21

Pop, but good. Excellent vocals.

Adele is a force! I appreciate any artist that includes covers.

Amazing voice and music

Amazing, just simply amazing. This album shows off Adele's vocal talent and the songwriting is sublime. Enjoyed every second of the album.

raw emotion, beautiful vocals, wondrous production. literal music heaven. adele’s best album, and for sure one of the best albums of all time. highlights: EVERY. TRACK.

I love this album, I've listened to it 100s of times.

What can one say? This has been a favourite of mine for some time now. It's crazy to think she was only 21 when this was recorded with so many absolute bangers. Many songs of this are in my regular rotation and it's a pleasure to listen to the album in full again since there are a few more songs I've forgotten about.

Adele really isn't my favorite artist but this album is undeniable in its power. Both her talents and also the sheer force that these songs shocked the airwaves with. Basically every single one of these songs was a hit radio single and all the white girls in college were belting them out every chance they got. Also it's impressive to hear a voice like that coming out of a ginger.

Adele really came into her own with this album.

STAAAHHPP. This album is fucking flawless.

5 Love this Have heard this shit so incredibly many times, but still it just works.

Pour ceux qui ne seraient pas encore au courant, je suis extrêmement proche de Robert. Je n'ai de ce fait aucun mal à lui dire très franchement le fond de ma pensée quand les choses ne tournent pas comme j'aimerais qu'elles tournent. C'est pour cette raison que le jour où j'ai appris que celui-ci avait retiré Adele de son grimoire d'une édition à l'autre, je me rendis à son domicile, furax comme un lièvre. Je toquai douze fois à la porte, très bruyamment. Quelques secondes plus tard, j'entendis son fils Mike Ladd demander avec sa voix aiguë : "C'est qui ? Papa m'a dit de pas ouvrir aux gens que je connais pas..." Je continuai de frapper sans répondre jusqu'à ce que le bambin ouvre. Je le poussai alors violemment contre le mur et allai trouver Robert pour lui en coller une belle.

Le retrait de la liste des 1001 d'Adele est largement compréhensible. On ne peut la comparer à Sepultura, Ice Cube, Mike Ladd ou encore aux cinq albums de Tom Waits. L'album 21 est très sympa attention, mais il faut savoir raison garder, peut-être dans quelques années une fois sa discographie plus solide, Adele pourra esperer réaliser avec les mastodontes présents dans cette liste magnifique concoctée par Robert.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Rolling in the deep, Rumor has it, Turning tables, Set fire to the rain, He won’t go, Someone like you

gotta love adele this is full of bangers

Different album, but Stevie Wonder must be pissed!! Anyway, so going into this I thought I just listen to it the background while getting ready for the next day, well prepared to give it a 4 because everyone knows this is a great album. I was even considering a 3 just because I had heard is so much and was possibly sick of it. But, it is a great album and actually hooked. I began to appreciate what a story it tells. Will definitely go back.

Jodidamente brillante. Una joya en bruto y de los mejores discos de los 10

Fantastic album - wide variety of soulful, emotive songwriting and Adele's vocal performance is wonderful.

9/10. This had a lot of rather good songs on it, that all sound a lot better after a few years of not having listened to the radio.

Excellent. 9/10

Every song is perfect.

Adele at her best!

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Amazing Album from start to finish, not my mood but I respect it

I love every song!

esse eu conheço e gosto rsrsrs se bem que (polêmica?) lembro de gostar mais do 19...?

Such a beautiful voice. Such an amazing songwriter. Top-notch album.

Banger after banger!

Maravilhoso, um dos álbuns preferidos da minha vida. Adele extraordinária.

Discazo "mainstream" que abría casi insuperablemente, dentro de su/s género/s la década de 2010. Me gusta de inicio a fin, con cover de The Cure, y "Set Fire to the Rain" es una de mis baladas pop en inglés favoritas, creo. 10/10

Classic

Really good album. Excellent vocals and song writing

Still surprised how great Adele’s Vocals and catchy her tunes are! Had been sleeping on Turning Tables l

This is so nostalgic for me. I think it has 1 or 2 filler songs that stops it from being a 5. Its a very high 4.

Not bad

es ist nicht amy winehouse und es ist nicht so mein Geschmack, aber die lieder, die ich eh schon kannte, machen mir ohrwürmer

Three songs sitting around 2.5 billion Spotify streams is WILD.

Another album that was a hit for a reason. “Rolling in the Deep” is a great song. Adele’s voice is of course excellent and the pulsing beat adds to the song. Great start to the album. Feel like Adele is stomping after the idiot who messed with her heart. Beat keeps going on “Rumor Has It.” I bebopped to that one also, until I had to seat 2/3 s way through the song. Her slower songs are good also since she has that voice, but really I’m drawn to the percussive numbers. So for me, it starts off strong, and the rest I could pretty much take or leave. “I’ll Be Waiting” picks it up toward the end. The simplicity of the starting music worked for“One and Only” - a good slow dance number, with some crooning backup singing. Her Cure cover delivers. The piano is a lovely background for “Someone Like You.” I can imagine a country singer picking up “I Found a Boy.” Overall, a great album. My personal preference would have been some more of the beat, but it probably would have messed up her album concept / flow.

Good voice but wouldn’t seek the album out

Lots of great songs. Very solid.

so many hits she's got a gr8 voice

#111 It's hard to understate just how great of a pop song Rolling In The Deep is. Easy to see how this was her breakout album. Maybe the most impactful mainstream pop album of the 2010s. Highlights: Rolling In The Deep, Lovesong

fire someone like you still hits 15 years later

Pretty crazy she was only 21 when this album was released. Love Adele’s voice, though her music doesn’t always do much for me. But this is certainly my favorite of her albums. Extremely solid. 7/10 Quite Likeable

I am fairly lukewarm on Adele's broader ouevre, and some of the pop rock balladeery bits on this record. But this album has a very classic soul approach of raw emotion with immaculate production. You can tell both that these are authentic and heat of the moment feelings, but also that the singer has the connections and credit in the bank to get brilliant producers and musicians in RIGHT AWAY to capture that feeling. I still think she sounds a little like she is singing with a blocked nose, but here it heightens the emotions, like singing through the tears of varyingly anger, sadness, regret, apologia etc. So on the opening trio of tracks, as well as the likes of Set Fire..., Adele manages to make some pretty special soul revival which straddles the line of the poppy and soul crushing elements of the genre, like Amy Winehouse before her. It does weaken a little towards the back half. Not bad, but just a little less memorable. I suspect I would enjoy a song like Take It All, One and Only, or He Won't Go if they came on shuffle, but I would be hard pressed to remember their names. That gives me the dilemma of rating the album based on the 4 and 5 star singles, or the 3 star album cuts. I think it balances out to a 4. In the absence of Winehouse and Duffy from the charts for their infamous personal tragedies, Adele was not a bad, albeit far more polished, alternative for those looking for a white English woman with surprisingly strong R&B sensibilities. Fair play, she succeeded here in doing something I think she has kind of failed to do before or since, in my opinion.

