The returns of Stromae and Adele, hired for him, syrupy for her – archyde

Two heavyweights of world pop music resurfaced on Friday, October 15, when they had not published anything for six years.

In 2015, the Belgian Stromae bowed out after a burnout severe after a tour of more than two years and three million copies sold of his second album, Square root (2013). The English Adele, who totals more than 120 million copies for the whole of her young career, had released her last record, 25, also in 2015 and had achieved worldwide success with the song Hello, whose clip had been imaged by Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan, awarded in 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival for Mommy – he signs again the clip of his new title.

The francophone and the anglophone are arguing in this early fall for the comeback the most thunderous in two totally different registers: that of the electro cumbia, a bit engaged for Stromae, and that of the lyrical ballad a tad syrupy for Adele.

Stromae and a tribute to the little hands of everyday life

For Health, popular injunction at the hour of the aperitif that the singer does not speak of the whole song, the former Brussels rapper seems to have gathered in one title two of his most famous pieces, Then we dance and Awesome. On the cover, he gives the few dance steps to be performed for “Celebrate those who do not celebrate, raise a glass to those who do not”.

In a deep voice, in line with the people who applauded for the caregivers, Stromae wants to pay tribute to those who do not party when others do: the waitresses, the housekeepers, the girls in the locker rooms, the ladies Pee. With the same voice that smells of the drunkard’s alcohol Awesome, he plays the unbearable, demanding and moody customer who humiliates the little hands of everyday life.

The music, composed by his team from the Mosaert label, uses the same formula as the hits of Square root, a little world music (afro or latino) and a lot of electro. The upcoming album recorded in Brussels will have to be more surprising, more incisive, so that we can be delighted to find this complete and extraordinary artist.

“30” will be Adele’s fourth album

If there is one who has recovered health, it is Adele. The 33-year-old has lost 45kg over the past two years, but hasn’t lost the power of her mezzo soprano voice.

With Easy on Me, the singer takes up the story of Hello where she had left it. Her love story over, she comes back again and again to explain – “I was only a child” -, uses the allegory of the gold diggers to say that in vain she continually sifts the murky waters of her love to find some nuggets.

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