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Kinda the same thing as 21 but not as effective this time around. Somehow this album sounds a lot more synthetic, overproduced despite sounding quite simple. Her vocals still shine and carry these songs, but it's not something I would listen to over 21.
Me relajo escucharla
Great album, some real bangers from my childhood on there. Personally, I prefer to listen to the hits rather than the album as a whole. I also feel that I don't get much out of the lyrics, but appreciate how they let Adele show off.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Big vocals, anthems, some catchy and memorable songs and well put together as a coherent record.
This was awesome -- every single track. I listened to it 3 times and almost went back for a fourth. Five stars, easily.
Prior to this adventure, I had never really listened to Adele. Now, less than 300 albums into this project, this is my second album of hers after "21". That record surprised me in a positive way. This one, by comparison, was something of a letdown - lacking both the strength of tunes and the emotional edge of that prior record. That said, it's still a solid album, and her performances are equally as strong even if the songwriting isn't.
Very listenable but nothing-y
I'm an absolute sucker for amazing, goosebumps inducing female vocals. I have wept many times listening to Aretha Franklin. I get chills from Mavis Staples, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, Loleatta Holloway, Jill Scott etc. I feel nothing when I listen to Adele. My brain knows she's a powerful and amazingly talented singer, my body feels nothing. I considered giving it a 2 because it's not offensively bad but I really don't like it, found it hard to get through and really hope I don't have to hear it again.
cohesive but nowhere near as good as 19 or 21
Generally, this is well done "soulful pop," but it is just rather boring, as it doesn't do a lot besides that. It doesn't push any boundaries or do anything beyond what will get into the most houses and sell the most records. I do think there is some talented songwriting, but I just feel, like a lot of modern pop music, it is distilled down to the safest production and compositions instead of pushing anything further. I'd give this a 2.5, but it doesn't compare to other albums I've given a 3, so I have to push it down to 2.
Incredible talent but not my genre
So powerful, performed beautifully and written with such technical and aesthetic skill that you can see why this was a massive hit and continues to be peoples favourite album. Adele is able to take some truly heartbreaking situations that are entirely relatable to everyone that listens to them, and turn it into beautifully composed and performed works of auditory art. I cant deny the skill and ability shown here. But, do I want to listen to this when I am already in a place where I have a difficult set of circumstances to deal with? Probably not. I have never fully understood the desire to listen to sad songs when you feel sad. I understand that when you are feeling at your most upset, it might be comforting to know that other people have been there. But not me. (4.000)
3.5/5
prob high 3 even but my rating is wonky now u know
Another prime candidate for a list of 1001 Albums I Just Don’t Understand The Love For. She’s got a great voice, she seems like a nice enough person, but this just feels unexceptional. I think she deserves to be on a list of 1001 great singers, but this wouldn’t even be the album of hers that I would choose.
I enjoyed this much more than I expected to honestly, even though I wouldn’t listen to most of it again haha. I also can’t rate it too highly as it’s not really adding anything new in my opinion, although I don’t think it’s trying to? She has a formula and she certainly sticks to it. Despite not having heard a lot on this album before, Adele is sonically very nostalgic to me, having grown up listening to her music on the radio and singing along to her with school friends etc. She kind of exists as this ubiquitous pop juggernaut, I never really consider if I’m a fan of her or not beyond her big hits, although I liked some of the lesser known songs on this album. I like her more uptempo songs on this track (Send My Love, I Miss You, Water Under The Bridge) I’m less of a fan of the slower ballads as I think they pale in comparison to some of her earlier work in that style and I’m less inclined to enjoy songs like that anyway. I also like how this album isn’t TOO LONG! Some other artists could take note. Anyways.
Actually, aside from the hits, this album is pretty great. How does that work?
nicht so meins
Amazing voice for sure, but the music itself doesn't do it for me.
Nothing overtly offensive but really not for me
That album kinda went by without me noticing.
I think I gave the last Adele album a 3? Which is seeming pretty generous after hearing how bland this was. I'm not interested in hearing the same piano ballad for more than half the length of an album. I kind of liked the last song, actually. Her voice is great and all but it gets tiring
Brit bias? Anyway, these songs all kind of sound the same. Which gets even more annoying, as it goes on. Sounds like those singing contest tv shows, where it's all about how much drama and belting it out the singer can do. Using the same basic template to repeatedly strive for an undeserved/unearned/unconvincing (especially because of the repetition and sameness) sense of the epic and the anthemic. Blecch. 2 stars. A low 2. Saved from a 1 only by her voice. Which surely could be put to better use?
perfect for piping into a shopping area! I'm annoyed that there is more than one Adele album on this list. This one certainly doesn't bring anything better or more interesting than 21. All it has to offer are a couple massively popular tracks, albeit good ones, which I didn't need to go out of my way to listen to because I've been exposed to them without trying. Three cheers for more lowest-common-denominator pop. I mean some of the tracks on this one are mind-numbingly straightforward
i think i've only ever heard Hello in the past on the radio, so this will be a fresh listen for me Hello - 4/5 Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - 1/5 I Miss You - 3/5 When We Were Young - 4/5 Remedy - 3/5 Water Under the Bridge - 4/5 River Lea - 2/5 Love in the Dark - 4/5 Million Years Ago - 3/5 All I Ask - 2/5 Sweetest Devotion - 3/5 Average score: 3/5 correction: i've heard a quite a few tracks off this album, mostly from dumb/cringy tiktok posts personally, Adele's albums generally don't do it for me like they do for others, and this album further solidifies that for me. she's undoubtedly a talented vocalist, i think that's the one saving grace of her discography. however, similar to how others here have mentioned, i feel like she has nothing more to offer than songs about wallowing in her heartbreak or saying goodbye to past love(s). it's a little old for me personally maybe the excessive exposure i've had to most of these tracks from TikTok has turned me off from the album all together, idk. i'm kinda just over these kinds of albums from her, and i can't help that. i've yet to listen to 30, and maybe (hopefully) she's gone a different direction for that album
Favourite album of Adele tbh!!!
this and 1989 by taylor swift transport me back to being a 9 year old in the backseat of car being assaulted by these songs constantly being replayed on the radio. The only difference in retrospect 1989 was pretty good. this aside from a few songs was kind of jus boring anyways heres the rick ross remix of hello that i just discovered existed https://youtu.be/5A0qtVHaX9w?si=3TBl8oqg5Hkgj-9I
Opening track is a great, well written song even if I’ve heard far too many times. A thousand times perhaps. I think they achieved what they wanted with this album, and the sales back that up, but i doubt I’d want to listen again. She’s got pipes though.
“Hello” is obviously titanic and her voice is so special, but this album was just a whole bunch of ‘meh’
La verdad que la chica Adele canta espectacular y tiene tremendos bangers, trillados hasta el cansancio. Pero no es culpa de la señora tener pedazos de bangers. Ahora bien, el resto es lo más aburrido que uno puede escuchar de corrido. Más aburrido que chupar un clavo. Y bajón. Te banco Adele y a Virginia Lagos, pero escuchar todo del tirón es como tomar un café en un bar de hotel y suena de fondo. 5/10
Overall Rating - 3.73/5 (7.45/10). Great voice. Old-school feel to a lot of the songs. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I thoroughly enjoyed this album. A couple of real bangers. All I Ask touches the place in me where I still feel every loss I have had.
Ok, if I have to, but I'm skipping Water Under the Bridge. Alright, I take it back. Loved it. 5/5.
