25

I do worry about Adele. Lovely voice. Plenty to be happy about. But why so sad?

I lowkey forgot she was a top tier yearner

just not my thing at all but i can't deny good vocals and production. it is just unfortunately very "BBC radio 2 middle aged mum going through a divorce"-core, which is fine but i am NOT the target audience

This ones tricky, when the kids were younger there was a lot of Adele in the house; 19, 21, 25, this now sounds. Bit dated, though the songs have meaning in them, and she’s very upset

5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background

hm

Solid ballad album. Not my usual listen, but Adele has some pipes (and melodrama). Top tracks: "Hello," "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)," "Water Under the Bridge"

Her third worst album. Meh.

The kind of voice I’d love hearing sing the phonebook

As others have noted, it’s hard to buy the songs about aging and being reflective from a 25 year old. That perspective only fills in with age and experience and even though pop stars live an accelerated lifestyle, I don’t buy those words as being her own. Still well sung though. In general this album suffers from the same bloat as many albums of the CD period. This would have been much stronger as a modern LP release if edited down to one disc. Too many songs that have similar themes and it all blends together after a while. The highs are really high and there is nothing objectively bad, just way too much meh content.

3.1/5

I really love Adele’s voice. I think it’s funny how the conceit of naming album’s after her age makes me hyper aware of how young some of the writing feels and the 2015 production style isn’t my fave but ultimately i am an Adacolyte.

I didn't hate this but it feels less inspired than 21, and even more polished but in a bad way. Still giving it a 3, but 21 is a higher 3.

starts off with a bang, but it gets taken over by this gospel choir, facebook memories slideshow affectation partway through that didn't grab me like 21 did. felt less adventurous. still some great stuff. favorite song is I Miss You. solid 3

Good album tracks.

Oh wow, how did I never realize that this is so… not great??? I’ve always liked 19 and 21 best, but I think I Stockholm syndromed myself into thinking 25 was almost on their level. It’s not! Absolutely mid, with allowances for my own nostalgia.

Very popular. Worth a listen to every now and then. But is listening to someone being unhappy a healthy thing to do?

I’m glad to hear some fun here, at least compared to 21. She’s an amazing singer, but her records start to feel more like an academic exercise than “music for fun” after a while.

nostalgic but not crazy bout it tbh, not tryna be mean but i dont like album covers where they just stare at you, scary... issgnofgnofufbhuo

Hello - growing up listening to radio pop with my mom nearly made me skip this song from how overplayed this was, but upon relistening to it I have found that this is a really good song Send my love - oh my glob this one too, I didn't know what this was called When we were young - very beautiful song, great lyrical storytelling River Lea - good bass groove with the drums

Opening track is strong, the rest not so much.

Alright I like the first two songs

she's a heck of a singer

No tan lindo como 21, supongo que falta movedizas Nota: 3.5

all good pop songs on paper. Just a bit too much and too ornamented singing for my taste, and too many love songs.

Let me preface this with saying that I don't like this kind id music. It's style over substancje and way too much fluff. But even then, this album is a very nice listen. I'd probably rate this a lot higher if I was into this kind of music, but even I have to admit it's good.

Not great, not terrible.

I’ve never listened to an Adelle album before, and by 3 songs in Inwas wondering if I’d missed a trick. Not to fear, it went downhill from there and became predictably cheesy for the duration. Solid songwriting, but not my thing and very much what I’d expected.

I am not her audience lol

It was decent. I have never loved Adele, but I did like I Miss You. Favorite song and Highlight I Miss You

Excellent vocals. Not my sound but can certainly see the appeal.

Not a helpful album to listen to at this moment

She's got talent but chooses to play it so safe

афигеть адель столько бенгеров спела

Couple banger ballads for the lads in here. Her voice is just insane. Might be recency bias but going to give this one a 3, but it's a strong 3. Pretty simple musically, but her voice carries it. Fave Songs: When We were young, Send my Love

Adele is great. Powerful voice with no gimmicks. The songwriting here is just slightly above-average (21 is the masterpiece), but she is completely naked with her intentions and message, and that is admirable.

Ok. I don’t like this kind of pop music. It all sounds the same to me. It’s ok while I’m listening to it. What I mean by that is that it’s unobjectionable… most of the time. It just doesn’t stick to me. I forget about it seconds after I hear it. There’s usually no musical hook. It’s just kind of moves forward without going anywhere. That being said… this is probably as good as this style of pop music is going to get. This lady is a great singer. I get it. She sings with so much emotion and power. It’s moving. Almost manipulative. If you’re heartbroken or one of your parents just died, don’t listen to this… or do if you want to cry. You’re going to cry. Maybe that’s what you need. It’s sad piano music for people who need a good cry, but if you’re one of those emotionally healthy people who needs to cry a lot, this is as good as it gets. I don’t want to cry. I have things to do today. 3.3

I know I should probably love this album, but it’s just ok. She certainly has the pipes, but a songlist of romantic dirges is a tough listen. Some of the individual songs are good, so…3.

