Vocal Type: Contralto Vocal Range: 3 octaves and 1 note. C3- D6 Vocal Pluses: Full and dark tone with a crystal clear belt. Vocal Negatives:(Suggestions?)
Without a doubt, Adele's voice contains the blue eyed soul element with a clear undertone of warm rasp to it. The production of both albums 19 and 21 contain more acoustic melodies where Adele's alto vocals take the driver's seat as she delivers messages of heartache, curiosity, and romantic progression. The only thing I have to say about her vocal ability is she doesn't show much of a range as she prefer to keep her vocals grounded. It's rare to hear her explore her middle and upper register as she just sings the material straight, building to a bright climax. Adele doesn't have to do much with her voice. She just simply relies on her tone to carry her over. Her voice is bold, but the material she performs is tender. She tends to focus on vocal ability rather than contemporary production. This is what makes her stand out, because of her willingness to sing songs raw, demonstrating passion, sultriness, heartbreak, regret and unrequited love. Her voice is old. And there's nothing wrong with that. Things will only get better with age, right?
@kahari: Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful response, its much appreciated. Your closing sentence is where i disagree and its only due to the fact that Adele is a smoker. Here's hoping- if she doesn't give up the habit- that she'll be one of the lucky ones whose voice isn't adversely effected by it...wishful thinking perhaps.
Adele lacks versatlity in what she can actually do; i.e. a similar problem to what Leona Lewis can do. In their own niche they are amazing however in terms of longevity and versatility it is actually quite poor. All the greats such as Whitney and Mariah have done up tempo, although known for ballads they still managed to break out of their comfort zones. If you compare Adele to someone like Alexandra Burke Alexandra can do it all and thats what makes her amazing, I dunno maybe to keep her star shining Adele should do something a bit different. I hear Leona Lewis' 3rd Album is going to be electro and club sounding, that should be interesting. :-) Hope this was a fair analysis
@anon above: another intelligent and thoughtful response! I agree with your sentiments about there being a danger about Adele being constricted by genre. It will be interesting to see how she tackles this in the future.
I would suggest, as others previosuly have. That Adele's main weakness is that she doesn't lend herself to different genres. In addition, I feel she could work on adapting her voice to more up tempo music, so that she can eventually move into up tempo music.
If every singer sounded like Mariah Carey or Celine Dion, well that would be pretty boring wouldn't it? I know this because my music teacher tried to MAKE me sing like them, instead of finding my own voice. Adele is great, and for those who say she isn't exploring other genres, well you haven't bought her CD then. She is very versatile. She also writes her own songs, and they aren't "crap" lyrics. It seems that some people on here are critiquing her voice note by note as a chorus teacher would. Adele is a singer and entertainer - having the capability to pull the listener into the song and with her voice, making you feel the song. If you want to hear a chorus, go to a play.
Oh please cut the uptempo crap, to be an uptempo artists you have to dance move around and show some skin in your performance, do you think Adele can do that? There's no need for that at all, her voice is unique and it reaches your soul, i totally believe every word she sings plus the technique is amazing. And you also said Leona Lewis doesn't do uptempo and she is boring, are you kidding me?? Clearly you haven't heard her albums, a big part of the tracks are uptempo, outta my head for example. Leona can pull it off with a lot of she can be a diva singer with a huge voice, and also a great performer cause to me she's got the body and her voice tone allows her to do that. I agree alexandra does a pretty good job especially on All night long, but no need to take her as the ultimate example especially for Leona and Adele, she is very good but not near to the talent that Leona and Adele have.
people need to stop praising her like shes a vocal god
she has a limited vocal range proven when she sang "set fire to the rain" on graham norton when she used her falsetto when she couldn't hit one of the high notes toward the end of the song
Her voice is limited to the style she does. I just can't picture her voice in other styles like rock, pop, r&b or others. She doesn't show real high notes.
Adele has a lot of vocal damage. (but who doesn't?) She doesn't approach note that would be in her mix or head voice properly, and as a result, it sounds like the notes are being squeezed.