A bit over produced and weaker than first two albums. A couple of decent tracks
I love her voice, and I like most of the songs. Didn't like All I Ask, but the last song Sweetest Devotion was amazing.
Quite nice, Adèle has a beautiful voice. The whole thing feels a bit bland though
This illustrates exactly what is wrong with most music made today. Average at best songs. Slick production. Fake emotional vocals. All completely safe sterile no risk and no rewards for the listener. Adele clearly has talent but anything close to originality has been erased
This has all the elements of something I SHOULD love, a clearly gifted vocalist, interesting musical choices, phenomenal recording mixing and engineering, throw in some good 'ol fashioned depresso esspresso and I should be fully on board. For whatever reason this elicits zero emotional response from me. That doesn't mean this isn't good work, it clearly is... it just doesn't resonate with me.
Adele has a reliably quality voice, in fact it's absolutely great and no wonder she is so globally adored. However, this album didn't really catch our attention too much.
Contrary to popular belief (unless this is a common take, I have no idea actually), this is a big step down from 21. Sure it has a hit, that I largely do not enjoy, the rest of the album is making an effort to emulate the success of the first but now from the perspective of someone successful. 21 had a good bluesy vibe to it but this is a little too much pop for her voice. Sorry girl
Not gonna lie a part of me didn’t want an Adele album in my 5 star albums, but this album’s just too good. I never really gave her a chance - I told myself I would be lame if I liked it. But I was really lame for not liking it. Why am I like this, haha. Listening intimately with some good earphones makes this album so impactful. The production is masterful, and her vocals are just so peak. Yeah, great album.
fine. less annoying than 21 because it is less overplayed. my adele opinions remain the same
Her second best.
Adele is a mixed blessing, there are real highs and she writes from the heart but that heart can be melancholic.
She has a great voice and some of the arrangements are really lovely. The songwriting is decent in places. But. I found a lot of this quite unexciting. When We Were Young, Water Under the Bridge and Sweetest Devotion are very good. Million Years Ago has a lovely melody but, like a lot of this album, sounds like it was written by someone much older reflecting on life- not someone aged 25 and by all accounts in the prime of her life. I’m 24 in a few months. That does not make me old.
Absolute gem of an artist and an album!
adele é adele. música para velhos com um gosto refinado. não é pra mim mas eu consigo enxergar a beleza.
7/10 Very surprised to see a 2015 album here but its a pretty damn good choice
Banger, When we were young, Love in the Dark, Million years ago ça part dans la playlist des favoris tout ça
Pas mon préf
Pas mon album préféré d'Adele mais quand même un classique. Il me rappelle quand je passais mon permis parce que Hello jouait tout le temps a la radio à ce moment-là
Hello aside, nothing to see here
Like a Celine Dion Album played by your parents friends on their Bose sound waves player but 20 years later with no innovation or risk taking gained from that time
Loved the album really great.
I think this is the first album I've listened to on this list that made me agitated The different writers and producers on every track make it a jumbled, irritating mess Some of the individual production is ok and it can't be denied that Adele has a good voice when she's not wailing like a banshee, but the whole is so much less than the sum of its parts. I'll be actively avoiding this album in the future and it's mind bendingly irritating lyrics and themes
Better than i thought. Ton of hits
Amazing voice!
I generally understand why Adele is so huge and popular, even if this gets a bit too bland radio pop. Some great singles.
I think this album has a lot going for it. She's obviously a great singer and it's obvious that a lot of effort when into the entire writing and recording process. The end result clearly captured the hearts of a lot of people. The complaints I see in negative reviews seem a bit piddling and at times even spiteful.
Bom but not my type
this one just has some great nostalgia for me. I loved it
Pretty good
10/10
Don't remember anything other than Hello. might relisten, might not.
10/10
Lacks the drive and purpose of the albums that came before it, that loss of focus reflected in stylistic experiments that don’t all come off.
I mostly don't like this. I find Adele is a classic over-singer, and her voice grates after a while, especially when she shout-sings. Most of the songs sound like they were designed to be epics, but end up feeling boring. A few exceptions which I don't mind are Hello, I Miss You (best track here) & When We Were Young.
Adele undoubtedly has one of the best voices in the last 50 years. However, she sings shitty pop songs. Her voice is definitely a five, but her content is a one. I wish she would move to jazz or blues. I think her voice is very much suited for that.
This album cover makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Jesus, woman, Back up a little. Also, where is her neck? Why do I have to stare at a floating head staring back at me with those totally vacant eyes for 48 minutes? Why did her floating head need to be close enough to the camera for me to be able to count the individual pores on her face? The cover raises way too many questions that probably can't be answered. I at least need to know why she decided to wear a black turtleneck for that headshot. Anyways, enough about the damn mugshot. The music is fine. It definitely gets better as it goes on, but I'm probably just saying that because I found out that I can get through the album by looking away from my PC. Hello is a perfect pop song, though.
25 going on 75
The ultimate modern mothers album Crazy good voice, predictable boring songwriting although quite interesting sparse production at times
Overhated, far from her best album but no where near as bad as RYM would have you believe. Hello really takes me back to a simpler time when that was the most popular meme format Second half is a lot less interesting however
WWWY-booringggg Remedy- boorringggggg Best song-sweetest devotion
Beautiful album, the emotion that Adele sings with is just awesome. Not an album for every occasion but definitely a brilliant one!
So I don’t go to my music streaming and look for and listen to Adele, and I probably still won’t, but 25 is a pretty album, and she’s very talented fo’ sho’‼️
Not my favorite album from her, but still extremely good. I’d give it a 4.25, but that rating option isn’t available. Anyway, we love Adele until the end of time.
wychowałam się na Adele, na tym albumie też, a po latach nadal uważam, że Adele queen, bardzo dramatyczny momentami, świetny wokalnie
Es lo mejor que hay en el planeta tierra. Oídos BENDECIDOS
Big snooze. Just don't care. 1/5
Not her best
I don’t mind a bit of Adele but doing a whole album was tough
Kaže kad smo bili mladi a 25 joj godina hahahahahaha evo ja u dvadesetpetoj još nešto mislim da sam relativno mlada. Audio teror zvani Hello na svakoj prokletoj radio stanici 24/7 2015. godine je nešto što bi bilo lijepo zaboraviti i evo skoro da sam uspjela kad me generator podsjeti. Bolesno dosadan album.
RATING:3.8/5Much more my pace genre wise, i liked the funky instramentals and the psychadelic funk style. FAV SONG: Cholly (funk getting ready to roll), i like the instramental and vocals for this track. DURATION: 1hr 4m, 10 songs DATE: 17/05/26
Great album didn't have time to finish today but I definitely will later. Great pop album though and very emotional.
ok
hello, adele. hi. do i know you? of course. is that a spider-man: no way home reference? also of course. i've all grown up since when i first listened to hello on repeat when i seperated from my ex two years ago. i still pretentiously tears up listening to the song and all the emotion. all those apology and self reflection is kinda useless in retrospect. i am fucked up and he is also fucked up mentally, we are both in bad places. yet im not that trying to do better and tonight is the day that i listen to 25 in its full for the first time. i can write about what im feeling since its yet still so complicated. ive felt emotions, went to places, changed a lot and 25 somehow wrote itself into my life. i still remember how i listened to hello when i separated from him screaming the lyrics in the karaoke, as if all the time are eternal and stuff. i cant write anymore about this so time to rate. 3/5
joya!
Pop
5/10
classic case of a good voice but does nothing with it. truly coworker music.
