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not for me dawg

Pretty good. I listened multiple times and it got better every time. Still a three and I don’t see myself listening to it again

Ok

While the music doesn't blow me away, her voice is pretty damn awesome. Production values are through the roof and song structures are top notch, if somewhat predictable (ie. it's not exploratory progressive music). This is as good as modern pop music gets in my opinion, that said it is not something I listen to very often. For similar cravings I'll rather spin some soul or funky r'n'b, previously I have also listened to Duffy and Amy Winehouse for similar kicks.

Stink

Emotional, Full, Some lovely songs Overall little impact

Some surprisingly slamming songs on this album. Couple of cheeky, but guaranteed hit covers. Voice of a generation. Still doesn't mean I wanna listen on the reg, but really glad I did today.

I'll admit - I kinda groaned when I saw this. But I listened, and enjoyed my time with her. Not a bad experience.

Super solid album, not mad at it at all

“Rumor Has It” is a great song.

Adele has a great voice, and there are a couple of standout songs on here, but most of the others are middling.

'Rolling in the Deep' is a great, great song. I don't even care she's British doing a bit of Southern put-on in her voice. What I can't withstand is the lounge act treatment of 'Lovesong'. How could you Rick Rubin? This album would be better cutting 'Lovesong' and 'One and Only'. Her voice is great but I'm not sure making your best album at 21yo is great. Some years and experience can enhance great talent.

pretty neutral. i like the album, but not my favorite or least favorite. also very possible i'm swayed by Brett.

i listened to most of the song on glee. Though it must have been HUGE when it came out

What a great voice. Some songs hit real nice and some are sappy sapperstein.

Never listened to this album before. It's good! Who knew. He Won't Go sounds like a track someone wrote for Alicia Keys that Adele ended up with.

Quite shouty, innit? Fine for what it is I guess.

I mean she has a great voice, and the album sounds great; but the album just isn't meant for me.

I don't remember there being a Cure cover on this. This shit had a chokehold on retail radio stations for over a decade. It might as well be the official soundtrack of Target stores. Favorite track: Set Fire to the Rain

Peak radio friendly music. It’s not terrible

it's better than 25 but an adele song has never moved me and the lovesong cover was definitely not needed

Splendid to return to the chart toppers of the high school years. Had completely forgotten pounding desks shouting RUMOR HAS IT waiting to start religion class. Adele is one of our best singers working. However I wish she had better judgment in picking what's going on around her voice.

Some decent songs, she can sing. But I find her depressing af

Adele’s vocal ability and talent is extraordinary. For the most part, I enjoy this album. I remember the appraise and critical acclaim when it came out. Rolling in the Deep is an amazing album opener. I really love Rumour Has It and Set Fire to the Rain. They’re upbeat and fun despite being about a relationship breaking down. Someone Like You is iconic in British pop culture. I’ll Be Waiting was good track. I enjoyed Adele’s different approach to Lovesong, a classic from The Cure. However, I didn’t care for the other songs on the album. They felt desperately sad and seemingly endless and slightly repetitive. My personal preference is much more towards songs that are upbeat. I don’t mind a few love songs in one go but this album had too many for my liking. All in all, I can see why this album is here. It’s a classic.

She sings ennit

I thought I would like it more

There are some exceptional songs on here surrounding by quite a lot of MOR dross It’s a shame as Someone Like You, Rolling In The Deep and Set Fire To The Rain are genuinely great Call it a charitable 3

linda voz, músicas iconicas, produção babadeira, mas como a maioria são baladas eu acho meio meh..... mas adele você é uma lenda!!!!

The lady has pipes! She goes for it. I appreciate that. This is an album full of torch songs designed to feature Adel, and the instrumentation is broad brush and not too complex. The songs are mostly good, a few are really engaging. But this is not an album I’m gonna listen to straight through again. It’s a 3.

Shit… lol. Got some classics that i remember my mom playing in the car with the radio on on the rides home from school. Not great but 3 does it justice

Adele is fine. I knew most of the songs on here because they're catchy and played all the time in the car, so it was nice to sing along to. Nothing life changing in here though.

Fav: He Won't Go Notes: Some really good songs. Cure cover is unnecessary.

A little Adele goes a long way for me. So, for our second Adele offering on this list it's kinda played out for me. Still has a great voice, of course, and an album like this from a 21 year old counts for something. It's definitely well produced, and her voice shines through. I haven't felt the break up vibes in a LONG time, but I imagine this one has been spun through a lot of heartbreak.

Great singer and some great songs, but not something I want to listen to regularly.

Started and ended with a bang, but sort of lost it's way in the middle. She's a wonderful vocalist, but I think she spent too much time on this album showing that off, and not enough time picking the right songs for her. It was sort of all over the place. I'm still not a huge fan of Adele, but there's definitely some songs on this album that have relisten value.

The “bookends” to this album are incredible. Unfortunately the middle of the album kind of felt a little underwhelming, especially when comparing to her other album after this.

It's got a lot of good ones and I like her but I'm not feeling it 100%

Much better than her other one of this list, not my genre tho Will I listen to again: 17%

Another one not right up my alley but happy to have heard the whole thing, solid album!

Copied Amy Whinehouse’s homework but left out the hardcore drugs and addiction parts. Leans more into pop but man do the piano and singing songs all sound the same. Its no wonder the songs with more than one instrument are the popular ones that are big hits. Not my type of music but I can appreciate it and it’s not shit. 6/10

Kunne vært bra, men ble masete. For overprodusert?

Genre bending, hit after hit. Lots of heartbreak juxtaposed with exceptional vocal heroics.

The hits are great and she has an incredible voice but if I’m being honest I don’t need to come back for the in betweeners

Overplayed for a reason, I'll be waiting is a tune

Meh

it’s a generally good album but nothing about adele’s music has ever been really interesting to me

I put off listening to this one for awhile. Because it's Adele, and it's 21, and it dominated everything when it was released. But finally I decided now would be a good time to listen to it, and honestly, I've probably only heard three songs off of it. Going in, I expected to hate this. Through Rolling in the Deep, all I could think about was how overplayed this sounded. Then Rumor Has It kicks in and frankly, that's a great song. But as we go along through this album, it becomes apparent what this album lacks - any sort of rough edge. It's overproduced to a degree of Spinal Tap. It's too clean. Too perfect. It begs for any sort of feeling, soul, or rough edge. A Janis voice crack. A guitar just a little late or early. Something that says that we're feeling this with you. It becomes very present on Lovesong. A Cure cover that should be emotional and haunting. It's just....technical. And boring. It's not a bad album. Definitely doesn't deserve a crazy low rating. But I gave Beth Orton a 3 and I'd rather listen to that. On the other hand, I gave Hole a 2 and this is better than Celebrity Skin. It's a low three. An asterisked three. At least it's not the Eagles.

iconic album, never listened to it in its entirety, just every song separately adele is the go to singer for when you’re feeling sad the album starts perfect, then goes a bit downhill to then finish off great

Heard so many of these songs - she's iconic, no doubt, but not my style

A few good bangers but felt a lot of repetition in non-single tracks. Couldn’t binge listen.

She sings well

I liked this more than I thought I would, but not enough for me to actually be impressed by it.

not my typical genre at all, but there were some bangersss 3,5/5 🌬️

Buen debut de una gran voz que no me llena.