Not my genre but I wish it was

The vocals are the main show here and she's bringing it pretty hard. Sometimes her voice strains and cracks at the edges but that is part of the emotional intensity she's trying to convey so it works. Outside of her voice the music is slow and jazzy and the tracks that have piano are always preferable. An absolute mega hit of an album that it was everywhere you went for a while but some of the more unknown stuff here ended up being more interesting to me. Breakup albums are usually not my jam but this has got some serious talent behind it.

Great voice. I understand why she had so many hits with this album

I actually really liked this album after getting over wanting to be contrarian. I never really gave this album a fair chance but dang it's a good album and I can't believe she's only 21.

If I didn’t give this album four stars it would only be because of my ego, I sang along to every song.

These songs were so overplayed that it is easy enough to listen but not LISTEN. You've got to turn this up to appreciate the production on these tracks, and obviously her vocal!

Great voice

FAVOURITE: Rolling In The Deep LEAST FAVOURITE: Rumour Has It

kind of revived a whole showgirl genre, credit where credit is due. I personally don't care about this album, but i do recognize it's placement.

The title of this album comes from Adele's love of blackjack. She's been banned from most major casinos because her ability to count cards. Seriously, what a voice! A well-produced album that captures a mature beyond her years pop sensibility.

I personally have always found Adele a bit overrated but I don't mind the odd song. This was a solid album

Solid 4. Great vocals. Variety of music styles.

Un álbum clásico, con canciones reconocidas y muy escuchadas en 2011. La voz de Adele siempre fue mágica 💫

This album came out when I was in high school. We had to go to an assembly where my Integrated Sciences teacher and 6 students got on stage and danced to Rolling in the Deep, and then we just went back to class. Might've given it a 5 but Rumour Has It brings it down a star

God damn it, i enjoyed this. Its manufactured and coded to press all the big emotional buttons in a very unsubtle way but it works. The singles are bangers, the album tracks dont dip in quality, she has a banging voice and I now hate men. Job well done Adele.

Still amazing

Nope

So good

This album had a generational run

It was a really good album, amazing vocals, amazing lyricism and lastly I related to it a lot. Adele really did her thing here.

And what was I doing at 21?...Having a mental breakdown.

Somehow she’s become an underrated singer again? Pipes, insane. Band, weirdly good. Piano for some reason v average?

I almost fell into the trap of being prematurely annoyed at the songs that got played to death on the radio, but take a step back and this album is amazing. Girl’s got the voice of an angel

Those are some golden pipes! These songs are great and her voice is even better. Ultimately it's not the k8nd of music I come to a lot so it's not a 5, but its knocking on 5s door

Probably inflated by nostalgia, but there’s still some real strong pop songs on this album. There’s not much variety on it though, so it feels longer than it is. If I could do half points it would probably be a 3.5.

#135 if you are not from the UK you simply cannot understand the grip that adele held. her vocals throughout this are incredible and whilst the instrumentals are generic at times, it serves the purpose of showcasing her vocals. idk i like it and i think it makes sense it's on the list whether you are a pop/soul fan or not. ಄ average track rating: 3.4/5 ಄ favourite track(s): set fire to the rain ಄ least favourite track(s): take it all ಄ album rating: ★★★★☆ ಄ number of albums left to review: 954 ಄ number of albums i agree with being on the list: 58 (+1 21) ಄ albums from the list that i would consider for my list: 26 (+1 21) ಄ albums i would not include on my list: 109

A little too bare bones but so classic a voice like this a 21? Bonkers!

Might not be my thing, but you can't deny it's a good album. I remember when it launched you would listen to songs like - Rolling in the Deep, Set Fire to The Rain, Rumor Has It, Someone Like You - over and over again in the radio.

Den här typen av popmusik är väl inte det mest spännande, men hon har en jäkla bra röst och det är är välgjort album. Vägde mellan tre och fyra men känner mig snäll idag.

Incredible album. Amazing production. Several timeless songs.

Incredibly good. Timeless, but just missing that little extra for a top 50 album ever.

#6 An album full of basic piano ballads about heartbreak but at the same time they're also good? Of course the whole thing here has mainstream pop kinda vibe but there's also something pure? I wonder what Adele could do if she was so much more open to making more unique sounding music. Or maybe her label just has preferences, idk.

Almost a perfect album, but I HATE the cover of Lovesong. Other than that, this is a wonderful album.

Sterk 4

Good one.

One of those voices where you are compelled to give it your attention. Sure, the main hits have all been massively overplayed now but listening as an album gives you a chance to appreciate how strong a set of songs it is. The material is predictable and that is what makes this a slighter harder review. On balance though, some extra credit for gusto and the cultural relevance it had in a banal period of music.

Really good album. Reminds me of Amy wine house without the baggage.

I don't remember another artists/album in the 2010's that had as much universal acclaim and radio play as Adele did with this album. I'm sure there are those that hate it (or grew to hate it as it got played to death… 3 tracks have over 2 BILLION STREAMS for christ's sake), but there was a time when this album was absolutely inescapable…and for good reason. It's a special kind of album that's built for mass appeal without ever seeming trite or inauthentic or over-produced. And what a voice! I know there have always been comparisons to Amy Winehouse, but as much as I love Amy, they're certainly different artists and she never quite had pipes like these. If you ignore the fact that you've probably heard every track on this album a million times, and try to listen with fresh ears… it's a great album. 4/5 Highlights: Rolling in the Deep Turning Tables Set Fire to the Rain Someone Like You

Adele was originally just another in a series of post-Amy Wine house British soul revivalists, together with singers like Duffy, Paloma Faith, or Gabriela Cilmi, but I'd say her foremother is in fact Céline Dion. That style of big emotional Adult Contemporary ballad that hits all the star notes is very reminiscent of Dion, and that would become even more apperant in Adele's next album. 21 is her big blockbuster moment. The acoustic guitar-led bedroom laments that characterized her early songs is mostly absent, leaving only the pretty good Cure cover "Lovesong". Elsewhere we get mostly slow piano ballads and the occasional relatively uptempo track like the modern classic "Rolling in the Deep" and its following track "Rumor Has It". I must say, as far as the mainstream is concerned, this is a darn good album. Timeless, too. It could have been released now, or twenty year prior. Key tracks: Rolling in the Deep Rumor Has It Turning Tables Set Fire to the Rain Lovesong Someone Like You

Confesso que quando vi que o desafio era ouvir um álbum da Adele, já desanimei. Nunca tinha escutado um disco dela do começo ao fim, só os hits de rádio — alguns insuportavelmente chicletes. E justamente aqui estão três dos maiores: Rolling in the Deep, uma ótima abertura e surpreendentemente longe de ser irritante; Set Fire to the Rain, um pouco menos interessante; e a insuportável Someone Like You, que, graças a Deus, ficou por último. Mas, como álbum, 21 me agradou bastante. Adele consegue equilibrar bem a melancolia com momentos mais ritmados, passeando pelo jazz e por uma sonoridade pop mais sofisticada, sem transformar tudo em piano e choradeira. E, claro, a voz espetacular dela amarra tudo muito bem. Curiosamente, gostei muito mais das faixas que não são singles. No fim, valeu a pena não pular o disco: 21 é um ótimo álbum da Adele, bem mais interessante do que eu esperava.

Adele reminds me so much of high school, which is the time she really blew up. I knew the hits on this one, but enjoyed some I had never heard before (He Won’t Go, I Found a Boy, and her Lovesong cover).

