Adele pranked some Adele impersonators & killed it on Saturday Night Live
Adele is the Queen of Everything. Let’s just say that right now. I downloaded 25 on Friday and so far, my favorite songs are “River Lea” and “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”. While I love “Hello” and I enjoy “When We Were Young,” for me it’s all about the other two songs. I’m sure in another week, I’ll have new favorites on the album, but right now those are my obsessions. Anyway, I wasn’t the only one downloading the whole album on Friday. She sold more than 900,000 copies of the complete album just in iTunes downloads in the first 24 hours. Industry analysts say that she’s poised to shatter first-week sales records, possibly selling more than 2.5 million in the first week (which would beat the 2.42 million record set by *NSYNC in March 2000). Adele isn’t streaming the album anywhere, so that’s a lot of $$$$ in her pocket. Good for her.
There are a million other Adele stories, because of course there are. Sarah Palin sent a thank-you letter to Adele because during Adele’s BBC special/interview, Adele credited Palin for her success. Adele was the musical guest on the SNL episode which Palin did a cameo on in 2008, and it was one of the most-watched episodes of SNL ever, which ended up launching Adele’s career in America in a big way. Her album went to #1 (this was the 19 album) in America and she was nominated for four Grammys just after that SNL appearance. You can read Palin’s note to Adele here – Palin is such a famewhore.
As part of Adele’s special with Graham Norton, she decided to prank a group of Adele impersonators. This video is amazing.
Adele was also the musical guest on last night’s episode of SNL. She sang “Hello” of course, and her second song was “When We Were Young,” which is looking like the second single off the album (when it should totally be “Send My Love”!!!). Here’s “Hello”.
Here’s “When We Were Young” – now that I’ve heard the album, I don’t know why she chose this as the second single?
Here’s a funny SNL skit about how Adele has the power to unite families on Thanksgiving.
And this isn’t Adele-related at all, but it’s a great bit with tons of celebrity cameos. “Auditions” for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
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