25

Enjoyable 3.5

⭐ • "I Miss You" • "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" 👍 • "When We Were Young" • "Love In The Dark" • "All I Ask"

Better than I thought it would be. Some decent songs here. 3 a little low but probs marginally closer to a 3 than a 4

♥️

Great voice, some OK singles but every song is perpetual heartbreak. A stocking gift for mums

voice

Forgot how much I loved the songs on here that weren’t singles

Wow. I had no idea how talented this woman is.

Great album. Not my typical type of music, but I enjoyed the entire album. Adele has a magical voice and is easy to listen to. This album definitely deserves to be on the list.

Το είχα ακούσει και όταν είχε βρει, έχει κάποια αξιόλογα κομμάτια

Πολύ ωραίο άλμπουμ για ταξιαδακι άνετο !!!

4.2 stars rounded down. Generally great stuff but 21 is the best.

A few stars have the voice of an angel. Adele has the voice of a goddess. The fact that I can stay engaged in this mediocre collection of songs with its Adult-Oriented-Pop production is a testament to her astonishing talent.

The vocals and instrumentals

She has a great voice but none of these songs are standouts. I would like to see her sit down with only the piano and none of the production. 2.5 Stars.

I mean, great voice and good songs, but would never be my go-to.

already love

Ah, so Adele lost touch with reality between this and the last album. Justice for Charlene Soraia and Louis Sharpe!

Anyone who doesn’t enjoy at least one Adele song is the type of person who likes to be oppositional just to be oppositional. I have even heard my 13 year-old son (“bro”) jamming her music. This album definitely had more modern instrumentation and more “up-beat” songs - which I quite like. Great album that I really enjoyed. Regarding those who hate on this (or any album) because of its popularity or that it was “over played” - part of this project is having the ability to let go of those preconceived opinions and just listen.

Whilst Adele can certainly sing her voice is not really my jam. I enjoyed the plodding/brooding melodrama of Hello - but everything else was very vanilla X-Factor ballads. Lyrically its pretty dumb and thematically its all very samey about the one that got away. Perhaps by the time we get to 50 Adele will have a bit more range in what she writes about.

Really couldn’t get along with it. Songs felt either forced or almost cringe. A difficult third album.

Boring and repetitive

Great voice. Never knew her albums were titled after her age at the time of recording…about the current state of her life. Clever. 60 should be an interesting one.

Hello has a powerful vocal performance, doesn't rely on fake vibrato. Her voice is clean in the upper register. Send My Love reminds me of Cocteau Twins. Don't really care for the chorus. I Miss You is driving, dramatic, and sensual. The production defeats the rawness I think it's going for, it sounds too clean. When We Were Young is a more stripped back piano ballad. I like this one the best so far. Feels like she has more room to breathe. She doesn't need so much lavish production. Remedy is also more stripped back. I'm noticing that all the tracks are dramatic. There hasn't been a fun track yet. Water Under the Bridge has a brighter instrumental but I don't care for the chorus. Don't care for the fact that the choruses are so predictable across the album. Repetitive song structure. River Lea has a gospel/blues influence with an organ. Nice change of pace. But like the rest of the songs it is rather toothless. Love In The Dark has some nice strings. I think the album could have used more orchestral production. Million Years Ago is an acoustic ballad. She does some nice humming. I liked this one. All I Ask has annoying lyrics tbh. Comes across as clingy and pathetic. Sweetest Devotion has lighter tone to it. Wish the album had more hopeful lighter tracks. Overall I found the album heavy handed and saccharine. Adele is a talented singer but this is clearly an albums of ballads for the masses. Overly dramatic and hyper emotional. Felt like songs for a soundtrack. Doesn't reward contemplative listening, lays it on thick, feels manipulative. She doesn't draw me into her love life, instead it feels like she's erecting an edifice out of it in order to impress me. I think this kind of romantic balladry needs to feel inclusive in the sense that it draws me into her emotional headspace. Every song feels like things are falling apart and that gets tiresome after awhile. Doesn't capture the warm enveloping side of love. The album comes across as cold and distant. Production needed to be stripped back and could've used more real instruments. Was not a pleasant album experience. TOO MUCH

Beautiful album. It definitely suffers a little bit from mainstreamism but when those songs are viewed with the whole it tells this very emotional story. Adele really did a lot with a little here.

