EGOT in Future for Adele?

Adele collects a 2013 Grammy award for Best Pop Solo Performance Image Credit

Emmy. Grammy. Oscar. Tony. That’s what EGOT stands for. (Although GOTE might be a better arrangement.)

Adele has her Grammy, and last night she picked up her Oscar. All of her albums are available on Freegal.

I would say someone should have her guest on their TV show.  (A very special episode of Walking Dead?) And, surely, someone wants her in their Broadway musical.

I say it’s just a matter of time.

Adele Better Than Streisand? You Can Be the Judge at the Academy Awards

Adele at a concert in January 2009  Image Credit

I was on the phone the other day, teasing my dad about his long-lived crush on the singer Peggy Lee.

“No, it’s Adele now,” he said.

“You know about Adele?” I said. This is a fellow that call me and asks me to do internet research because he’s never been on that new-fangled contraption.

“Why sure,” he said. “She’s better than Streisand.”

I just read that Streisand is performing tonight on the Academy Awards. And Adele will singer her nominated song “Skyfall.” So you can line them up and be the judge: which is better?

And, unlike my dad, you probably have an internet connection and can download Adele’s songs through Freegal. I just checked, and there are dozens and dozens of Streisand’s, too.

If “Skyfall” by Adele Wins the Oscar, It Will Be the First Bond Song to Win

James Bond is muscular and serious now. We have Daniel Craig making a buff new Bond, and Adele putting her heart into the theme song “Skyfall.”
It’s available to download for free from Freegal.

The smart money is on her to win (doesn’t she win everything these days?), and if she does, this will be the first Bond song to win the Academy Award.

Other songs have been nominated (before Adele was even born), but none has ever won before.

The other Oscar-nominated song  available on Freegal is “Nobody Does It Better” by Carly Simon

“They blew Bieber out of the water”: Mumford & Sons: Babel

Mumford & Sons' album Babel won Album of the Year.

It’s a bit heartening to see where music is going these days. Mumford & Sons’ Babel was the year’s biggest debut.

And it sounds like—well--music. A bunch of guys with banjos and guitars and a whole lot less electronic overlay.

"It blows Bieber out of the water," says Keith Caulfield, Billboard's director of charts. "Mumford isn't a traditional singles act. They appeal to consumers who still want the experience of an album. They have a wide appeal, from young folks who see them on tour to older NPR listeners."

The largest weekly take of 2012 belongs to Adele, another musician who sounds like she’s more interested in voice and other instruments than synthesizers.

Both Mumford & Sons and Adele are available for free download on Freegal.

Source Citation

Gundersen, Edna. "Mumford & Sons' 'Babel' ranks as year's biggest debut." USA Today 4 Oct. 2012: 01D. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 14 Feb. 2013.

Adele-o-Rama: “Set Fire to the Rain”

Adele wins again. And again. And again.

She picked up her first of the night. How many noms does she have this year?

That will probably be how many awards she gets.

2013 Grammy Predictions: Adele “Set Fire to the Rain”

Adele: "Set Fire to the Rain" live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Adele’s song is nominated for Best Pop Solo Perfomance

EW predicts that she will win because “Adele wins these things in her sleep.”

Kelly Clarkson is another Freegal lass nominated here.

You can get the songs on Adele’s 21 or on Clarkson’s Stronger through free download on Freegal.



Top of Freegal: Adele, Etta James, and Hairstyles

Adele sings "Fool that I Am," the Etta James song that inspired her to become a singer.


Credit Etta James for Adele’s singing career.
 
Although the North Londoner always enjoyed singing (at the age of five, she stood on the table she and belted out the Gabrielle no. 1 hit “Dreams”), she didn’t even think about having a music career until she came across an Etta James CD in the bargain bin.

Get this—she didn’t buy the CD for the music. She bought it because she wanted to show the hairstyle of the front to her hairdresser.

Eventually she decided to actually listen to the music. “When I heard the son ‘Fool that I Am,’ everything changed for me. I never wanted to be a singer until I hear that.”

Serendipitously, James’ song is available to download on Freegal.

Right now, the songs that Adele has on the top 100 include “Skyfall,” Rumour Has It,” “Someone Like You,” and “Rolling in the Deep.”

"Adele." Newsmakers. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 1 Feb. 2013.



Bond's Aston Martin



Adele is the newest Bond girl (singer, that is) and her song, “Skyfall” has gone to the top of the Freegal charts.

I you’re in the mood for more free Bond downloads, the following are also available on Freegal:

“Goldfinger” by Shirley Bassey

“Nobody Does It Better” by Carly Simon

“Another Way to Die” by Jack White and Alicia Keys

Adele: Free and Legal Music Downloads

Best quote from Adele's website:

 "I love food and hate exercise...I don't want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone or Q. I'm not a trend-setter ... I'm a singer. I never want to be known for anything else. I'd rather weigh a ton and make an amazing album...."

Adele's songs are available for free and legal download from the Freegal website. Read more about how to access this service here.

All of the tracks on her albums 19 and 21 are available to download for free. Read more about the songs that are available.

Photo: Christopher Macsurak via Wikimedia