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Without a doubt, Adele's voice contains the blue eyed soul element with a clear undertone of warm rasp to it. The production of both albums 19 and 21 contain more acoustic melodies where Adele's alto vocals take the driver's seat as she delivers messages of heartache, curiosity, and romantic progression. The only thing I have to say about her vocal ability is she doesn't show much of a range as she prefer to keep her vocals grounded. It's rare to hear her explore her middle and upper register as she just sings the material straight, building to a bright climax. Adele doesn't have to do much with her voice. She just simply relies on her tone to carry her over. Her voice is bold, but the material she performs is tender. She tends to focus on vocal ability rather than contemporary production. This is what makes her stand out, because of her willingness to sing songs raw, demonstrating passion, sultriness, heartbreak, regret and unrequited love. Her voice is old. And there's nothing wrong with that. Things will only get better with age, right?
@kahari: Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful response, its much appreciated. Your closing sentence is where i disagree and its only due to the fact that Adele is a smoker. Here's hoping- if she doesn't give up the habit- that she'll be one of the lucky ones whose voice isn't adversely effected by it...wishful thinking perhaps.
Thank you again!
Adele lacks versatlity in what she can actually do; i.e. a similar problem to what Leona Lewis can do. In their own niche they are amazing however in terms of longevity and versatility it is actually quite poor. All the greats such as Whitney and Mariah have done up tempo, although known for ballads they still managed to break out of their comfort zones. If you compare Adele to someone like Alexandra Burke Alexandra can do it all and thats what makes her amazing, I dunno maybe to keep her star shining Adele should do something a bit different. I hear Leona Lewis' 3rd Album is going to be electro and club sounding, that should be interesting. :-) Hope this was a fair analysis
@anon above: another intelligent and thoughtful response! I agree with your sentiments about there being a danger about Adele being constricted by genre. It will be interesting to see how she tackles this in the future.
There is no weakness to this woman's voice. It is infinitely beautiful.
kind of scratchy singing high notes. lack of versatility
The only negatives of her voice are a harsh, hooting quality, and as mentioned above, a lack of versatility.
I would suggest, as others previosuly have. That Adele's main weakness is that she doesn't lend herself to different genres. In addition, I feel she could work on adapting her voice to more up tempo music, so that she can eventually move into up tempo music.
There are no negatives to her voice. Saying it doesn't lend itself to other genres isn't even a 'weakness', Lol
If every singer sounded like Mariah Carey or Celine Dion, well that would be pretty boring wouldn't it? I know this because my music teacher tried to MAKE me sing like them, instead of finding my own voice. Adele is great, and for those who say she isn't exploring other genres, well you haven't bought her CD then. She is very versatile. She also writes her own songs, and they aren't "crap" lyrics. It seems that some people on here are critiquing her voice note by note as a chorus teacher would. Adele is a singer and entertainer - having the capability to pull the listener into the song and with her voice, making you feel the song. If you want to hear a chorus, go to a play.
Oh please cut the uptempo crap, to be an uptempo artists you have to dance move around and show some skin in your performance, do you think Adele can do that? There's no need for that at all, her voice is unique and it reaches your soul, i totally believe every word she sings plus the technique is amazing. And you also said Leona Lewis doesn't do uptempo and she is boring, are you kidding me?? Clearly you haven't heard her albums, a big part of the tracks are uptempo, outta my head for example. Leona can pull it off with a lot of she can be a diva singer with a huge voice, and also a great performer cause to me she's got the body and her voice tone allows her to do that. I agree alexandra does a pretty good job especially on All night long, but no need to take her as the ultimate example especially for Leona and Adele, she is very good but not near to the talent that Leona and Adele have.
people need to stop praising her like shes a vocal god
she has a limited vocal range proven when she sang "set fire to the rain" on graham norton when she used her falsetto when she couldn't hit one of the high notes toward the end of the song
Her voice is limited to the style she does. I just can't picture her voice in other styles like rock, pop, r&b or others. She doesn't show real high notes.
Adele has a lot of vocal damage. (but who doesn't?) She doesn't approach note that would be in her mix or head voice properly, and as a result, it sounds like the notes are being squeezed.