25

it’s a decent pop record with meh production

She has a wonderful voice. This album is hella boring.

Good music and what a powerful voice

It was really nice, knew most of the songs.she writes them all too which makes it even better.

It's 'powerful vocals' pop ballads, but powerful vocals alone don't make for interesting music. And powerful vocals doesn't even mean that they're more impactful or emotional. If you compared Adele to someone like Aimee Mann, her music and singing style conveys so much more emotion and depth of feeling. There's a sheen to this that detracts way more than it adds in my opinion. It feels like a perfectly polished piece of commercial pop property, designed to appeal to the masses. I just found it all a bit boring.

I've always been a fan of Adele, and this album is probably her best. She is a vocal powerhouse, no doubt. I'm not convinced she is musically notable or brings much innovation.

I found this surprising. It starts as a fairly typical pop album, but as it progresses, you can tell something else is going on. While I did miss the more RnB elements from the previous album, it seems muted here. Overall, I enjoyed this album more. To me, it feels fuller and more realized. In honesty, this is not really my style, but she is obviously very talented.

Adele has a great voice, but after several songs I can't handle the intense vibrato

Adele has such a great voice, but her music just comes across as a bit boring to me. Send My Love and Water Under the Bridge both slap, but the ballads just sort of run together for me.

She's got a great voice but this album is just boring to me.

Hello is a really good song. Well written , engaging lyrics and performed super well. Since that song was ubiquitous when it came out, I don’t think I really listened to it. Really subverts expectations The rest of the album is ok, not much my style.

Prima, maar saai

Adele has an extraordinary vocal instrument. Shame to waste it on this tripe. Everything is overdone - vocals, lyrics, production. I bet in a room with an acoustic group and good songs she’d slay. Bonus point for just how remarkable her voice is, but otherwise insufferable.

not moving

I remember that I was late listening to her 2nd LP as I thought it‘s just some generic pop music with a great voice but I quickly changed my opinion after I listened to the whole album. Anyway - I wasn‘t late for this one and l did listen to it right after it‘s release and now again of course. Everyone that loves great voices should listen to this album imo!

Better than your average pop, and if I wasn't forced to hear some of these songs on repeat for the past ten years, they would sound a lot better. Definitely more thoughtful than most other modern music.

Not necessarily my kind of music, but this was pretty good. She's got a great voice and some of the songs were surprisingly catchy and a few just made me sad. 4/5

Was good to listen to it again!

I can’t hate… it’s pretty damn good…

Almost impossible to be objective. She’s an incredible singer that’s for sure, but I can’t figure out how to rate a popular album that I don’t care for, backed by extreme talent…

Hello, it's me, writing a review. Adele is such a solid singer. I remember walking around griffith park one day and thought someone was blasting Adele on the loudspeaker but she was actualy doing a soundcheck for her PBS special live. Her voice was so good I thought it was a professional recording. Now the stories over and onto this record. I think it's pretty good. I'll always be nostalgic for 21 since that's the one I remember loving but otherwiseeeeeeeee it feels like a rehash of that style. Some epic florence and the machine style instrumentation, some classy singer songwriter stuff. Remedy and All I Ask are cool. She carries it really with her voice for better or worse.

2.4/5 listened 2x. first few tracks are solid but just not my thing.

okay so this was a difficult one to rate because i really thought that it was excellent musically and lyrically and those typical marks of a good album but i just didnt enjoy it one of the most prominent examples of music i know is good but dont like and i completely understand anyone who thinks this is a 5 star album because it has everything for that i am just not a fan i think i would like to listen to more just to make sure i feel this way about adele as a whole and not just this album

I've listened to Adele, but only when she's come up on the radio. So, this is my first "sit down and listen". Hello - 5/5. Very impressed. Great lyrics n vocals 😎 Send my love - 3/5. Kinda standard pop fare 😑 Miss you - 4/5 Nice ethereal music 😏 When we were young - 2/5 Not for me 😴 Remedy - 2/5 Bland enough Water under the bridge - 3/5 Slightly better girl power song 😉 River Lea - 4/5 nicely produced 🙂 Love in the dark - 4/5 quite good / powerful 👍 Million Years ago - 5/5 Excellent. Spot on 😎 All I ask - 5/5 nice ⭐ Sweetest Devotion - 5/5 nice 🌞 Hard choice for overall. Close to, but not quite a 5 It's a 4 star for noe

Not sure if her other albums are on this list (yet) but this isn't my favourite of her's. She's still so talented but this one is kind of boring.

Decent but not her best.

I listened to it. I didn't love it. I just didn't fell that it spoke to me.

I liked this a lot better than I thought I would. 3

Obviously carried by Adele's vocal performances but becomes way too repetitive, making it a little annoying to get through.

One of the best voices alive. Emotional lyrics and delivery. Some catchy songs. Strong album overall…needs a little more variety and growth for 5 stars

Adele is an absolute tour de force

Voimapoppia valtavilla palkeilla. Jylhää on! 3/5

Tää oli yllättävän kelpo

Ihan kelpo pop-levyhän tämä. Vähän itseään toistava mut menköön nyt kolmosella eteenpäin.

5.5/10 First Adele album I’ve heard and it was very mid Yes, her voice and power is incredible, obviously a phenomenal talent, but the album is 100% reliant on that Songwriting is broad, simple, crowd-pleasing. That makes the songs relatable, universal, able to be shouted out at a concert, but doesn’t give them depth. Basic sad girl energy is the main thing projected here Production hides in the shadows, foregrounding the vocals, and is either minimal or bland 2010s pop style These combine to make the album start to blend into itself and become monotone and boring It’s the last track before there is some truly interesting production that fits her vocals Best: Send My Love

Her voice is amazing

first listen in entirety. But I felt like I knew all the songs already anyway. It's good, very solid and enjoyable. Not sure if I'll ever come back to it tho.

Disappointing, quite boring and repetitive despite some incredible performances.

Maybe I was just in a bad mood but this annoyed me a lot more than her first album.

Probably my favorite album so far. Maybe because I know it, have listened to the whole thing several times. But also maybe because it’s brilliant.

Great

Great Album

This sounds so much like 21 I had to make sure I had not already listened to this one.

she has a good voice, I'm just not super into the style

I mean I like Adele and all but this one is a little hard to get through for me. Not quite jiving with me.

No

I liked 21 a lot more, defiantly had its moments but didn’t live up to 25

Blind album. Am I missing something? Her voice is beautiful but I just can't vibe or get behind her music. Especially this album. This 1 came and went with 0 memorable tracks for me

Sorry Adele, you’ve got a great voice and Hello is a belter but this album was a slog to get through. Bland, boring mush.

Definitely get the hype. It conveyed a great mood, and her voice expressed it beautifully.