Amazing voice, strong arrangements, powerful and authentic vocals. Adele is amazing and I like the majority of these songs.
Adele is an elite vocalist. I liken her to being the Aretha Franklin of the 2000’s. 25 was a huge album for Adele and displayed her vocal talents on a handful of songs that went viral as soon as they were released. You know you’ve made superstar status when people begin comparing others to you as the standard of excellence. Great album and an amazing talent.
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Remarkable voice. Songs range from very good to fine. None are great, most are a bit overproduced, but her voice carries the day.
Greatest singer alive!
Not a fan going in and wouldn't say I'm a huge fan going out but I feel this deserves the place. It's well written, amazingly sung, a part of music history and a big cultural impact. I Respect how well this is put together and Hello is an iconic track.
She has a beautiful voice. “Hello” is powerful. But overall, I find this mostly boring.
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0.25
This is the kind of album I hoped would be in this list. Albums that know what they want to do, do it well, are well produced and emotionally expressive. Adele can feel a bit like she's following a standard formula sometimes, but she does it well and I don't mind because I like the nostalgic thought that she learnt it in the same London school my sister went to. So many classics of the last ten years in here.
Adele is class , and this album is really good but its not a 5 star. 21 is slightly better. But thats only my opinion.
Department store music
Beautiful voice. Boring album
Not good. I don't believe in any of the emotions here. This is not my experience of love. The only saving grace is that Adele's voice can be pleasant.
The faster songs are good but overall I just find this so boring. But she's sold buckets of albums so im in the minority.
I should say now that I'm entirely pro 'pop albums stuffed with love songs.' Not everything needs to be juicy or hyperspecific or deeply confessional. There are songs here that do blend together (and the 2nd track STINKS) but it is hard to deny that Adele's voice is wonderful and her songwriting is solid. If the album had more songs on the level of "Hello", it would probably get a higher rating, but the fact that there is one at all means this is worth your time. Do the moms have the music? Maybe this time, but I'm still not sold on Alanis Morrisete.
i love her, una voz increible y un album sentimental, nostalgico y de amor
A mulher é foda mesmo ein? Pqp. Só música boa.
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this album. I've always thought that Adele was a great singer stuck singing mostly average songs. But this is a really good collection of songs, carried by strong arrangements and quality playing to support her excellent vocals. She's not breaking any major new territory, but this is well-made pop/soul and I'll come back to it.
I was expecting to hate this album, not because I dislike Adele but because I hate emotionally driven sappy songs. And I didn’t like the song Hello for that exact reason. But part of my hate for that song might also be the over exposure. That being said I did feel like the emotionally manipulative mom pop wasn’t as “thick” as I was anticipating. I did hate that nonsense pop song with barely intelligible lyrics “send my love”. That’s everything wrong with pop music today. It’s just a factory churned out brain worm that just has wailing vocals that can’t even be deciphered. I will say though, while I didn’t actually save anything from this album, she does have some incredible pipes. But the album as a whole was just not for me at all.
Super dramatic production. I swear I hear an 808 or two. ‘Hello’ is super dated, and the songs that aren’t hits are weak. When We Were Young, Love in the Dark, and All I Ask are great. Karaoke belters.
What an opener. What an opening pair! 'Hello' is a spare, dramatic piano ballad with elements of the dark electronic pop movement that had been brewing for a few years (see: The XX, though, also: don't). Ordinarily, I hate that shite but it's included in this song as a subtle element only of the rhythm section (the *heavy* reverb on the drums and its really sparse beat), plus the harmonic content of the vocal melody and piano chords. It does still make me feel like my fiancee is leaving me (she was) but that's not Adele's fault. In all, it's just a simple and powerful vocal performance. The only real gymnastics for this diva are an occasional grace note sliding into a phrase. It is, and I do not use this term often for this type of music, perfect. Write and record a song like this and you'll get a 3/5 from me almost regardless of the rest of the record. Worth owning at least a vinyl single just to hear the depth of her mellifluous mezzo-soprano range (I swear to you, she bottoms out as a contralto; she just stretches higher, too). 'Send My Love' is as deserving today as it was then of its gargantuan cultural impact. The guitar part remains catchy as hell -- many a busker has made their bones on this -- and the rhythm makes this breakup song serviceable on the dancefloor. If only it had a backbeat. The cool-with-it lyrics contrasted with a sanguine tone sit this song in a delicate emotional place, perfect for a 25-year-old. I'm not sure what the writing split was but it's no shock that Max Martin is credited on this one. I hate corporate pop music. It's my belief that music is meant -- in an existential sense -- to resonate in our culture. Music aspires to express something to us or for us. It ought to give voice to something -- joy or sorrow; laughter or rage -- that allows us to commune with each other. The most moving thing we can do is raise our voices together. You get a little of it when you shout along to 'Sweet Caroline' at a sports stadium or a bar. You'll get some more if you learn a traditional song of farewell, like 'The Parting Glass'. Pop music is, by and large, conceived only to elicit a consumer purchase. We don't all sing Pharrell's 'Happy' together to celebrate our best moments. You *might* remember joyfully dancing to Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition' at somebody's wedding. The crassness with which record companies assemble teams of writers and producers and select from a stable of musicians to assemble product for consumption and evaluate merit via KPI is an insult to the ancient storytellers and shamans who first banged drums and joined their voices to soothe, motivate and teach our early tribes. Adele's work straddles those camps. She is a part of that A&R system and it profits (enormously) from her work but I believe that she is, nonetheless, in conversation with that tradition. She seems to care what she's singing and to embody it. She'd be singing to her friends and family even without Max Martin and they'd be just as awed as we are now, listening to her world-famous recordings. She's a little broad. There's a sort of mass-market genericness to her work that comes from being a product of the system. It limits her, even though it also affords her opportunities for collaboration and expansive reach. About half of her songs also sound like they were written for a Lincoln or heart medication ad. She is the best example of how the music *industry* can still produce music of real quality, not merely fleeting commercial value. I sometimes wonder what she'd sound like if she had apprenticed under Diana Krall or Liz Phair instead of being signed to a behemoth. This is a very fine record. It's a monument of its time -- it was universally and immediately beloved. I think it drops back to excellent vocal pop after the first two tracks. It's confessional, personal and feels genuine. It doesn't quite translate to the universality that her very special first two songs do, though. Honestly, any musician would be fairly satisfied by a career that contained only one of 'Hello' or 'Send My Love'. But the rest of the album rings just hollow enough to me that I can't give it a perfect score. I'm continually impressed by Adele and she's produced music that I love. I just wish her work contained fewer super-producers and more bandmates who kept pushed her to be a little more idiosyncratic. At the end of this album, I believe Adele was 25. It's relatable and palpable. But I don't really know who Adele *was* at 25. Apart from being a deserved international superstar singer. That's the persona. But that's a job, not a person. 4/5 -- a must-listen and a near-masterpiece that seems subtly undermined by the need to move some widgets at Columbia
3/5 Many of the songs sound the same, and musically are very uninteresting. Theres a couple strong songs on here. Sweetest devotion is very good and maybe my favorite vocal performance of hers. Her song writing is good and theyre very heartfelt lyrics. Million Years ago was another good song. Not as big as fan of hello as I thought i would be. Very run-on. Overall. Musically lacking but her voice helps make up for it.
Temon tras Temon, las letras, las melodías. Álbum 10/10
Music for people who don't like music.
favorite
Look, I never listen to Adele no my own volition, but she is undeniably great. Rather her than almost any of her pop contemporaries.