Redelijke pop, verveeld op de helft

Lovely 1. Hello 2. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 3. When We Were Young

There's something about this record that makes it boring. I think it has to do with what feels like stripped back instrumentals. Favourite Track(s): Hello, Love In the Dark, All I Ask Least Favourite Track(s): Water Under The Bridge, Love In The Dark

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.

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

Incredible talent but not my genre

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.

That album kinda went by without me noticing.

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

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

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

Quite nice, Adèle has a beautiful voice. The whole thing feels a bit bland though

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.

fine. less annoying than 21 because it is less overplayed. my adele opinions remain the same

Pas mon préf

Hello aside, nothing to see here

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.

Pretty good

Don't remember anything other than Hello. might relisten, might not.

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

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

Not her best

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

Pop

ADELE (/əˈdɛl/) - a British-born diva of the highest rate. 25 ( /ˈtwɛnti faɪv/) - a collection of mating and distress calls, particularly appealing and soothing to the emotions of the species Felidae Puma Desperitus (the North American Divorced Cougar). It is traditionally played in coffee shops, malls, upscale nightclubs and other habitats where urban cougars are known to gather and hunt, and is used to keep them pacified. When weaponized, 25 can be used as an aphrodisiac by anyone attempting to attract a cougar, simply by pairing these sounds with a Chardonnay or Zinfandel from Kim Crawford, Josh or Barefoot Vineyards. This combination is particularly effective in enticing older cougars out for potential mating activity. Proceed with caution.

Remarkable voice. Songs range from very good to fine. None are great, most are a bit overproduced, but her voice carries the day.

Beautiful voice. Boring album

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.

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.

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.

A few too many lyrical cliches and stale arrangements detract from her stunning vocal chops

I dont listen to Adele but respect

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

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.

Starter med et brag, og der er flere udmærkede numre imellem, men det bliver også meget af det samme ballade-mæssigt.

Best Track - "Hello"

Me gustó, nunca lo había escuchado entero.

Buen álbum. Tiene canciones muy conocidas por ahí. Típico de Adele, la bancamos. Love in the dark fue mi fav.

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

Beautiful voice. Boring songs.

I don’t love this as much as 21 but my god When We Were Young is such a song.

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.

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.

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.

novamente o mesmo comentário: a voz da adele é lindissima e a produção é de qualidade, mas balada não me pega.

Good but nowhere close to her others

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

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

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 gives middle aged horn-dog woman. Which explains why my preteen sons hated it passionately.

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.

21 was surprisingly good beginning to end. This one falls off pretty hard outside of a few standout compositions.

Some of the best Adele bangers. Not that musically creative, but the lyrics hit

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

Adele is one of the great singers however I preferred her album 21.

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.

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.

Hello it's me

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

Nunca me ha gustado Adele pero me gustó el concepto del álbum y reconozco que su tono es de otro calibre

algunos deep cuts bastante chidos, igual los otros sencillos (sobre todo when we were young), pero cabrón cómo me caga hello

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.

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.

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.

Cracking, not my thing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

3 sterne

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.

i’m not sure what to rate this as - to me the whole album sounds like being fourteen years old and going through it…i still love adele’s voice and generally like her songs, but i can’t tell for certain whether this is actually a good album or not-3 stars for now because i got a little melancholic and confused.

Stupendous voice. Emotion, parole des sentiments. Clair, rien de trop, pas surchargé. Puissance.

I thought I would like this more than I did

Adele, Adele, Adele i feel bad for you girl, every album you write it seems as though you are going through some deep shit. Like I would honestly kinda love if you wrote your songs about something else... see what you come up with.. like what'd you have for breakfast? Rolling in the deep coulda been rolling in the hashbrowns, Hello? Rename it scrambled eggs, atleast then maybe itd be a bit more interesting. Dont get me wrong, I love Adele, she has an amazing voice.. but I would rank 21, and 30 much higher than 25. Even though they're also all about love and heartbreak, they have a bit more oomph. 25 feels like its reaching for 21's success and depth. 30 feels like it went back to not trying so hard and in turn the songs have more of a creative edge and uniqueness. 25 is like Adeles awkward middle child. There is one song on here I did really like, thay being A million years ago, and even then it still doesn't amount to the love I have for 30, and 21. Wasn't bad, her singing is great, this album just feels a bit plain compared with her other albums that im already well familiar with (especially 30, love that album) Maybe im just talking out of my ass and none of this makes sense, but Im sticking with my ass guns here and giving this one a 6.5/10. Looking forward to listening to 21 thats also on this list, and I will be listening to 30 sometime soon as its not on this list and it makes me feel like I'm a mid 30s mom who loves wine, chocolate, and screaming loudly at my son lil Jimmy at his hockey games. Didn't realize i had so much to say here about Adele lol...