I was skeptical But it is winning me over. This is a massive talent. I won’t exactly listen to it again because it’s not a genre that works for me, but big respect. I’m sold

Hello // I Miss You // When We Were Young // Million Years Ago // All I Ask //

Solid album, with a few really great tunes. Especially like Million years ago and Hello. Prob a 4?

Good but not my speed

I keep forgetting that she is one of the greatest, most talented artists of all time. Her music stays nostalgic but I'm ok with that because she doesn't need to prove her musical ingenuity any further (or risk damaging it). It scratches the itch in my brain just right.

B Hello 3 Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 4 I Miss You 3 When We Were Young 4 Remedy 3 Water Under The Bridge 4 River Lea 3 Love In The Dark 4 Million Years Ago 4 All I Ask 4 Sweetest Devotion 3 Always been my least favorite Adele album. Too mainstream.

Surprisingly disappointed. Nothing really hit me. Love in the Dark was good tho. River Lea is fine. Then Hello is Hello, but that’s it. All I Ask is hard tho, might be better than Hello. But album over all I kinda expected better. Ok Sweet Devotion is amazing, way better than Hello. Fuck these last few tracks saved the album.

Adele's incredible vocal talent makes for a great album, and her singing would not be out of place in an opera.

What a tremendous voice and passionate singer. And there's a nice variety of tone and nuance in the writing. I liked this quite a lot.

as far as pop music goes, this one wasn't too bad. Hard to listen to it all at once since she's always belting out the lyrics.

The Adele album before this, "21", had some good singles on it, which led to Adele being EVERYWHERE. I was all Adele-d out by the time this came out. I do remember hearing Hello for the first time and thinking it was pretty good. Then I heard it again, and again, about 75000 times. I was soon switching channels to avoid her again. I approached this today as objectively as possible; after all, I've been avoiding her for nearly 10 years, so maybe I'd see something justifying her omnipresence? She undeniably sings really well. I don't feel engaged musically by the songs though; they tend to start well but sound repetitive by the end. As for the emotional journey that she's on, I could relate at times, but the unexciting music meant I wasn't ever, really, drawn in. Two more things: 1) it turned out I knew nearly every song, so I'd clearly been unable to avoid her after all. 2) I will NEVER forgive Adele for inspiring hundreds of young women to copy her bizarre faux-Irish accent. It's a huge ick. Stop it, girls!!

She’s grown on me over the years and I do really like a couple of tracks on this, but a whole album of essentially the same song? Nah. Beautiful voice, I just wish she’d change things up a bit now and then.

I just don’t get it. It’s ok, not terrible, but why so massively popular?

Hello Send My Love (To Your New Lover) When We Were Young Water Under The Bridge River Lea

2.5-Amazing vocals, shallow lyrics making the album sound the same

Generational Voice and Hello will always be timeless but entire thing is not really my style and is corny at times

Genuinamente aburrido y plano. Entiendo que tiene un gran rango vocal y voz, pero lo que hace con ella me parece muy dull

No es 19 ni 21 pero bueno tiene buenas power ballads y eso lo que Adele puede ofrecer

She has an incredible voice but these songs all feel a little samey. I am quite uninspired by these.

A solid and more atmospheric album from the pop soul maven.

This is the best singer of this century. She only made 4 albums. And she couldn't make any bad songs! It was great to remember 25. I haven't listened to it in years. "Hello" still gives the same goosebumps from when it was the most listened to song in the world in 2016. Goosebumps! This is the word that defines her voice throughout her career, but especially on this album she was splendid. And even more especially in songs that give the impression that this woman is capable of absolutely anything, having only her voice and the piano in possession. 5 stars, of course!

I’m not a big fan of belters, all of my favourite vocalists are masters of phrasing or timbre or have unique or even bad voices but a ‘fuck it we roll’ attitude. Adele’s sort of singing is technically fine, very good, but I find it really difficult to get into. I think part of that is that, especially on this album, she’s not given very much to work with dynamically. Because it’s been decided that Adele’s biggest selling point is the power of her vocals, all of the choruses have to showcase those vocals. And so it becomes repetitive, soft verse builds towards powerhouse chorus, bonus points if she jumps the octave, and once you notice that trend, it makes the listening experience painfully boring. It also made really really anxious for a reason I can’t quite explain. I straight up hated the way this made me feel. I think I have to go on the record and say this is my least favourite album that I’ve had to listen to so far. Not only did it bore me, but it also overwhelmed me to the point that I genuinely think I almost had a panic attack

I mean, if you like big voices and power ballads, but I can only take so much.

She's certainly got an impressive set of pipes on her. But other than her singing voice, I find the music a bit unmemorable.

classic

Great vocalist

Adele has some pipes, but her diction absolutely boils my piss. In the opening track, the word "more" becomes "moe-er" and in the second track, "more" becomes "mer" and her mangling of words just becomes the focus of the track for me. Asides from this, it sounds really overproduced and sterile. On this record, more than any other, you get the impression that each aspect was recorded separately and sellotaped together at the end. I know that that is exactly what music production has been for the past 60 years, but there's just zero bleed-through from each mastering track and it sounds sterile. Not for me.

You're not allowed, at 25, to talk about how much you miss being young.

Oh good, more Adele. Just when I was in need of a good yawn.

No, just a million times no. No, no, no, no, no.

You can’t deny the quality here, but it’s not my cup of tea

Adele has a beautiful, unique voice, but for some reason I don’t really like her songs. I can’t put my finger on why, but I always feel as though her voice is being underutilized. Maybe the songwriting is just bad and she needs better songs. Also, maybe don’t sing so much lamenting your youth when you’re only 25.

A technical marvel voice that doesn't catch me to the dizzying hype heights.

Adele is always pretty great vocally, but the question is, are the hooks there? Not too many here, but the ones that are are pretty great.

The third of her four albums which, in my opinion, get gradually worse. She clearly has a wonderful voice, but the songs feel a bit "play it safe", and don't do much apart from show off her pipes. She had so much potential on her first couple of albums, and it just all feels quite "corporate" by this point. Doesn't help that she had such bother with her voice I suppose, and she has had (and will continue to have) a great career, but I was kind of expecting more from her, in terms of how good she could have been. Sometimes the 'music' as an art can be secondary to the 'business' side of the music business. The story of Adele should be a cautionary tale, but I worry some young artists will see "selling more records" as better than "making the best records you can". Judged solely on its merits, it probably deserves 4 stars, but based on how much I loved her first album (and liked her second), she should have been making 5 star albums by this point!

This is a crazy hit parade, like over half of these songs are huge hits, I don't think this is the most cohesive or engaging album experience ever, I honestly think Adele's style gets slightly exhausting over a full album. But it deserves huge props for the amount of timeless songs that are on here, especially since it's not even her first album like that.

Very good songs, but very repetitive

Lots of classics on this album.

