I also like classical and jazz music quite a lot, I simply don't have very good accsess to it (I do have a few Miles Davis albums though). I have tons of respect for these genres of music and love listening to them, I just don't have them on my Ipod. When I get money, they will be on my Ipod.
There's a few big reasons I say Adele is overrated.
1. She is played a lot on the radio, while the bands/artists I have the most respect and admiration for get no airplay whatsoever (with the only exception being classic rock artisits).
Airplay doesn't mean a damn thing in regard to is something is good, bad or indifferent.
When I was younger that you, Pink Floyd's The Wall was released and 'Brick (Pt2)' was played to death on the radio and TV. That doesn't make it either a bad track (better were on the album however), nor does it make Floyd overrated.
The biggest observation I can make from this is that one of the issues you have with Adele is that she gets more airplay that bands you believe should have it. That I'm afraid is not the fault of the artist, nor is it a measure of ability.
2. I don't find her music to be creative in comparison to the music I listen to.
I disagree. I've transcribed some of her work to guitar and played it, given that many of here tracks are deceptively complex, with changes to time signatures and key and some nice jazz based chord progressions I would say that actually have a good degree of complexity, its not in your face complexity, but it certainly exists within a good number of her tracks.
3. I don't think she as anywhere near as much talent in either writing music/ preforming it as the classical composers I don't really know that much about, Miles Davis, Yngwie Malmsteen or Cliff Burton.
See above and while I would agree that she is not in the same league as Miles Davis that's not exactly a huge surprise, very, very few are. Yngwie Malmsteen and Cliff Burton also aren't at Miles Davis' level in my opinion, that doesn't make the music they have made bad or overrated.
4. I find her voice annoying. Yngwie Malmsteen and Adele are (in my opinion) about equally creative. Yngwie's music sounds beutiful to my ear, Adele's sounds repitive and boring and sometimes repitive to the point of pain.
You do realise that the above and your last statement in part contradict each other, that said the main part of what you say I have no issue with.
Plenty of musicians I recognise as talented I don't enjoy listening to, once again that doesn't make they bad or overrated, it simply means they are not to my taste.
5. This is just my opinion, no one else shares my thoughts on Adele or music in general.
No, but discussing it's fun.
On a positive note for her, I do admire her for not using voice enhancing digital effects such as Auto Tune, and I respect her more then most pop stars, I just don't enjoy the sounds of her music.
This I have no issue with at all, I'm not saying that you should like her, simply disagreeing that she is overrated and/or bad.
Just remember, this is only my opinion. And I'm not in a Rock/Metal phase, I'm in a deeper musical phase. I don't really like simple music unless it sounds amazing, which it almost never does (to my hear). I love complicated music both as a challenge to learn, and something beutiful to listen to.
Sometimes simple sounding music is complex to learn and play, "Someone like you" uses some fairly standard chords, but at 60bpm, with two changes to time signatures and key its actually a challenge to play well. It requires either an acoustic or clean guitar sound and as such a single note or muddy chord stands out massively.
I would also strongly suggest some BB King as another example of this, as he is without a doubt one of the masters of great music coming from what you don't play as well as what you do play. His phrasing is simply genius in that regard.
For complex stuff if you have not yet comes across them I would also suggest Porcupine Tree, Tin Spirits (biased I know two members of the band) and Nick Cave.
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