You know, I’ve always liked Adele. I think the machine of radio-first-trickle-down taste curated music broadcasted through the head units of 2010 Holden Captivas via B105 and 106.9 did a lot of damage to my cognitive development during the “let’s do it tonight babeeey” recession-pop years, but Adele was not one such villain in that. What’s not to like? Adele’s a phenomenal singer, a songwriter who would have done well at any point from the 70s to the year of release of this album. The UK lost its figurehead female voice with Amy, and Adele did a job better than anyone else could have to fill those shoes. Admittedly, she did so better in prior (especially) and subsequent albums. The big 3 hits that arose out of them all stand up today, and we’ll all look back at them reasonably fondly in decades to come. Besides that, the Lovesong cover feels like medium quality filler. I listen to newer artists like Celeste and hear Adele’s warm timbre come through, and I appreciate it. I honestly believe her songwriting to come from a sincere place, albeit with the help of some industry heavyweights here and there (somehow Rick Rubin is here??). I mean for crying out loud, the breakup was happening mid-production. Anyway, I appreciate this album for what it is, though it’s my second-least favourite from her. It’s been long enough to somewhat detach it from ceiling-speaker repertoire irritation. Favourite: He Won’t Go Least favourite: Lovesong (this is the correct choice) 7/10

Look, I understand how talented Adele is. She genuinely has a once in a generation voice and I won't ever deny it. But it's just not for me. I fucking hate singer-songwriter music that's just a singer and a piano. Pianos suck. The lazy songwriting on Don't You Remember was pretty fucking lazy and bland. Outside of that, every song - apart from the hits that we were forced to listen to near-daily on the radio for 3 years straight - was fairly bland and the album is obviously themed around heartbreak. It definitely gets jading after a while. This review may sound critical, but I genuinely didn't hate this as much as I should have. It did get lazy, and a bit boring at times; but it definitely didn't feel like 48 minutes, it felt shorter. I could tolerate this and I didn't even mind listening to it in the background. I can't give this lower than a 3, despite the fact I will never come back to this album again in my life. Adele is just too talented and her voice is too fantastic to deserve anything less, despite that everything in my core is supposed to hate this. Plus, at least it's something different. Not getting a 90's British rock album is always a blessing.

Пост-нат кларити творит чудеса. Арктик Манкиз звучат как Радиохэд, странный член не вызывает сомнений, и Адель больше не звучит как Стас Михайлов. Но всё - лишь иллюзия (благодаря которой, предположительно, мой отец вообще смог создать потомство, ибо если не путь Господен, то иного объяснения этому чуду нет; за что я благодарен им всем, конечно). Это ревью звучит чуть больше как питчфорк, чем мне бы хотелось, поэтому вот настоящий музыкальный факт про Адель: по моему субъективному мнению, этот альбом сильно лучше 25; он гораздо менее шаблонный - и потому гораздо более настоящий что ли? Я определенно стараюсь написать как можно лучше, пока женщина принимает душ. Сравнить вот это полотенце с предыдущими "итс окээээй". Вот еще один факт: реально лучшая песня на альбоме - это Lovesong, ха-ха. Спасибо за счастливое детство, Роберт Смит. Лучшая песня - Rolling in the Deep.

Still kinda iconic

3.2 Some bangers, some big ballards, some a bit boring. Not as full an album as her earlier releases

Three or four songs on this album have been sooooo over-played that I'm still bored with them now 14 years after their release. So I focussed on the tracks that did not make radio. "Lovesong" is a nice cover.

Solid key tracks.

She can def sing! Song great songs and some I'm sick of having heard on the radio too much when they came out. Respect though, she knows Bron.

Not really something I'd listen to on my own. Not quite my vibe. That being said Adele has amazing talent and a beautiful voice. She is a great artist, just not my go to as far as what I like.

Decent album - fabulous voice 3/5

A great listen when i first got it. Maybe overdid it then. It holds up today. Especially 'Rolling in the deep' and 'Someone like you'. Great songwriting mixed with a great voice. 3 is a rating for me, but it probably deserves another star at least in a general rating.

Mega hit album, I was surprised that I still enjoy the singles after how much I've heard them. The deeper cuts here are kind of meh though. There is no denying her vocal talent though you do still need the songs to back that up. Did not know she did a Cure cover, not anywhere near as good as the original though.

Rolling in the Deep - 3/5 Rumor Has It - 3/5 Turning Tables - 4/5 Don't You Remember - 4/5 Set Fire to the Rain - 4/5 He Won't Go - 3/5 Take It All - 4/5 I'll Be Waiting - 3/5 One And Only - 4/5 Lovesong - 3/5 Someone Like You - 3/5 Average score: 3.5/5 (rounding down) i'm a little underwhelmed by the album overall, likely due to the fact that i've heard nearly half of these tracks so many tracks due to its constant play on mainstream radio. she's a talented vocalist tho, and the album was produced well

Some good stuff. But not really for me.

solid

Somewhat generic and slick pop music. Not my cup of tea generally. But there's no denying that Adele has a fantastic voice which at least elevates it above most typical Top 40 schlock. The song Rumor Has It always brings a smile to my face because it brings up memories of my oldest son (when he was a toddler) singing the chorus as "Oma Has It," which is what he calls his German grandmother. 3/5 Album 46/1001

I do think that the hits are some of the best ones, as I feel like why they are so good is that they stood out from other pop songs at the time. Quite a lot of these are quite boring ballad-type songs though, which are great and showcase her voice really well but they just don't feel very creative or really that interesting. Obviously her singing is incredible I'd say arguably one of the best pop singers ever. Backings are great in some places and ok in others. Favourite songs: rolling in the deep, rumour has it, don't you remember, set fire to the rain, lovesong, and also some others. Overall around 6/10

An album that jumps back and forth between great tracks and tracks that do nothing for me. Rolling in the Deep. Stone cold classic. Rumor Has It? Annoying chorus. Set Fire to the Rain, fantastic. Take It All? Not a huge fan of the gospel. He Won't Go is a great R&B track though, that one surprised me. Generally, her slower ballad stuff bores me, and when she gets the shrill highs, it takes me out. Fine record with some great classic, but the deep cuts generally let it down for me.

This is a good album. I had heard some of the singles before but had never listened all the way through. I give it a 3.25/5.

Great writing and musical composition for this album. Powerful voice, she deserves the flowers she's received.

Modern classic of pop/neo-soul. Don't know if I have ever listened to the whole album. Every song is good. Not my go to genre, though.

Its not Amy Winhouse but I like these British Soul voices like Dusty Spingfield. I did not listened too much beacuse of the WE though.

It’s a nice album in general, but way too cheesy. I get it’s her vibe but still

normal. mas me trás memórias de arrumar a casa com minha irmã em 2011, aí é divertidim

Better than expected but still not really my music. Her voice on the other hand is hauntingly beautiful.

6/10 4 good pop singles sat amongst some fairly bland tracks. Lyrically, a relentless breakup album, which gets tiresome after a while

I wasn’t sure if I had heard this whole album or if I had only heard the radio singles. I have a friend who is a big Adele fan and would always play her in his car during road trips. So I have heard this whole album before but I never really sat down and listened to the album in full. Definitely a solid album. Stand outs for me were He Won’t Go and Lovesong

Like most people, I know about half these songs from constant radio play back when I was in high school ("Someone Like You" was always my favorite). Unfortunately, the non-singles don't really add anything new for me. Still, it's always nice to revisit a few great songs I haven't thought all that much about in years.