I never really quite understood why Adele is so revered. Sure, she has a great voice, and she's a good songwriter. But I often find her music boring. I liked this album more than I expected to, and I think I like it more than 21. There's more variety here, and obviously the songwriting is more developed. Adele is at her best when she's playful and when she experiments with sound. "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" is a great example of this — even if it does sort of sound like an Ed Sheeran song. Of course the drums from "Rolling in the Deep" are iconic, but there's some fantastic percussion on this album as well, like on "I Miss You," which has a great post punk beat and also has some great Cure-esque guitar (her mom was a huge fan, hence the Lovesong cover on her first album). "Million Years Ago" is a decent song, though, with its classical guitar, it kind of echoes her "Lovesong" cover. Where the album falls flat for me is on some of the slower songs. The ballads that became singles are pretty good (Hello, When We Were Young). But there are some clunkers — "The River Lea" is cheesy and the lyrics just sound awkward with her accent. And the back half of the album starts to drag with too many slow songs. There's some really good stuff here, and also some stuff that was very meh. What Adele does consistently well is good lyrics and melodies. I just wish more of her songs weren't such a snooze fest. Probably a 3.5, but I'll round it up to 4/5.

Great songs but not something I'd listen to. 2/5

I did not expect to like this album as much as I did. Love surprises like this!

Mediocre album. Adele undeniably has a great voice and the songs are pretty good. I just don't think I'm a huge Adele fan and found the album boring. I think I succumbed to the overexposure of the songs from 21. Nothing here I really dislike, but I couldn't get really into it. **

i have never listened to this whole album...i love it, it made be cry, beautiful voice, beautiful album...PERFECT

This Album has a few songs that I knew before, but I particularly like "All I Ask" and "Love In The Dark".

Solid first half but not as strong second half. Still incredibly good; I mean, it’s Adele, she’s brilliant.

A couple of real bangers here (hello, send my love) and i think it’s overall a nice album, but it’s not genre I particularly am drawn to. Probably wouldn’t listen start to finish again.

It's okay music, I probably will never be able to listen to "Hello" and not vomit remembering all the people who became obsessed with this song when it came out. But now the fame and popularity of the song have dwindled, and I think it's easier to judge the album. It's just bland music - love songs, Oh my god you're the man for me, oh my god I'm sorry you broke up with me when I was so awesome and obviously you couldn't catch up with how great I was, etc etc. There's a few good moments here and there, for example I really like the beginning of Million Years Ago, I like her low singing there, and the chorus in Sweetest Devotion. However none of the songs really hit me like something unique, something that I wanted to put in any of my playlists for future listening.

This is a really good album. Its not my usual kind of thing, but Adele has an outstanding voice and the production is very very good. 5/5

Not as good as 21. Pretty bland.

Talented musician but not my cup of tea

I liked 19 and 21 very much. This one is not as good. Not really bad, but not list worthy. Favorite song: Send My Love.

Incredible talent, album is just kinda repetitive. Also this just isn’t a style of music I’m used to listening to

Я... в замешательстве. Ну, самое важное, что я ожидал, что этот альбом будет гораздо хуже, чем то, что в итоге услышал. Это все равно британский Стас Михайлов, очень талантливо исполненный. Дама выдающаяся несомненно, невероятные данные, но до того "безопасно" и порой просто кринжово, до прямо дискомфорта. При этом не без приятных моментов. Это звучит вот как музыка для авторадио и таких кафе с посредственным кофе, успевших устареть, где работают не бедные студенты, но теточки в фартуках. Лучшая песня - Hello.

While it can be boring at times, when its good, its very good.

Incredible singer. Her talent is likely to be generational. However, the tracks themselves are the musical equivalent of a stock image. I'm not familiar enough to know where this album fits in with her portfolio, but it struck me just how safe and samey each song was. Unfortunately, Adele's incredible voice was not enough to break the monotomy.

Fine I’ll listen to Adele Song 1. Holy shit Adele. I’ve heard this but never on anything good. Wow 2 heard this. It was everywhere. Not sure I knew it was Adele. 3 these songs have great production and dynamic range. Need this on vinyl 4 nice. Grew on me 5 a bit too much vocal acrobatics but lovely song 6/7 good vibes good weight to the music 9 beautiful Nice finish. No complaints. 5 star nailed it

After being surprised by how much I liked 21, 25 was a bit more predictable. Sure it was about heartbreak and yes Adele’s voice was boomeing but it just didn’t have the staying power of her previous album.

OK, the last Adele album I got on this thing surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. On the other hand: this album fucking honks. This selling a billion copies is all the proof you need that your average human being is boring beyond belief and has absolutely abysmal taste

Raw emotion with a triumphant twinge. Like the Timberwolves. Lot of really good singles with no duds. Kept me locked in the whole way.

There’s no denying what a power house Adele is vocally. This album can be a bit one note but there are some real standouts on this album. Send my love, river Lea and sweetest devotion were my standouts. I had only heard Adele’s biggest hits so I enjoyed listening to a whole album.

Yeah, you really do have to listen to it before you die. Just amazing! Her vocals are amazing and all the songs feel so raw, you can actually experience the emotion that comes from her voice, even if you cannot exactly identify with the songs. One of my favorite ones from this list so far!

I'd take this over another Neil Young album any day of the week.

Adele does have one of the most distinctive voices of recent years and she has certainly made the most of heartache and relationship challenges. I expected to not really "enjoy" this recording but I came away appreciating her talent. Of course, there isnthe song "Hello" to begin this album. There is absolutely nothing I can say more about this song as there is not a person on earth who has not heard it. A pleasant surprise was the last song on the album, "Sweetest Devotion".

Gotta say the woman can belt! Was “Hello” overplayed to the point it became a meme, yes but whoa so good. I thoroughly enjoyed this album!

I don’t know… I respect it more than love it. Also weird to hear it in the sunny brightness of summer; strikes me as more of a Fall in New England album. Could be the melancholy nature of it throughout. Having said all that the highlight throughout her career continues to be her voice which no question, it’s an instrument like no other. The quality of production is world class too, but yeah… I get why there’s universal love for her albums as they are masterpieces but my favorite Adele to date is her first album were she was a little more raw and gritty and not as professionally produced. That voice though… 🙌🏾

She can sing with the best of them. Not my style but she makes good sounding music.

Ugh

By far the best thing about this album is the production. Big and bold, perfect for her audience and earns the second star. The less I say about the songs and her voice the better! Favourite song? Rolling in the Deep

Finishing a great weekend with back to back albums.. first up Adele. Must be said that I appreciate Adele’s thing of naming albums after her age; with the songs telling the story of her life at her current age. Cool stuff! I found the opener overrated when it came out, and I still find Hello a bit anti-climactic and it surprises it was such a big single.. That being said, the 3 track run that follows it (Send My Love, I Miss You, and When We Were Young) are really brilliant - such a powerful voice and great music behind it. Remedy is where things slow down a little but it is still a good listen, definitely demands full listening attention but doesn’t justify having it as much as the previous few songs. Million Years Ago is a good song too. I do think the Adele formula grows a bit stale on me over the course of 11 songs but I think it remains consistently decent - and the quality of tracks 2, 3, and 4 can’t be denied! Very curious to see everyone else’s reviews for this one :)) Favourite track: I Miss You

Adele is undoubtedly a fantastic singer. Hello is an incredible opener, powerful and striking. Million Years Ago was an unexpected delight. Unfortunately a lot of the other tracks blended into each other. Soulful ballads get boring quick.