Some bangers I’d forgotten about

I actually quite enjoyed this. I was expecting a paint-by-numbers soft pop album but I was pleasantly surprised. Adele’s voice sores as the centerpiece of 25. The producers made no qualms placing Adele’s vocals in the front-and-center of the mix. The understated and instrumentation feels like an intentional statement. We’re all here for Adele’s generational set of pipes and they were not afraid to show it through the use of an understated piano and basic drum programming acting as second fiddle to the voice. 3.5/5

It’s good but compared to her previous effort, 21, it’s both less consistent and less interesting.

Listened to this every day in college because my sad white girl roommate blasted it through the walls.

I knew more songs than I thought I would. Not an album or genre I’d seek out, but I would listen again.

Gear: Hifiman Arya Artwork: 📸⬛⬜ Production: 😑🙂👌 Music: 🎤🎹📻🧼🫧 Rating: 👋👋/5

Adele's voice is undoubtly incredible and unique, but I can't say the same for the instrumentos. Sometimes, I feel like this is a product from that time, as it takes me back to 2015. And that's about it. Also, I want to point out that 'Send My Love' feels too much like a Imagine Dragons song, and I do believe too that the album cover is really bad. It makes me feel uncomfortable as it seems like her head was chop off.

She's great - the album was fine

It's certainly not bad, but I'm unsure how this is one of the best?

I'm not sure why this is included in the list. Is it because it was so massively popular? I don't think popularity is an indicator of quality. To me, this is bland and over-produced and lacking emotionally.

Dit is natuurlijk super groot geweest terwijl ik tiener was. Daardoor heb ik het al te vaak gehoord, het sparkt geen joy of interesse, het is comfort myziek

Adele feels weird for me to encounter here. Among music I am familiar with, this is the most recently released album the project has served to me thus far. I enjoy her voice, and I think most of these songs are pretty good, but they aren't among my favorite of her work. "Hello" was memed to death within days of its release, and it's hard to take some of the emotional pleas seriously after that. Listening through the whole album for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised by the tracks I hadn't heard before, but unfortunately the tracks that did receive a lot of radio play just end up reminding me of the lousy jobs I had at that time. I considered picking "Hello" for my playlist (despite thinkingof that Star Wars parody everytime I hear it, it is a good song), but "Sweetest Devotion" really stood out to me at the end of the album. Altogether it is an enjoyable listen- but not one that I feel strongly about.

One of the most striking and powerful albums I've ever listened to. Such raw yet subdued emotions, and a range from soaring highs to crushing lows. An absolute joy to listen to. No weak spots or songs either, just a top tier album

21 better

Not my style

Brilliant record. Great songs well arranged and expertly sung.

4.5/5

Liked it. Never gave this artist a listen through before this

This is what I expected it to sound like. Great singer, strong production, and songs I couldn’t care less about. 1.5 stars.

Fav: When We Were Young Least Fav: I Miss You Adele doesn’t do much wrong per say, but it’s the lack of originality that’s holding her down

Dreary 😞

Those lyrics are BAD sorry women I liked „i miss you“

bin fan vo adele wenn sie ihri ruhig/tüf stimm uspackt; million years ago isch für mich drum definitiv s beste vo 25. sust nödso min stil

молодец тетя. 25 лет , а уже как тетя.

fucking gorgeous, among the best contemporary pop has to offer

Bit sad and slow

She’s got a great, soulful but authentic voice; it’s impressive how she can channel who she clearly really is herself, while wearing her influences right on her sleeve. This is not a style of music I really enjoy but I’ve appreciated it and respect the quality of the songcraft and the talent. Don’t mind hearing it again but probably won’t seek it out.

Adele could sing the menu at a restaurant and it would bring the house down. That heartstopping voice is second to none.

Her voice is great, but I find it hard to connect with the songs

In one ear, out the other. My brain does not register this as music.

