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I never expected this to turn into a multi-post saga, by the way. I thought Tony Visconti popped off unfairly, and that it would come to nothing, that Adele would ignore him and that would be it. I wasn’t expecting this. To recap, Toni Visconti is a producer responsible for many of David Bowie’s most iconic albums. Visconti is also part of a new reality show competition called Guitar Star. To promote the show, Visconti chatted with the UK’s Daily Star and said:

“You turn the radio on and it’s fluff, you are listening to 90% computerised voices. We know Adele has a great voice but it’s even questionable if that is actually her voice or how much has been manipulated. We don’t know. There’s a sound to pop now that is so perfect it’s boring, because everything is fixed.”

As we discussed last week and again on Monday, I took his comments one way and other people took his comments a different way. He left room for different interpretations, and I personally believe that Adele was one of the crappier examples to use if you’re talking about autotuning and voice manipulation (remarkably, a great example of voice manipulation would probably be DAVID BOWIE). Adele didn’t appreciate what Visconti said either, and in the middle of one of her concerts, she told him to suck her D. So now Visconti has responded to Adele. Billboard got the exclusive and they’re saying it’s his “apology.” Let’s see if you agree with Billboard.

“I’m sorry that what I said in regards to what’s being played on radio was misconstrued yet I cannot apologize for something taken the wrong way. If Adele has taken my comments as offensive that was certainly not my intent…Adele has a great voice and it brings pleasure to millions.”

[From Billboard]

Is this an apology? Yeah, not so much. I read this as terse and shady. He’s sorry… that some people “misconstrued” his words. He’s sorry that Adele is offended. He’s also sorry, I fear, that Adele has millions of fans. Again: “it’s even questionable if that is actually her voice or how much has been manipulated.” Maybe try to apologize for that?

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