A very good and consistent pop album. The three most popular tracks "Rolling in the Deep", "Set Fire to the Rain", and "Someone Like You" are still great, albeit "Rolling in the Deep" has lost some of its charm after being played so often over the years. My favorite track is "Someone Like You", but my sleeper pick is "He Won't Go".

Most songs are just boring, middle of the road... Half an extra star for the amazing vocal performance and half an extra star for Set Fire to the rain.

Good, knew most of the songs. Pretty cool

Young love can lead to intense emotions. Young love lost? That leads to emotions that are ten times stronger. And those emotions shine through here extremely powerfully. Some absolutely enormous hits here. But also a few kind of unremarkable songs. The tracks which were released as singles, and saw widespread radio play, stand head and shoulders above the rest. It's like there's a few legendary tracks, and the rest is filler? It's not bad, but it's just ok. In a way, I'm also a bit confused by the general direction this was taking. It seemed to oscillate between modern, and 70s. It just made the album hard to follow. The wonderful songs which made it as singles push this into the 4 star area. But the rest weigh it down, and keep it from rising above that level.

Honestly, I was in no mood to listen to a whole Adele album (I never really cared for her music, but obviously knew the hits and could appreciate the talent). This was an enjoyable listen! So well produced for 2011, easily on par if not better than what we´re getting in the big 2026.

Bättre än förväntan. Lyssnar inte mycket på genren men förstår varför den här är med på listan

The Good: Ahhh, to be 21 again… The Bad: 21 did come with some mayor issues… cashflow, being one of them The Ugly: The poor breakup Adele seems charged with… Believe it or not, it has taken me 15 years to listen to this album for the first time… and it was well worth the wait. To think that according to my experience there hasn’t been anything decent produced since the 2000s showed it’s face—barring some exceptions obviously—and then you finally listen to this more than excellent freshmen attempt. Bravo, Adele, bravo. I listened to the album two times in a row, and couldn’t find a song I disliked, at all… wow. You’d think that I would instantly give this album a 5* rating… but you’d be thinking wrong. You see… covering a The Cure song… you don’t do that… and then, there is that one excellent song that, for whatever reason, all of a sudden includes a choir… bitch please… Aside from that… wow. 4*

Good album

8/10

Relisten. This is a tough one to objectively rate since the album and, more specifically, the major hits off of it were always in the background in some way growing up. Especially since my mom and sister were such big fans. It has been a long time since I've listened to some of these songs, and I'm inclined to say they hold up pretty well. I'm kind of exhausted by a few, but that is none of the actual songs fault, and more to do with the insane amount of airplay they got in the early 2010s. I found myself really gravitating to the less talked about ones way more. Fav Tracks: "Rolling in the Deep", "I'll Be Waiting" and "Lovesong".

banger album very few notes some awesome songs on here

Rolling in the Deep - база. Есть в этой песне что-то роковое, даже скорее не звук, а характер, возможно поэтому он меня так зацепил. В остальном, я не фанат ее творчества, ни один другой сингл меня не цеплял. Все, что цепляет - ее голос и уровень исполнения. Но в этом альбоме не хиты оказались на удивление приятными и не скучными.

не могу назвать себя фанатом adele, но альбом замечательный, намного интереснее beyonce - 4

Was never an Adele fan but I enjoyed this album. The lady can sing, no doubt about that. Another unexpected good listen.

Wow! So. Many. Bangers. Respect to you, Adele.

Some real bangers. Man, that last song…

The nostalgia of her voice makes this so easy to love

Brilliant voice. Of course, I’m familiar with her, but when an artist becomes as massive in the mainstream as she did, I tend to lose interest and move on to other things. So, I’ve never actually listened to her full albums, though I’d never turn the radio off if she came on. At a certain point, that was practically impossible anyway, as Adele was on the radio and in the media on a daily basis. So now I took the time to listen to the full album from start to finish. It sounds really amazing and pure. Beautiful carved instrumental arrangements are guiding a great voice. Also, what a surprisingly great cover of The Cure's "Lovesong" 4/5

A great singer, and the hits were good, although I felt the songs repetitive

Some very good with some ok and one terrible. Rumor has it sucks in every fashion. Rolling in the deep, is brilliant.

Such a one of one voice

Some bangers on here, but also a lot of songs that were meh

Adelle's voice is absolutely stunning, and even on those tracks where the music doesn't particularly impress, her range and timbre are incredible to behold. To think that she recorded this album at the age of 21 is absolutely incredible, and as someone who owns and has burned out on each of her records in turn, this one stands as my personal favorite. It's a strong 4/5 from me that I was pretty happy to revisit after a long reprieve.

This album has such a strong start; I like Rolling in the Deep a lot despite having heard it so many times. I'm on the third track of the album, Turning Tables, and her vocals are particularly nice here. It's not her most vocally demanding song, but I like how much her voice carries. The double meaning for her having an unstable partner, constantly arguing, and her wanting to turn the page and start afresh. Don't you remember is so me in almost every way. She's almost begging and pleading for him to remember her once more. I understand that completely, wanting someone you've shared something with to remember you :/ The 6th song from the album (I don't remember the title) is one of my favorites; I like the instrumental; it sounds very groovy to me, like sitting in the corner of the room at a coffee shop and overthinking a relationship or situation in general. It's a little sad but with a more upbeat sound to it. It also sounds different from the other songs I've heard so far. I'll Be Waiting is very telling to me as to how it's not as comfortable to see a woman yearning for a man to love her back as it is for a man. I like overlapping vocals in songs, so One and Only is one of my favorites from the album. I love the exaggerated rasp and power in her voice; it's a song of acceptance, and she expresses the feeling of being sick and tired well. Final Verdict: I'm not 21, and I haven't gone through the trials and tribulations of being in a relationship presented as such, but there are some bits and pieces that I relate to. She's very down-to-earth and emotional here. It has so much emotion and conviction, beautiful from start to finish.

Hard to listen to as even as the a most casual music listener, some of these songs have been overplayed. Still her voice is great, the songs are well written and let her shine. Good album. 4 out of 5.

So good bangers

It dips a little around 2/3 of the way through but it picks up again at the end. Not a surprise but she sure can sing

Solid. Very listenable. Beautiful voice. Loved the Love Song cover. (4)

Incredible album, her voice is very inspiring and her songs are very impactful. This album proves her songwriting ability and the careful selection of songs. The music is amazing and there's no comparison.

It’s funny how I was so aware of this record’s success in 2011 and 2012 but just never gave it a shot. Basically this set the tone for the female pop belters of the 2010s and I guess I can tell I’m entering my late 30s since I was vibing with it in a Starbucks radio sort of way. Minus a star because Apple Music autoplayed me a terrible Ed Sheeran song right afterwards.

Wonderful record from one of the most wondrous voices out there!

Average 21yo experience

Man škiet man visvairāk patika dzirdēt dziesmas, kas no populārākajām, jo šis ir ļoti labs albūms, bet tās top 3 dziesmas ir pārāk overplayed

Fun! Never listened to an adele record cover to cover. he won't go honestly could've been a single imo. Love Adele I didn't expect anything less.