Really enjoyed this. Think it was really good. Much better than i gave credit initially.

10/10 Didnt think I would enjoy this as much as I did. Adeles voice and lyrics are just incredible Favourite Song= All I Ask Least Favourite Song=N/A

Awesome voice. Aside from one or two songs that are great, the rest are just a little ho hum for me.

Thoughts before listening: Adele has an amazing voice and in sure I'll know the hits from this album. This will be fine...probably the definition of a 3-star album in that it's not really my thing but I can't deny that it's good. Review: This is what I thought it would be. A few bangers I knew were by Adele ("Hello"), a few songs I recognized but didn't realize Adele songs ("Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"), and a bunch of filler. In general the filler was enjoyable because of Adele's voice and just the fact that power ballads about relatable subjects is hard to hate on. 3-stars

Easy 5. I bought this album on iTunes when it came out because I loved it so much. The voice of an angel!

Didn’t like this as much as the other Adele album we’ve had. The songs were kinda blah overall, except for I Miss You and Hello, although I’m a bit weary of the latter. Had high hopes for the Danger Mouse track River Lea, but alas, it didn’t do it for me.

Better than I expected!

are we sure? are we absolutely sure u need to hear this before u die? are we like Sure sure? over any of her other albums even??? almost inevitably there are moments where everything lines up right: the great timbre of adele's voice sings what just happens to be a genuinely moving melodic twist which just happens to be lined up with an effectively bittersweet worldweary lyric and its all washed over with that big echoy pop soul cathedral production. unfortunately it happens less for me than id like (tho more than i expected based on the tbh kinda drab and inert famous singles), and the Maturity here in place of the melodrama i remember from 21 kinda dulls the emotional colors all over the place. fair enough ig and im mom-coded enough to give this a passing grade but im sure she can do more vivid and distinctive work than this. at least its better in her vocal chords than it would be in many others

I liked this more than I thought I would. Solid 3.5/5, rounding up because I'm feeling generous. My favourites were River Lea and I Miss You. Hello and Sweetest Devotion close runner-ups.

When we sing from the heart, we imagine we will sound like Adele. We never will but that is OK. She is a once-in-a-generation talent.

Album très complet, on sent la grosse production derrière. Un plaisir pour les oreilles, on peut entendre à tout moment chaque instrument, l'espace est vraiment bien retranscrit entre voix/instrument sèche et mouillé tout y es ! On peut noter dans le mixage les drums et la voix plus en avant et les melodies plus sur le 2nd plan pour l'accompagnement avec beaucoup de nuance en volume ainsi qu'en panoramique, ce qui fait vivre encore plus la musique. Rien à dire une baffe auditive tout simplement !

+ Beats sind ziemli abwechslungsrich + Natürliche, echti vocal performance (v.a. ihres falsetto & lower Register gfallt mer) + d Ballade - Bide weniger ruhige / lüüteri Lieder het ihri stimm für mich epis chli zu usequetschts - find d stimm versinkt amal chli im mix

Not for me. I gave it a listen but I found it a bit meh

All I have to say about this album is that it is a work of art and that "All I Ask" is one of the best songs in the history of music and, I dare say, in Adele's discography. Fuck if what Adele sings is "the same old thing", she always does it with competence and mastery. A legend!

I love this album. BRB going to go sob.

It's alright. 3/5

Impressive vocals as you would expect but the writing is consistently one note and hollow

21 was better

God Adele’s voice is perfect

Gutes Album mit starken Songs

國中時就聽過了 很不錯

Capital m Music, her voice was impactful then grew grating and then circled back around to perfectly fine if I can turn it off. I’d love to hear her sing in her home away from a stage. Still her songs have spirit and I really gravitate towards some of the production. If this had more granular rating, would be the highest of 3s

Poetic sadness, encapsulating the stages that come with a serious breakup. I thoroughly enjoyed this album

There's one crack of her voice in "When We Were Young" that damn near broke me. After the last Adele listen for this, I didn't add Adele to my rotation, but did appreciate her, so I wasn't disappointed to see this. She has a command over her voice that calls from the surrounding instrumentation. Like an MC in the sense that she knows how to use the accompaniment to add to the delivery.