Some of the bigger hits just feel so polished I find it hard to latch on to (Send My Love To Your New Lover, for example). But the songwriting is great and Adele has one of the best voices of our generation - 7/10

estoy seguro que adele y josé josé se llevarían muy bien y este disco es prueba de eso. ojalá se arrastren por mi como lo hace adele. qué manera de transmitir emociones esta dama

Типовий якісний альбом Адель, є пару мегахітів типу хелло, є просто якісний філлер. Мені загалом воно дуже рівно, але пару пісень сподобались - I Miss You та Sweetest Devotion.

did not expect to know about half of this album already. I was not looking forward to listen to it, and i don’t think i will revisit, but definitely a great album to listen to. Too ballady for me, and it feels more directed towards older audiences, but Adele’s voice and songwriting really is amazing. I’d say All I Ask was my favorite. Definitely understand better why she is so popular. I’m pretty sure this is the divorce or breakup album, so I really wish she gave more for someone with such great vocals and writing. Every song i’ve heard from her sounded the same and has the same vibe, and i expected like other artist for the album deep cuts to bring in something new, but i found the same middle-aged mom vibe throughout. I hope she innovates more and takes more risk with 30, if I ever get around to listening to it.

Adele is the real deal and can sing! I’m just not that into this music.

чисто за то что это Адель. я люблю у нее одну песню, она классная, но я не слушаю ее в целом

Belter- good but sorta repetitice

Top Songs: Send My Love (To Your New Lover) When We Were Young Water Under the Bridge

Heartfelt, maybe even heartbreaking in places. Her voice is so powerful I forget it’s not the only thing happening on the record.

Adele has a great and powerful and the music is good too so it's difficult to dislike this album. My only criticism is that the tracks are a little 'samey'. Perhaps that's what you get when it's a single artist with a particular singing style?

I mean, her voice is amazing but no song seemed amazing to me.

Iconic

Very good singer. Just not my bag.

now that’s what I call songs I can play on the piano 56

She has a great voice and "Hello" is a great song! "Send My Love" and "Water Under The Bridge" are good as well. And the rest of the well-produced album is at least o.k. Strong three stars for her "25". 3,5

A great big voice placed front and center on simple compositions. The many ballads didn't offer much expansion or exploration.

I was excited about this one as I like some of her more popular songs but unfortunately there weren't any hidden jems.

Not bad, great voice.

as far as megastars go, adele is a pretty amazing one. "hello" is pretty boring and staid, but "send my love" has something magnificent going on with it.

A well sung and well produced album with lots of ballads on it...about what I expected. I did enjoy listening to it, and there were a few standout tracks, like "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)". Overall, not quite my cup of tea, but I dig it enough to enjoy if someone else had this album on.

I liked this and think I might like it more with a few more listens. I added “When We Were Young” to my Generator playlist.

Cant think of one occassion where I would put this on, so I have been puting this one of for a long time. And once I did listen to it - damn it blew me away, I mean, I can't think of a single person that would deny she's one of the greatest voices of our time. That said, I still don't listen to this kind of music, even though her voice got me in aw.

Beautiful voice and musical backing, just not my thing

A compilation of whale sounds

Booho I guess. Incredible vocals as always, super heartfelt writing as well. Not as good as 21.

Not really my type of music, but I can appreciate it for what it is. Of course Adele's vocal talent and the orchestral(? - not sure if this is the right term) production of some songs are fantastic, but when I listen to music I want a BANGER. The cadence in which she sings the chorus of "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" annoys me honestly and the instrumental sounds like boring corporate slop. Definitely my least favourite song from here. Like it's worse than just being boring, it actively bugs me. "I Miss You" which plays right afterwards is a LOT better. I think my favourite is "River Lea". The thing that confuses me is um.. she was only 25 when this album was first being made? And most of these songs are about lamenting the loss of your youth?? Why are you acting like you're middle aged at 25??? I guess that's what having a kid at 24 does to you.

Rating 6/10 Best Song - Hello

Song no. 1 is great. Other than that, not one of Adele's best albums. Doesn't mean that she is not an excellent singer song writer.

3 Stars. Maybe even 3.5 Nothing wrong with the album, but it's also not something I'll come back to again. It's just okay, but I do kinda like it more than a just okay album. Not sure if that makes sense.

21 ist sehr viel besser 3/5

*pokes Adele with a stick repeatedly* C'mon, Adele! Do something fun! C'mon! This is one of the most redundant album I've ever heard. All the same themes lyrically throughout. About the only way she changes it up, is to be more upbeat. We get it. You've had heartbreak. And you think you're old at 25. She can sing, that's for true. Vary your lyrical themes lady! 3

I love Adele but this is just not my favourite Adele.

i think the other Adele albums are better

Pretty good overall; but don’t care for “Hello”

Solid, not in love with every track, but the strong vocals keep it afloat across the board. Water under the bridge is the standout.

