The pop event: Adele in Berlin: “Hello, it’s me” – Tagesspiegel

Alone, she is in the headlights, her dark blue, trimmed with rhinestones dress sparkles. Adele Adkins sings longingly of a difficult love, accompanied by piano chords “. God only knows why it’s taken me so long / To let my doubts go, you’re the only one did I want” Then the stage is bathed in light, behind the singer raises the curtain and gives a clear view of the 16-piece band, which already is an orchestra almost, with seven strings and three blowers. Great theater. And of course it is clear who has to be meant by the title “One and Only”: Adele itself

At present, there is no greater female white pop star.. Five years ago, Adele has occurred even before 1500 fans at Berlin Huxley. This time she has twice sold out the Mercedes-Benz-Arena within a few hours, each with 15,000 spectators. Between the two appearances she sold some 50 million copies of their two albums “21″ and “25″. their plates, named after the age at which they wrote, function as diaries. It’s about love, all about dysfunctional love to dreams and longing. Probably it makes a part of its success from that everyone can identify with these topics and texts.

Before the concert Adele’s eyes hanging as a gigantic projection on a large screen in the middle of the hall. They are closed. Then the light goes out, and the eyes open. An Orwellian effect. Big sister is watching you. “Hello”, it echoes electronically distorted through the hall. On a small stage inside Adele floats hydraulically up. Stage magic as the opera house. Statuary like an ancient goddess stands as the singer, the bulbs of smartphones, which are now being brandished everywhere to capture the moment, transform the arena into a surging sea of ​​lights.

It starts with “Hello”

Adele, who was 28 years old four days ago, singing “Hello”, their biggest hit. At first she is only accompanied by a piano, then get to the third verse, the strings and the band with a full force. The song is about a failed love and the futile attempt a rapprochement. Feelings as a battlefield. Only this time it is – unlike the pieces of “21″ – the singer, who has left her lover and would like to apologize. Instead of being left behind, she went herself. An act of emancipation.

With its artificial eyelashes, Barbara Stanwyck hairstyle and the floor-length robes Adele stylized into a diva of the forties and fifties. But by the inaccessibility of classic Hollywood stars is nothing to feel with her. Your grip has not lost the grown in South London singer which she demonstrates with several minutes of intermediate moderations. She raves about Berlin, boasts the zoo as “best in the world”, admits to have suffered sunburn and has her cleavage. From Lionel-Richie T-shirt of a crowd is thrilled mocks but: “Have you expected here to see Lionel Richie” They willingly posed for selfies and confesses with hard Cockney accent: “. I love to chat” you loves to chat.

Have vibrato and strings melting

on the northern soul stomper “Rumour Has it” and celebrated with much vibrato and strings melting James Bond theme song ” Skyfall “follows a captivating acoustic version of” million Years Ago “, accompanied only by two campfire guitar. Adele is not yet 30, but in their songs, it always goes back to the search for a lost time. She’s only just passed and already seems “millions of years” to be caught up. “I feel like my life is flashing by,” she barmt in spread singing style, “and all I can do is watch and cry.” Already their debut single “Hometown Glory” was a throwback to the world of her childhood, culminating in a friendly commitment: “. Ooh the people I’ve met / Are the wonders of my world”
No, Adele had her audience right at the warned early, “Happy songs” it would get hard to hear. A soulmate she has found precisely in Bob Dylan, whose love ballad “Make You Feel My Love” they covert congenial. One of the highlights of the evening, at the end of a steel guitar aufheult melodramatic. Before “My Love (To Your New Lover) Send” sings Adele announces to want to dance. No, no, she speaks in the surging cheers might have the word “dance” a bit exaggerated. “I make a few steps.” She hates choreographies for casting shows it would be inappropriate.
“Send My Love”, no doubt, is a Hate-Song, the settlement with a former lover. “People who have bad, you have to kick out of his life,” proclaimed Adele combative. For an acoustic guitar and the puffs of three background vocalists she sings whispering, in the chorus her voice cracks: “. I’m giving you up / I’ve forgiven it all / You set me free” A love end as strong kick

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All emotional states her biography

to Adele’s repertoire includes mainly slow to voluptuous rearing pieces. When she sings songs like “Do not You Remember” or “Someone Like You”, the eye closes, summarizes his heart or theatrical gesturing with her winning of overlong nails fingers, then it seems the moods of their previous biography to relive , So now yet: the enraptured Diva. Adele deemed Erneuererin the Soul, as a legitimate successor British pop queens like Dusty Springfield, P.P. Arnold and Amy Winehouse. But her vocal art is just as well from the Jazz, she is a master of the torch-singing, whispering that love chant, the once established, among other Frank Sinatra. Not all the songs are grandiose compositions, but Adele compensates for the shortcomings of her voice and her charisma.
At the end, in a block with three encores, Adele revels again in nostalgia. She calls her ballad “When We Were Young” “the most beautiful song I’ve ever written.” It’s definitely her song with the original text, because of the wonderful line “You look like a movie / You sound like a song”.

If someone looks like a movie – he recalls then more like a thriller or a love story? “We were sad of getting old” sings Adele, getting old is to be sad. On the screen behind the singer to snapshots from her childhood are seen. She wears costumes, laughing, making faces. she was so young and so beautiful.