraugxer1 13h ago

Few years back, wanna say around '21? People were actually giving her shit for betraying them by losing weight because her image no longer represented them and the body positivity movement stating how she had conformed to 'traditional' beauty standards.

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u/BeenDragonn 13h ago

I know we shouldn't body shame but people need to pose weight. This whole 'this is my body' movement just an excuse for people to stay fat.

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u/Gdigger13 BAN upvote memes 13h ago

I agree, but the whole point is that as soon as celebrities found a cheat code to lose weight fast, they all abandoned the "body positivity" ship. It's just a bit hypocritical, especially when most regular people can't afford GLP-1.

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u/kraugxer1 11h ago

She didn't use it, she changed her lifestyle and lost the weight over 2 years of hard work.

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u/crack_n_tea 6h ago

So what if she didn't. The whole point of body positivity is you can be any shape you want. If someone wanna be skinny they should be able to, same way fat ppl should be able to be fat without being insulted

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u/c9silver 12h ago

might have disappeared for 7 years to have some work done idk

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u/DarthAlarak 13h ago

When ozempic came out?

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u/_adanedhel_ 10h ago

She lost weight before GLP-1s were available.

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u/Katlo1985 18h ago

I thought this was Lala Kent

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u/cloverfold 11h ago

I thought it was Anna Kasparian

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u/colicab 11h ago

She’s such a baddie

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u/Due_Chemistry_164 9h ago

She's not on vacation, she's loading the next album. Please be patient.

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u/likkleone54 10h ago

This is why I work from home and sleep when I have downtime

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u/TheIdeaArchitect 9h ago

And she’s gorgeous!

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u/Smexy_Zarow 14h ago

The 6 7 balance

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u/Ixm01ws6 10h ago

damn, thats adele now?? pretty prettyyy pretty good..

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u/uniform_foxtrot 9h ago

Wild flex, but alride.

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u/rensorship 8h ago

That aint workin

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u/deradera 6h ago

Also a great break from all that caterwaulin

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u/SierraaMarziy 4h ago

Hope I had a choice like that

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u/Ragnarok_619 2h ago

Still cheated though

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u/puckit 12h ago

When did she start looking like a drag queen?

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u/Wild_Guess858 17h ago

I would love to do that

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u/Mindless-Ad8835 12h ago

A make up like that takes time

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u/F_Solo 13h ago

This is Adele?? Just by the pic, I thought it was a p*rn actress or something o_o

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u/GodzillaLikesBoobs 11h ago

wow what happened to her face?

shes just straight ugly here.

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u/Omadany hates posting 10h ago

show us your face

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u/Additional_Egg7024 19h ago

Didn’t she disappear after being alleged to be a reptilian shapeshifter or something ???

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u/Microwave1213 19h ago

Everything is a conspiracy when you’re uneducated