MOR

Probably better than you expect. This is my second Adele album on this list, which is the only reason I'd ever think to listen to them. I had about the same thought as I did when the first one came up. "Prolly not for me. I know her voice is good, but I hate this pop diva crap!" Even though I was already turned around by that first album, 19. There's just no way this pop gal has strong enough chops for a second album of quality. Well, here we are with another album that is quite listenable. And like the other, it's got 2 or 3 songs that are simply great along with 2-3 that are pretty good, and 5-6 that are just filler. Reading about these albums was an eye opener! Both are on the lists of biggest selling albums ever and have won dozens of awards. Since I don't follow the pop stuff, I was amazed at all the accolades. But this isn't an accolades list. This list/exercise is about "Is it Important, Imperative, or Influential?" I'm not really sure if it's influential. There sure does seem to be a lot of pop divas out there. But there always were. I do think I recall reading how some of them were influenced by Adele to be better songwriters and to experiment with musical styles. That's a good thing. Anyway, back to this one. The first and last songs are great! She's got writing credits, but every song seems to be written by at least 2 or 3 others, too. I gotta wonder how much she's responsible for. Either way, the most important thing is her voice. She's got pipes! And it's not all just runs, trills, and melisma. It's belting it out with emotion. One note is that the emotion is usually heartbreak. I'd like a little more Major chord emotion. I'll put a couple of songs on my lists, but I don't imagine myself coming back to listen to the whole compilation again. It's too much mid-tempo crooning. It's ok, but it's not for me. I'd call this a 3 mostly based on the couple of singles that are soooo good. And her strong voice makes me want to hear her do something different, just for fun. Sit in with a rock band sometime, Adele. Let's hear it! Note: I find it hilarious to hear someone that is 25 singing "When We Were Young"!

m acuerdo que lo habia escuchado apenas salio y m habia parecido un discazo, envejeció mal muy cornuda war flashbacks de las peleas x el sampleo de miley (fweaky) en river lea (sigo firme que suenan igual) (chorra)

Good!

5/10

I listened to Hello and thought: "Wow this is a huge improvement from 21" and then 6 songs went by and it was all in one ear and out the other. Love In The Dark was good, but besides that everything on this album is just sooooooo generic and boring. She is a good singer, but man... I just don't care about this type of music. Low 3.

Jake: 6.8/10 I mean cmon it’s Adele, one of the finest vocalists people with ears have had the pleasure of hearing. Having said that, this album didn’t hit for me for several reasons: the production made it sound like everything on the radio in 2015, and i prefer Adele’s more bluesy/soul approach to her songs. If another vocalist had recorded this album i don’t think it would be very noteworthy. Greg: 6.0 what Jake said. Also never really been a big fan of this kind of balladry Annie: "oh my god I want to submit my review before Jake because he always says what im about to say"

Nice album, what a voice! But a bit too vanilla and repetitive for me. When We Were Young is my song of the album and Hello and Sweetest Devotion being my other highlights (with Sweetest Devotion being my fav first listen of the album)

Basically what I expected.A few standout tracks though .

Includes some pretty good songs, but they are all so similar that they bleed into one another after a while.

Hello - 4 Send my love (to your new lover) - 4 I miss you - 3 When we were young - 3 Remedy - 3 Water under the bridge - 4 River lea - 3 Love in the dark - 3 Million years ago - 4 All I ask - 3 Sweetest devotion - 3

As other have commented and rating here, I will also say that overexposure to Adele songs worked against her! Yes, her voice is great and is a ver talented singer, but this is the kind of music I cannot stand no more . they pushed way too much this into our years Giving a 3 for her voice but, please, I would die happily without having to listen to her again :-(

There were a handful of songs I've enjoyed. Most of it was about not being young anymore, but 25 is still young.

I am here for music, not singing. Adele is awesome though. 3/5

3,3/5

Adele's voice is incredible. I loved seeing it showcased on songs like "All I Ask" or "I Miss You". She is captivating and is good at making you feel the emotion in the story being told. I knew so many songs off the album, never having listened to it -- Pop music is Adele's game which can be a bit of a downfall in terms of crafting genuinely interesting music I think. Also, being 26, I am amazed at the level of success she had at 25.

