“I’ve never been more normal than I am now.” When Adele casually tossed out that statement in an interview back in 2009, I remember thinking that it was both genius (who doesn’t love normal?) and hilarious (isn’t normality the most relative of relative concepts?).
I wasn’t alone, and the 15-time Grammy winner’s words have been quoted endlessly ever since. Because if anything summed up Adele’s appeal, it was surely the sense that beneath and beyond her stupendous, ludicrous, alienating talent, she was “just like us”.