Truly magnificent .

I know how much this album is iconic already. Don't need to listen to it. Plus not a huge Adele fan

Adele is undoubtedly good, but probably more of a singles lass than an album genius.

I know some of these songs from the radio. Or the first two anyway--the first track is pretty decent, and Rumour Has it is excellent. From there it gets pretty whiney for the next two songs. But some rhythm and soul comes back in Set the Fire and He Won't Go, the in I'll Be Waiting. Take it All, unsurprisingly, more crying. I guess the surprise here was that the album wasn't all crying, and not as depressing as I assumed an Adele album would be. Someone Like You was the track one of my exes sent me a few months after dumping me. 3/5, higher than I thought I'd be rating an Adele album for sure. It's mostly just not my thing.

Man, it's been a long time. This was the zeitgeist when I was a teenager and I did listen to '21' in full fairly frequently, but it's been at least ten years. I was curious to see how it holds up. No one was making pop music that sounded like what Adele was making, and she still stands apart from her peers. That voice is still earthshaking after all this time. God damn can she sing. Some of the songs have lost their punch after almost 15 years of radio play. "Rolling in the Deep" and "Set Fire to the Rain" were on constantly back in 2011/2012. Consequently I'm drawn more to the album cuts, like "Don't You Remember", "I'll Be Waiting", and "One and Only". A legacy breakup album, but it's polished to the point of losing character. The production style means this isn't dated, but it doesn't grab me either. I was glad to revisit, but also kind of wanted to listen to '30' instead. She has room to get messy on that one. "Rumour Has It" still bangs.

Adele's voice is unique, mesmerizing, and talented. This album was a centerpiece of 2011 and 2012 for almost everyone in the Western hemisphere, myself included. But that was 14 years ago, and Adele is not standing the test of time for me. The instrumentals that surrounds her voice are SO basic and rote. Her layers of vocals on tracks like Rolling in the Deep are the most interesting "instrument". Everyone talks about her Gospel, Soul, Motown influences... but all of these genres contained so much more expression, nuance, detail in composition and arrangement, and rawness of emotion than what she's displaying on 21. The repetitive claps on Rumor Has It chorus drive me bonkers. The constant eighth-note hammering seems to be the main mechanism for emphasis on this album, which is boring as fuck. In the first track it was the piano, second track it's this clapping. Set Fire to the Rain has a 4-on-the-floor bass and snare throughout the entire song, literally doesn't vary at all between verse and chorus. Frankly every song has the most generic copy paste percussion on the planet. Piano is arpeggiated standard 4 chords over and over again. I wish this album had been arranged and produced like a soul or motown album and not like a pop album. He Won't Go is ironically a song I've never heard on the radio but has a way more interesting percussion arrangement than anything I've heard so far on the album (and still very bland compared to soul/motown percussion). Still boring, because the producer won't let Adele vamp or let go of ABABCB. Waiting for You is one of my faves. Percussion is moderately interesting, piano moderately interesting, ooh there are some horns, gospel-ish chorus, a couple vocal rasps slip through the iron grip of production. A hint of how incredibly raw Adele could sound with a different producer. It's great until the absolutely brain dead section C (basically every song has a brain dead section C tbh). Does Adele feel anything at all when she sings? Three stars for her voice alone. The composition is shit. I would have preferred her to do more improvisational vocal acapella stuff.

I feared with Adele I wouldn't enjoy this, I tend to avoid her music as it gets overplayed on radio. In fairness it's a good album, production is ok, her singing is great, and the big hits are excellent songs. Lacks something I can't quite put my finger on, some of the other songs are fine, overall an easy listen

She's got a great voice. Not really my flavor of Kool aid though

Rolling in the deep. Не мое

I'm very torn on this rating, because I want to give it a 2.5, because 2 feels too low for an album that does contain a couple songs that I do see the talent and vision in and can understand why people like them. However, the album is so one-note and gets much too repetitive and a slog that it doesn't feel like a 3, as I don't feel someone that treads so much on just piano and sad vocals really should rise to 1001 albums. I think I have to settle on a 3, even though I feel it like pulls the album higher than it deserves in an average score.

What a voice! Maybe I'm mishearing, but the production feels a little rough on this album. Not awful, but I would've assumed such a lauded pop record would be crisper.

Adele’s a really good singer but her music is just fine

This album is steeped in nostalgia for me, and offers some of my go to karaoke songs. I think my newly discovered favorite from the album was "I'll Be Waiting." While the use of soul inspired musical elements made this album shine so brightly, it does leave quite a bitter taste in my mouth that a white British woman made such a name for herself off of musical techniques that originated from Black American culture (very unsurprising given how frequently this occurs in music.) I will admit she does do it incredibly well though. There is only so much belting one can take though, and after the third listen I found myself tiring of the same vocal styles over and over. The production dimmed the band behind her distinct voice -- this clearly lets Adele's effortless range of notes stand out among the music. This album is better enjoyed over headphones from my own experiences. I think one thing that I appreciate from this album is the narrative element. The themes of the songs are cohesive, and the ordering of them on the album creates a satisfying emotional journey for the listener. 1. Rolling In The Deep: a classic karaoke song, probably the song that introduced me to Adele 2. Rumor Has It: another go to karaoke song, love the bass line and supporting vocals 3. Turning Tables: it seems like almost every single song on this album got radio play, and they all deserved it in their own way 4. Don't You Remember: just a bit too sappy for my liking, it's giving memorial video backing track 5. Set Fire To The Rain: hits just as hard as it did when I was a child, helps to prevent the middle of the album from getting muddled 6. He Won't Go: also didn't love this one at first and had to give it a re-listen after seeing how many people disagree with me. My opinion doesn't feel super changed after re listening as a solo song. Something about the piano build into each chorus and the staccato dictation in the music just lands weird for me. 7. Take It All: by this point in the album I had started to get a bit bored of the belting... thank god I had to wait it out (OKAY so I gave this a re listen on its own, and I think the songwriting in this one hits very close to home) 8. I'll Be Waiting: my favorite of them, really scratches the Amy Winehouse way in an unique sound 9. One And Only: the last like minute and a half of this track is an incredible build 10. Lovesong: I wanted to like this one so badly, but it's just a bit too boring especially given how much I love The Cure's version, quite disappointing especially given how good the second half of this album is 11. Someone Like You: being eight years old, staring out the window as my parents drive, and dramatically following a raindrop with your finger, need I say more? Would absolutely play on my own time in its entirety

Fine

Rolling in the deep is a classic. Rumour Has It is actually really enjoyable. Turning Tables is a good song but not my cup of tea. Same thing with Don't You Remember. Set Fure To The Rain is a classic. He Won't Go is really good. Take It All is good. I'll be waiting is decent. One And Only isn't for me. I like Lovesong. Someone like you is a classic, but it isn't for me.

3.5

Some absolute banging singles but the slower ballads didn't grab me. Very impressive vocalist but the songwriting is pretty generic.

3.5/5. Surprisingly good, better than what I remeber. Unfortunately it's been overplayed so that takes away some of the charm for me.