I really wished I got Adele, for my partner's sake, but she just doesn't really do it for me. It just feels a bit empty to me, despite the subject matter being apparently very emotional. Compare this to Bjorks vespertine for example and they're a world apart. One tugs on the heart strings, this just sits in the background until your realise you're still listening to it. I think I preferred it to her earlier 21 album, but given that was relatively forgettable I'm not too sure.

extremely competent

so glad this album generator is exposing me to all these obscure overlooked artists like goddamn Adele.

Memorable songs and meaningful lyrics sung by a stellar voice.

Glorious and lush. 5 stars.

Her greatest hits album would be a banger.

'Hello' pazzesca, testi un po' basici, ma rendono nel contesto. Il resto non mi pare all'altezza. Lei bravissima eh, però che peso...

Kinda soulless for how strong the vocal talent is. Boring listen.

She's a talented vocalist and the soul influence is a nice differentiator when measured against your standard pop-fare. I just can't help but feel like she has absolutely nothing interesting to say. Not all pop music has to have exceptional lyricism, but I can't help but feel like I know *nothing* about Adele after listening to her music aside from that she considers herself a "tortured soul." A tortured poet, perhaps? But it's not just the lyricism. With the exception of a few memorable songs, a lot of her music has a tendency to blend together in my head. The pop influence really hurts her when you listen to one of her albums in full. It sounds so oddly formulaic for soul music. Almost like you pushed a soul tune through a playdough factory, smushing it through a pop-tune shaped mould. It robs the music of the soul it so desperately needs.

good singer but boring songs, I guess all her good ones are on 21

Don't see why this got such high critical acclaim, guessing just because it's Adele. This is prime "I'm 25 years old and my relationship issues are actually the most devastating in the world", just doesn't really hit, but then again I can't really picture her doing positive pop music. Again, good voice redeemed this for me, along with "Hello", "Send My Love", and "Million Years Ago" - this is why it's a 2/5 and not a 1/5 for me.

A great voice largely wasted on risk-free pop songs....

The Grammy's are Racist. I'll be honest I was content after Hello, every song beyond is just a test of my patience. The only other track I can even remark on is Million Years Ago, it has a "fantasy tavern" sound that was kind of neat. Not enough to return to though.

lots of vocal talent but thats it

Really good, several standout songs, what a voice

If I was a middle aged divorced woman who trying to get motivated, I think this album would connect with me. For the record, I am not a middle aged divorced woman. This album does nothing for me except make me desire for the end. Great voice though!

Love her music!

Better than expected, Varied,

I bought this album when it came out. I didn’t really like it much so after a couple of listens I put it away. My kid found it and fell in love - and so this is the soundtrack to their childhood. I’m listening to it with them now and they’re singing along to every word. Sorry kid! I should have had better taste in CD purchases.

No denying she has a great voice, but the songs don’t compare to other great singers. It’s not a bad album, it’s just also not particularly an interesting album. Meh.

Adele at her best, an amazing album!

An okay album. I’m not too into this genre, like it feels like NPC music to me. It’s a nice mix of pop and maybe a touch of like soul or gospel, but it’s not for me. I’m a fan of “Million Years Ago” though. “All I Ask” reminds me of Les Misérables

Adele has a great voice, but most of the songs are a bit vanilla. It makes good background noise, but I doubt I would ever just sit and listen to it.

A beautiful and powerful album. Obviously, her voice is amazing. The vulnerability in her lyricism is touching. The composition is almost always on point. Very few misses here.

First listen to this, okay album.

adele lowkey a baddie tho...

It's not bad in any way, but it does nothing for me. She has a good voice, obviously, but the music just feels a bit bland.

A wonderfully beautiful album full of soul and heartfelt lyrics. This is my first Adele album. What a masterpiece!

Not a big Adele person...I suppose it is ok for what it is. 2/5

Great album from Adele, her vocals are incredibly powerful. Already knew some of her more popular songs but was great to listen to the entire album!

Mmmm difficult. Adele has undoubtedly got a wonderful voice and the songs are well crafted and produced but...... Listening to 21, 25 and 30 the songs are pretty indistinguishable. There's not really any attempt to try something different.

Perf Understand why the mums love her so much

3.5/5 - I do love Adele but I cannot listen to a lot of slow songs in a row bc it makes me sad Standout tracks: - Million years ago 4/5 - Sweetest devotion 4/5 - All I ask 4/5 (I sobbed)

S’ok

Not really sure what I was expecting but that was quite the miserable album. A couple of vaguely interesting songs aside, that just felt like downbeat monotonous warbling with very little pace/style changes and certainly nothing revolutionary in the backing dept. Rather left me wondering what the specific appeal of Adele is. I thought she was feted for her voice, but she just sounds like the general pop fashion of the last few years, the sort of slightly slightly nasaly and vulnerable semi-voice breaking thing. Maybe she started it all and is better at it, I’m clearly not a good judge….:

I was dreading this moment, I knew it would come eventually. I gave it a listen out if respect but never again. If anyone put this on I would leave and for that strong feeling alone it gets a star.

The album has two gears. One where I’m completely in tune with what Adele is singing. The other where I’m not vibing at all. There is no in-between. I still enjoy it more than I don’t. But there are a handful of tracks that are very skippable. 3.5/5

Enjoyed it. Voice is amazing as always. Nothing crazy in terms of creativity, just good stuff.

Inte lyssnat på Adele så mycket tidigare. Men jag hör ju att det är bra. De två första låtarna är riktiga bangers men jag vet inte. Det fastnar ändå inte riktigt. Water Under The Bridge är skivans bästa låt. Det är något med vemodet som bara får mig deprimerad på ett deppigt sätt. Jag vill verkligen gilla Adele eftersom hon är grym på sången men det når inte ända in. Jag respekterar hennes talang och musikalitet. Det blir en 3a.

Hon sjunger ju jävligt bra. Det börjar också väldigt bra. Håller ändå rätt hög nivå igenom. Det är dock inte riktigt min kopp te, tror inte jag kommer lyssna igen. Men inte omöjligt!

Inte lyssnat så mycket på henne annat än de stora låtarna. Man vet ju att hon har en jäkla pipa, men det här var ändå bättre än jag trodde. Framförallt den första halvan är riktigt jäkla bra.