Muy weno, por fin lo escuché completo

4★/5 07.27.2026

Skvelý album, pre mňa neporovnateľný s 25, ktorý ma vôbec nezaujal.

Nice album - some pop classics of the 2010-era. Always enjoyed her passion and delivery on the ubiquitous hits. The non-radio tracks bring it down just a notch for me.

Okay, "Rolling in the Deep." A banger. No two ways about it. To the point where I delayed finishing the album because I kept listening to this opening track on repeat. I had to force myself to go to the second track. How does the rest of the album stack up? Incredibly well honestly. Talking about blue-eyed soul seems an anachronism by the standards of a very integrated international music scene, but just as it's not possible to talk about Parliament without talking about the historic fortunes of funk (see previous review) it seems to me that we have to contend with what soul music has meant in a specific context of a historically black American genre faring in a white British context. It seems to me significant that 21 came out just seven months after the death of Amy Winehouse. Not because Adele and Amy were ever really "in competition" (though the misogynistic music industry will always seek to pit women artists against each other). But it's not just the sudden departure of Winehouse that allowed Adele to snatch the crown of Queen of British soul. This is a soul album, but it's definitely a pop album too. 2008s's 19 had been much more of an exercise in the vein of Winehouse and co. In Adele's mind, 21 had to be like it but different, so much more itself that it reached new heights. So yes, soul, but mixed with a pop sensibility that sought to modernize it, drawing in singer-songwriter folkiness and more current R&B. To bring the "blue-eyed soul" paradigm out of the nostalgic longing for long-shuttered clubs like the Twisted Wheel in Manchester and Blackpool Mecca and Wigan Casino and into a contemporary timeline. And yes, bring in something a little bit more, for lack of a better term, feminist. The personal valence is well-known by now: she had been dating an older man, and after a breakup Adele channeled her heartbreak into the album's composition. Whatever else can be said about her as a songwriter, nobody could ever accuse her of being anything other than fearlessly vulnerable. "Rumour Has It," another banger and strikes a pose regarding younger women and older men that wouldn't have been thinkable in the 70s. "Turning Tables," "Set Fire to the Rain," the stunning closer "Someone Like You." These are all instantly recognizable. So why is this album simply four and a half stars instead of a full five? It comes down to the context, yet again, and what 21 represented for the trajectory of British soul. Yes, it was a modernization, but a modernization that allowed the sound to be metabolized into a general pop landscape that was, by the mid 2010's accelerating its homogenization. Adele herself became one of the world's best-selling artists. As for the blue-eyed soul torch she had been past, it had been taken out of the fading memories of Wigan Casino and Blackpool Mecca and into Las Vegas residencies. The specificity of a music, of a sound, was lost. Not entirely Adele's fault, not even primarily. But nonetheless, it's what the album came to represent.

Third second pass in a row, but it didn't matter much for this one. I bopped to this album quite a bit when it came out. 15 years later, sure, it's not groundbreaking. Still sounds good though. (I like 19 better).

A very good follow up to her first album. This can out when I still really liked her voice!

I’m still residually sick of the singles from my summer job in 2012 but they really are that good. The rest of the album is also enjoyable, if not as memorable to me.

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tolle songs, zweifellos eine tolle stimme. aber noch nicht auf der höhepunkt ihres schaffens, und auch nicht ganz erstlingsniveau.

Solid album, has a through and through story, good hits, and good songs in between.

Great often, but it does get very ballady by the end, and some of them aren't as strong as others. We run into an issue of the album sounding a bit one note. But there highlights, like Romling in the Deep, the sound of her voice at the get go is booming and full of emotion and I was thoroughly impressed. It is also not revolutionary, but not everything has to be to be good.

Many things have been written about this record in particular. But looking back to it, there it's still something special about it 15 years later. The truth it is indeed, that Adele knew how to capture the young angst and bitterness that comes after a breakup in such a special way that no matter how much has passed by, anthems like Rolling in The Deep, Rumour Has It and Someone Like You still makes it into radio and still makes it into the memory of a lot of fans. She it's certainly not the same young adult she was back then, but fortunately for her, she was fortunate enough to find out this earlier in her carreer some of the heavyweights in music industry and wrote these collection of songs with some of the greatest producers like Rick Rubin, Ryan Tedder from One Republic, and even Dan Wilson from Semisonic. The whole crew brought her massively talented heart and spirit and gave her voice a special place that has kept evolving through the years. Heavily influenced by folk and Motown Soul but also in country and blues the direction of the record it's absolutely different to his predecesor 19, Yet the arrangements are so well crafted that even the version from Lovesong (originally by The Cure) doesn't seem to be out of place and has its own way in this anthology of sounds that feels more like a balm for the soul rather than a pop album. Probably if it weren't for that breakup who knows where this album would be. Maybe lost in time and space. Fortunately for us, Adele also evolved as a person, and the maturity she gained with this record has been a crucial part for her carreer to the point that, just like all of these melodies, she has aged like a fine wine and 15 years later we still keep singing these songs like they are part of our own deepest sensations.

I recognized so many songs! I just realized this is the album she released when she was 21... so impressive. Very expressive vocals, but each song sounded the same and blended together. Only one of them stood out as different; One and Only. It sounded like the end of a movie song.

pretty good album with a bit of a minimalist vibe. 3.5

Best of Adele in my opinion. So many bangers in this album. Still not the most inventive IMO, but really enjoyable to listen to. Fave songs: Someone like you, Set Fire to the Rain

good voice good singing someone talent no need to say more this is what a talent will do when she is 21 and now i'm 23 listening

I knew 3 songs from it, the whole album is good, despite not being my cup of tea.

Loved this album! I’ve never listened to it fully- mostly just heard the hits, but I added almost every song to my liked songs!

(Light 8/10) Admittedly I never got on the Adele hype train, the lead singles off of this record were EVERYWHERE on pop radio in 2012 and my music tastes back then were much more limited than they are today. I was so tired of these singles and I just wrote her off as a "here and gone" kinda one trick pony that I would hopefully forget about and move on. Well, 25 came around and Hello had it's time in the sun, and for me the song was kind of a meme and at this point in my time I wasn't ready to give her a chance yet. Fast forward to her release of 30 this year, my taste in pop and singer/songwriter has grown considerably, and as fortune would have it I absolutely adored it. So hey why not.. it's been long enough. I returned to her Breakthrough album 21 in hopes that I would get it. Boy did I! It opens up with her biggest single, Rolling in the deep. A monumentous song with dramatic vocals, a powerful hook and such pain-soaked lyrics that Alanis Morisette would give a thumbs up to. By far the best song on the record for sure, but hey the next track is incredible as well. Rumour Has It is a stomping rollicking sass-monster of a song with superb backing instrumentation and a hook that won't leave your head. This one-two punch of a beginning is hard to beat when considering album flow. The 3rd track Turning Tables does essentially what the title hints at, and brings the record to a 180⁰ and slows it down a bit with a piano ballad that is quite effective but honestly kinda here-and-gone. I much prefer Don't You Remember as it is way more catchy and has a better energy behind it. This album is very well constructed, Set Fire to The Rain makes Rolling look like child's play in terms of grandiosity. The album reaches it's emotional peak right in here in the middle, as Adele's most lavish and grand performance takes hold. It's build up and release is perfection and makes for a serious highlight to the album. The mood does take a gradual downward slope from here on out, but don't discount tracks like He Won't Go and One and Only. While not as grand instrumentally, the lyrics and craftsmanship in the songs themselves are more than satisfying and provide a great latter half. The only questionable choice in my opinion is the cover here. Her rendition of Lovesong by The Cure is actually pretty nice, but in terms of inclusion on the album it seems kinda out of place.. it really could be omitted. The final song is also a massive hit and it's the melancholy, yet optimistic Someone Like You. A stripped back ballad, just piano and her voice, but it is wonderful. A great example of how great her voice is, how she's able to carry emotion on top of being a stellar vocalist, and it rounds out the album just fine. A solid finish and a satisfying ending. Overall, I enjoyed this a lot more than expected, and I feel years from not being over-exposed did the trick and helped me understand just why she's a huge deal. It's a record full of personal struggles and love-sick emotions. A break-up album to contend with the classic break-up albums. If it weren't for the oddly-placed cover song, this record could be a higher score for me. Still, I do highly recommend this.

