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But When Are We Getting New Music, Adele?

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Tonight, right, Adele? It’ll be tonight. You’ll surprise us all by releasing a totally free collection of 1,000 new songs that are all completely magical and moving, and that collection will have a bonus album of 100 covers of songs by singers like David Bowie and Britney Spears, and it will be everything we’ve ever dreamed of. That’s it, isn’t it? That’s when we’ll be getting your next album!

… No? It’s not tonight? It’s in roughly two years. Oh, no:

Adele has told a French radio station she will have a new single out by the end of the year, but her next album will take “a good two years” to record. The news will fuel speculation that the artist will record the theme tune to the latest Bond movie, Skyfall. She has been the bookmakers’ favourite since last year, but no official announcement has been made.

Speaking to France’s NRJ, the singer added she needed to find time to write the follow-up to her hit record, 21.

“If I didn’t write my own songs, I’d be out next week with a new album,” she said. “I have to take time and live a little bit. There were a good two years between my first and second albums, so it’ll be the same this time.”

Adele added that she was not worried about recreating the success of 21, which has now sold more than 20 million copies around the world.

“I don’t think I’ll feel the pressure for the next album to be as big as the last one because I know that’s not really possible,” she said. “What’s happened with this album is very rare anyway.”

She said her ideal duet partner would be the late Etta James but she would also like to sing with Beyonce.

“I adore Beyonce, I’ve been listening to her since I was about 11,” she told NRJ. “I think her work as an artist and a singer is enviable in terms of the length of her career and how she’s grown and grown but most of my inspirations are (from) old music and sadly they have all died.”

Well, this hurts. Two years seems like forever, but I guess I’ll take it. Not only because I don’t have a choice, but also because if that’s the amount of time it’s going to take to get another amazing record from this girl, then that’s just the way it is. You have to respect her for not getting right back into the studio and recording an album of mediocre music just to keep riding on the waves of her overwhelming success, don’t you?

Besides, it’s not like I haven’t spent the past nine months listening to her first two albums over and over (and then over one more time). We’ll manage, I suppose.

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  • I just heard a new singer from Britain yesterday. She is amazing. Coincidently her first name is Adele also but she has chosen to go by her second name. If you are looking for a great alternative while you wait for THE Adele to come out with new music try Emile Sande. You will not be disappointed (guaranteed)!