It's funny reading all the accolades about the album on Wikipedia. Best selling this, best selling that, blah blah blah. They all seem to miss the fact that it's self indulgent mush of boring songs written by dull people with no sense of wit or craftsmanship. I will admit Adele has a good voice but it's wasted on this bathetic set of songs, perfectly posed and postured for the post x factor generation.

Tried to listen objectively but very difficult, what did i actually not like about this? Great voice, great production, boring music!

I must be one of the few people on the planet who'd managed to avoid hearing this. So thanks a lot for fucking that right up, I was right to avoid it. Dull wailing nonsense.

"Adele! Do your thing!" "Where's me bloody orchestra?" "In the faacking studio, innit?" "Oh, I dunno, mate. Quite honestly, I'm just not feeling it." "Right! Bring in the boyfriend!" "Wha? Simon?" "Hi babes. Listen it's not you, it's me..."

Yet another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex I hadn't listened to the album before, only knew a few of the songs... mostly because they are used in the cut aways in those over-sensationalised ITV talent shows... which is why I think the likes of Adele get a bad rep. Too much commercialism leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Full of empty calories. Vocally, Adele is great. As for this album, meh.

Adele is very talented, but her music is very one note. Every song is about heartbreak. If she broadened her subject matter a bit, I might come around on her a bit more. Maybe, probably not.

I thought the songs that were not radio hits would be duds but I was surprised, there were some nice ones I hadn't heard before. It was a bit mopey at times but overall I liked it.

listening to the albums on this list has made me like Adele less. I think she has an incredible voice but her songs are pretty bland to me. some songs are still nostalgic and I like them.

Pretty solid. I like Adele. 7.5/10

6.5/10 - The songs that are popular are popular for a reason. They are good her voice is great and they tell a decent story. The songs that are not popular are not popular for a reason, they are just fine. Overall a decent album but not something I will probably listen to on a daily basis. If they came on on the radio I would sing along but I am not turning it on.

Really really good, her vocals are so good

Did not know this album was on here. Obviously have heard a few of the songs, but none have ever really stuck out to me in the sea of generic corporate sounding pop music, and none stood out on this listen either. Reading that review back makes it seem like I hated this. I didn't, it's just kinda bland, especially for pop music 6/10

Master craftsmanship, but not particularly compelling. Most of this is sappy Boomer Mom balladry, which is fine and even great sometimes. “When We Were Young,” “Love in the Dark,” and “All I Ask” are all standouts within this style, but even at their best, these songs don’t particularly feel relistenable to me. There’s not many situations I’m in where I’d put this on, unless I’m going through a nasty divorce, run into my high school ex during our 25 year reunion, or my spouse died, which is all odd because those are not topics a 25 year old should being writing songs about. I’m not against Adult Contemporary, but I would love something ~else~ from Adele. There’s glimpses of that here when the producers Wall of Sound the ballad model and add a backbeat – “Send My Love” and “Water Under the Bridge” are the best examples – but even those moments are more Wine Mom Pop than actual pop music. They’re the standouts of 25, but they’re not standards of Adele’s catalog, or even of music in general in 2015. I just found this whole listening experience strange, because I do like half this album. Just as a whole, it doesn’t ever stand out as something special. I honestly think it comes down to a sequencing issue – all the bare ballads are lumped together on Side B, all the orchestral songs are lumped together in the middle, and the most contemporary sounding songs are lumped together on Side A. The songs meant to break up this tonal monotony are all the stinkers off 25. Plus, the album opener and album closer should have been reversed. It’s just sequenced incorrectly, and it feels like there’s no variety as a result. But also, 11 songs are not enough to give any album range, especially an Adele album, where she seems to stick to one very rigid and outdated sound. As it stands, though, 25 is a draining, drab, dull, bore ride. In the end, I’m left feeling like 25 is 100% inessential, no matter how well it was made or how well it sold. If Dimery truly thought this album was essential, he’d have added a Michael Bolton album, a Celine Dion album, a Cher album, and an early-era Mariah album – aka other Adult Contemporary albums. But none of those albums are on here, while Adele is, based only on sales alone, and it’s obvious that’s the case. Just because something is all over the bargain bin, that doesn’t make it essential listening; in fact, normally, it’s the opposite.

I CAAAAAAAAAAAN LOVEEEE YOUUUUU IN THE DAAAAAAAAAAARK

Só conhecia as mais famosas e tô sem acreditar que ainda não tinha escutado. Que álbum incrível

No thank you.

Just not my shit.

I was not a fan of Adele initially and I'm now pretty unsure as to why. Sometimes when I hear something unique, my instinct is to dislike it I think. Anyhow, it was a couple of years before she won me over with the lush power of her voice and I now think she is probably one of the best current female vocalists out there. It's a towering and staggering sound that she brings. Every time I hear this album, I find something new. This time it was "Water Under the Bridge" that really hit. It spoke to my experiences and I found the lyrics pretty moving emotionally. I hope we get a lot more of Adele in the years to come.

I won’t revisit my Adele rant from “21,” just one minor addendum. Adele placed two albums on the list (this one of them) but neither stuck around. She’s unrepresented in the current edition, I believe. But… so are Whitney Houston and Celine Dion!? That’s shocking. I wouldn’t exactly say Adele’s music fits with Houston’s and Dion’s stylistically, but as an iconic cultural voice of a decade-plus, they’re the only modern artists I think I would compare to Adele. Seems to expose a blind spot on the 1001. Ok, one more addendum - an apology to pretentious-ass. He can think whatever he wants about Adele and any other album. And, in fact, while I may disagree with the assertion that “21” is vanilla, “25” is honestly a bit vanilla. A bit too adult contemporary. Adele’s voice is maturing here and still stands out, but the style and songs don’t quite live up to her earlier work. I revisited “19,” and hadn’t remembered how much more of a lounge/jazz/soul feel that one had, closer to Amy Winehouse than the Adele of six years later.

More filler songs than 21 but there is no denying the voice!

All of Adele’s album covers are pictures of her face from different angles. The next cover should be taken from below, looking up at her face. Zoomed out a bit, but focused on her mouth using a large aperture to softy blur the rest, to portray her iconically because that’s what her voice is…iconic. I read back my review of 21…a 3.5 with too much filler. After listening to 25, then 21, then 25 again, I like 25 better. The album cover is better too. Of what could be considered filler, I thoroughly enjoyed Million Years Ago. The simple guitar backing compliments her voice so well. It’s auditorily (not a word) intimate as hell and the power of her voice is clearly evident even though it is restrained.

Probably 3.5 - lots of very good songs, Send My Love being my favorite.

Honestly was a banger

not my taste but I can appreciate the talent

Favourite song - when we were young

she has a nice voice, it was a good album

adele is a talented lady

Ég skil alveg af hverju Adele er svona vinsæl og dáð og ég er alveg á þeim vagni. Þetta eru kannski ekki hennar þekktustu lög (fyrir utan Hello) og ég fíla blúsuðu lögin hennar meira en þetta er bara í heildina virkilega þétt plata sem er hægt að spila aftur og aftur í bakgrunni.