She's a phenomenal singer and this album shows that off quite well. But the actual backing tracks and instrumentation were a little bland to me. I can see why a lot of people like this album but I don't think I'll be coming back to it. Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You are both great though.

Strong voice plus the smash-hits "Rolling in the Deep", "Set Fire to the Rain" and "Someone Like You" plus the "The Cure"-cover "Lovesong" sum up to a pretty solid and catchy pop-album. But still not exactly my jam. 3,5

she is missing something here where songs are nice but when it comes to her vocal performance, there is more to be desired.

The non-singles didn't impress me, except I'll Be Waiting, I thought that was pretty good. The singles are mostly alright. I didn't realize Turning Tables was a single until I looked at the Wikipedia page for the album; probably my least favorite of the singles, maybe tied with Someone like You.

I had written a review where I compared the rise of Adele with the RnB/Soul shaped hole that Amy Winehouse and Duffy had left after their big breaks and how Rolling in The Deep was such a catalyst of everything else to come, this album was a savior for the music industry, however as a whole it leaves a lot to be desired, but if you want heartbreak ballads you are in the right place with Adele. Just wish there was a bit more of diversity in the project. 5/10

adele is a great singer. it's too bad this album only has like 3 songs on it. would love to hear her do literally anything different.

While the other reviews you're going to read about this record above and below this one are still going to be correct, I still contend the average ear has been overexposed to the cultural whirlwind that Adele was and perhaps to some, is still. Meant as no more a slight to either than their seemingly waned cultural irreverence; to the world Adele is as if that Susan Boyle audition leapt off the screen and lived the life it was meant to.

6/10 TPAB for white wine moms

3.5, some classics on here but it dragged.

Some good tracks, digestible by anyone

Solid album. I personally think 30 is a better album.

Turns out I've heard almost all of these songs and tbh the kinda hit from a sentimental standpoint. When this record came out, you couldn't sneeze without hitting a song from this record.

Her voice is outstanding. The hits are better than I remember. Would I listen to this album on my own? Probably not. Will I put a few bangers on playlists? Yes.

I can’t tell if I like this because it’s good or if I just recognize every song on here and I like listening to music I’m familiar with. I think Adele is great and can’t deny her talent.

Good singer. Alright album

Bland songs. Nice voice. This didn't move the needle for me.

A humble and funny artist with a unique soulful voice but as an album... You couldn't give it less than a 3, you couldn't give it more than a 3 - so I guess it's a 3?

Adèle. Not a huge fan but I can listen to her in small doses.

theres a lot to like, but not a lot to love

Much better production on this album than on the last Adele album. Still not big fan of her songs though. I heard actual instruments this time so, that was a big plus. If her albums are improving with release, maybe some of her songs will be on my playlist the next time I get an Adele album randomly assigned to me.

blend. some hit songs be hitting tho.

Put this on, grab your wine, chocolates and Bridget Jones paperback, and let the cats wonder why you're crying again

This is the album I first heard Adele, or should I say paid attention. What a talent.

Really feels like white bread to me. Sure you can eat it by itself, but in its current state it just kind of feels bland. If I had absolutely NOTHING else to eat it would work, but I wouldn’t be too happy with it.

The bops hit. Her voice is incredible. But the rest of the tracks are so boring.

Rolling in the Deep is one of *the* great pop songs. Otherwise, so-so

#503. Solid. 3/5: acceptable

50% Killer, 50% filler.

7/10

"Rolling in the Deep" and "Rumour Has It" go hard as fuck and then it becomes nothing but intolerable sad-girl-with-a-piano music. The cover of "Lovesong" is OK.

I guess if I want to sit in my room and drown in melancholy thoughts all day, then this album will fit the bill. The songs are beautiful, but they’re all about one thing. I like albums that play on a wide variety of emotions. This is too much blubbering.

The singles on this Album are fantastic. The rest are a collection of incredibly boring ballads.

Three fantastic songs, the rest is fine. It’s not really my taste to be honest, but I can appreciate the beauty and emotion of her voice

pretty dull sometimes but i like it more than i don’t

Did we really need multiple Adele albums? Good voice, but samey music

Incradible voice, incredible production, but there's just too much ballads and they don't always have a lot to offer. At least for me.

Lovely album. I'm not a fan, but the production and the voice are objectively beautiful. It made quite the impression back then!

Piano/vocal oriented contemporary adult music is really not my kind of music, but I must admit this one has something special. I remember a few of these songs playing over and over on the radio, and singer covering them in every TV shows. It's for sure a huge phenomenon of the last decade.

Good album...not my daily vibe

I liked her voice on some songs. Overall, this is not alluring enough to revisit.

For those who like Adele I can see why they think this is a great album. I’m not one of those; for some reason I never liked Adele. Of the songs on this album, the ones that were radio hits are not as good as some of the others in my opinion. Anyway, it was ok. Three stars.

Adele seemed much older than 21 to me at the time this came out, even though I was well aware of her age (which is indeed the same as my age). I didn't like 'Chasing Pavements', the single from her earlier album (too Norah Jonesy), but this is a big upgrade for me -- a quintessential "pop" album. Pretty catchy songs, solid voice, heavy media saturation. Highlights: 'Rumour Has It', 'Set Fire to the Rain', 'He Won't Go', 'Someone Like You' Lowlights: 'Take It All' (bit of a snoozefest), 'Lovesong' (hard to win me over with a cover, especially a way-smooth-jazzier one)

She can sing. Needs more instruments to hold my attention though.

Great voice. But I don't really like her music. It's ok, the singing is great, but the songs are nothing special.

Well well well it's Adele. Nothing unexpected here.

Impressive voice and inspired songs but I think it is not my favorite style of music.

Pleasant enough. She has a fine voice. Some of the arrangements are very predictable, almost formulaic. It lacks emotion at times. She hits all the right notes but I can't help thinking someone in the studio needed to say, "one more time with feeling". I can understand how it became very popular. Not really my thing. 3/5.

Listened Before? N I feel like I've heard most of the songs here before - not because I have, but because her song structures are so similar over the years. She has a great voice. If her hits weren't so overplayed I'd probably be infatuated - but alas they are and I'm over it. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Someone Like You

Incredible voice and touching lyrics but not a heartbroken young lady so there’s only so much I can relate with. Would love to hear her live some day.

Billions of Spotify plays can't be wrong! Slightly more exciting than the standard adult-contempo fare.

I don’t think I can rate it any higher by virtue of being alive in the UK in the 2010s and hearing it everywhere. BUT the fact that she’s only 21 here and had already put herself up there with the greatest vocalists of all time is crazy. Big up my West Norwood kween, much imitated and never surpassed. Favourite Tracks: Someone Like You, He Won’t Leave Least Fav Track: Set Fire to the Rain

Kinda fun but overplayed

Sounds good but not my genre

She has great range and there are several charting hits here. To me, a lot of her music sounds the same. I can’t deny she has global appeal to a large group of people and she made quite a splash at such a young age. Not a preferred sound for me but I appreciate the talent. 3.5/5

Adele has a great voice and there are some bangers on here, but the album didn’t feel that exciting to me.