Not even debatable that her voice is incredible. Possibly the most powerful in the game. Feels a little slower more introspective that 21, but not in a depressive way. Still enjoying her output here.

First time I got an Adele album I thought she was some lame pop star like Lady Gaga and instead I was absolutely blown away by her music. This lady is in a class and genre of her own. Awesome

可能还是更喜欢前一张专那种关乎生命的爆发力

Incredible voice but one of the most soulless and uninspired series of recordings ever made. Just terribly empty in production, writing, and arranging

A voice like Adele's deserves much better songs

Proof that a beautiful singing voice is not enough. Uninspired and uninspiring but at least she's courteous enough to pause after the first "hello" so we can change to another album

Hello: Overplayed, unfortunately. I was fighting the urge to skip it. I also was not a huge fan of it when it came out. 5/10. Send My Love: 9/10 One of my favorite Adel songs. I Miss You: This is one of the only songs that I have not heard before. I feel like it is 7/10 When We Were Young: 7/10: Always a good one. Love Remedy: 9/10: Wow this song made me feel emotional for some reason. I had never heard it before. I loved it. Water Under the Bridge: 6/10: another overplayed one that I didn't love River Lea: 8/10: oOOOoooooOooo Love In the Dark: 9/10: Always one of my favorites. Love belting it. Million Years Ago: 8/10: Wow so pretty. Another rare one that I have not heard before. All I Ask: 9/10 UGH love this song. So beautiful. Sweetest Devotion: 6/10. Cute and peppy way to end. She seems to have a trend of doing this.

This is just not my style of genre and this mostly does nothing for me. The first two singles are not my thing for different reasons. The overreaching ballad of “Hello” and her voice being to loud in mix(plus it was overplayed). The next track “Send My Love” is everything I hate about “Indie Pop” music. “Roots” feel without any soul. Reminds me Lorde There’s a few gems here and there “Water Under The Bridge” being the standout and after this point the album gets more tolerable. Second half definitely makes up a bit for first half. This will be high for others but overall I find this boring and production is to sparse and yet overbearing with her vocals 2.5/5 (it has merit but not my thing, if a song came on I’d be fine ,but a whole Album of this style is a bit much)

I loved this album. It is very nostolgic for me.... I know I'm young.

Solid.

You can tell that they let her spend whatever money she wanted on this and she spent it all on production. This album especially the first few songs are production heavy. It's like she doesn't trust her voice that she uses the instrumental to convey a lot of the emotion. It reminds me of the type of singer DJ crossover music from the early 2010s. I find that the addition clutters the tracks and adds very little. I wasn't looking forward to this album and the first two tracks really didn't agree with me. I found it obnoxious to listen to.

This was way more enjoyable than I expected. It’s still very much not what I listen to day to day but it’s hard to deny what a great singer she is. I like that she deviated from the usual r&b/pop a bit by doing a Spanish/jazz guitar backed song and even something with what sounded like live drums (When We Were Young). The only song I fast forwarded was “River Lea”, which was was uncharacteristically bad. It’s unfortunate that it’s the only non love song. The themes are a little stale after a while.

I'm a big singalong in the car kinda guy. I respect the hell out of this for being something I can't even try to sing along to. I'm glad we got 21 before we got 25 because the difference is palpable. The music is richer, the album flow feels better, and the themes are slightly less high school. Send My Love is such a great track.

Good!! Adele!!!

No doubting the voice but it lack subtlety. It seems to get to shouty and stay there. The producers certainly got a performance but they didn't get spine tingling songs.

Adele has a sensational voice and I can definitely understand the appeal of her music. It's powerful. It's drives through you and helps to lift you up to the sky. They're great songs with very relatable lyrics. For my money, I'd love if she took a few risks. But I suppose you don't get to be a massive superstar by ignoring what works. And it does work and I might actually return to this one. Though to be frank, it also makes me want to listen to Florence and the Machine.

