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And Finally
Adele not taking five years off
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 16 February 2012
Oh Adele, fancy telling Vogue you were planning on taking five years off before your next album, when you are planning no such thing. Get Ms Adkins in front of the Leveson Inquiry, I say. How is the press to regain any respect when pop stars go around telling untruths.
Following last weekend’s mega-Grammy haul for the British singer, many media picked up on something she’d told the US edition of Vogue in a recent interview, where she seemed to announce a long break from music to spend more time with boyfriend Simon Konecki. She told the mag: “I am fucking off for four or five years. If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don’t know what I’ll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch”.
But no such five year hiatus is really planned. A press rep said the remark was “off the cuff” and not intended to be serious, while Adele herself wrote on her blog: ”I’ve a few days off now, and then it’s the BRIT Awards here at home and then I’m straight into the studio. BOYYAHH! Five years? More like five days”. So there you go, it’s official, never trust anything Adele says. I have deep suspicions she’s actually going to take seven days off, just to throw everyone off the scent.
Anyway, also on that blog, Adkins has been recalling her big night at America’s big awards show, and her six Grammy haul. Says the singer: ”In between laughing my head off, welling up, needing to sit down and trying to maintain an open fire (which is pretty much impossible huh?!), I keep having flashbacks to Sunday night. The most incredible night of my life. Thank you to you all, I am so overwhelmed, it’s the strangest feeling. I have constant butterflies and goosebumps, it’s wearing me out but I love it. I’ve been sleeping a lot but the minute I wake up I burst out laughing and it starts all over again”.