Hello, It's Me 1001 Albums Generator 230 (2/18/2026) The fluoride stare on the cover is crazy lol. Adele is one of those artists that's just so much larger than life; one of those that everyone knows multiple songs by, even if unwittingly. On this album alone, you have Hello, Send My Love, and When We Were Young, the latter two of which I had no idea that I had heard before, but they were immediately familiar. Hello is just like nothing to me because it's so overplayed, but it's objectively a totally fine pop song. Also, the drums on I Miss You are so huge, it makes me feel like I'm listening to a U2 song or something (positive connotation). This is probably the greatest moment on 25. Unfortunately, after the first 4 songs, we get a stretch of quite bland ballads. I do like how Million Years Ago sounds almost like Adele's take on Bossa Nova or something. Overall, I liked 25 more than I thought I would, but it catfished me into thinking that I was uncovering a gem of pop music, when instead it's just a totally passable take at the genre. 3/5. Favs: Send My Love (To Your New Lover) I Miss You When We Were Young Least Fav: Remedy

And with this, I have listened to every album on the 1001 Albums list from 2015. Granted, there's only 4 of them, but they're all pretty different from each other. I mean, you've got an interesting African blues rock album with the Songhoy Blues record, a great late-era work from one of the best female music artists of the past 30 years with Vulnicura, a genuine contender for "greatest hip-hop album of all time" with To Pimp a Butterfly, and Adele's 25. For some this is the least interesting of the 4 albums and while I can see why that is, I still enjoyed it quite a bit. I do think that Adele's fame over the past 15 years or so has been incredibly warranted as she is very talented. Her voice is great and her songwriting is pretty respectable too. But from what I've seen, 25 is pretty divisive with music nerds, particularly on the production front. Why is that? Well, 25 is, to put it bluntly, a modern pop album. Music nerds don't really gravitate towards these sorts of things. Admittedly, I do prefer the more balanced style of 21, but 25 isn't bad, okay? Dare I say the album is actually quite good. As far as the songs go, "Hello" is easily the album's biggest hit. Sure, I've heard the song a few too many times as someone who was in fact alive in 2015, but I can't bring myself to dislike it. It's a good song. "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" is probably where the production is at its poppiest and the result is definitely interesting. It's not my favorite song on the album, but it's not bad either. "When We Were Young" is nice. None of the album's songs are bad. I think the album's general themes and emotional focuses are commendable. I will say that 21 is easily the better of the two Adele albums on the list, but I still think that 25 is a pretty solid album. Maybe not as special as 21, but still a respectable album as far as 2010s pop albums are concerned. Strong 3/5.

You know what I do love Adele but this is not my favourite album.

As a casual listener of Adele, I’ve always been aware of the hits without delving much deeper. However, I have long admired her vocal prowess; she is truly wonderful in that regard. Crucially, she avoids the trap of over-singing, a common pitfall for many vocalists with similar technical abilities. I found "25" to be a sophisticated album, boasting clear production and excellent arrangements. Yet, on the whole, the material doesn't quite live up to Adele’s immense talent. The track list feels somewhat light on truly memorable moments, with 'Million Years Ago' being perhaps the only standout that lingers. While there is plenty to admire and enjoy here, it remains a 'good' rather than 'great' record. Three stars. 1 "Hello" (4/5) 2 "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" (3/5) 3 "I Miss You" (4/5) 4 "When We Were Young" (3/5) 5 "Remedy" (3/5) 6 "Water Under the Bridge" (4/5) 7 "River Lea" (4/5) 8 "Love in the Dark" (3/5) 9 "Million Years Ago" (4/5) 10 "All I Ask" (3/5) 11 "Sweetest Devotion" (3/5) Total - 38 Average - 3.45 248/1001 137/248 albums reviewed were new to me

Pretty good. Not my genre of music but I liked it.

A well crafted album which has more variety than earlier Adele efforts. Not my thing though. 3

I’m torn on this one. She sings beautifully, but ends up being a bit boring for me, except for the hits. 6/10 Pretty Good

Just by passive exposures it is apparently one of the albums I know best thus far. Really nice voice, okay songs - still nothing that I would listen to voluntarily.

Nice voice, have heard Beth listening to this one before

An obviously beautiful voice. I'd never really clocked how much this album talks about her getting old. But... 25?? Almost got angry about it at one point when she'd said it for the third time. Stop whining and say something different.

She has great vocals and they really focus on them in every song by putting her voice at the forefront. But some of her high notes felt slightly jarring even for me who loves higher vocals generally.

В цьому альбомі немає моїх улюблених пісень Адель. Ніби і добре, а ніби і чогось не встигає. Пісню Hello я чомусь взагалі терпіти не можу, а вона перша в альбомі, далі краще, але катартікуса, як під пісню Skyfall я не відчула

Amazing voice but not that impressing

She’s got the vocal chops, but this is a snooze fest. At least 21 had some chutzpah

I never really quite got the hype around Adele. Send My Love really took me out because a) I didn’t even realise it was an Adele song and b) it’s inclusion in this album, as second track no less, is honestly baffling. Having said all that, there are some very poignant, emotional moments to be found throughout the album. 3.5/5

Another great Adele album. If you are familiar with her work then you pretty much know what to expect. Several big hit songs and some other good ones too that showcase her vocal talent. Not necessarily something that I would choose to listen to on my own but it was nice listening to it.