I was a little surprised to see Adele make the list. Not for lack of talent of course, but because I just didn't know that she had a back catalogue of good songs. Being ignorant of her outside of her hits, I was honestly kind of assuming that other than, say, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Set Fire to the Rain," that the rest of the album would be kind of run of the mill pop. And in some ways, it was. But I think her talent alone lifts it above just your average vocal pop record. She has a versatile voice, one that could tackle pop ballads, jazz, and probably even the blues. So this kind of voice belting out these (mostly) pop ballads is a treat in and of itself. It actually almost feels a little too normal. She's been around for long enough at this point that we've all gotten over her immense talent and probably take it as normal now. However, her talent, massive though it obviously is, does not change this from being a pretty standard pop record. I love that it uses exclusively arrangements of real instruments, played by real people in a studio. That's one of my favorite things about this record, honestly. Too many pop records rely on other means of instrumentation. Not this one. Adele's voice wouldn't work well outside of this context, so it makes sense. But the songs still follow a similar structure and pattern to other pop songs of their day. There isn't much here to sink your teeth into here. But this is a very good example of what this is - a vocal pop record. It does a great job of showing off the center of attention. But it didn't quite do it for me. Three stars. Standout Tracks: Rolling in the Deep, Rumour Has It, Set Fire to the Rain, I'll Be Waiting

++: Rolling in the Deep, Rumour Has It, I'll Be Waiting +: Set Fire to the Rain, He Won't Go, One and Only, Lovesong +-: Turning Tables, Don't You Remember, Take It All, Someone like You 6,4/10

Didn't like this as much as the other Adele we got, but still think she's cool. 3

Well produced, good voice, tasteful arrangements, southern soul influenced. It starts fairly strong and there are moments in some of the songs but it’s ultimately relative bland, inoffensive dinner party piano ballads.

Great lyrics and space in the songs. Powerful story behind take it all

I'll be waiting was prob the best one. Overall easy to listen to but somewhat cringe/too meemy. Eh, pop is fine i guess. At least she can sing.

p i p e s one and only rumor has it rolling in the deep set fire to the rain 3(.5)?/5

Adele has a great voice. The songs are beautifully arranged. When I heard Adele for the first time, her voice and music seemed familiar from the old days. It sounds like music from the late 50s or early 60s, the kind that was probably never played and only exists in my memory. But this pleasant pop is like popcorn, just too sweet at some point. It lacks the intellectual hook that makes me want to listen to the album again and again. 3/5

I was going to deride this as joyless, but, in this exercises ongoing efforts to make me a better person, I’m only going to say that I don’t find my joy in Adele’s music. I think my dislike is mostly for this sort of voice-forward anthemic style of ballideering that seems empty if one isn’t in for wallowing or wants some instrumental joy stimulus beyond ‘very competent’. Big voice, but I don’t feel it. While that’s maybe on me, it’s a three

Adele is Adele

6/10 The amount of hits on one album is impressive, but it does get stale quickly. Highlights: Set Fire to the Rain Rolling in the Deep Rumour has It Lovesong (The original is better though)

Definitely a 3* for the cultural impact of the album. She is one of the most iconic artists of her generation. Because of that however, I expected more. Beautiful voice and the torch songs shine brightly but the rest of the album feels like it needs to pick up the pace because there is pace missiny

Definitely her best from a song standpoint, and even so. Obviously her voice has a lot of power, but she employs the same vocal tricks over and over, and it gets wearing.

Adele is clearly very skilled, but it's just not my sort of thing. The singles are nice enough, the album tracks are okay and the cover of The Cure just makes me want to listen to The Cure.

The 4 hits are better than I remember. Set Fire to the Rain is pretty great as far as pop songs go. Most of the other songs didn’t interest me at all, but she has a powerful voice

Turns out there’s only so much maudlin I can take.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Still, Adele's voice grates on my nerves after a few tunes. But the songwriting is pretty decent.

Didn't basically every single off this get released as a single? It's alright, one for the mums. Low 3

Some bangers with some filler

Fav song: Lovesong It's ok. The songs are well written and very well performed but I can't help but feel like it's playing it a bit safe with the production and arrangements - very basic ballads with little else to hook into your brain. Still, love that the Cure cover.

Adele uses strong vocals to describe love and strength in her album 21. It is a good album but not life changing for me unfortunately

Lots of huge songs on here

3.5

Adele's voice is amazing and this is one of her better albums for sure. For me being a non-pop fan, I did enjoy this listen and Someone Like You is an absolute classic. Might be the highest rating that a modern pop album receives on this journey 6/10

Never listened to an Adele album, although there were obviously songs on it that I had heard before. And she’s clearly got a fine voice and the music is technically very sound. Possibly too technical. I’m sure this is a hit with any algorithms it encounters and I can see why so many people bought it. But it left me a little cold, despite the voice. Undoubtedly played at weddings. Maybe that’s what leaves me cold. It’s just too engineered to hit that demographic. And I’m sure chat gpt likes it as well. I might listen again. But not regularly.

Overexposed... and yet somehow ten years old and a classic. This will be the Enya of our generation, and I mean that specifically because it was a CD that was purchased by legions of moms. A starbucks CD released in a post starbuck CD world.

Girl can seriously freaking sing. The hits are very well written songs and some of the album cuts are pretty good too. The Cure cover was a fun surprise.

This was alright. Can't believe there are so many hits on this album, but those were really the only songs that did anything for me. Probably not one I will come back to.

Her voice is undeniably amazing. It's also really impressive to come out with an album like this at such a young age. With that said, this kind of music just isn't for me.

The thing is, Adele has a beautiful voice and a lot of the songs were deservedly big hits. It’s just a shame that this feels a bit toothless. It’s well produced but it feels like a very standard pop album

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Like the film Titanic this is not the best album ever made but sold an awful lot of copies. Why? Probably because it hits that sweet spot of appealing to the masses perfectly: brilliant singer, universal themes in the lyrics and decent enough tunes which use inoffensive sound palettes. The Rick Rubin produced songs sound the best and I’m surprised that Adele doesn’t seemed to have worked with him again. He strips away some unnecessary layers to create a much cleaner sound. Also, to the person who took this album off the list and left Steve Earle on: whilst 21 isn’t Dark Side of The Moon or Abbey road I don’t hear Year 7 bands playing ‘Little Rock n Roller’ or hear ‘Guitar Town’ being sung at a karaoke or open mic night whereas ‘Rolling In The Deep’ and ‘Someone Like You’ are absolute staples of pop culture. Maybe deep in the heart of Americana Steve Earle is their Adele but not in my world so surely 21 still deserves a place on the list? Got to admit that Someone Like You hits a lot harder when you’re listening at home alone but I didn’t cry at the end of Titanic either…

Not keen on the ballady stuff, but the upbeat tracks like rolling in the deep are exceptionally polished pop songs. I’d always assumed Rumour Has It was a cover of a 60’s Motown single!

As Verity's favourite artist, I have listened to this album multiple times. First half is much stronger than the second, some good times and there is no doubting the vocal talent.

Adele is SO uneven. When she hits, she really hits (Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain) but when she misses and dials up the Celine-level emotion, it just tips very quickly into cringe-town (Turning Tables and the gag-fest of Don't You Remember.)

mainstream

Great voice, great lyrics. Definitely a good album...it's just sad and heartbreaky sooo 3 stars from me because I can't do 3.5

Shes an amazing singer and the album is produced to perfection, but none of the songs are particularly interesting. I liked Lovesong the most, but I think there are many more singer songwriter albums on this list. I could compare it to Amy’s album but won’t.