National. Treasure. But the track list wasn't a good as the last Adele album

Like, it's fine. Except for Send My Love, I find most of these songs unobjectionable. I like Hello and a couple of the deep cuts, but the overall experience is just so unremarkable. 2.5/5

Eine große Stimme in glatt produzierten Liedern. Mir ist es etwas zu sehr massenkompatible Musik. Und höre ich da nicht immer wieder so einen Schunkelrhythmus?

Powerful opening, big sad middle, and good last song

A very lovely listen on a Sunday morning- not her best album but better than a lot of peoples best

As it turns out, Adele is very talented. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.

Phenomenal Comeback!

could i write poetry to this? n

Nothing surprising here. She has a great voice that fills this collection of torch songs nicely. Nothing risky or fun or particularly interesting to me on this record, so I very much doubt I'll ever listen to the whole thing again. Two and one-half stars. Adele gets the extra half for being engaged to a guy from Cleveland.

I took me awhile to get aboard the Adele train, but goddamn she is a gem.

Send My Love is my favorite Adele song. Water under the bridge is OK. Everything else is blah.

Never really been a fan of Adele. I can appreciate her writing & voice. She seems to have gone through some heartbreaking times in order to achieve her hit, after hit albums. I did however, love 'A Million Years Ago' it has a very melodic 'Beatles' feel to me. I'd love her to have happier albums but maybe she's more suited to heartbreak?

I have mixed feelings about this album. In one respect the production quality is so huge it’s hard to focus on the talent. By the other respect her talent is so huge that it deserved nothing less than the full production. I think almost every song on here needed as a radio hit at some point, and reasonably so. Her voice has so many layers of soul and power. When I was “25” I was still hollering “Dude, watch this…!” before screaming in pain or stupidity. Key tracks included Send My Love and the lessor known Sweetest Devotion. She is definitely one of the greatest vocalists of our generation (I know she’s younger than me but damn it I’m claiming her as ours!).

Wow! That voice is incredible. She could probably sing shitty Tweets and it would be worth listening to. The first 2 tracks are amazing. I personally really like "Send My Love". It is maybe my favorite Adele track of all time. After that it is all pretty much the same but that voice carries everything. I probably won't reach for this album again but I will listen to the first 2 tracks many more times.

Eh ok I guess couple of good tunes but gets a bit boring after a while

this is good stuff, but it felt a little more formulaic than her previous work

This album was jammed packed with melancholy, lost love, missed opportunities, and regret. And I'm here for every minute of it. It scratched an itch I didn't even realize I had this morning. I enjoyed every minute of this album.

Though the subject matter is consistently about pain and loss, this is a well produced and arranged album. You can't deny how talented Adele is.

It’s undeniable that Adele has an incredible voice. The album was easy to listen to and beautiful, and I recognized and liked several of the songs, especially Send My Love. That being said, I don’t think I’ll listen to it again in its entirely. It did get a bit boring after a few songs. Just kind of faded into the background. I know people love Adele, she’s wonderful, just not my cup of tea. I can’t give her less than 3 stars though, because she does have a fantastic voice.

This was a bit depressing. Amazing voice though. Stand-out: Water Under the Bridge

There were songs that I really liked but not enough.

It all sounds the same, I just can't feel the music as authentic when it doesn't connect with a change in tone or mood.

In isolatie zijn het nummers die me over het algemeen best mee vielen. Het is meer pop in het straatje Lana Del Rey dan ik had gedacht, en is daardoor zelfs voor een niet-moeder van 3 jonge kids best behapbaar. Maar als je het als een album gaat luisteren valt zo'n generieke pop artiest als Adele volledig door de mand. De individuele songs zijn gemaakt voor korte ontmoetingen in film scènes, reclames of trailers. Een luisterervaring van een geheel album met deze gelikte en op en top voor het gemiddelde oor gefabriceerde meuk is gedoemd te falen. Haar faam is gebouwd op muziek dat perfect past in van die korte fragmenten, op de radio of in een film. Het mag dan ook niet te avontuurlijk zijn, want een misstap of controverse en je bent de macht over dat moment kwijt. Als je een heel album luistert kom je bijna om door het gebrek aan avontuur en spanning, en zit je tevergeefs te wachten op een moment dat Adele even geen Adelletje doet. Er ontwikkelt zich werkelijk waar niks op dit album. Het voelt als een soundtrack van een drama/romance film uit 2010, zonder de beelden die het wellicht - ik betwijfel het - nog iets spannender maken. 5/10 Highlights: Hello