Beautiful album I've heard some of these tracks before but i never sought out to look for it myself. My favourites were when we were young, love in the dark and water under the bridge.
A few too many lyrical cliches and stale arrangements detract from her stunning vocal chops
I am not much of an Adele fan, but I reckon this is probably her magnum opus. Her voice is great obviously, the songs well arranged and the themes strike a chord. I read up on the legal issues surrounding A Million Years Ago. That was fun, the aong sounds very plagiarised (I tought of Charles Azanvour) but has been dubbed a musical cliche.
I think that I will stick to a simple and very subjective evaluation of this record: it's not for me. There is some real talent on this record and clearly a lot of people love it, but I am not one of them.
I dont listen to Adele but respect
You know what's better than 24? 25
This is a sweeping album full of lush ballads. Not typically my thing, but its hard not to respect that voice and delivery.
***A good easy listening album
Adele really is a pop star, and I mean it in the least cynical way possible. Great album that is friendly to the listener, with great songs that all of them could easily be radio hits. And obviously great vocals, especially the lower voice that doesn’t have enough appreciation. I am positively surprised as someone that never before gave this artist a longer listen
Great album with some legendary bangers. 8.8/10
‘M going to be honest. I try to listen to everything on this quest. But there are a few I’m not sure I need to. I have heard this amongst the zeitgeist. I know this is ‘good’. I have a lot of time for Adele as a person. But I don’t need to listen to heat wrenching break up music to know it’s not my bag. Like with a number of albums in the list - this isn’t for me, and that’s ok. A bang in the middle 2.5. But rounded down.
3/4
Talented with an incredible voice, but is a pretty standard affair.
Adele herself said in her Grammy acceptance speech that she couldn’t accept the award because she thought Beyoncé’s Lemonade should have won. Telling!
Buenas canciones, grandes exitos, quizas la segunda mitad del album me paso desapercibida pero no dejan de ser buenos temas y ella tener una gran pero gran voz.
I could produce an album on par with this in 30 mins. Yes, the AI is going to take Adele's job.
Starter med et brag, og der er flere udmærkede numre imellem, men det bliver også meget af det samme ballade-mæssigt.
Ikke mit yndlings med Adele, men stadig virkelig godt
On dirait une quarantenaire qui vient de se faire larguer qui fait des musiques pour des adolescents. Alors qu’elle avait 25 ans quoi… bien produit et tout ok, mais j’accroche pas.
Nutzt sich schnell ab
Best Track - "Hello"
Me gustó, nunca lo había escuchado entero.
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh How has it been 11 years since this album came out? I really hope this is the one and only Adele album you force me to listen to on this list. I’m still in pain from the amount of Adele we were force fed in 2010-2015. HAVE MERCY. ENOUGH FOR A LIFETIME. This wasn’t as painful as 21 but if this made it to the list I can’t imagine how 21 won’t. I’ll give credit where credit is due. Undoubtedly, Adele has talent, a great voice and some good lyrics. It does not mean I need to listen, or enjoy listening, to her. Whilst her pitch is fine, her voice can actively annoy me in its transitions. I don’t like being a hater but listening to this album didn’t change my mind. Hello needs to be buried in a time capsule only to be resuscitated after a nuclear winter. She seems like a funny person so I am sorry. Maybe poor Adele is just the victim of over-commercialisation? I’ll let her weep with her millions.
Faut pas avoir envie de se flinguer Mais c'est beau, Et on aime ça 4,5/5
Malheureusement cet album souffre de la comparaison avec son prédécesseur 21, qui est un album vraiment exceptionnel. Donc on prend les mêmes et on recommence ? Manifestement non, on abandonne toute idée intéressante pour livrer des chansons dignes de l'Eurovision (Water Under the Bridge) ou d'Ed Sheeran (Send My Love) - et ce n'est pas un compliment. Playlist pick : Hello, qui sauve les meubles
The weaker of Adele's albums. Not a true reflection of how good she really is.
Buen álbum. Tiene canciones muy conocidas por ahí. Típico de Adele, la bancamos. Love in the dark fue mi fav.
Just yearning, nothing much happens in here
Confession time. I listened to 21 when I originally rated this album and it wasn’t until 25 popped up again that the realized the mistake. Perhaps a sign of just how mid this artist is. That said, I enjoyed this album more than 21 but it was also more polarizing. There are a few mostly popular songs on here that are overplayed and make me reach for fast forward. But then there are several piano-based ballads that I actually favorited. Maybe it was the Ben Folds concert last weekend that has my ears craving more piano. Or maybe they were just good. Overall these songs don’t really speak to me and the emotion somehow seems less but I actually liked 3 songs. I’ll give it some generosity. 4/5
beautiful powerful ballade heartbreak soft visceral haunting
Great voice on a bunch of forgettable songs
Her vocal talent is obviously great, but the album is a little boring at times. Not many songs really blow you away, which is a bit of a let down considering her talent. 3/5 Probably won't listen again
naw i’m okay
Boring
Beautiful voice. Boring songs.
no
many bangers aber leider die besten halt schon tot gehört
Aretha Franklin for retail store playlists; the term “plastic soul” has never been more applicable. That said, I will say that “Water Under the Bridge” and “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” are still good songs, no matter how overplayed they are.
I don’t love this as much as 21 but my god When We Were Young is such a song.
I love adele she can do no wrong be so fr
Rösten! En femma
Adele is one of the most talented singers of our time. What a shame that the songs are extremely boring. There is more to music about love and heartbreak than just a piano. Also, the album feels really like a compilation of songs, rather than an album.
Four years later and even more boring.
Hermoso y melancólico
Heard it before. I like her first two albums but after them her sound became kind of boring. Same thing but worse. Send My Love To Your New Lover has such an annoying chorus I get a headache when I hear it 2/5
Absolute cinema, Adele is a genius. Cried to Million Years Ago.
I mean, this album was everywhere when it came out, so a lot of songs were well familiar to me. It feels a bit safer compared to the other Adele albums, keeping it between the lines. The album could have had a bit more variety for it to be even better. 3/5
Sure. This is fine.
Ballads are obviously her thing but I can't listen to them one after another. A lot of people were involved and it sounds like it. Some songs sounds like they could have been written for anyone.
One of the greatest voices of our era. Send My Love is just a fun song to listen too. Hello can get a bit overplayed, but still holds up. Lots of tunes about love and heartbreak. A topic that will always be relevant. Good album.
Lots of songs here about love and heartbreak. Hello is a great song, and the rest of the record tracks.
What I thought was many different blandly overproduced and homogenized musicians playing in the dance clubs of the 2010's was in fact mostly Adele, it would seem. I was surprised by how much I disliked something so polished
Her undoubted talent doesn't begin to make up for how dull everything she writes is. 2/10
This worked for me Likes: Hello; Send My Love; When We Were Young; Remedy; Water Under The Bridge
Adele has a voice everyone should envy but I was actually unconvinced by the songs themselves which I was surprised by but that’s what this is all about I guess.