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I kind of always discounted Adele because of all the hype surrounding her, while still knowing she was an impressive vocalist. This is the first time I have listened to one of her albums, and it was quite enjoyable. I usually avoid "the new hotness that everyone is talking about" due to my (possibly misconceived) notion that what's popular is generic and created to be palatable to the masses, and therefore a bit watered down and vague. This album, to me, really doesn't make me change my mind about that type of music, but I really did have fun listening to this album. 3.5 stars

this had some great songs, just some nice bangers

Apart from the popular songs, nothing really that interesting.

Idc that this is generic pop, she has something special. Her voice is so beautiful, and the songs that hit, hit. Some songs were unfortunately pretty boring, it was really all or nothing for me lmfao. Still, ily Adele. Fav Songs: Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain, Lovesong

Great voice… ok album.

Some good tunes, bit slow for me at times

I feel like one ballad per album is enough, this one has like five of them. There's a couple great, if not overplayed songs and obviously her voice is powerful, but the slow, methodical pace of the album makes it kind of exhausting

Mid

wasn’t too big of a fan but amazing voice

Almost none of these songs are small. The production in amongst all of them is huge - I would actually be very interested in some versions with just voice and guitar, looks the penultimate Hiding My Heart. Grandiose as it is, it does still feel personal and real. Adele does have an amazing voice for sure, and this album was impactful and popular enough to include in this list.

Ok, so Adele is a good singer, but I have a few problems with this album. 1. All of the hits are overplayed and I cannot stand them anymore 2. Rumour has it is really annoying, and the chorus makes me mad 3. I am not a fan of pop music I really didn't expect a cover of The Cure, but that was nice (check out their new album it's great). That being said this is some of the best pop music out there. High 3.

Feel free to take this review with a grain of salt, because I just really didn't feel like finishing this album. I really, on some fundamental level, do not understand anyone who thinks this album is full of emotion? It's intricately produced, and Adele can definitely belt. But that's the exact problem. It sounds like she ran these songs back until she did everything absolutely "perfectly" and then they further polished that. Her cover of Lovesong is a great example. Adele sounds like she's really focused on her technique. Make sure to expand the stomach, keep your airway aligned, squeeze so you keep the perfect amount of air flowing. Every once in a while, her voice hitches, but that sounds more like damage than emotion. Robert Smith, meanwhile, sounds like he's struggling to be vulnerable and open up to a partner. He also sounds so sad he can barely move his mouth to sing the song. He's obviously not as good of a singer as Adele, but he also sounds like he's actually feeling the song rather than feeling how well he's singing. It sounds like he recorded a call to his wife where he revealed a tiny, fragile part of his soul, and it just happened to be melodic. I'll still give it a 3, because it's certainly competent. But that's all it is. It's like a paint by numbers you give a child to learn how to do art, and they just graduated to copying it without the numbers.

some hits and some passable filler with the lens of a once-in-a-lifetime voice

mid

A great voice that absolutely does not move me in any way. Doesn't help that being British, we get bombarded with her whenever she releases new music, I've heard every single from this album way more than I would ever want to.

She has a great voice and there’s real soul in her singing, I’m just not the biggest fan. It’s not a bad album though.

Definitivamente não é do meu gosto, mas não é um álbum ruim. Tem algumas faixas bem famosas, como "Rolling in the Deep", "Set Fire to the Rain" e "Someone Like You" que, novamente, podem ser boas músicas, mas não me agradam muito. Entretanto, uma música em específico me chamou atenção: faixa 6, "He Won't Go". Genuinamente gostei dessa música e foi uma grata surpresa. Acho que um grande destaque é a voz da Adele. Voz muito imponente e inegavelmente de muita qualidade.

Decent

i can’t believe she was 21 when she released this, she should’ve been at the club 3.5

I’ve never been a huge Adele fan, but I’m surprised this album got cut from the list. There’s so many hits from this album and at the time, felt like a really nice divergence from the other pop hits (Katy Perry’s Firework, Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger). Favorite song: He Won’t Go Least favorite: Turning Tables Knew before? Just the hits.

Pretty good

This is what I think of when I think Adult Contemporary Radio or Lite Radio. Most of these songs were hits on this formats. Some of these songs sound like they are 20, 30, 30 years older than they are and for that she loses a star. With a voice like that and to not have your own personal sound is a shame. Most are good, some are God awful (I'm looking at you Don't You Remember). I'm glad I listened. I wouldn't seek this record out myself though

Feel pretty much the same about this as I did about the last Adele album. I can see the appeal, the songs are good, she’s talented, I didn’t mind listening, but it’s not really my thing

Decent: Best: Set fire to the rain Worst: He wont go New add: Dont you remember

What a voice... But 45+ minutes of it does start to grate a bit

Easy music to listen to.

SHE GOT PIPES DAMN Music I can recognize is good, but not something i'm going to choose to listen to on my playlists.

Ihan ok poppia, on parempaakin kuultu. Balladit ihan kivoja ja isoimmat hitit tietenkin kovia. Parhaat: Set Fire To The Rain, Rolling In The Deep, Someone Like You, Turning Tables

My mom has this CD

Started to lose me towards the end with the low energy back half but a good album regardless. 3/5

This is fine.

Decent album. Good voice and mostly mellow melodies. I'm not much of a mellow music person, so while I appreciated the music, an entire album got a bit boring after a while. But still decent music.

Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You are decent, but I did not need to listen to over 40 minutes of break-up music today. She’s got an incredible voice; it’s a shame the music isn’t of the same quality.

Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain, and Someone Like You = 3 big tunes. Potentially 5 stars. The rest of the album is pretty poor, more like 2 stars. Overall it's getting a 3.

There is a very obvious gulf in the quality of the singles vs the rest of the tracks. However the performances and the studio production are both consistently excellent.

I don’t mind a bit of blue-eyed soul but contemporary easy listening is not a genre I have on high rotation. Some pretty tracks nonetheless.

Quite bland and lacking variation, though I was pleasantly surprised to hear a cover of a song by The Cure on there.