There’s a good chance you’ve heard the opening track “Hello” before, which has become a hallmark in Adele’s catalog with the spare piano and touches of reverb that build into a choir echoing into the emptiness. There’s also a good chance you’ve heard the next track “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” before, which is one of her weakest songs with the muffled stomp-clap beat that takes more focus than any semblance of melody. The fact these two are together sets the tone for how inconsistent this album is. It’s not a bad album, but it’s pretty apparent how each song has a different producer, which leads to different vocal effects and instrumental compositions across the album. Adele has been at her best when the production is dark and gritty, and that’s not always what you get here. This also translates to this album's vocal performance and lyrical themes, where it’s coming from a more mature perspective, reflecting on past relationships. She isn’t midway through a breakup like she was on 21, thus the framing would be different. But the songwriting hasn’t aged up with that maturity all the way through, and there is not as much raw power in the delivery. “Hello” and “Love in the Dark” are great songs, but you don’t quite get a “Rolling in the Deep” or “Set Fire to the Rain” here. Overall, it’s a solid album that will get a recommendation, as there are good selections to be had here. I wish it were a little tighter and more focused.

no es el mejor disco de adele (tampoco es de mi agrado; buena voz pero sus canciones son ....

21 was better but this was still good.

Yep. Another decent album by Adele

Röddin er rosa næs og sum lögin alveg ljómandi. En þetta einfalda píanó-söng combó er alltof algengt og barasta ekki nógu skemmtilegt, og sum lögin virka sem of mikill filler. Skal hlusta aftur en þarf það ekki í bili.

Enjoyed this. 3.36

An oldie but a goodie… her debut album that rocketed off the charts…LOVE IT!!❤️❤️

I’ve only really ever listened to Adele from her biggest hits, and knew she had a great voice but never delved deeper in her albums. WOW she’s great, and I feel kind of bad not having heard many of her other songs, such a rich sound, with great backing to assist. 3.8

Never listened to the whole album, was better than expected. I prefer the more bigger production songs than ones with less instrumentation.

It's an enjoyable album if you are in the mood. Unfortunately Adele has been very overplayed so her voice/style gets old quite quickly for me. Good songs though.

So much talent. So incredibly safe and boring. Yes, "Hello" is a great track. "Water Under the Bridge" is more interesting than the rest of the album, but that's about it. Take a chance, do something less safe.

Pop forward singer songwriter. On this album she has musical accompaniment, which is nice. Her previous works were more acoustic. Such a powerful voice. Super emotional music, so ya gotta be in the right mindset, but it's fantastic!! Favourite songs: Hello, Send My Love (To Your New Lover), I Miss You, When We Were Young, Remedy, Water Under the Bridge, River Lea, Love in the Dark, All I Ask, Sweetest Devotion Least favourite songs: if forced to pick, Million Years Ago 5/5

Didn’t finish. Have heard the first song far too often in the past and it’s not my thing. The second (?) song had a different feel which was a pleasant surprise. Slightly overrated overall, though I did appreciate ChatGPT’s explanation to ‘why is Adele so famous’: she has an interesting album release schedule (aligning with stages of life), and has a low key demeanour.

She can definitely hold a note without coming up for air, but musically this album is the equivalent of C-grade middle school project. 1.0/5.0: Embarrassing

Great voice, great lyrics full of feelings, great album.

Good stuff. Just not really my thing.

I love Adele. A class act! 4

Nice

Amazing voice but if you’ve heard one Adele album you’ve heard them all. The quintessential suburban normie music of the 2010s. Why are there more than 1 albums of hers on this list?

I remember seeing Adele on a news magazine show as a teenager. I was very impressed with her that far back. She vanished from view for a time. Several years later, 19 popped onto the scene. She was truly on her way. I listened to 21 probably 100 times. This is actually my first complete listen to 25. Hello is a stunner from the start. Of course, it had massive radio play, so I knew it. The rest of the album…Pure Adele. Her vocals are soulful and haunting. Her emotions come through with power and grace. She deserves her place in music history and fans will always reflect kindly on her work.

Fine, not my cup of tea but Adele's voice is impressive as always

Top voice, decent tracks

She old

Another one of my favourites! The people on here are incredibly disparaging. Just because Adele has two of the top three best-selling studio albums in the UK does not automatically make her music bad. Incredible voice backed up with great songwriting and a different sound to ‘19’, ‘21’ and ‘30’. Even the Max-Martin-produced songs aren’t too bad: a different direction for Ms Adkins. I first listened to this all the way through after this website recommended ‘21’, although I obviously knew all the hits.

I am conflicted, Adele has an amazing voice and no doubt is an incredible musician, but her songs off this album are just miss after miss for me. Too slow and verges on whiny, although there are a couple of very big hits on this. Rolling in the Deep was and still is my favorite song by her but none of it comes close ilunfortunately.

Look… Adele has a phenomenal voice and “Skyfall” is the best Bond theme but I just don’t like the rest of her music. Ok “Remedy” was a pretty good song. Also this album came out right when I was going through the worst breakup of my life so hearing the singles again was a real fun trip down memory lane. Didn’t affect my score, just a fun realization

This is like a secret amazing album. Unlike "21" that had a few hits, "25" really only had "Hello" which is the first song. Her musicality of using the voice to invoke her emotions in songs like "All I Ask" and "Million Years Ago" snuck up on me and really made me feel the songs.

Obviously, Adele has a great voice. The issues with this album do not stem from her singing. Instead, they stem from the "Ed Sheeran-ification" on most of the biggest hits. "Send My Love..." is over-saturated pop trash, and I tend to like pop music. Songs where Adele shows more vulnerability with relaxed production really carry this album, even though they weren't the hits from when it came out. I definitely understand why this album is on the list, but the biggest hits are generally the worst part of it. Best Songs: Hello, I Miss You, Million Years Ago, Sweetest Devotion Worst Songs: Send My Love..., Remedy

Overrated

1. hello - 1.5 2. zend my love - 0 3. i mizz you - 1.5 4. young - 1 5. remedy - 0 6. bridge - 0 7. river lea - 0 8. in the dark - 1 9. million yearz ago - 2 10. all i azk - 1.5 11. devotion - 1

Bit too AOR for me.

Not my style but not bad.

talented but bland

Clearly very talented but didn't do a lot for me, I'll give this a 3

Skipped 'Hello' right off the bat, as I heard it a lot when it first came out and never liked it. With this album, I had a similar reaction as I did to Adele's 21: I skipped many of the songs about halfway through, as I found them pretty boring. I did like 'I Miss You', though. Saved that song, but won't be revisiting this album.

Every time Hello starts I want to go "is it me you're looking for?" I've heard Send My Love before, no clue it was Adele.