MUITO MUITO BOM. É um album exelente, as músicas são todas muito boas, muito bem feitas, muito bonitas. Algumas eu até emocionei e tive que parar porque estava ficando triste. Mas gostei muito, não atoa ela fez o que fez de sucesso nessa época aí. Bom demais.

I remember when this FIRST came out, and sometime in March 2011 I heard an interview with some song clips on I think NPR, and I wrote down the singer's name so I could look her up. Suffice to say, I had no problem remembering her by April. This was my first time listening to the entire album, and while I think the singles were the best songs on it, the rest of them would have been just as famous if "Rolling," "Rumour," and "Someone" were not on it.

good mix of relaxing tunes (ignoring the lyrics) and crashing out i respect! just made me realize just how good adele sounded to me when i was 6 years old

Really good commercial music, great vocal performances, very memorable highlighs. 4.0/5.0

good music, only knew the famous songs but the entire album is worth listening to. production is impeccable and her voice really is special. felt like the album was a bit too long maybe? and some songs aren't quite on the same level as the well-known ones. still, will probably listen to this again.

Takes me right back to living in San Antonio!

yea i get it. i wish i had the guts to say it isn't technically really very good. but im also okay never hearing any of this music ever again in my entire life. favorite song is He Won't Go or Don't You Remember, but if i remove the cynicism from my heart for a few minutes Someone Like You is a lovely tune. very annoyed 4

Figured this would be ploddingly drab but ended up enjoying it much more than I though I would

Classic

Simple progressions and melodies and songs that still really pluck the hearrtstrings. Adele's voice is gritty yet polished, her voice is absolutely heartbreaking. Lot's of bangers on this album that I have heard before, yet a handful that are in steady rotation on the radio or streaming.

C'mon. It's Adele. Everyone loves Adele. I don't even listen to her music regularly and I like her. Haha. Rolling in the Deep. Rumor Has It. Set Fire to the Rain. Someone Like You. The only thing I didn't like about his album was that I saw it came out in 2011... I could have sworn this album came out 2-5 years ago. Definitely not 15!! Ahhh! But yes, it's a great album. :)

Have never cared for Adele and always thought of her as the industry's whitewashed answer to Amy Winehouse ... but I'm gonna have to eat my words; this is a legitimately great album.

Listening to this shit while looking at the sunset is genuenly so cool. I rly like this. I rly like I’ll be waiting. Overall. All of them were. Bangers. None of them disappointed.

Following Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain yesterday she literally was Chasing Pavements here. Good album! Closer to the Memphis sound that I was hoping to hear on 25. Great Cure cover!

I’m trying to review this through the lens of someone who is clearly not the archetype Adelle fan, but who can spot a good song when they hear it. This takes most of those boxes, yes it wanders into soppy love song territory too often for my liking, but mostly the songwriting is very solid, and very soulful, with some of the tracks being modern pop classics. Adelle’s voice is immense on this album, it has to be appreciated just how strong she is vocally. Definitely good enough all round to score a four from me, despite the fact I’m pretty sure I’ll never actively listen to it again.

Beautiful. Poetic. So well done. Adele has a great voice. If you're not crying while listening to "Someone Like You" what are you even doing?

Album startet sehr stark, hervorragender Gesang, großartige Produktion, wirklich rundum ein Beispiel für "Kunst kommt von Können" und eine Wohltat nach so viel Grunge/90s Alt Rock/Post Punk, der ja vor allem von der demonstrativen Attitüde lebt, dass man auf seine eigene Musik scheißt. Aber! Am Ende ist es mir zu Pop in der Masse der Lieder. Zu glatt, zu gefällig. Geradezu retro im Stil (was hat dieses Album NEUES gebracht?) Für die perfekte Ausführung davon immernoch solide 4*

an amazing point in time for music. 21 didn't sound like anything out there and there's still nothing quite like it. so many of these songs were in heavy rotation on the radio, in stores, in cafes. iconic I do think that some songs are better than others. not every track is perfect or worthy of 5 stars so this is a 4 star album to me

Damn I hate her subject matter but this woman can sing! She has this beautiful raspiness to her vocals it is really pretty and she sings with great emotion. It is really a great soulful blues album, but not something I am going to buy or replay a lot.

An extremely niche game I play sometimes is matching up popstar careers and NBA careers. Taylor Swift is LeBron - teenage wunderkinds turned cultural Main Characters who seemingly succeed constantly but are most interesting when they fail. Beyonce is Kobe - all-time greats by virtue of their sheer insistence on being seen as such, and whose status as arbiters of Realness is less stable than it appears. Britney is Allen Iverson - enormously important cultural symbols, and we're also still on some level arguing about whether they were ever actually good. Ariana Grande is Kevin Durant - destined to be known for both transcendently pure talent and a preternatural ability to create drama and leave emotional wreckage wherever they go. And so forth.^ Adele is Tim Duncan, which at first sounds like an insult - nobody aspires to be Tim Duncan. Outside of central Texas, Tim Duncan was not a cool player. His signature move was a bank shot off the glass. Tim Duncan was your granddad's favorite player because he "played the right way." Tim Duncan also won. A lot. More than Kobe and LeBron, depending on how you define winning. Hopefully the parallels to Adele are apparent at this point. She's perhaps the least flashy popstar of the 21st century, eschewing the trappings of the Greater Madonna Diaspora (synth-driven compositions, group dance numbers, explicitly sexual provocation) in favor of live instrumentation (or as much as that can be a thing in the Pro Tools era, anyway), unabashedly old-fashioned songwriting, and her powerhouse soul voice. She's her generation's Dusty, with designs on being her generation's Aretha. And the craziest thing is how understated it all seems; she seems to be just doing what she normally does and then you look up at the scoreboard and she has 30 and 15, so to speak. Of course I'm familiar with Adele's panoply of hits - "Rolling in the Deep" is one of the last great female-driven *rock* songs to become a hit maybe ever, and the other singles aren't far behind. But I did not expect this whole album to work as well as it does. I typically like my pop more of the power variety, and while I understand the impulse to go "stripped down" (scare quotes intentional) from a production standpoint I can't shake the feeling that a little more sonic variation is needed here; parts of this could have used a more authentically primitivist, less audibly digital approach. But if that's my biggest criticism then there's a lot of success happening. Even the album tracks are strong; "One and Only" is a gem, with a grand and moving coda that pushes the song into Stones/London Bach Choir territory. And her cover of the Cure's "Lovesong" turns gracefully inward on itself, becoming a Nineties lounge-R&B tune that wouldn't have been out of place on a Braxton or Blige album. In the years since *21* it's become somewhat fashionable to mock Adele for making an album that everyone's grandparents bought; some of that is probably sour grapes at the fact that she made way more money from her sales than did streaming-centric artists with similar numbers, but more fundamentally it's unfair to judge her by the same standards as her pop contemporaries. She was going for something timeless, and I think she succeeded. This is about the best classic Motown R&B album it was possible to make in 2011. Sometimes the olds are right. ^Why yes, I do have a bunch of Chuck Klosterman books on my shelf, why do you ask?