Adele, while very talented in her own right, is not really music for me at all. I'm going to be a good sport of course and listen to the album, but for anyone else reading this keep in mind: I'm not a pop guy, don't take this rating to heart. I listen to bands like Henry Cow and the Butthole Surfers, who are essentially completely different solar systems than pop music. Adele is by far and away one of the most successful musicians of the 2010s: Once she got big in the scene she kept it going. 21 is probably her better known album (with Rolling In The Deep/Someone Like You/etc), but could I really say that when the average plays on 25 are closer to a billion? Alright enough procrastinating on listening to the album by writing this meaningless introduction. Well, I survived. Wasn't as bad as I thought (definitely wouldn't be too abysmal), but I can still plainly say most of this music is just simply not for me. I'm glad it's good for most people! There's a few songs here I liked: I Miss You, River Lea (found out afterwards it was produced by Danger Mouse which helps), and the closing track Sweetest Devotion. Everything else: No. Simply no. If I didn't hear it a million times working in [retail-adjacent work], maybe I'd like it better. But I still dislike it. Overall: definitely an important album over the past 10-15 years, I'm never gonna say something like Adele is a bad singer when she clearly isn't, but like, this just isn't engaging enough to me. She has the conviction singing value, but I'd like to see what she can do with an orchestra or symphony. Something grander. 25 ends on a good note which was better than my low expectations, but I'm happy to not hear most of this again. Could definitely be a lot worse, and it's better than Taylor Swift at least. I'm not gonna feel bad for one of the best selling musicians this century though lol.
I've never really listened to Adele. She's always just **been there**. Kind of like wallpaper. Fine but nothing you'd really go out of your way to notice. I'm probably not the target audience for this album but there's some good songs on here and some absolute snoozers.
Gotta say, I didn’t enjoy this as much as the last one. This has a lot of ballads. Her voice is amazing. But the record got repetitive and the lyrics weren’t her best.
Not a fan. 21 is a better album. 18 has more sparks of originality and genius on it even if it is a mixed bag overall. This is just polished to the point where I can’t latch onto anything. She’s clearly a generational talent with her voice. This album just seems a waste of it. 1.5
novamente o mesmo comentário: a voz da adele é lindissima e a produção é de qualidade, mas balada não me pega.
By listening to this album you've listened to more Adele than 90% of Adele fans...
An amazing voice, probably the best of her generation. She has the ability to put her soul into every song. 8/10 Top song Million years ago
Fine. She has a great voice but I only need to hear once in a while. A whole album is a stretch.
Basically every song is co-written with a different producer which gives an interesting variety to the album. Tbf she does have an amazing voice. But yeah, not really my jam (sorry to be one of those guys).
Good but nowhere close to her others
Generational levels of Class, Style, and Substance.....4.5 star
Fantastic songs. Probably Adele's best
Top-notch R&B pop. Adele’s voice really is up there with Aretha, Etta, and Amy
Adele muy buena siempre loco
4/17 Meh. Other than the song "Hello", which i only know from memes, nothing stands out.
Ah, c’est bien cool ! Je connaissais peu Adèle et franchement, c’est pas trop mon genre de musique, mais j’ai vraiment accroché. Adele est vraiment une très bonne chanteuse, très intense. Comme toujours avec les chansons en anglais, j’ai pas la concentration nécessaire pour y faire trop attention, mais ce que j’en ai entendu, c’est touchant et ça me parle. Très content de cette écoute !
Always an Adele girly
Starting this up, I was excited to hear more of Adele since I had only really heard Hello off this album. Unfortunately, it felt like she recorded 11 versions of Hello. Just really boring to me unfortunately.
The next five reviews are coming from a bit of a mental history. Or maybe more than a bit, its been over 4 months since I listened to these albums. That being said, this does feel like a more mature entry from Adele than her first entry on this list, 21. At the same time, I don't think I liked this one nearly as much. There's no lack of vocal talent, as always with Adele, but there's a surprising lack of super hits. In fact, I think there was only one track on this album that I ad heard prior to this listening, "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)". At the very least, I was able to take away one new song from the collection. When We Were Young is dripping with melancholy, the kind of zone that resonates the most with me when listening to Adele's vocals. Overall, not bad, but hard to justify a spot on this list. Surprise Hit: When We Were Young
Solid album. Amazing voice. The hits are undeniable, but there is also a sameness to many songs across the album that make this one tough to listen on repeat. "Send My Love" is a great track since it is a different sound from the rest of the album.
I’ve never felt as moved by an album as I did with this one, ever. Adele has such a powerful voice. She’s touching on emotions I have repressed in order to keep going. All I Ask, Million Years Ago, Hello, Send My Love, When We Were Young….all of these are incredible. I will be relistening to this again.
these songs are just overplayed and were annoying to hear again, some songs near the end of the album reminded me of my breakup which was a bit sad
Marvelous!
One of the greatest voices of all time and I love almost every song of hers. This album was a great listen and beautiful display of her talent
Repetitive, basic and maudlin.
The voice of this woman is amazing.
No sé cómo decir esto sin llevarme hate. A mí Adele me deja frío. No voy a cuestionar sus capacidades vocales, pero sí que creo que cualquiera con semejante don tiene espacio para arriesgar. Visto que co-compone prácticamente todo el disco, tampoco le podemos echar la culpa a la malvada industria que la dirige a caminos mainstream y le corta las alas. Va a ser que Adele hace lo que desea. Pues muy bien, pero yo no le voy a engrosar la cuenta corriente a base de royalties. “I Miss You” me mola un poquito.
This is one of the most iconic albums of our generation. Nothing but hits. unskippable!
This gives middle aged horn-dog woman. Which explains why my preteen sons hated it passionately.
She's a great singer & songwriter
adele innit
This was another solid album from Adele that I throughly enjoyed. This album has some of her greatest hits on it and some filler songs or songs that I’m not as familiar with. Many of these songs commercially did well 11 years ago and they still hold up years later. Overall, this was a great album and I typically always enjoy listening to Adele’s vocals. I would listen to this album again in the future!
love it
There are really some songs on this album that I absolutely love. So deepfelt, so pure in emotion. Photograph, Hello, Remedy.
This takes me baaaaaack. Needed the nostalgia boost! I first listened to this album right after a pretty bad breakup and when I re-listened to this album for this exercise, a lot of those feelings came back and I hadn't realized that I did have an album tied to a specific memory or time of my life. I got a decent cry out of it and it just felt cathartic to release whatever I was still holding on to. Might have to listen again because Adele's vocals are just unmatched and this album is to me all bangers, no skips.
I gave 21 five stars, but this falls short of that. Nothing here leaves you completely blown away, despite her voice remaining top notch. Some of the instrumentation wanders into cheesy adult contemporary territory. There aren't any terrible tracks, but also no true gems to bouy the project up. 3/5 from me.
I can’t believe I’ve never done a full listen of this album before lol. Was beautiful :)
Oh Adele you are fantastic, this was a hard one to rate, honestly over all it deserves a 5 but I giving it a 4 because it doesn't fit my aesthetic lol
I reviewed 21 by Adele about six months ago. My biggest gripe with that album was the slowness and sameness of many of the songs, but all had her amazing vocals. Apparently she felt the same way at the time, because 25 was much more varied in its production choices. Which made it much more interesting for me and a far more enjoyable experience. Whereas 21 was a 3.5, this is a 4.5. Standouts were Hello (I wasn’t listening to popular music at the time it came out so it didn’t feel stale at all), Send My Love, Remedy, River Lea, and Sweetest Devotion.
