Adele said ‘Hello’

Even though I am not very good with musical instrument, I know for a fact that any good music takes a good amount of time to be born, from hours to weeks to months to years depending on the performing talent. The British singer and songwriter; Adele is one very good example of this factor. In 2011 she released her worldwide hit-single ‘Skyfall’ for a JamesBond Movie and won the Academy award for that song. Ever since that she didn’t come-up with any major album or single but constantly updated her audience in social media about a working title in progress.

            On late October she posted an open letter to her fans stating her current emotional feeling about the new album

  

            Most of her songs are based on Love-failures but for the first she promised that this would be a make-up album for everything that was lost. It’s such a beautiful concept. Until late October, the Canadian rap artist; Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ was supposed to top #1 Billboard and Drake personally told in an interview that this would be the highest moment of his career, then eventually Adele said ‘Hello’ from her new upcoming album titled ‘25’.

            “Hello” immediately went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart (good music always does). As the dust settled after all the hype and the first week sales number showed impressive results with 1.11 million downloads breaking all previous records, it is the first song in digital download history to reach that number and this is just one song from the upcoming album. Industry analyst and experts believe that ‘25’ will break all previous records and this song has personally pissed off so many competitors in sales. In the end she continues to prove that talent and content is what really matters in creating an artwork, you can invest millions of dollars on advertising but people will eventually buy for the content and keep the sales running. How it feels to you is all that matters, ‘Hello’ felt really good. 

Reference:

Trust, G. (2015, November 2). Adele Says 'Hello' to No. 1 Hot 100 Debut; First Song to Sell 1 Million Downloads in a Week. Retrieved November 9, 2015.

The Tale of Uzumaki Naruto

The Tale Of Uzumaki Naruto

In the Publishing world of Comic books the western hemisphere and eastern hemisphere are divided into two major categories, the American action comics and the Japanese manga books. This visual art of story telling developed hand-in-hand with print media such as newspaper, at first they started out as little action strips and as the popularity grew among fans these comics and manga started printing series of their own with amazing creators. When the broadcasting media took interest in these comics and manga they became a worldwide phenomenon. One of the best examples of this is the popularity of the manga, “Pokémon”.

Naruto is a Japanese manga created and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The first print was published in august 1997 and a one shot attempt and it was loved by the Japanese people, by 2014 the manga series sold around 200 million copies, with an estimated amount of 130 million in japan and 70 million overseas making it the third best selling manga of all time next to the famous ‘Dragon ball Z’ and ‘One Piece’. Ironically Naruto is the first major work by Kishimoto and it became one of the most beloved characters in the Anime industry.

The most unique feature about series Naruto is the main character, ‘Uzumaki Naruto’. In general the main character of any story will be the coolest and the most stylish one, so that it attracts peoples imagination, the stroke of genius by Kishimoto is creating Naruto into a complete loser. Throughout the series Naruto is a complete knucklehead, gets people into trouble with his silly words and has many weaknesses in him, the beautiful thing is that he accepts these facts and trains hard to become one of the greatest ninja in this world. It was more practical and unique to the readers as they could relate Naruto with themselves for being imperfect. All the characters in the series are well written as Anime and manga magazine Neo described these characters as ‘almost sickeningly addictive’ in terms of characterization.

Reference:

Solomon, C. (2008, December 17). Interview: The man behind 'Naruto' Retrieved August 24, 2015, from http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-etw-naruto17-2008dec17-story.html