Jeg synes albummet er godt, men mangler lidt samme indlevelse som jeg havde ved nogle af hendes tidligere værker. Dog er hendes stemme stadig helt fantastisk og hun leverer nogle meget stærke numre. Dog blev sjælen min, ikke i samme grad bevæget. Stærke sange: - Hello - River Lea - Million Years Ago

Perfectly fine. I imagine it would be a lot better had you not heard an Adele song because there wasn't much original from her previous work on here at all. Still a great singer and songwriter, no doubt.

It’s good.

Some songs peak really hard. I have heard this before and "Send my Love" and "When we were young" are bops.

I’ve never been much of an Adele fan. The hits are so overly emotive as to be cheesy. The deeper cuts on this album are pretty good though.

Adele by numbers

I remember the advert to launch this album. I was playing FIFA on a monitor in the room whilst the wife was watching X-Factor. I pretty much instantly went to Twitter to see if everyone suspected it was Adele. It was a great viral moment. I like some of Adeles songs, Hello is a pretty decent song, but I wouldn't say I'm a fan or that bothered overall. There is no doubting her impact though and that's why that ad was so effective. 3/5 some good songs, she has a great voice and I recognise her contribution to music. Overall not for me though.

I like the lyrics of Hello, how they are are open to interpretation, etc., and she had a great voice, but then the backing instrumentation is just way overblown by the end, I would love a smaller, more intimate cover. Send My Love was a fun tune. Remedy, and a lot of these other songs, are really overdone, oversung, and surface-level. Something about the rhythm of the singing in the final Sweetest Devotion reminds me of Enya.

This is pretty bland. Some decent songs but all seem to be about the same thing. She doesn't throw crap songs at the end so that's a bonus. The 2nd song on the album is definetely stolen 😅

meh

HELLO…. ITS ME…. I WAS WONDERING IF AFTER ALL THESE YEARS IF THIS ALBUM WAS STILL GOOD AND IT’S STILL EEEEHHHHHH!

Fantastic singer. I can’t believe this album is more than 10 years old. Definitely those three solid gold hits, but tbh, not too much more than that for me here. 2.5

“It matters how this ends, ‘cause what if I never love again?” Obligatory “man, what a fucking voice, holy shit can this person sing, god damn” comment, because holy shit can Adele sing. What a voice. I wonder once again if ‘30’ will be included on this list eventually. I think that’d be a more worthy entry than this particular Adele album, but whatever. Sounds like there’s a new edition coming out in October ‘26 anyways. That being said, this album is better than I remember. I thought it was longer than it is, and while some of the songs feel a little bloated it is mostly time appropriately used. It was hard to hear the big hits from this with fresh ears, but if I can work past the listening fatigue they are sturdy, worthy songs (especially “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”). It’s not her fault radio loves her. “All I Ask” is one of her crowning achievements of songwriting and vocal performance, in my opinion. Could break the heart of a single person or person in relationship both. I don’t think she’s the best lyricist to walk the earth or anything, but she does find ways to speak very directly to the human experiences that can pierce through me when I’m not expecting it.

I really thought I'd enjoy this a lot more because I was familiar with a few of the songs and they're pretty incredible. Turns out, the hits are hits for a reason, and the rest of the album is just OK.

Worst thing about this album is the cover. Scares the hell out of me. Why is she looking at me like that. Fantastic voice as always, but I felt like I wanted something different from the production. It either felt too safe or too much, but I guess that’s what happens when an album is carried by its vocalist. I was surprised to find that some of the songs that have been overplayed by the radio were still a delight to hear. Others were just a pain to have to listen to again. Overall, solid listen.

objectively good. not my sound.

Who doesn't like Adele? Not my favorite era but she knows what she's doing

Some wonderful songs even if I don't consider it outstanding.

Stays afloat the whole time -- the one song that I didn't know before that grabbed me was "Sweetest Devotion", but the banger here is "Send My Love to Your New Lover", I think the clear achievement of this album that otherwise I find lesser to all of her other albums (this weirdly was the only one I had never checked out). Good but not especially great ya know

shes got a nice voice and the songwriting is competent but nothing really feels like, sticky, for me

Undeniable vocal prowess but majority of the tracks don't light a fire in me

An amazing vocalist, for sure. Her style of vocal pop isn’t something I'm drawn to. 'Hello' is a great song, and 'Water Under the Bridge' caught my attention, whether I wanted it to or not.

Apparently Adele named her albums after how many times Len Houmous tried it on with her. She was his 21st century Joni Mitchell. 3.2 5/11 Remedy

She can sing but signers don't do it for me.

3/5

Adele is ridiculously talented, so I refuse to give her anything less than three stars. Her voice is still incredible, and there’s no denying how good of a performer and writer she is, especially at such a young age. That alone deserves respect. That said, this album just didn’t hit me the same way 21 did. Nothing here grabbed me or stuck around once it was over, even though everything is polished and well done.