Enjoyed that more than I thought I would to be honest. Now I must consume a bottle of red wine every day
omg she eats every time when we were young is a master piece, water under the bridge is too this whole album is beautiful 10/10 5/5 no notes
21 was surprisingly good beginning to end. This one falls off pretty hard outside of a few standout compositions.
what a surprise! but, Adele
Неожиданно, но мне понравилось
Sooooo classic and nostalgic to listen to. Absolutely healing Fav: When We Were Young, River Lea, Love in the Dark, All I Ask
Honestly, just a bland record carried enormously by Adele's singing. Definitely a product of its time; at some point I had to check if I still had ads disabled, that's how some of these songs sound to me. The best parts of the album for me was where there was minimal instrumentation and she was allowed to showcase how she's capable of carrying a song alone, like in Million Years or All I Ask. Regardless of my opinion though 25 deserves a place on the list. I was in the dead center of its targeted age demographic (if not social demographic) when this album came out, and even describing this album and Adele at the time as inescapable feels disingenuous - she was downright pestilent. Millennials can have this album on this list for that reason, but I'm gonna go with my gut, be a bit cheeky and give 25 a 2/5. Listening notes: Well just going by Spotify listeners this is by FAR the most popular album I'm supposed to listen to so far 2 tracks in, this would and did kill at millennial parties Damn, Adele can sing but I'm not gonna pretend that was a mystery to anyone including me Water Under the Bridge made me do a double take to check if I still had ads disabled I like Million Years Ago, but it feels iterative, like I already heard the same song before from someone else All I ask is another one I like simply due to the vocal power
Ok, listen. I don’t think I should have enjoyed this album as much as I thought I would. Knowing a surprising amount of songs going in, in and of itself was a surprise to me. I have been on a crazy streak for the entire last week of hearing albums that I know are goated, but haven’t personally been for me. This, however, this is different. First of all, Adele has an immaculate voice. The way she hits every high note on “Hello” is nothing short of spectacular. Bonus points for that being such a meme banger when it came out. The “Hello” meme lives rent free in my head. I’d heard of that and “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” before, but what really surprised me here were the deep cuts. Don’t get me wrong, those other 2 are great in and of themselves, but what really hooked me was “I Miss You”, and my favorite song on the album “River Lea”. I mean seriously, the pipes on her are breathtaking. Whenever she says “illuminates” on “I Miss You” it sounds amazing specifically. The background vocals are also a great touch. As for “River Lea”, it’s just so different. It’s almost kind of sad. I usually go for the songs that rock the most, but this one just feels so personal to her. So genuine, somber and REAL. Plus, she collaborated with Danger Mouse on it apparently. Did not for the life of me think I was going to get to mention him once during this project, but here we are. The entire album is mostly great, a little bit of filler here and there, but I’d return to it for sure. This is the first of 2 Adele albums I have rolled for this project, and I’m actually fairly excited about the next one as well. Add this to the list of albums that genuinely surprised the hell out of me. Again, I don’t think I was supposed to like this one as much as I did, but I’m certainly not complaining about it. “River Lea” is getting added to the frequent rotation, and I genuinely enjoyed a good bit of this album. Yeah, that sounds like a 4 to me. Let’s go with a 4.
Meh
This was very boring but at least it wasn’t as bad as Mariah Carey or 50 Cent.
Good and there are some classics
Some of the best Adele bangers. Not that musically creative, but the lyrics hit
Some are a few blue, but Adele is amazing. I like a lot of them
nie jesteś stara jak masz 25 lat muzyka jak z filmów romatycznych że bohater patrzy w księżyc i myśli o dziewczynie a ona też patrzy wtedy co jak co ale Adele jest fajna do śpiewania sobie
Generational vocalist
i've listen to adele on the radio too much when i was a child i can't take her anymore
Adele is one of the great singers however I preferred her album 21.
A classic, no notes!
Notable Songzeile: Yeah, I blame it on the River Lea, the River Lea, the River Lea Blame all rounds: Wer ist nur schuld daran, dass dieses Album so langweilig ist? Bestimmt nicht Adele, sondern ein Fluß in London. Wer ist schuld daran, dass alles gleich klingt, alles so viel mehr Potential hätte aber nix davon abgerufen wird: Adele: This was all you, none of it me. Und schuld ist bestimmt nicht die Person die die noch nix von Handy gehört hat - when I call you never seem to be home but at least I can say if tried? Das in 2015? My ass. Ich übernehme daher die volle Verantwortung dass das hier allerhöchstens 1,5 Punkte wert ist.
Das ist perfekte Pop Musik, muss man anerkennen: unerhört eingängig und trotzdem schlau, ehrlich in ihren Anleihen und extrem klar produziert. Es lässt mich trotzdem eher kalt.
Am Anfang dachte ich: "Ich kenn bestimmt die 3 Hits die drauf sind". Dann kam mir fast das ganze Album bekannt vor. Mag die Abwechslung, die Balladen sind wahnsinnig gut. Aber auch die Sachen die nach vorne gehen wir "Send my love to your new lover" sind super stark. Gutes Repertoire und super produzierte Pop-Musik. Nix zu meckern.
As I said in my review of 21 (2011), she can sing. Her voice is amazing. These are generally good songs. It’s an album I’d visit every now and then.
I was originally going to review Siembra, but the generator decided to change its recommendation for this.
Hello it's me
- almost a no-skip album - knew 8 or 9 / 11 songs prior to listening (no pun intended) ranking: [3 stars] when we were young > remedy > water under the bridge > all I ask > love in the dark > hello (though overplayed) & million years ago > send my love > [2 stars] I miss you & river lea > sweetest devotion
I mean. It's Adele. What else is there to say I do have to say it's not my usual style of music, and if it were someone else I wouldn't stand it that much, but her vocals make up for so much of it. Also there's so many iconic songs in this album nad it's just *cheffs kiss* Not sure what my favourite song is yet, and I'll give it s couple listens, but so far it's great!!!!!! it's not my favourite type of music, so I'll give it a 3, maybe?? i won't be listening to it again i think
You know, its adele
As much as I love Adele she’s definitely someone I need to be in the right mood for.
I really enjoyed this album, but it's far from complete for me. Hello is an incredible song and a tremendous way to start out, though it's undoubtedly the peak of this album. There are some other great cuts on here, no doubt, including When We Were Young, Water Under the Bridge, and River Lea. And Adele's voice soars throughout, it's such an amazing instrument. All the same, this isn't a cover-to-cover listen. There are a few missteps in here, imo, such as Million Years Ago, which felt like an inferior version of some of the songs that appeared earlier in the album. 4 stars, as Hello is incredible and there's enough here to hold that rating. But far from a 5-star album.
Best Song: Hello I don't think it can be argued that Adele can sing. And, it shows here. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would and, while it isn't exactly going to get the party jumping, the easy listening aspects definitely have a use case in my life. My thinking when it comes to grades, if there are several songs I can say are my favorite - we are looking at a 4. If every song could be a favorite - we are looking at a 5. Hello, Send my Love, When We Were Young are all great tracks but there are some that are skippable so 4/5.
8.5/10
Nunca me ha gustado Adele pero me gustó el concepto del álbum y reconozco que su tono es de otro calibre
Fav- remedy 2/5
Adele conoció la viralidad pre tiktok y todos la sobrexposición a rolas de ella, así que le tenía cierta aversión a escucharla pero es un gran discooo. Tiene un ritmo muy a gustoo, digerible pa todo el mundo y letras potentes, When we were young sigue siendo mi favorita de ella desde antes de escucharlo completo La neta nomás no es un 5 porque hay algunas que son muy repetitivas en el coro
algunos deep cuts bastante chidos, igual los otros sencillos (sobre todo when we were young), pero cabrón cómo me caga hello
For one of the missus’s top all-time music makers I’ve spent remarkably little time listening to Adele in any meaningful way. Adele mostly reminds me that love hurts. While these songs aren’t so great individually, one thing I appreciated about this listen is that the album as a whole exceeded the sum of its parts. This is a rare, valuable and overlooked trait of albumness. I’m giving that trait an extra star.