Before listening: I don't hate Adele, I just don't want to listen to Adele. Her album 21 was really good. When this came out, I remember not giving a shit. That song Hello, was apparently like a Lionel Richie song. I don't give a shit about Lionel Richie so I didn't care about that song. That being said, I'm gonna give this a whirl, and I bet I'll be pleasantly surprised. After listening: I found this album to be a little less than alright. I didn't like most of the songs, in fact I only liked three songs, but those three songs were amazing. The rest was pop drivel.

Beautiful voice, haunting vocals, very straightforward love/heartbreak songs. I have never really given her much of a listen but I enjoyed dipping my feet into the water with this one. May explore some of the other albums from her.

I love this so so much!!

She's an incredible talent but the songs have been so overplayed at this point and do nothing for me. Sorry, I know this makes me uncultured

Adele is more palatable than the average adult pop

I like this album a lot. Adele has a great voice and her lyrics tend to hit my spots.

Adele is a once in a lifetime vocalist, and to be fair, you can definitely sense it in this album. I think the songwriting shines as well at many high moments. What I don't really get is why she thought she needed the super modern bombastic production at certain songs. To be honest, it just makes her sound a bit weak. Your a diva, Adele, you don't need to do anything to prove it.

It grates by the end

So so so good.

Wow, this is an amazing record. Adele is an all time great and continues to prove it here with amazing performances. The songwriting and production are incredible, too - every song is great. Only knocked down from 5 to a 4 because it’s not my preferred style (heavy on the ballads). But for many people, I could see this easily being a 5.

No 21. Favourite track: Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

I always liked Adele, but never listened to her album. Her voice is gorgeous. I like the adventurous rhythms of I Miss You. Her lyrics are understandable, and not crammed full of words that pass by like wallpaper. Her melodies are actually melodies. Yes, she has her conventions but I find her music ear catching, listening, and lovely for listening. However, I got a bit bored about mid way through the album. She definitely has her formulas for melodies and it's not a rhythmic album by any stretch. Still, I'll rate it highly.

Not a fan of Adele's music, but she is very talented.

She's really good! Never listened to this other than the singles that repeated on the radio for years.

Dude you're getting Adele!

Good.

Not outrageously inventive but well sung and well performed, 3.4

Day91 - i’m not the target audience for adele. her voice is good and i made it through the album but i wouldn’t do it again.

Definitely not for me, but what a great voice. I can't deny that.

Well a lot of people gave this album bad reviews because they didn’t like it. I really REALLY wish I could have been one of them. I mean come on, ME??? Adele???? YUCK!!! But the truth is, I didn’t hate it as much as I really wanted too. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t super good, or anything I’ll ever go back too, but it had parts that where pretty catchy. I’ve always had a weakness for pianos, and to be honest, the music aspect of this album was pretty good and on point. It’s Adele herself where I get a little lost. I’m not a fan of her voice, and I can’t really say I enjoy her lyrics either, but she really had some great producers who she worked with that really gave this album much more potential.

Great voice, but mostly boring songs 3/5

We all know Adele at this point. Hello and Send My Love are absolute masterpieces while also being super innovative. The rest of the album is quite good, but is a little more same-y. But Adele's voice is absolutely incredible, as is her lyricism. Not much to fault here.

Please see review for 21. Nothing has changed. So boring. Could be same album. 5th 1 out of 5 on trot now. Help! 0.9/5 3/4/24

Pop soul. Pretty mixed bag, this album. I can't deny Adele's ability as a vocalist but man do some of these songs just not hit. And the whole album has this like, mopey vibe. Everything feels way too slow, like there's not enough energy. She can sing as loud as she wants but sometimes it kinda just feels like she's going through the motions. Most of the tracks have good instrumentals, wouldn't really write home about any of them. And the album as a whole just goes on a bit too long. I will say there were a few songs I wasn't previously familiar with that I really like, towards the end of the album. Overall not super impressed. Might revisit a couple songs. 3/5

Adele has an incredible voice, and the opening two singles from this album demonstrate that perfectly. Perhaps had “hello” and “send my love” not been so heavily played across the UK and parodied (specifically hello) they might have been more impactful. The issue is then following this opening the album for me goes into a lull, the next four tracks seem to all talk about the same themes of love with little variation and without the impact of the opening two tracks. “River Lea” picks up the slack and then “million years ago” carries the back end being by far the best track here. Mainly because it addresses a different theme from breakup and as such feels incredibly fresh. The album closes strongly but the middle is too sleepy and repetitive for me. 3.8*

Instant classic!

The way I was belting these songs while I was deep cleaning

What a voice

Don’t even need to listen

Lovely.

- this is literally my favourite album ever i know every lyric

Honestly not bad. The back half of this album is Adele at her brightest though the first half has the mega hits.

Best song - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

Often played in my house as my wife is a really big fan of this record. It becomes harder to rate when you’ve heard it so much. But performance and songwriting are spot on.

She takes us as a tourist to her pain but doesn’t let us in. I am sad. We are over. You hear it, but the lyrics are generic so you don’t feel it. Compare this to a Tori Amos or Laura Nyro record and the difference is clear. I hope Adele can grow as a lyricist or partner up - then I think we will see the dark fullness of heartbreak.

Absolutely gorgeous album front to back. Soulful and smooth.

Nunca había escuchado un álbum de Adele completo y debo admitir que, sin ninguna expectativa, lo disfruté bastante. Si se trata de baladas sentimentales con interpretaciones emocionantes y sumamente potentes, Adele está más que capacitada para sacudir el corazón de millones (por algo es tan popular como es). Gran LP, aunque en ocasiones puede volverse repetitivo.

Has an album that promised so much ever delivered so painfully little? After the monster 21, it was always going to be a hard act to follow and while I openly adored 19 & 2, I listened to this once in 2015, the day it came out, and here we are just over 8 years later and I finally gave it my second proper listen and I'm still as let down as I was back when. I hope we don't have to review 30 later on, because there's only so much I can bear, let's just pretend Adele blew her vocal chords completely out at that last note of her Albert Hall concert, never to sing again... Shall we?

Great voice. Too slow and dramatic for my tastes but clearly a well put together album and incredible talent

Adele has such an incredible and singular voice. Immaculately produced and performed, but in my view doesn't ascend to the very highest tier of pop songwriting.

Had never listened to her album before. Really good album. Very powerful and soulful voice.

This is my second Adele album on this list- I thought I might have an idea of what is was going to sound like before I put it on. Sadly, I was spot on. Adele is pretty predictable, it's always power ballad after power ballad. She's got a beautiful voice but it's not enough for me. Some of the songs had interesting instrumentation but these all seem to blur together as a pretty standard Adele song. I also think she took a step back with this album. She's narrowing in on a single type of song which she didn't do in 21 and I generally get the impression that she's willing to try less. A little disappointing because I know she has a better album in her.