So,e excellent songs but drops off toward the end. Crazy voice

I’ve definitely never intentionally listened to this whole album, but I knew almost every song. So that’s something. By the time we were about halfway through though I was starting to get bored, seemed like there were really only two songs here, the slower ballads and the faster pop songs.

Première fois que j'écoute un album au complet d'elle. Comme dirait China ça vaut un 2 mais on peut lui donner 3 pour sa voix.

Pleasantly surprised by the quality but the whole album is the same "I miss my ex" and there's not enough variety in songs for me

good

3/5

adele has a nice voice but i have never really been particularly fond of her music, having only heard it on the radio, in stores, etc. unfortunately i find her music to be very dull. i wish i liked it more, because i do like her voice. the production here is pretty bare bones and stark, but there are some production moments that have not aged so well - particularly the production on 'water under the bridge' sounds like royalty free music on a youtube pre-roll ad. i suspect this is not her fault and they are taking the sound from her, but it still sounds pretty awful in retrospect.

Canciones que no sabía que estaban ahí, como canciones famosas. No se porque no me encanta Adele aunque yo quiera! Pero es un buen álbum.

I've got nothing against Adele. Great voice. Like her as person (from the little bit I know). Enjoy her music in small doses. Her style is just not something I would normally listen to at length. While I was already familiar with many of her songs, this was the first time listening to a full album. It hasn't changed my opinion. Great for one song at a time, but a full album of them just sound too similar and not really my thing.

sinceramente? é o menos bom dela eu acho. gosto do 19 e do 21 mas esse é tão... sei lá ela parece velha nele.

a voz dela é incrível, os arranjos são lindamente orquestrados, mas... não consigo gostar.

I think this is a 2.5, but the vocal talent feels illegal to assign a 2 to so it’s probably a bland 3? It’s probably a 2

Couple of bangers but after that not overly fussed

Great vocals. Wonderful production. But the songs themselves are just not for me. Had I heard this completely fresh, I might have a slightly higher opinion. But this just brings me back to a time that I simply have no desire to revisit. And that’s a me problem, so I cannot completely blame dear Adele for that.

I was sort of excited to listen to this because there are a few Adele songs I really like. I was disappointed by the non-singles. I absolutely love When We Were Young. The only other song that stuck out to me was Water Under the Bridge. Other than that, kind of plain and same-soundy as all 'diva' radio music.

This kind of balladry is really not my thing.

everything here is incredible, but almost everything is like a minute too long too

I really liked the ballads, but the other stuff, not so much.

Melodic ballads

Found it bit low energy

Her voice doesn’t need all of the pop production around it, it takes away from it

I feel the same as NinaQ... just a blur of sad ballads.

Great voice.

Good pop music. Very good voice. Very compressed production.

Marcante, e aquela música é muito plágio

Great voice, boring songs.

I know I should like this more, it is an album full of hits. But it just didn't land too hard for me. Maybe I've just heard the songs too often?

Adele blijft een van de beste zangeressen van dit moment, misschien wel vergelijkbaar met Whitney Houston uit haar periode en Aretha Franklin voor haar. De muziek die ze maakt, draait daarom wel volledig om haar stem. En dat is misschien dan wel terecht, het wordt er ook iets eentonig van. Stuk voor stuk zijn het prachtige nummers an sich, maar als je een heel album achter elkaar krijgt, dan sneeuwt het ene nummer het andere onder. Maar dat ze kan zingen, dat staat buiten elke discussie. Omdat ik het vorige album al een 3,5 heb gegeven die ik naar boven heb afgerond, rond ik de 3,5 nu naar beneden af. Maar het had net zo goed andersom kunnen zijn denk ik.

Adele has a beautiful voice, and she's a lovely person. Her songs are very emotionally touching and well written. It just is not my jam. I listenednto the entire album to give it a fair shake, and just can't see myself listening again on purpose.

It's alright. Great voice, songs are fine. Weird there are 2 Adele albums on this list

I'm surprised that this one was included instead of 21. I love "Water Under the Bridge", and the rest were generally alright.

It’s ok.

Only liked a couple songs. The ballads got repetitive. Fav: sweetest devotion (banger)

love her voice, like the record, it works. love in the dark was my favvv

An okay album, not for me, not sure I love an entire album that is a ballad. But she’s very talented.

Much better than I thought on the first pass. Quite listenable, I never really gave her much of a chance but will come back to this one. 3.5 stars. What a voice.

очевидно, что альбом популярный и iconic. но чтобы получать удовольствие от прослушивания надо разделять те же эмоции, что и адель - поэтому он пока не для меня

Well is has a bangers and ofcourse, Adele's voice is etheral. But there is a reason why 21 is still in every record store en 25 is not and it is felt too.

Poor woman has never gotten over anything in her life

3.0 stars I was expecting more. I've loved the singles I've heard from her over the years. she's got an amazing voice but these songs didn't really hit with me. Favorite songs: Hello & Sweetest Devotion

Ridiculously talented vocalist, but I can only take so much of a whole album of nothing but dramatic songs about relationships. Can begin to sound the same.

