Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

The lead single from Adele's new album, 25, is nearly a parody of how we'd expect the singer to sound. "Hello" is this breathy, dramatic arrangement, produced to suit ballroom chops. Never mind that ...

It’s impossible to think about 25 without the massive shadow of Adele’s groundbreaking second album 21. Not only because 21 sold a staggering 31 million copies, but also because of the bitter breakup ...

Shortly after the release of Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, she appeared to break a record held by Adele for ten years. Swift’s massive first-week sales broke the record Adele held since the ...