Michael wants to know, “Is Adele the laziest superstar ever?” Which, first of all, rude. – What? What? Actually what? – “And is her overall lack of engagement in part responsible for the extinction of quote unquote big voice vocalists from the pop charts? It seems like the days of a Whitney, Celine, Toni, or even LeAnn Rimes dominating the charts with a Diane Warren song are never coming back.” – First of all, two parts to that. First part first. Um — I do not presume to know what Adele’s relationship to work product is. I do not know what Adele, if she thinks that she is being, strategically — – Absent? – Yeah, it’s, I don’t know if she’s making 20 songs a week and hiding them from us. I don’t know if she’s making 20 songs every three years and just putting them all out. – Adele seemed to be working really hard in Las Vegas, I don’t know. – Yeah, like, I just, I, so I don’t want to be, like, “I reject the premise of the question,” but it’s like, I can’t know the premise of the question. I can’t know whether that’s true. – But I think what he, what he’s saying is there’s not enough torch singing on the charts. – But there is. Because clearly this person is not paying attention to the British chart, and also to the people that they are sending over. Every three months it seems. Have you — – The visa program is crazy. – Yeah. Exactly. Have you not heard of Olivia Dean? Have you not heard of Sienna Spiro? – Raye. – Raye. Yeah. There are umpteen singers of this style, but also, in 2026, like, what radio format is that? – Adult contemporary I guess? – Yeah, like, what streaming — you know, it’s — you know who it is? I actually I know who it is. It’s Teddy Swims. – Hmm. – It’s Teddy Swims. – It’s men. – It’s Jelly Roll. It’s Teddy Swims, it’s Jelly Roll and Brandon Lake. It’s big contemporary Christian music. But it is not, yes, post-gospel, big-belting soul music, unless it’s coming from across the pond.
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