Not great

ja ne, die klavier "solos" waren noch mein lieblingsteil von den Songs. In 2023 hab ich Adele echt viel gehört, auch das Album. Aber inzwischen ist es echt nicht mehr meins.

Great voice but not my thing

Man there was one song that sounded straight up like something from a commercial. Still I feel it would be wrong to give it 2. Even though its not something I would listen to normally, some of the songs were not half bad

Nostalgic music for me, there were many songs that I recognized from the radio growing up. Adele has an incredible singing voice and style, and the songwriting definitely takes care to highlight Adele’s vocals. Hearing more unfamiliar songs gave me the ability to listen to this era of Adele uncolored by nostalgia/history, but I think the stronger tracks were the ones that became the most popular.

Wonderful voice

Great vocals. I knew the opening track and that might be the only song I had ever heard. I wouldn't be against listening to this album again. The hype for Adele is too much... similar to Taylor Swift. Is it great or just overly hyped. I didn't cringe at anything on this album and will dive a beat deeper to know what the songs are about.

de facto, a dele é uma boa artista e o álbum está um bom álbum mesmo não sendo muito do meu gosto musical

She’s got a great voice and if piano ballads are your thing, this is for you. Unfortunately it’s not my thing and this album is not for me.

Decent modern pop record with Adele’s powerful, earnest voice.

It's classic Adele.

Very strong vocals. Brings some talent back to pop music. Some very strong song writing by other artists.

I prefer Adele’s earlier music, but this is still lovely.

She has such a strong powerful voice, and it was fun listening to an album that i've heard other stuff of of 6.5/10

Nunca la había escuchado. Realmente me parece todo muy bien hecho y su voz no me resulta desagradable como creía. Pero no me transmite nada, me parece música ambiente de calidad.

So like she was going through a divorce with this one yeah? Cause there is a lot of miss the old times songs. Makes me think of thousands of divorced moms just belting this album out in their cars on the way to get Starbucks. She has talent though. Her voice is beautiful I just feel that all the songs are alike. I'd like to see her do something wild and push it. I will listen to more of her stuff because of this album though.

The bottom line is that this album is just not as good as 21. If you want to listen to an Adele album, 21 is the one you should listen to, unless you are a major fan I guess. When We Were Young is kinda an all timer though.

active gym listening - not right mindset. great for listening while playing spire or something tho :)

Remember liking this more when it came out. Still some standout songs though 2.75/5

her voice is so good

2.5 not for me

Very nice for somebody else

Hello

Comme je m'attendais: beaucoup de forçage de voix et beaucoup de pleurniche. Je vais être clément par contre, Send My Love est quand même un banger à ne pas piquer des hannetons

Decent album

White women music (positive). I love you Adele, they will never make me hate you.

Pleasant to the ear, but nothing mind-blowing

Surprisingly good.. Enjoyed it much more than I expected. Some really cool songs. Doesn't quite flow as a full record for me

This may have hit better at 27 than it did at 25. There are some skips so I’m giving it 3 stars

Just ok

Too much of a good thing is possible

This was ten years ago now. Good Lord….. She has a great voice. She can whisper and she can belt. Her voice sits in a really nice range, as well. Gritty tone when she wants it. “Hello” doesn’t do it for me. “Send my love” sounds like someone else- ??? Oh god is it IMAGINE DRAGONS??? MIA? Or even worse- both? Argh. Maybe “Girls Chase Boys?” "I Miss You" has that weird, halting beat that sounds like it's off but it isn't - turns out to be a fine song. Then the album gets a bit gray and mushy for me - the middle of this record isn't bad just not particuarly memorable. Then - the last three songs things really picked up. I loved "All I Ask" and "Sweetest Devotion" especially. Not sure why they saved the best two songs or last but they did. "25" definitely feels like a sophomore slump album (yes - I know - it's her 3rd). You spend your whole life writing the songs for your first album (or two, in this case) and then - bam - you're out of ideas. And you make something - but it isn't *quite* as good as your previous efforts. It's fine, but it feels like there was a better album before this one.... THREE STARS

- "girl with piano and a lot of reverb" is a whole genre, but Adele is arguably the queen - at one point, my three roommates in college were all playing this song at the same time while in their respective rooms, so my perspective going in was not positive. however, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would - as I'm not 25 anymore, the lyrics were a little melodramatic, but I'm sure I would have resonated with them in some way if I was more into dramatic pop music at the time (or now) - still, a solid effort that did seem to speak to a lot of people at the time. if the radio hadn't overplayed so many of these songs a decade ago, I might have called myself an almost-fan

It’s fine but mostly basic pop. Her voice is truly amazing but she refuses to be interesting with it

Franchement pas mal, belle voix mais ça m'a pas touché du tout