Forgot all that heartbreak and crying and deep-rolling that Adele as previously infatuated with in her music—now that she’s got a bun in the oven, it’s all baby, all the time for the world’s most beloved contemporary songstress. As such, let’s take a listen through some of the songs through which Adele might currently be finding musical inspiration—assuming she ever plans on opening those old wounds of recording again, and doesn’t want to just live with her millions in domestic bliss for the rest of her life. (Damn you, Konecki!)
JUSTIN BIEBER FEAT. LUDACRIS, “BABY”
The most famous “Baby” song of recent years—and probably the one whose lead artist was closest to actually being a baby at the time. It’s been a little while since this song was at its peak, and Bieber’s done a lot of growing (musically and physically) since, but we don’t doubt that Adele was still humming “Baby, baby, baby, Ohhhhh” to her belly within mere minutes of first hearing the news.
ASHANTI, “BABY”
One of the earliest Ashanti hits, and another that gets a maximally efficient rate of “baby”s per chorus—about 25 per by our count. (What other word could you get such mileage out of in a pop song?) “You’re like a lighter to my cigarette / Watch me smoke.” Uh-uh, Adele—no ciggies for you while you’re expecting.
BEYONCE FEAT. SEAN PAUL, “BABY BOY”
No doubt Adele’s upcoming bundle of joy will be fulfilling all kind of fantasies for the chanteuse, and she’s probably been seeing him or her in her dreams for quite some time. Will she be OK with having a boy, now that she knows what men are truly capable of? Well, perhaps that’s just all the more reason for her to want to have a male child, so she can teach him and help spread the word on how to treat women right, and not leave them writing smash hit breakup songs about how they mistreated her. If she doesn’t, who will?
NELLY FURTADO, “BABY GIRL”
But then again, perhaps Adele would be more comfortable with a child of her own gender, one who she can teach to be strong and independent, and not make the same mistakes she did by going and setting fire to the rain each time a guy refuses to return her phone calls. And if she has a baby girl, she’ll doubtless have one like Nelly here, who won’t wanna be any old scrub’s baby girl. (Pre-”Promiscuous” Nelly, anyway—we can only imagine the minis-strokes Mrs. Furtado got watching her little one in that video.)
CAETANO VELOSO & GAL COSTA, “BABY”
Sometimes all you need is one word to understand the entirety of what a song is about, as with Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa’s oft-covered Tropicalia classic “Baby.” Just listening to it, where the title word is the only English spoken in the song, you get visions of messy diapers and applesauce-stained bibs and dozens and dozens of underwhelming photographs. Well, we do, anyway—we’re certainly not gonna go to any cheater lyric sites to check—and we’re sure that Adele will as well.
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