Great vocals but there really isn't much interesting here, 3

I like Adele; I don’t love Adele. I get why Adele is included on this list – and I understand specifically why 21 is here (although justice for 19 > 25) – and I think it’s fair to say that the reasoning is much deeper than her insane sales numbers. Adele, specifically during this era, was the last of the Turn of the Century Revivalists™, following in the wake of Norah Jones, Joss Stone, Duffy, and, most obviously, Amy Winehouse. She also filled a gap in the Adult Contemporary market, a chart that was largely left vacant following Celine Dion’s crescendo in the early 2000s, as the former group of women mostly had crossover pop appeal (potentially thanks to the Millennials who wore business casual to the club, although even the twee-est of us were shopping on ModCloth, so, yeah, we liked a lot of Mom Music™ for some reason). I recently was reading a Reddit thread about how Lady Gaga’s rise killed this blue-eyed soul revival, with Adele being the sole exception, though that line of thought was never expanded upon in the comments below. Listening to 21, I think the reason this still broke through at the time is obvious: good soul songs with a beat. The best parts about this album – the parts you remember fondly and the parts that got it to fit in with the electro-pop charts of 2011 – are all the songs that have an actual groove, an actual rhythm, and feel most like an Amy Winehouse or old Dusty Springfield song, or hell, even a non-trip-hop Everything But the Girl or Dido! “Rolling in the Deep,” “Rumor Has It,” “He Won’t Go,” and “I’ll Be Waiting” all shine, and they’re all very intricately written. The other thing that stands out about 21 is how well-produced it is, and how the details and flourishes feel, well, essential. This benefits songs that lack a beat, like “Turning Tables” and “Don’t You Remember,” where the pianos feel rhythmic and Adele’s melodies have a bounce to them. All these songs are appealing because they aren’t *just* ballads for Moms to cry to in their minivans, but they also aren’t niche music critic addiction tales, either. It takes the good elements of 19 and adds shine onto an already great package. The problem is, this is only about 50% of the album. The other half is exactly what you think about when you think about Adele and roll your eyes. It’s the ballads. It’s the “Set Fire to the Rain” and the “Take It All” and the “Someone Like You” and everything else in between that’s so forgettable that I don’t even care to even mention it. It’s by and large every track reduced by Rick Rubin, and those stripped-down reductions are noticeable and also for the worst. Sure, they may have been what catapulted Adele to be a superstar (everyone likes a residency-type), but it also sucks the soul out of this record. Those instrumental backing band details are gone on these tracks. The rhythmic bounce is nonexistent. Adele belts, but she doesn’t flow. And what was once sincere songwriting and interesting composition becomes belted vocals with no true purpose. These ballads are what Adele becomes, because these songs sold to everyone, including your grandmother, but I think it was for the worse. In practice, they made Adele less interesting, and now, 2 albums out with a third not on the horizon any time soon, I’d argue it was a double-edged sword that may have stunted her longevity, and frankly, any chance at a legacy. That double-edged sword is clear on 21, an album that I could cut in half evenly. On one hand, a bouncy, soulful, intricately-crafted Adult Contemporary classic deserving of praise, especially in a genre that rarely gets respected because critics hate schmaltz; on the other hand, a half dozen ballads given little care by the world’s worst minimalist that sold well and appealed to everyone on earth, but didn’t actually win anyone over. I think it’s important to note the value of both those traits in 21, but there’s also something frustrating about this fact that makes it simultaneously a frustrating listen as you realize what Adele could have been, and a bland one as you listen to what she would become.

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7/10 Much better than the other Adele album I have listened to. I found that one a little boring and reliant on her great voice. This one had bigger production, less subtle yes, but more interesting. Voice was good from the beginning, much more propulsive music. More songs I was familiar with than I knew. Best: Rolljng in the Deep

Like with Streisand and a few others, I love her voice, for about three songs. Then it becomes tiresome.

I like some of Adele's work. My favourite of her's being "Skyfall" but that song isn't on "21". I think "Rolling in the Deep" and "Set Fire to the Rain" are the best tracks. The other songs weren't memorable or interesting. In conclusion, this album is alright but a bit bland. I'll give "21" 3 stars.

At first I was like 🙄 not as good as I remember and then don’t you remember came on

Surprenament je pense que j'ai préféré 25 à celui-ci. J'ai bien aimé en général, mais les compositions perdaient en fraicheur au fur et à mesure que l'album avançait. En plus, la reprise de Lovesong n'est vraiment pas très bonne. Il y a toujours l'aspect aussi que la voix d'Adele finit par me tanner à la longue. 7/10

Hvis der var blevet skåret et nummer eller 3 kunne vi sagtens have en 4/5 situation men jeg synes den bliver for monoton. Slet ikke behov for det Cure cover. Fantastisk sidste nummer dog

3.5/5

He Won't Go is the best song on the record. Ill Be Waiting is another standout. The album tracks are generally more interesting than the big singles. Big issue is that it's not that interesting. Ryan Tedder songs sound like Ryan Tedder songs. The happier sounding songs are better than the low energy big vocals slow songs. All these album lists keep trying to convince me this is one of those great albums, but it's okay.

I was 21 when this was first released, so obviously it left an indelible mark on my psyche. That being said, I haven't actually listened to the full album in probably close to 10 years and it doesn't really hold up as well as I was going it would. The big hits are still fantastic, "Rolling in the Deep", "Set Fire to the Rain", "Rumour Has It" and "Someone Like You" are all powerhouses. But all the songs in between them just feel lacking anymore. I do still enjoy her cover of "Lovesong". So a 3 rating. It's enjoyable enough that I'll listen to it again, but it didn't overly impress me, even with the nostalgia factor.

Whinge

I don't like Adele

my issue with ‘21’ and more widely with adele is that it fails to evoke any emotion in me. i don’t find the songs particularly inspiring, and the lyrics a bit boring. having said this, i can appreciate a good vocalist, and it is undeniable that adele has an incredible voice and can really belt when she wants to. i can see that if you like this type of song, the album would be perfect for you, but it’s just not fully my bag.

Ah here we go again. This list loves British artists for some reason, huh? Only kidding, Adele is a global treasure at this point. I've never been a fan save for a few singles, most of which appear on this album. This is an obvious inclusion on this list, I can't deny that, but for me it's nothing to write home about. Rolling in the Deep, Rumour Has It, Set Fire to the Rain, and Someone Like You flooded the airwaves back in the day and it was unavoidable. Some of them are catchy and show someone mastering their vocal skills while lamenting past relationships.

Nice voice, passionate, and heartbreaking. Fave: Set Fire to the Rain

Hmmm, it's all very competently done, but none of it really connects with me. I'm glad my media bubble had become pretty hardened by 2011 because if I was forced to listen to some of these tracks repeatedly I suspect I'd grow to hate them, but as it is, I feel pretty neutral about em. Fave track - uh, "Someone Like You" maybe? I was gonna say "Rumour Has It" as it stood out on these listens, but I suspect more repetitions and it'd start to annoy me...

The big hits off this were certainly inescapable back in the early 2010s, but this is the first time I listened to the album proper. There's maybe one ballad too many but overall I'd say it's pretty great for it's genre. I'll Be Waiting is an absolute banger. I am *baffled* as to how it's the least popular song by far according to Spotify. I am, however, deducting an entire point for the completely uninspired and unnecessary cover of The Cure's Lovesong. It's already been covered to death, the pedestrian bossanova accompaniment adds nothing, and it's even missing the biggest melodic hook from the song.

Surprised how many of the songs I knew from the Album. But of course they were playing everywhere by the time, in my mid twenties. Time is passing by so fast. I love Rolling in the Deep.

My first modern pop record on here. Some huge hits on this album but can't say I've ever listened through it. Apparently this is the world's best-selling album of the 21st century, and the top-performing album in US chart history?? :wow: Big hits on here: Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to the Rain, Someone Like You. Definitely the first album I've listened to on YTM that has tracks with over a billion plays! Rumour Has It: Like this one. got a fun, stomp & clap style. She has a real classic, old-fashioned style of singing that can be really enjoyable. You could believe this one came out in the 60s. As these tracks go on, honestly the way she sings almost hurts my throat listening, I don't understand how she sustains that. Some forgettable tracks here, some nice piano ballads mixed in. I'll be Waiting has some fun exciting instrumentation. Prob my favorite so far. There's a cover of The Cure's Lovesong on here?? It works! In sum: An incredibly powerful voice, a hugely impactful album, some fun karaoke tracks, but not exactly my style, and I wouldn't seek it out to listen again. And frankly the way she sings in that belting style on this album is painful for me to listen to more than one song in a row. 3/5

Amazing voice, love the songs with blues styling

An amazing singer, some of the songs are fantastic. But it does get a bit boring, a lot of the songs are very similar, but this could be down to me not clicking with this album, I can understand why some people would regard this as a masterpiece and would not argue with them if they told me that! I'll be waiting I found it as a personal highlight, could imagine Dusty Springfield or Janis Joplin singing this! But again, that voice is just amazing!

