Adele Returns, From Beyond Space and Time

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Will we ever see a star who unites audiences like this British musician again? Guests: Jon Pareles and Pitchfork's Jillian Mapes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your let it be known that I tried.
0:10.0	A music, news, and criticism, I am your host, John Carmonica.
0:16.0	There ain't no gold in this river that I've been washed in my hands and forever.
0:28.0	Adele is back. Adele has arrived as certainly as planets orbit around the sun.
0:37.0	As certainly as birthdays come, the return of Adele has been preordained.
0:42.0	The import of the return of Adele has been preordained and her new album, 30,
0:49.0	is I believe having the biggest opening week of the year.
0:53.0	We're gonna talk about Adele. I don't know if we've ever done a full Adele cast.
0:57.0	And also, I wanna say stick around at the end, because I'm gonna chat for a minute
1:02.0	at the end of the show about Virgil Abloh, who passed away today.
1:05.0	Sunday, we're recording Matauk a little bit of Virgil and Virgil's influence.
1:09.0	John Parallels, chief pop music critic of the New York Times is here.
1:12.0	I'm here.
1:13.0	And Jill Maips, features editor of pitchfork and author of the pitchfork review of 30 years here.
1:19.0	Hey, Jill.
1:20.0	Hey, thanks for having me again.
1:21.0	Both of you, JP gave it a critics pick.
1:24.0	Jill, I noticed, even though it was 8.2, was not a best new music.
1:28.0	I noticed that.
1:29.0	Don't think that I missed that.
1:30.0	Oh, you and many other people did not miss that.
1:34.0	Wait, what is Adele's stand group called?
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