You can’t beat a bit of Adele such a bop in the shower. Her voice is just incredible and the lyrics are so catchy.

I really enjoyed returning to 21! It had been a hot minute since I’d listened to any Adele to be frank, but this album is still that good. I immediately followed in up with 19, because for some reason I thought that was the “better” album, but 21 blows it out of the water.

don't think I've ever listened to an Adele album in full before so this was pretty cool! You don't need me to say that the songs are pretty good and sound equally great in 2026 as 2011. Gotta shout out Rumour Has It as probably the most interesting and fun track here, and also the middle of One and Only really impressed me. I also just think it's hard to beat the power of Rolling In The Deep as a tidal wave of a song. It is a lot of similar sounding and paced songs in a row, though

adele voice, words amazing. emotional

Adele never disappoints. Her way to portray heartbreak and betrayal is beautiful

She’s amazing. Banger after banger. And written when she was 21. Incredible

Superb. Great singer songwriter album.

So many nostalgic songs on here. Really love her voice and defiantly puts me in a mood. Some of the songs get a little repetitive but very solid

Pretty good

I listened to Adele's *21* this morning. Some of the tracks sounded familiar; they are great pop songs. Her voice sounds damn good, and the strings give the music wonderful depth. I really like the track "Don't You Remember" because of the sighing guitar. I wouldn't say the album is going to become one of my favorites, but it makes for very enjoyable listening.

I enjoyed this album much more than I anticipated (the joy of 1001). Her version of Longsong reveals similarities with Robert Smith, evident in her song writing - beauty in pain and sadness. An unexpected 4 stars.

Great voice and a very good songwriter

Perfect album for me today

So much emotion and soul!

I really loved this album at one time. I am not sure it has aged well. Adele’s voice is beautiful but already showing strain from improper use. The endless big songs of heartbreak that used to move me feel less full and too careful in their production. I love her cover of Lovesong, but it reminds me that Robert Smith is a consummate song writer and Adele is a… vocalist with a largely untrained instrument. But then… the closer. Someone Like You is a great song. For me, this song is worth a lot of slosh. It’s probably on my list of all time greats/ best songs of all time. I’ve never experienced first hand its sorrow, none the less, it brings tears to my eyes every time. It stands well against the cover of Lovesong. The two together end the album in an amazing way. And this is, perhaps, the high point of Adele’s creativity. At 21. 4 Boolean: True

I actually think that I've never heard this album in its entirety. Though most of the songs are recognisable, still some feel new. A highlight for me is "Don't you remember". What a track. And of course a cover of The Cure and a good one at that. Yeah, this is gonna be a 4.0 for me.

Yep, labai jautrus, gražus albumas.

Never dived into the whole album just the hits - nice to be reminded she’s a powerhouse

Man, Dan Wilson can write a song.

Olipas se laadukasta, kaunista ja hienosti sovitettua settiä! En oo kuullu Adelelta muutaku hittibiisejä, niin tää oli erittäin positiivinen yllätys :)

Tosi kova levy ja valtavia hittejä. Sillon ilmestyessään oisin antanu varmast viis tähtee, mut oon valitettavasti onnistunu kuluttaa tän vähän puhki ja näköjään edelleen vähän yliannostusta havaittavissa 🥲

On the edge of a five-star rating!

Lots of popular songs

Nice album, great voice and melodies.

Leuk om weer eens te horen. Goed album

🔝🔝🔝

Good album, good voice. Rightfully blew up 4/5

I like Adele. Rolling in the deep is a fave

banger after banger

Completely inescapable my pre-teen/early teenage years anywhere there was a radio and/or a piano and a kid who could manage the chord progression in “Someone Like You”. Makes me almost nostalgic

Top notch! Brit- Motown.

solid album I actually know more songs on it then I thought

Me encanta

Adele set the world on fire with this record. Full of huge hits that seemingly everyone knows. Rollin' in the Deep and Rumour Has It were played on rock radio stations. Was a monumental album. Set Fire to the Rain is an insane closer. I also really enjoyed The Cure cover of Lovesong

This was much better than I was expecting. I understand why it sold a zillion copies and earned a ton of Grammys

If this album came my way in 2020, I would have cried my ass out. Now I just enjoy living with the nostalgia it holds.

Hoping for more Adele. Not her best album.

That Adele lady can certainly sing eh.

Great voice, great songwriting. Not a huge Adele fan but was surprised by how many of the songs on here I recognised and enjoyed. Sure, it's over-played and a little safe now, but I remember it being a huge breath of fresh air when it first came out.

What's 9+10? Als geen enorme Adele fan kan zelfs ik niet ontkennen dat 21 met afstand haar beste werk is. Wat een hits. En wat een stem.

Listen, I had this entire record to prepare for “Someone Like You”, but it didn’t help. My dog, Caddy, passed away last year at age 13. When he was younger I used to crate him during the day and I always kept a radio on for him. I can’t remember the exact circumstances, but one day I was home and he was in his crate (he hung out there a lot, it was his safe space) and I could hear him howling. I went to investigate and heard this song was on the radio. Interesting. I had no idea he had any proclivities for howling at this point, but as time went on I figured out he did it semi-often and had favorite songs. We made a playlist. “Someone Like You”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, and “Come Together” were the first songs. We later added “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay”, and we’d frequently start our weekend mornings with some karaoke. “Someone Like You” always had to be last though, because it put him deep in his feels and he wouldn’t sing anymore after it. Rest In Peace, bubba, I hope we get to do it again someday.

3.5 stars This album has her most well-known songs and what launched her into superstar status overnight. It is well sequenced and doesn’t have a bad song on it. There is clear filler though and some of the middle tracks are just fine. But the she is worth the hype on this album. This is definitely better than many older albums that have stayed on the list, although I believe this was taken off on later editions. They need to have criteria for removing older albums and not replace albums from the last 3 decades exclusively.

Pretty classic Adele songs

I'm not usually a ballad person but wow what an iconic album.

This was a great listen. Even the songs that were not my style were tolerable. Rumour Has It is a banger.

Initial reaction: eyeroll!! But, great songs, great voice - not my thing AT ALL, but I have to be fair!!