En zo zit je dan ineens een heel Adele album te luisteren. Enkele hoogtepunten, maar ook wel paar momenten met een pure afknapper. De stem van Adele is onwijs, zeker als ze die een beetje uitdaagt vind die ook echt mooi. Dan snap ik de hype en de liefde voor haar werk. Maar niet of alle manieren van zingen. Soms zuigt het echt (Remedy is echt een dieptepunt). Dan kijk je even op en tel je af tot de laatste track. En dan volgt er toch weer een klein hoogtepuntje. Mede door de rete strakke productie. Niet zo fantastisch als de populariteit doet vermoeden, maar ik wil ook niet te hard zijn. 6/10 Highlights I Miss You (daar geeft ze qua stem echt volle bak)

No words for the amount of love I have for Adele. Her vocal skill is something to be fascinated by and envy at the same time. She is absolutely incredible lyrics and vocals together.

Excellent melody throughout a collection of very accessible songs and it is the rare album for me that the focus properly *is* the vocals - I do enjoy Adele's singing, one of the few that bring me in just with their voice. I already know many of these tunes which might actually have been an initial false-boost because after listening to a few in a row the mega-production here just does not hit any of the same raw nerves for me as pretty much everything on her previous album "21" did/does. 21 felt raw in a good way, you could almost imagine a singer and band in a studio/room/lounge and the songs would feel the same. These songs aren't all that different structurally on this album which in the end when you're putting a few chords together melodically and then putting all the music through every studio cleanser/polisher possible .... it all just ends up having the effect of approaching boredom which is never what you want in a record. It all sounds so ... safe. So even with my at least enjoying virtually any/every one of these songs in isolation ... over the expanse of the album it all sort of smooths out into one chunk of "I don't know if I actually remember any individual songs..." In the end it's all just fine. For me this sounds like a massive-budget record company push album which of course it was/is. The songs are fine but a lot is lost for me with the huge studio sheen. Nitpicking, but if it doesn't move me... I do love a good closing song and "Sweetest Devotion" is probably my favourite track here. TL;DR: Good stuff that I'd never turn off, but it's not an active play/favourite as a whole package like "21" was. 6/10 3 stars

I feel like the album starts off very strong and gets muddled towards the middle. But it can live off the strength of its best cuts.

This is very well produced. It’s all so clear. She’s an amazing singer and will likely stand the test of time as such.

This album is much more pop-oriented, with highly polished production. Adele is an extremely good vocalist, but this album didn't resonate with me as much as "21" which was far superior. 25 had less soul and R&B influences than "19" and "21" did.

It's an Adele album. Powerhouse vocals, but not a lot of variety. It's enjoyable but not interesting.

Yes, she can sing, it's just that it sounds like a distressed seal.

Adele is só boring....zzzzzzzzzzzzzźzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Adele is a goddess that can never do anything wrong.

I can see why this album was so big when it came out. Lots of radio singles. Overall, good sounds and smooth vocals. Not my normal type of music, but Adele is definitely talented.

love love love 5 stars i love adele

I forgot how much this album slaps. Adele such a beautiful voice. Brought me right back to freshman year of college

I had 21 not so long ago. 25 is really on here too? I would never argue with anyone that loves Adele. I do think she has an incredible voice. And like, I do enjoy the song Hello, but it's more like I'll sing along when it's on, not something I seek out on my own. For 21, I thought all the non-singles were mostly boring. I think that's even more true on 25, and the singles aren't as strong. I wish there was more going on with the production, like more vocal layering and harmonies, more instrumentals, anything. The landscape of most of these songs is so sparse. I get the choice to highlight her voice over everything else, but there are no surprises musically or lyrically. She makes nice songs and sings her heart out, and I understand why she is loved. But I don't connect with any of it in any meaningful way.

