Directions Adele Could Go with Her Next Album
. There were some major personnel shifts between 19 and 21. While her debut album was principally written by herself with a few assists from British songwriters Eg White and Sacha Skarbek (with one track, "Right As Rain," featured a spangled mess of songwriters resulting in kind of a Burt Bachrach-sounding thing), 21 was plotted as a monster from the start based on songwriting collaborations alone. Massive hits came from her sessions with A-list songwriter names like Ryan Tedder, Dan Wilson, Greg Wells and producer Paul Epworth for the next album. Even the subject matter is vastly different - where 19 is a snapshot of a girl becoming a woman and the myriad of experiences that contains, 21 was the very autobiographical story of Adele's arduous break-up. Her next album is sure to very gently upset the cart just as much as the choices she made on the first two did. We've come up with some ideas on what we think, hope, and wish Adele might do now that she's 25. The Numbers Thing: As album titles go, this one is make or break. If she does the age thing yet again (she almost didn't with 21) then she's stuck on it forever. It will be hard to name the next album "25″, since she would have been writing the songs and having the life experiences that influenced the songs for multiple years. If she waits until well past 25, well�the numbers thing makes less sense with every year that passes. We predict she changes to a title track based system moving forward. The Covers Thing: On 19 it was Bob Dylan. On 21 it was The Cure. It is a given that the next Adele album will have one of her soulful, inventive covers - but what? Based entirely on math, she actually went from a song on Dylan's 1997 release back in time to a song from a 1989 release by The Cure so we might look for her to stretch back 8 more years and do a classic 1981 tune. Some options we'd love to hear her take on from that year include: Elvis Costello's "Watch Your Step," The Kinks' "Better Things," The Pretenders' "I Go To Sleep" or "Talk of the Town," The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," or The Cars' "I'm Not The One." See the 3 other possible directions here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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