Daydreamer…Adele

Saw my girl Adele last night at the Variety Playhouse. It was an out of body experience almost for me. I've been listening to her for about a year now, and I've responded to every song that she has on that album, I have even written some of my deepest entries based on the beat of some of her very profound lyrics. If this was in my writing days - which I am hoping to get back to - I would have written many a stories just thriving on the beat of her sound, she has that thing about it, just like I wrote stories based on Jill Scott. So to listen to her and to feel all those emotions going through me every time I listen to her and to have her sing it to me in person, it was just phenomenal. I almost cried.

She was so excited to be there, to see all of us there. Just like I was excited to finally hear those songs in person. I kept wondering that I wish I had been there when she did even smaller venues, when she did the songs stripped down, when she was still in the discovery phase, even before the Grammy. Though she did recount how excited she was at the Grammys and her 2 triumphs, but I just wish I had been there before it all.

That being said my only gripe about the show was that. I would have liked to hear an extended concert version of the music. Something a little stripped down, ad-libbed (even though she did change a few words here and there) but something spontaneous and entertainment driven. Artists always sing a different version of their songs on tour, they add riffs here and there and just get the audience to chime in every now and again, have a little break down section, just something different, a play on the music. She sang it just as it was on the CD, straight and unadulterated (except for a few words here and there) but the notes sounded exactly the same.

That was a bummer for me.

But I still enjoyed myself and...I almost cried.