8/10 - Great album, no bad songs at all, and no filler, perfect length

Album banger de la pop britannique Il y a quand même un condensé de tubes et de belles chansons dans cet album Je reste fascinée par la tristesse de la reprise « love song » (the cure à la base), elle l’a rendu si triste alors que c’était un ode à l’amour de Robert smith pour sa femme Mes préf : turning tables, set fire to the rain

Peut être mon deuxième album préféré d'Adele? Plein de chansons iconiques

I have mixed feelings about this album. I like it and I think it's her best album, but it's not what I usually listen to and the album gets kind of eh towards the end. Overall, a pretty okay album.

Rolling in the deep - 5 Rumour has it - 5 Turning tables - 3 Don't you remember - 3 Set fire to the rain - 4 He won't go - 3 Take it all - 3 I'll be waiting - 4 One and only - 3 Lovesong - 4 Someone like you - 3

I am a little torn on how to rate this. There’s no doubt bout Adele’s voice quality, but some of the songs are quite boring. The pop/neo-soul combination hasn’t been my thing so far. Still, the best songs are good enough and I am feeling nice today.

Good album. The second half has some good deeper cuts. The first half lacks some dynamics, but there are a couple hits there.

I mean, of course I've heard this album before and appreciated her powerhouse voice, but I'll Be Waiting is an unexpected jam.

i really really love Adele, it‘s just not my kind of music

I don't think of myself as someone who cares much about Adele one way or the other. She seems pretty charming from her late-night appearances. This album, though, is quite impressive. Even the sleepier songs have something interesting going on, and the best of them are straight bangers. I really appreciate her range of genre, which mixes things up a bit.

Poeh, wat een stem! En wat een pijn. Boos, verdriet, maar ook kracht. Er zitten veel erg sterke nummers bij en dat allemaal op één album. En dan ben je nog maar 21. Goede stem, mooie melodieën. Ja, daar houd ik van.

Ik ben geen fan maar het is wel erg goed. Het is niet alleen een geweldige stem (daarmee doe je haar tekort) maar je voelt alles wat ze zingt en dat het echt is. Iets wat je bij veel andere populaire artiesten niet tegenkomt. Ik denk dat er een hoop mensen zijn dit door en door voelen en er is niemand hierin beter dan adel. Het is niet altijd de meest originele muziek maar in wat ze doet en wat ze wil overbrengen is ze de beste. one and only is het mooiste nummer de cover lovesong had niet gehoeven

Somehow I think I knew every song on this album and I’m not an Adele fan, really. It’s very good, but I doubt I’ll go looking for it again.

Great album

There's a reason it's the number 1 most sold album

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Great vocals. Very sad album tho.

one of the best of the 2010s. Absolute banging ballads throughout with a couple of more forgettable songs thrown in

Adele, why’d you make the chorus to Rumor Has It like that? Most of that song is pretty good, but that chorus is so terrible it ruins the whole song. I really hate that chorus. It’s so bad dude. Most of the album is good but kinda generic. All the hits (besides Rumor Has It 😡) are pretty great, and the album never is bad outside of that. Just a bit bland at times.

Adele on ikka talent. Super album, mille peal on mitu minu generatsioonile pähe kulunud hitti ("Rolling in the Deep", "Set Fire to the Rain", "Someone Like You"). Filler lood pole päris minu maitse ja need kohati sulanduvad ühte patta, aga plaat on ikka hea. 4.0/5

Solid album, mastered very well.

Good album, but not my style

Beautiful album where like half of the songs are mega-hits. Gets a bit slow on the second half but all around great music.

Rating:★★★★ Lots of hits. I remember half these songs from the radio growing up. Good, solid album overall

Rolling In The Deep: A classic. 8/10 Rumour Has It: CERTIFIED banger. 10/10 Turning Tables: Has it's moments. 6/10 Don't You Remember: Feels like a really good ballad. 7/10 Set Fire To The Rain: Secondary school nostalgia hard. 5/10 He Won't Go: Good beat but a tad bit boring, still good. 6/10 Take It All: Good but not very memorable. 5/10 I'll Be Waiting: A really good beat, her vocals are great here 7/10 One And Only: INSANELY good. What the fuck 10/10 Lovesong: SO GOOD. Good cover. 7/10 Someone Like You: Lowkey boring 6/10

Yup this is a good one

Yup, just as good as I remember when I came out. Awesome album with a lot of memorable songs. If I could do 4.5 I would

Already have listened

Honestly Rumour Has It and Rolling in the Deep are bangers.

Great voice, liked if more than I thought I would

Temón tras temón tras temón. Uno lo escucha y piensa en todas esas canciones que solían invadir las estaciones de radio, pero hay que reconocer que fue algo increíble ver cómo una cantante y escritora de 21 años pudo lograr semejante éxito. No creo que un álbum de hace 15 años pueda llamarse 'clásico', aunque sí estoy segura de que va a ser considerado uno en el futuro. Mi única crítica es que se torna aburrido escuchar únicamente canciones de amor (y desamor), cuando hay tantos temas interesantes sobre los cuales hablar. ↑: Rolling in the Deep, Turning Tables, Don't You Remember, Set Fire to the Rain, He Won't Go, Someone Like You ↓: Take It All

9/10 - Love this album. Adele is a great vocalist and this is just chock full of well structured pop songs. Fav Tracks: Turning Tables, One And Only, Rolling in the Deep Heard before? ---–- ✅ Saved a Song? ----- ✅ Saved Album? --–-- ✅ Will Listen Again? -- ✅

든든하고 위로되는 포근한 앨범.

This album leans too heavily into pop for my tastes, but Adele is such a powerful and emotive singer that it’s impossible not to enjoy it.

Rolling, Rumour, Set Fire, and Someone definitely all deserved the hype they got back in the 2010s never knew there was a cure cover on that album, its really good tho

Pensei "carai, que moderno", aí calculei que 2011 foi a 15 anos atrás... O ano que estamos hoje tem a mesma "distância" de quando o álbum foi lançado em relação a quando tu nasceu (já se perdeu, mas pensa). A primeira é clássica, marcou nossa geração com consciência, interessante isso, ter vivido a época que uma música lendária tocou sem parar nas rádios no lançamento. A voz dela é muito foda, bem única. Foda, 3 pedradas no álbum. Excelente álbum, vou dar 4 estrelas pela qualidade absurda. Se eu fosse fã provavelmente chegaria no 5.

Amazing album with great vocals as well as songwriting. Enjoyed it throughout especially the first half.

Favourite Songs: Rolling In The Deep Rumour Has It Set Fire To The Rain One And Only

I new the main singles, but I was quickly won over by the power of Adele’s voice. It’s not a musical style I lean on often, but this was a very enjoyable album.

Solid album. Lots of radio play from this album back when we still listened to the radio. Someone Like You will always be an iconic song. Deserves to be on the list.

War mal ganz nett, ein ganzes Album von ihr zu hören, anstatt immer nur vereinzelte Lieder.

Mir persönlich teils überproduziert, aber das ist ein richtig gutes Album.

Rolling in the deep nada más y nada menos como opener. Esa mujer es maravillosa pero en truning tables grita muchooo JAJA. Muy similar el sonido de ella entre las canciones del album que no son los stand outs que no quita la calidad obvio. Set fire to the rain reina abosluta.

