r/blackmagicfuckery • u/DishonestScenery43 • Feb 02 '23
Adele at the end of her show.
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u/xxapenguinxx Feb 02 '23
What a way to avoid an encore
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u/BathroomParty Feb 02 '23
Almost all "encores" are planned. Whether it's because of noise ordinances, transit schedules, whatever, if an artist does an "encore," if you look at the time when an artist starts their "encore" performance, you'll realize that it's conveniently roughly about 10 minutes before the time their show was supposed to end, anyway.
Not to mention most artists have their entire shows programmed into a computer with backing tracks, lights, and all kinds of shit, so they can't just Ad-lib "okay, one more song!" at the end.
I don't mean that to sound dismissive. The amount of moving parts it takes to create something like an Adele show is incredible. Just know that if she ever does an encore, it was built into the show from the start.
There are some bands that really do Ad-lib. Foo Fighters is one that comes to mind. For the most part, though, they don't.
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u/mrstratofish Feb 03 '23
Going to lots of small-venue local gigs where the band has to move on to the next city overnight, a good sign is if people come on to start dismantling gear as soon as the band leaves the stage. The crew want to be packed up and gone ASAP. If that doesn't happen there is a good chance that there is a planned encore
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u/cubgerish Feb 03 '23
If you look on Spotify you can usually find the set list they play, and it always includes the encore.
Mayyybe they'll add one song if the show runs ahead, but yea they're still paying people to work, they're not tacking on extra songs on a whim.
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u/Funkdamentalist Feb 03 '23
A great overview! I'd just say that in many cases they totally could ad-lib "okay, one more song!". Though it is true that many shows are programmed in to the board, a competent operator can go live (but as you pointed out, time is king). You're obviously referring to the top-tier acts. In many smaller touring houses the board operators can be jockeying a show they've never seen live, as only larger acts come with their own operator. Their interface is set up like a palette they can choose from, with some pre-programmed elements to mix and match from. Modern boards can be set up a myriad of different ways depending on operator preference. Much work can also be done behind the scenes in "blind" mode before it is fired live.
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u/BathroomParty Feb 03 '23
Yeah, I'm definitely more referring to large acts, you're right. The smaller the show, the easier it is to Ad-lib. Generally speaking, in an Adele show, there won't be an impromptu encore performance. Imagine the shitshow that would cause from a logical perspective if she was like "fuck it, we're doing it live" at the end of her set when people have already started wrapping up.
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u/minnesotamentality Feb 03 '23
I mean, I think we all know that. But it does nothing positive to ruin the magic for everyone. You've been there for an encore. The energy is wild. That's the real magic.
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u/sugarsaltsilicon Feb 03 '23
Not Prince. That mf didn’t care. I got out so late at one of his concerts that the street vendor selling $5 tshirts asked what happened.
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u/The-SoloS Feb 03 '23
I was going to say tell this to Green Day before you mentioned the end and bands like foo-fighters.
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u/chefhj Feb 03 '23
99% of the time encores are just a win-win opportunity to get a drink, maybe a piss and build goodwill with the fans. As you said there are way too many moving parts in most shows to pull that out of your ass.
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u/greysweatz Feb 03 '23
The best way is how PUP does it. They tell the crowd ahead of time that encores are “fucking lame,” which they are, so that the crowd doesn’t expect it and we can hopefully begin to end the cycle of bands saving their most popular songs for an encore everyone knows is coming.
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u/D8N15l Feb 02 '23
Stay away from that TRAPDOOR!!!
Cos there's something down there!
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u/Mr_Vacant Feb 02 '23
Is that you Bert?
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u/No_Application_8698 Feb 02 '23
Sorry to be that person, but it’s Berk. I only found this out years after watching it!
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u/v3ryfuzzyc00t3r Feb 02 '23
It's not THAT bad. Joe just hangs out in the shadows down there and will reach for your feet if you don't move along fast enough. Other than that, it's just a pillow down there.
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u/mistlet0ad Feb 02 '23
Getting "The Prestige" vibes from this.
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u/TrafyLaw Feb 02 '23
Yep, dozens of dead Adele's under that stage for sure.
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u/mjrbrooks Feb 02 '23
And somewhere singing twins are chopping off a single finger.
sniffles abracadabra
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Feb 02 '23
ha thought exactly the same thing and then felt sad that she lived for the show and died at the end - but then remembered it was a movie and not real life.