Many people compare this favorably to 21, but I find it to be a disappointing followup where Adele becomes a bland caricature of herself. Less rock, gospel, and soul, in favor of dull and repetitive classic strings and stock electronic. Her voice has less soulful range that once reminded me of Winehouse, and instead is oversaturated with ballads that highlight her longing intensity. The melodies are more predictable and cheesy, but I've never been a fan of her one-dimensional lyrics and themes anyway. It's just a shame this has the same cliche mood among all tracks (sad but optimistic). "Hello" is one of the most popular songs of the 2010s, but I find it dull and predictable. I do admit it's pretty solid and full as a powerful opener. 3/5 "Send My Love" is fun, catchy, and creative, and is by far the best song on here. 5/5 "I Miss You" has a cool dark ambience that reminds me of the XX, but is a bit repetitive. 4/5 "When We Were Young" is pretty boring but picks up a bit in the second half. 3/5 "Remedy" is an utterly forgettable and boring deep cut ballad. 1/5 "Water Under the Bridge" has that stupid stock electronic background but has an ok memorable chorus, lush and pretty. 2/5 "River Lea" also has boring stock background but she gives one of her most exciting and energetic performances on here. It's soulful and reminiscent of her earlier work with modern advances. 2/5 "Love in the Dark" is another forgettable yet somehow very popular ballad. 1/5 "Million Years Ago" tries to be different with a Spanish-like acoustic lead and background but is just as lame and forgettable. 1/5 "All I Ask" is somehow another super popular ballad that offers nothing new or interesting, full of cliches in both the lyrics and music direction. 1/5 "Sweetest Devotion" is an ok yet appropriate closer which offers nice ambience and a powerful versatile performance, even if it's not too interesting and rather predictable. Reminds me of Enya's "Sail Away". 2/5 Average: 2.3. It gets bonus points for excellent production, a consistent use of ambience and classical strings, and some stylistic diversity which isn't too grating. But then again, I'm not finding any tracks I'd revisit besides the first 3. I previously gave 21 a perfect score, which I was being generous about because it's not my style of music. And so perhaps I'm being a bit unfairly biased here on a bad day, but I re-listened 21 and still legitimately believe most of the songs are quite good, especially for the era.

- good pop music - good vocals - fine/mid not-pop music - annoyingly samey

Good shit

Did not really want to listen to this. Hello had a strong chorus but felt a bit uninspired apart from that. It was definitely heavily carried by her voice. Miss you was pretty catchy as well. The whole album was a bit of a bore but I did appreciate that million years ago felt slightly different with the focus just on the acoustic guitar and her voice. It felt refreshing and especially with all I ask afterwards which felt like a song written by a human not an ai. it definitely picked itself up a bit for the last three songs but not by much. Overall quite boring, uninspired and unambitious but was carried by her strong voice and a few good tracks.

Mid

Incredibly mid - some alright songs but i dont think ill listen again not really my sort of music

DOG SHIT

Extra points for taking me down a memory hole to when I lived in LA

Much as I admire Adele I can’t really understand why a second album is on this list when there are some artists missing completely. Having said that, it’s an alright sound and she’s clearly talented so 3*

'salright.

She can sing about absolutely nothing and make it beautiful. Hence the hatred from others. However, I happen to think that while her songs happen to be simple, they also contain a magic more often than not. Emotion flows through amid the chord progressions and choir accompaniment. It puts you into her world, and that’s powerful stuff. Her cataclysmic voice is obviously the show, but the supporting characters of composition and prose twisting into poetry is what completes the strong exectuiton.

Adele is dope. Amazing vocalist with catchy pop sensibility. I didn't realize how young she is.

Good album, lots of hits. Emotional.

So many of these songs have been played to death it’s weird to sit down and properly listen but it’s really well done. You miss a lot when it’s on an advert or something but a decent pair of headphones brings out some cracking production, and her voice is phenomenal. Nowhere near as moany as you think either.

Adele is awesome, but that slight lisp really puts me off. "Hello" is a banger, however I don't think this is her best record.

Fantastic voice - fantastic songs

Very nice voice, good selection of tunes.

It doesn’t feel quite fair to give this a 2, as Adele clearly has a lot of talent, but aside from the first two tracks, I found this album boring and tedious. Maybe in just in a bad mood. I do have fond memories of belting out “Hello” (terribly) at karaoke in Tokyo around 2015/2016, so maybe it deserves some credit for that. 2.5.

Many hits on this. Overall a good listen.

As always, Adele’s vocal performance is incredible here. Overall, the album is pretty good, but I think she plays it a little safe. On top of that, some songs were a bit too poppy for my taste. I actually prefer some of the lesser known songs, like River Lea, over many of the radio hits.

I was left wanting more. She has a phenomenal voice, but after lots of the same or similar songs, her voice loses its luster. And, the standout hits were just overplayed, so I don't even really want to hear them, either. 2/5

I really liked 21 but 25 passed me by, I don't think I'd missed much, I found this very middle of the road with very little stand out songs apart from hello, perhaps it grows on you after a few listens but not the best for me

Phenomenal

Best song:send your love Vibes: big dramatic ballads, urgency Themes: breakup

Album # 37 Hello???

Maybe the best female singer ever. She could sing the phone book and it would be good.

Solid.

GOAT

Good album. Surprised I liked as much as I did.

I'll admit, I groaned when this popped up. But I'll try to give it a fair listen. Now that the hype has died down somewhat I'm not too opposed to a bit of Adele! Ok, this album was pretty much what I expected unfortunately. I get why it appeals to so many people, but it's just not for me. Most of the songs follow a very set quiet verse/loud chorus, then emotional key change, formula that just makes me cringe. The instrumental intro in "Water Under the Bridge" sounds so like the generic copyright free music you hear in YouTube ads, it actually made me laugh out loud. I did enjoy "Hello", "Remedy" and "Million Years Ago", but as a whole this album is a no from me, dawg.

She says “hello”, and I say goodbye. Pop is just not my preferred genre. Even though I may not dig the music style, I can appreciate some pop singers for their vocal range and voice quality and Adele would be included in that group. I recognized a couple of the hits but most of it sounds very similar.

I listened to Adele all the way home from work on Friday….is a line I never thought would come out of my mouth. She’s one that it seems got beyond famous off the back of a relatively small number of songs. I can see the genius behind a song like Hello for sure, but most of it sounds pretty standard to me. No idea why people lose their minds and her concert tickets go for $1000 a pop. If I’m going to listen to someone singing over piano give me an artist like Tori Amos any day of the week…no that was real talent and songwriting ability!

The vocal performance alone puts this on the higher side, but at times the songs all start sounding alike. Whether that be a patterned approach where every song has her starting soft only to then jump to belting it out, or the dramatic production. It sure would be nice to hear more with just her and a guitar or piano like on “Send My Love” as her voice is quite suited to that stripped down intimate feel. The last track “Sweetest Devotion” was one of my favorites. Still, overall a solid album that I will probably eventually forget about.