I was about to get surgery on my hand as a result of a sandwich-related accident. It was just a local anaesthetic. My arm had a tourniquet above the elbow and was strapped down to the table. The surgeon entered. “So just a local?” I assumed he was talking to me. The tone was vaguely judgemental, as if I was responsible for the whole thing. Which to be fair, I was, between me and the sandwich. “Ah, yeah,” I said. “I’ve never had general anaesthetic and the concept makes me nervous, so I’m pretty glad.” “The concept?” “Yeah.” “Well, I’m not.” “Not what?” “Not glad. The ‘concept’ of general anaesthetic prevents conversations like these. Why are you so sweaty?” Also a fair observation. I was in a gown and lying on a bed lined with what felt like paper. Both materials felt like they were about to dissolve under my back sweat. “I’m nervous, I guess.” “Well, stop it. Stop being nervous and stop being sweaty.” He sighed. “I’m going to put on some music.” He walked out of sight to the corner of the room and pushed play on what sounded like an iPhone in a cereal bowl. He sat down and started pulling on my hand. I couldn’t feel anything other than a vague sense of pressure. “What’s this song?” I asked. He stopped what he was doing. I heard the clatter of the scalpel on the table. “Adele.” He said. “Ah. Day. El. The most popular artist in the world.” “OK, it’s not really my cup of…” “Would. You. Please. Stop. Sweating.” This was the first time I listened to Adele: strapped down to a table getting my hand cut open by a belligerent surgeon and trying not to sweat. Towards the end of the album, the operation was complete, and he removed the tourniquet. It unleashed this wave of the most intense pins and needles I’ve ever experienced. It felt like pure electricity running down my cold sausage of an arm. The surgeon picked up my lifeless arm, wiggled it a couple of times, then dropped it with a thud. He walked out without another word, with Adele still warbling away from the bowl in the corner. The second time I listened to Adele was today. I’m unsure which was the more painful experience.
I was kind of surprised by how many songs I recognized from this album. Makes sense, as I remember this album being huge. While I’ll probably never enjoy this album as much as the millions of moms around the world that love it, it’s a pretty decent R&B album. Adele has a phenomenal voice, and there are some catchy songs. Didn’t really hold my attention that strongly, but it was a pleasant listen.
Despite all the changes in music over the years people still love a singer of Standards. Adele at her peak was a throwback in the face of all the other pop stars in the 2010s. We're getting this now again in 2026 with Olivia Dean (another Brit, of course) - but it's proof that if you have a powerful voice and are singing catchy, booming songs about love lost and found there will always be an audience. 25 is not an improvement on its predecessor and doesn't really break new ground but it shouldn't be surprising that the best song "Send My Love to Your New Lover" is Max Martin produced. But still, it's an Adele album. I don't love it but it's hard to be upset if you hear it in a grocery store or a waiting room either. Sometimes inoffensive background music is perfectly fine.
Adele is great, but she's not quite my tempo
adele is so unbelievably talented and there are some unquestionable bangers on here, but at the end of the day this specific style of music just doesn't do it for me as a whole.
Si basas tu carrera en ser la gorda esa que canta bien, deberías cumplir, al menos, una de las dos cosas. Aburridísimo y plano.
TE AMO ADELE CON TODAS LAS FUERZAS DE MI SER. UN SUEÑO. i miss you que temon. when we where young en este album? omg, 100% album para escuchar.
Adele obviously has a beautiful and powerful voice, and I do think her songs perfectly showcase that. She is soulful and deep, and can also be subdued and poignant. I can't say this is my particular type of music that I enjoy on my own, but it is good in its own rites.
A 3 just because I didn't like it a lot. I prefer Florence and the Machine, but it's just my opinion.
I enjoyed. Not much to say. Exactly what I thought it was.
Flawless and soulful, a go to to feel everything Music moves within us.
clasico de todos los tiempos. lo que transmite esta mujer con su voz es de no creer.
girl get a grip this album is well constructed and wholly inoffensive not my kind of music and I don't think anyone should be writing this much about a man I liked River Lea
not really my thing but i respect its cultural relevance. i find adelle to be super samey. i think i havent experienced an adult breakup to apricate her lyrics
Very unrelatable and very bland.
A mixed of overplayed radio hits + really sad ballads. I think this album needs more time and distance to become a higher rating for me. It is really good, I just can't distance it from its cultural phenomenon.
Chart pop isn’t my thing, and I’ve not listened to music radio since the mid ‘80s. But even from this position of supreme ignorance, I know Adele is a big deal and could probably name two of her songs without any prompting – I know, impressive. However, this is my first time with one of her albums, and it’s not what I expected at all. I thought it would be more fun. I don’t know why, but I assumed a ridiculously successful artist with a happy homelife and a new family, would be writing songs that reflected her experience – instead, 25 is a ballad heavy ball breaker of an album, with songs mostly steeped in regret and nostalgia. There’s no doubt that she sings the shit out of everything put in front of her, and in the moment, she believes and lives every word. It’s undeniably a collection of great performances and, for her fans, that’s probably enough, but I’m not anywhere near convinced. Sorry. 4/10
Not my style. But you can’t deny the magic and artistry that Adele holds in every song.
Some boring ones
Cracking, not my thing
Absolutely great album. Not a single skip. I admit I wasn't a big fan of the jazzier 19. 21 had some moments, but was a bit uneven. On 25, Adele put it all together in a perfect package.
The GOAT
There’s a point at which virtuosity stops being exhilarating and starts becoming slightly exhausting. That’s where I found myself with 25. Adele is, obviously, an extraordinary singer. There’s no useful argument to be had about that. The control, the power, the phrasing, the ability to take a fairly conventional ballad and inflate it until it fills every corner of the room — all of it is formidable. But listening to an entire album built around that level of command began to feel a little like attending a one-woman show in which the performer can switch from Beyoncé to Streisand in the blink of an eye. You spend the first twenty minutes thinking, Christ, that’s impressive. Eventually you start yearning for somebody to miss a cue. My daughter can do that sort of thing. Big West End Style. Total commitment, total projection, absolute certainty that the person in row Z deserves exactly as much performance as the person sitting three feet away. It’s a genuine skill. It can also leave you desperate for Syd Barrett to wander on and sing Terrapin slightly sideways. That’s essentially my problem with 25. There’s almost no slack in it. The songs may be vulnerable, but Adele herself never sounds vulnerable. She sounds magnificently equipped to sing about vulnerability. Heartbreak arrives miked, lit and ready for the balcony. Even the quieter moments carry the sense that an enormous voice is merely choosing, for now, not to flatten the scenery. And yet it would be churlish to pretend the thing doesn’t work. Adele’s great gift is making very traditional material feel monumental without making it incomprehensible. There are no puzzles here. No need to spend three listens wondering what the emotional stakes are. She can take regret, nostalgia or romantic wreckage and make it instantly legible to millions of people. The voice isn’t really sitting inside the arrangements. The voice is the architecture. That explains the scale of 25 rather better than any argument about innovation. This isn’t an album that rewrites the rules of pop music. It’s an album that demonstrates just how enormous conventional pop can become when the person at its centre has enough authority. And I think that’s probably why it belongs in a book like this. Not because it’s Adele’s best album. It isn’t. 21 is, by some margin, a better record: more alive, more varied, more likely to surprise me rather than simply impress me. 25 feels different. It feels like the point where Adele stopped merely being a hugely successful singer and became an institution. This is the monument. That distinction matters. A canon doesn’t only preserve the records that changed musical language. Sometimes it preserves the records that became too culturally enormous to ignore. 25 represents Adele at maximum public scale: the gigantic voice, the gigantic songs, the gigantic emotional reach, the sense that an album release could still briefly make the whole culture turn its head in the same direction. I admire it considerably more than I love it. After a while I start craving a wobble, an odd corner, a badly placed chair, anything that allows a little air back into the room. But perhaps that’s partly the point. 25 is not trying to sound fragile, eccentric or accidental. It’s the sound of Adele becoming inevitable.