Amazing voice, some beautiful songs, gets a bit meh away from the hits

Ok.

Ik heb een keer eerder Adele gehad in deze lijst. Toen gaf ik een 4. Ik ga nu iets lager geven. Eén Adele album was genoeg voor me. Nu begint het me iets teveel als strijkmuziek te klinken voor huisvrouwen zonder eigen smaak. Misschien heb ik een deel van dit album te vaak op de radio gehoord. Het andere album was ook wat beter wat mij betreft.

Some absolute belters in here. Rolling in the Deep is a cracking opening song.

Great songs great production and great singing, makes for easy listening but not much more

Gave 25 a 4. Might have been a bit aggressive at the time. I still think Adele is one of if not the greatest female singers of the last 50 years. This one got a bit overplayed, but has some mister hits on it. Gotta dial it back a notch but still a 3.75.

This album was everywhere. Giant hits and tons upon tons of album sales. Adele has a great voice, though sometimes shows off too much. The singles are mostly killer, some great deep cuts too but also some songs that aren't that interesting or memorable. It's a good record

meh

Damn, some pipes on Adele. Okay, so I’m a hater, sop-pop is garbage, no one can change my mind. I thought this list was made in 2005 so was surprised to see Adele’s mug staring into my soul first thing in the morning. That’s my take anyway, but 50,000,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong. This album and these songs were on everyone’s ears and everyone’s mouths growing up, a massive impact on the charts gan dabht. I didn’t absolutely hate it, just does nothing. The backing music in the finale, The Sweetest Devotion, was pretty sweet. A Million Years Ago

I love the first track (Rolling in the Deep). The rest of the album is OK. 2.5 stars, rounded up for the first one

Doesn't matter whether or not she can sing — her music is overbearing (and boring at times), so that's that.

She's really good.... but is she doing something new here? I can't tell. It's not really my style.

Adele’s voice is enough to make this pleasant to listen to but I do just think her music is pretty boring I’m sorry… best song rumor has it worst song someone like you

Fine

Adele is at her best when it's just her and a piano. It's like they couldn't decide if they wanted to do that or have a lot of production behind her so they did both. the overly produced ones drown out her voice.

Diva Jams.

I burned someone's copy of this CD for my car when it came out, I think from my sister. Adele has a powerhouse of a voice, and songs like Someone Like You and Rolling in the Deep deserve the popularity they still have to this day. But...the songs outside of the hits are proper boring at times. Particularly the cover of Lovesong, which I'd honestly forgotten about, probably because I usually skipped most of the CD and just practiced my car karaoke skills to the hits. Hopefully I forget about it again. 3 stars because of the classics.

I forgot I like the later cuts. It sounds dated now.

First time listening to Adele. Have the feeling this album would really benefit from being a big fan of 19. Or at least listened to it. It's nice work, nothing spectacular for me.

It's not a bad album. I just don't care for Adele that much, to be honest. To my ears it's highly produced pop music that isn't very interesting.

Amazing voice. Not my cup of tea though.

The individual songs are worthy of 4 stars but they all sound so similar to me that I can only give 3 stars or C+.

A voice magnetic, Drawing you deeper, deeper Into pop magic

Fav: Someone Like You Least Fav: He Won’t Go

Absolutely love her voice with the tunes are not very interesting to me beyond the hits

Le lle lle releii

Okay, this had every right to be so obscenely successful, all things considered, past tense, 2011. I hear that it's good. Along the trajectory of Norah Jones' and Amy Whinehouse' music. Etc. pp. Soul Pop, at its most serviceable. But by the 4th song, I've also had enough. Rolling in the Deep is a great start, Set Fire to the Rain sometimes creeps in my ear and stays there for a while, which I'm okay with, Lovesong is neat, (that's right, no mention of Someone Like You) but hey: turns out, \"21\" is one of the 77 Albums That You Don't Really Need To Hear Now Before You Die and I might tick the 'didn't listen' tomorrow. Because pffff.

Pretty good. The hits were the best, but the others weren't just fillers. Pleased to hear a variety of moods and tempos.

Adele showing she has an amazing voice but dammit she needs better songs to apply it to. Rolling in the Deep will be a personal favorite, its unfortunate the rest of her catalogue doesnt match. Rumor Has It and Set Fire to the Rain dont reach the same high, and Someone Like You is a clear example of sounding great but the song being trash garbage. The rest is just ok.

I was ready to hate it at worst or be indifferent about it at best. I live in a tight enough music bubble that I never ever heard a song from her (or none that I could identify as being from her) and I was expecting way worst seing her popularity. And... I must say she's got a great voice (and pretty well-used) and the music backing her is decent. I can't say I'll listen to her again willingly, but it was not unpleasant.

She has a great voice but the songs are forgettable.

zeer sterke vocals grote hits die blijven hangen begin van album is sterker dan tweede helft, kwaliteit zwakt klein beetje af 3,5/5

All the songs about infidelity you can stand!

Fine. I’m glad others have found joy in this album, but this album did not inspire similar feelings in me. Rolling In The Deep is a great song but nothing else grabbed on here.

adele has one song and one vocal and musical style. she does it well, but a full album of the same song can get tiring.

It's actually pretty amazing how despite I've never sought this album out, I have heard pretty much this entire album front to back just going about day to day life. Normally you hear one or two singles of a popular artist's album thanks to radio and media and the rest is a mystery. But I think I have heard every song on here at least once (some a lot more than once), which just goes to show how huge this album was and Adele is. Her beautiful voice really doesn't need any more introduction. While I didn't love anything here, I completely see the merit and praise this album gets, and I'll return to these tracks every now and then (provided they will probably find me first)

Great voice, liked several songs, but there was some filler. The Cure cover could have been better

Pretty good. Great vocals, but with the exception of the singles, the songs have very basic backing instruments.

I'll always be amazed by the amount of power she packs in her voice. Favorite track: Set Fire to the Rain

Three great singles and a neat The Cure cover. 3.5/5.

At the time Somebody like you sounded like the best song ever. Today this album feels boring, sorry Adele

going in to listening to this album, i had only heard the four singles. i didn't know if we were going to get more songs along the lines of "Rumour Has It" / "Rolling In The Deep" or "Set Fire to the Rain" / "Someone Like You" and that was going to weigh my opinion one way or the other. almost every other song on the album was in the latter category of boring love ballads, unfortunately. I really, really dislike "Set Fire to the Rain" in particular, so it was quite slog. this kind of soaring love balladry is so intensely boring. The album was a 2.5, but I'm feeling *generous* when I round it up to a 3 for the first two tracks.

Enjoyed it when it came out, enjoyed it again

Adele is a brilliant singer, but the album itself is not the most mind blowing thing in the world. There are some enjoyable hits on here though. It is just simple, straightforward music to listen to.

Way better than I expected, but that's not saying an awful lot