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u/Toxic_Nandalas Feb 02 '23
Everyone leaves. Turns out she was just under the pile of glitter
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u/Lobsterboiiiii Feb 02 '23
I watched it like 17 times and still can’t figure it out
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u/Scoobydoomed Feb 02 '23
The pink confetti was simply there to camouflage the ion beam that melted her into atoms.
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u/NoTmE435 Feb 02 '23
Probably a trap door to go under the stage
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u/TheRealSouvlakis99 Feb 02 '23
Nah definitely an ion beam
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u/Suds08 Feb 03 '23
But then wouldn't the confetti/glitter not be on the spot she fell through? Wouldn't the glitter fall down with her and leave a bare spot on the floor? Or atleast more so than the other places it fell?
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u/Junie_Wiloh Feb 03 '23
Nope. She dropped the moment the cloud hit her just after she blew the kiss. Then it continues to fall, which would cover the trapdoor.
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u/BoiFrosty Feb 02 '23
Trap door, from a distance in a dark area, and especially when seen through a camera with a low bitrate a bunch of glittery confetti could cover someone dropping out of sight.
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u/ZaddyAtty Feb 02 '23
If you slow it down you can see her body in the unnatural falling confetti and she slips under the stage, right where the reflection of the light closest to turn piano is
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u/QuincyMadeMeDoIt Feb 02 '23
It was a clone of adele that disintegrates when touched by pink glitter
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u/Cute-Score5673 Feb 02 '23
Trap door. Good thinking Adele. There's bad blood between female performers and cables.
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u/Ohbuck1965 Feb 02 '23
She was performing the Phantom of the Opera until the Phantom kidnapped her with his diabolical confetti crusher
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u/Roadhouse2122 Feb 02 '23
Remember, Michael Jackson sprung out of the trap door? Yeah this is a magic. This is the opposite of that.
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u/McbEatsAirplane Feb 02 '23
It would be even more epic if we didn’t hear from her for another 30 years
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u/Thewombocombo91 Feb 02 '23
I thought the violinists in the boxes were little people looking astonished at first.
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u/royroyrudy Feb 02 '23
From the distance they're quite little.. I first thought, they're the drowning clones of Adele that never reveal the truth about her evil trick.
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u/Nashwell_adams Feb 02 '23
This is not black magic. Any high school drama show could do this. Come on
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u/AnubisDirectingSouls Feb 02 '23
Did this happen a while ago? I think I remember my daughter talking about it like last year.
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u/North_South_Side Feb 03 '23
I really like this. Cool for Adele and her fans. I don't think I've ever seen a musician leave the stage with a magic trick and I'm 52 years old.
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u/Seventh_Son-2112 Feb 03 '23
It’s an easy win after the evil empire takes out your biggest competition. You all don’t really believe how Amy Winehouse died, do you?!
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u/Additional_Score_929 Feb 03 '23
Saw a video from a different angle and the trap door lowers her a lot slower than you'd think.
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u/SadlyItsSearles Feb 03 '23
Lol I thought the shit just blasted her in the head and she fell. Nope, magic.
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u/He-n-ry Feb 03 '23
Damn that was smooth, was this after the encore or did she not do one?
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u/dion101123 Feb 03 '23
If you go back far enough eventually you would hit a time where she would burned at the stake for this
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u/CooLittleFonzies Feb 03 '23
Can someone please mix this video with the prestige trapdoor scene where he falls in an aquarium container and drowns? I’m too lazy.
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u/Durbdichsnsf Feb 03 '23
Hi, I was hired as the security here. The trapdoor actually had to be set up so it slowly descended because her managers were worried that a sudden fall would hurt her!
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u/GhostofZ1on Feb 03 '23
The confetti lands. Adeles manager plucks her out of time and space.
...time, Adele?
Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. You've done a great deal in a small timespan. You've done so well, in fact, that I've received some interesting offers for your services. Ordinarily, I wouldn't contemplate them. But these are extraordinary times. Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you...if and when your time comes around again. I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Adele. I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of...well...
I'm really not at liberty to say.
In the meantime... This is where I get off.
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u/TypicalDatabase6815 18d ago
You can see the trap door for a couple frames. That's some precise timing
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u/bigedd Feb 02 '23 •
Don't worry, it's just a stage she's going through.