What is this? An album featuring songs that were ubiquitous on top 40 stations when *I* was a teenager? I didn’t think that was allowed. I thought the purpose of this list was to compile music-critic-masturbatorily esoteric underground stuff or Gen X nostalgia or both. Well I guess it’s MY turn on the nostalgia roller coaster… People in some other reviews complain about filler here. I guess that’s fair. You can kind of tell listening to this that the album as an art form was largely dead by 2015. Long live the age of streaming/playlists/whatever I guess. But honestly… none of this is bad, and the big numbers are so huge that they almost HAVE to pull the thing to an above-average rating anyway. And anyway, like, it’s Adele. Are you really going to complain about her singing ANY song to you
No podcast episode
After 45 minutes I have no memory of what I listened to aside from her voice. Aural wallpaper.
Not as strong as "21", but still good. Adele's a great vocalist and one of the few modern pop artists I like. The best track is probably "Hello". I also like "River Lea", but I get burnt out on that track easily. The chorus on "When We Were Young" is pretty good. Side note: As someone that was listening to the radio when "Hello" and "Send My Love" came out, it boggles me that they're on the same album.
I've listened to too much Adele, and now hearing her voice just annoys me.
An absolute no skip album, even with some imperfect songs ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Highlights: “Hello”, “River Lea” “All I Ask” “Sweetest Devotion”
4/10
I don’t get all the hate for this album. I think it’s enjoyable and nice to listen to.
Yikes, 11 back to back breakup songs in a row. Adele sings well and I like her voice, but damn, this ain't for me. I could at least appreciate the other Adele album on this list a little more because the break up songs were broken up by some cool sounding songs. Those are all absent in this album other than some slight bounce in River Lea. Otherwise just moping. Somebody really needs to bite the bullet and stay in a relationship with Adele so she can make better music. 2/5
I know this is well executed for what it tries to be, but I can't stand this kind of whiny, bombastic pop that wants to be so heartfelt and emotional, but feels as deep as a puddle to me while sounding like the calculated chart success it logically had to become.
Amazing amazing voice, great songwriting, wanted to give it 4 stars for being great, but generally it's not for me - for my taste, too downbeat and sad, so something I'll usually avoid putting on, either by myself or with fam or friends.
Voix de ouf en mode diva Les chansons les plus connues sont belles D'autres on ressent rien
I don't really remember anything that was on that album
Songs played everywhere so instantly recognisable. This was a massive record in it's time. The voice is impeccable but the tracks are a bit vanilla. Now I love vanilla but something outside the comfort zone might be nice. And at 25 can you really reminisce about "when we were young"? Not exactly groundbreaking stuff.
Grandiose instrumentals for a gradient voice
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Not an Adele fan for a reason
Hello.
Des chansons fortes de sens, Adèle a une voix puissantes et on ressent ses paroles. Mais pour moi l'album tourne trop autour du même sujet et cela en devient lassant. Étant quelqu'un d'empathique cela me plomb un peu le moral
2,5/5, un album qui commence très fort avec Hello, mais qui s'essouffle vite, avec une formule qui fonctionne, mais qui reste très lisse, et qui rend le reste du projet très impersonnel à mon goût. Une recette qui plaît à tout le monde, pour finalement ne rester pour pas grand monde.
Increíble la voz de Adele, hay que escucharla antes de morir si o si. Podría cantar las mismas canciones acapella y seguir transmitiendo lo mismo. Te destroza el corazón su voz rota. Es genial lo que una artista con personalidad puede llegar a transmitir con su voz.
Really solid. Her voice is so powerful, and she has such great musicianship.
Great album! Not perfect, but great... :-)
Ela consegue mais que isso. O disco abre com duas das mais icônicas e populares canções da década 2010. Todo mundo conhece, e talvez isso seja até pro detrimento das faixas. Hello é uma canção ótima, especialmente pra mim que não a saturei e apenas a escutei algumas vezes, por algum milagre me livrei da constante exposição! Adele é uma cantora objetivamente sensacional. Mesmo se você odiar a sensibilidade Riachuelo-core de sua produção e estilo visual e sonoro, ainda deve admitir que seu vocal é inigualável. Histórico, lá no panteão junto dos melhores de todos os tempos. E devo dizer, não sou o maior fã da questão Renner-core. É uma pena, mas não dá pra negar que suas canções são fubangas em larga medida. As temáticas são básicas demais, não há progressão, e esse disco exemplifica bem isso, sendo praticamente 11 canções sobre o mesmo tópico. A produção é boa, mas é plástica. Não têm nada notável, único, audacioso em qualquer medida. O resultado final é decepcionante. Quando se inicia com uma canção como Hello você acaba criando certa expectativa, mas Adele nunca foge da zona de conforto. O que redime o álbum é a sua voz absolutamente angelical, como eu já havia mencionado, mas nem ela é capaz de te tirar do tédio que o disco causa ainda na sua primeira metade. Talvez um dia ela lance o ‘46’ e lá ela decida se abrir a outros horizontes. Um pouco de diversão, talvez? Swing? Qualquer coisa além de melodrama “sinto falta do meu ex”! Nesse disco aqui mesmo, é perceptível que as melhores canções são as mais animadas, como Water Under The Bridge ou Send My Love. Enfim, por enquanto, ficamos com este disco medíocre de uma artista com potencial infinito. 2/5
hello é iconico em niveis dificeis de explicar e a segunda música mantém o sarrafo. miss you absurdo os vocais. gostei de como a musica sobe no refrao de when we were young, mas nao gostei muito da lirica. remedy achei menos repetitiva. river lea é maneira. love in the dark perfeita. million years parecia q n acabava nunca. all i ask gostei pq parece um pouco mais diferente de como todas as outras soam. sweetest devotion bem diferente também, gostei. irrefutavel a voz da bicha.
Copied from my Adele - 21 review, because I still feel pretty much the same about 25: "Adele obviously has a phenominal voice. She can belt it but also has a great raspy lower range. This style of like pop-ballads or whatever you call this genre isn't for me though. Its just forgettable outside of the couple singles that the radio played on repeat a decade ago. Musically there's not much going on - just your standard studio band playing some slower tunes. Adele is the star: you came for her and you get her singing love songs very well." I will say, this album starts out so strong. The first few songs are very good, then it just kinda melts back into the same song over and over. The last song is a banger too, so thankfully it ends on a high note. I was hoping to give this album a better rating than the last, and I do think it's slightly better, but it's still a 3 for me. Pleasant, but outside of the singles, not really my jam. Standouts were "Hello," "Send My Love," "Water Under the Bridge" and "Sweetest Devotion"
Sweet
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while her voice is pretty powerful, and her albums are personal and sincere, i find that the production that accompanies her music is really functional but quite simple for me. Maybe my mood made me not connect as i should.
Oh man.......that voice.
Music for those who miss having a spouse to beat.