Our generations Whitney Houston

3/4

A powerful siren call from a strong young woman navigating relationships and heartbreaks of young adulthood that is captivating

Powerful performance from Adele even if some of the songs were missteps.

I was surprised by how much I liked this album, it was relaly good

this gives you power somehow

Really good.

It all sounds good, maybe not my genre.

She’s a genius

Tout mon respect à Adele avec sa voir tonitruante. En plus cet album comprends mes 2 chansons préférées d’elle, soit Rolling in the Deep et Rumor has it. Par conte le cover de The Cure je dirais que c’est manqué.

Mejor de lo que esperaba, aunque no soporto la temática del corazón roto en el pop. Nota: 3.8

Probably doesn't quite escape the charge of being "Amy Winehouse for nice people", but there's no denying the power of her voice, the perìfection of the production and the quality of the songs. On the surface it's full of pretty songs, but there's real anger and strength in them lurking under the surface, the sound of a woman in pain taking back her independence. Sure, at times (Set Fire to the Rain) it goes into melodrama. And perhaps the polish of the sound could have been grittier to match the content. She never reaches Etta James or Sarah Vaughan levels of power for instance. And 11 songs about broken relationships is maybe going on a bit, particularly when it gets a bit mopey towards the end. But it has to be said that Rolling in the Deep makes a brilliant single, Rumour Has It and Someone Like You are astonishing songs and this whole album is a hell of a thing for a 21 year old to produce.

I definitely enjoyed the hits more than the rest of this, but there are beautiful moments throughout this album. I used to love "Rumour Has It," and it still is such a great moment in this record. Adele's voice is so powerful and filled with emotion, and I think that that sets this apart from a lot of the "mainstream" pop (if this really counts as that kind of pop) from this time. Favorites: Rolling in the Deep, Rumour Has It, Don't You Remember, Someone Like You

This is not my type of music, but man Adele is something else. I really appreciate the strength of her voice, especially for someone so young! A poppy, but not overly poppy album with great blues influence

Its a great album Of course, some songs are stronger than others Some people will react badly to the Cure cover song And Adele's voice has had so much exposure as to make some of her vocal inflections into a cliche Its still a great achievement No perfect to my ears - I like a slightly rawer edge, but heck, still a solid 4

Great album, amazing vocalist. I like 25 better, but this is a near second.

Undeniably changed the game. I appreciate this album more than I did when I was younger and first listened.

It’s pretty good very good vocals and instrumental but just not my vibe though I really like he won’t go

This was my first random album on the site and its a hell of a start.

L: 6 M: 6 F: 8 O: 8

EXCELENTE

Hard to believe this is a sophomore release, it seems like a greatest hits album. Seems like this poor 21 year old has experienced a lot of heartache for someone so young…must have started early.

Cantante espectacular, me sorprendió mucho

She's got a great voice, and the album is really consistently good

So much goodness!

I know Mum and Dad won’t be happy with this.. but for me it’s impossible to deny how good Adele is. This has to be her best album too (although I also really enjoy 30, with “Easy On Me” and “I Drink Wine”). It’s almost unfair to finish an album with “Someone Like You” and have it loop back around to a track 1 as good as “Rolling In The Deep”. Those songs are timeless already, but the album tracks here were the most pleasant surprises for me. “Take It All” and “Don’t You Remember” were great.

Solid

Good songs, great voice

Completely not my type of thing, but this is really good. I wouldn’t listen to it again on purpose but if someone put it on, I wouldn’t mind. This is a great music for somebody.

Muy buen álbum

Slow and absolutely beautiful (how tf was this written by a 21 year old!? MADNESS). Would be good for a cosy rainy day. Definitely got a sad vibe at times but she does well to balance that with uplifting songs. Some absolute bangers on here. Overall, definitely enjoyed.

Just seeing the cover of the album I was reviewing told me I was going to enjoy it. What I didn't know was how many amazing tracks it had. Of course, I'd already heard the iconic "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You," but this album has so much more; it's incredible. I have to admit there were some songs that didn't blow me away, but I enjoyed the album from beginning to end. An album worthy of the amazing singer that Adele is.

Solid 8/10 This one hits me. Emotional, direct and it feels real the whole time. Adele’s voice carries the album effortless. The songs hits hard and really stay with you.

Clasicazo, muy bueno. Incluso casi 15 años después de la época de esplendor de las baladas, este álbum brilla de forma original y sin esfuerzo. Lo mejor ha sido el cover de Lovesong, no me lo esperaba.

Amazing, es Adele no hay mucho más que decir, me sorprende no haberlo escuchado entero antes.

Great album. Banger after banger really sounds like a greatest hits record. Very soulful, some rockier tracks like rumor has it and plenty of ballads. Adele’s vocal performance obviously very strong. Some reviews here commented that it’s overly produced and lacks grit and yeah this is a pop record but an all time great at that.

me gustó mucho el álbum. lo que me gusta principalmente es q no es un álbum de pop melancólico tan cliché, no es un pop tan pegadizo o con letras malas. Si bien si es un álbum que habla de desamor, me parece que lo hace con melodías muy buenas, ritmos interesantes y sumado a la voz de Adele que es una locura. Recordemos que lo hizo con 20 años

Probably her best album though I’m more partial to 19

Break up cd, janis Rollin in the deep Rumour has it Take it all

beautiful. i’d known of this album because it’s just so iconic, but there’s some deep cuts on there that really stood out like “turning tables”, “don’t you remember”, and “I found a boy”. obviously the popular stuff is very catchy and she has a beautiful voice so it’s just a pretty good album overall. I had a good time listening to it.

Have I listened to this album before? No How familiar am I with this album? I remember when this came out, I know about half the songs How do I feel about this artist? I enjoy Adele, but I am not an avid listener Favorite song(s)? Rolling in the Deep, Rumor Has It Overall Thoughts: This was a good listen. Some of these tracks were really overplayed when this came out but enough time has gone by that they are enjoyable again. You can tell she was really going through it when she made this. The Cure cover was nice.

So many hits on one album. It’s crazy! Undeniably talented. The only thing that makes it 4 instead of 5 for me is it’s not something I would put on to listen to even though I appreciate it

Really good, and see why this album essentially made her huge. Not really my style in that I'll be going back all the time, but still it's easy to see why this was a hit modern pop album.

Solid album, lots of very good songs. Don't listen to her often but it is good!

4/5. More like Sam Cooked with this live performance. Because he gives a fantastic studio-quality live performance here, extremely expressive with an infectious energy which is helped by the backing band. you get a mix of blues and soul here and in theory it’s quite a basic album but Sam just absolutely sells it and elevates it to something great.

Among the most surprising revelations I've found on this list. I obviously knew of Adele, but had never listened to her music. This is a world-class vocalist able to deliver ballads with uncanny emotional resonance along with punchy bluesy numbers. Adele is Dusty Springfield reincarnated. Count me as a fan.

Fantastic, what a voice. beautiful songwriting. The cover of Lovesong was unexpected and very well done.

honestly just the fact that i have half the words to this album memorized from childhood speaks to its importance. yes all the songs kinda sound the same but her voice is beautifula and her talent is undeniable.

love her voice. love piano and dramatic lyrics

Solid

Great album, but not my style