I have all of her music! Love

i have some of these songs on my playlist and i don't even know why anymore

01) Hello - 10,0 02) Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - 10,0 03) I Miss You - 8,5 04) When We Were Young - 10,0 05) Remedy - 8,0 06) Water Under the Bridge - 9,0 07) River Lea - 8,0 08) Love in the Dark - 8,0 09) Million Years Ago - 8,5 10) All I Ask - 8,5 11) Sweetest Devotion - 8,0 TOTAL: 8,78 (88/100) Current ranking: 43/336

Perfectly fine and she’s talented but not really my thing! I’m (2 years) too old for this album anyway!

I'm glad people seem to really enjoy this

i had no idea XL put this out... thats fucked up lol

21 per me è il suo album migliore ma 25 è subito dopo. Adele ha fatto l’album migliore di sempre, è sparita per anni ed è tornata con un album dello stesso livello. Di lei ammiro sempre la capacità di farmi immedesimare in tutto ciò che canta. Sicuramente una delle artiste più dotate della nostra epoca.

non credo ci sia molto da dire, una delle voci più belle di sempre, e dei testi da crisi di pianto istantanee. incredibile.

Meglio di 21, madonna che voce

Some absolute gems on here, but I miss the blue eyed soulfulness of 21 a bit! Easy to see how she blew her voice out trying to tour this one. Still a good listen, but the instrumentals get a bit Florence and the machine when I’m wanting the muscle shoals band.

Adele's voice is just so damn good. She might be one of the best modern female vocalists??? While her vocal performance carries the album, it's well deserved, and the album is pretty intentionally built around her performance. The hits also bump this up a touch for me. The album floor is very high, every song is excellent in quality. But the hits show how high her ceiling is. To say anything other than Adele is one of the best modern musicians/vocalists/recording artists, is to admit ignorance. Favorite Song(s): Hello, Send My Love, Water Under the Bridge

Adele is an amazingly talented singer. Her voice is gorgeous. However, this album is not my bag. It’s… just… boring.

Fine. I get swept up in some of the songs. It’s at least as good as her previous album, I think. Still not really my thing, but it’s good enough for a 3.

She has a beautiful voice, but most of the music itself didn't make me feel much. It feels safe and a bit boring. Favorites: "Hello", "When We Were Young", "River Lea"

Es ist ein Meisterwerk, das die Zuhörer auf eine emotionale Reise mitnimmt. Mit ihrer kraftvollen Stimme und tiefgründigen Texten schafft sie es, den Hörer emotional zu berühren und gleichzeitig neue musikalische Höhen zu erreichen. “Hello” ist der Eröffnungstrack und wohl einer der bekanntesten Songs des Albums. "Hello" ist eine herzzerreißende Ballade, die von einer verlorenen Liebe erzählt. Adeles stimmliche Leistung ist hier einfach überwältigend, und der Song bleibt lange im Gedächtnis. “When We Were Young” ist ein weiterer herausragender Song auf dem Album. Diese nostalgische Ballade erinnert an vergangene Zeiten und alte Freundschaften. Adeles Stimme transportiert die Emotionen perfekt und lässt den Zuhörer in Erinnerungen schwelgen. “Love in the Dark” ist ein emotionales Highlight des Albums. Mit seiner melancholischen Melodie und den tiefgründigen Texten zieht es das Publikum in seinen Bann. Adeles Stimme bringt die Traurigkeit und das Gefühl des Abschieds perfekt zum Ausdruck. "25" ist ein Album, das sowohl musikalisch als auch emotional überzeugt. Jeder Song auf diesem Album ist ein kleines Kunstwerk für sich, und es ist schwer, sich nicht in die Musik zu verlieben. 😊

Feels a bit like another album included on the basis of what an artist has done before and their level of popularity. Adele can sing and I’m sure some of her previous songs were good for the type of music she sings however this felt a bit bland. A bit similar to previous works but just following a formula she’s found that sells without ever feeling new and interesting.

Easily one of my favorite female vocalists. Just a bucket of goose pimples on this one. … would be weird listening to this if you were her ex though … some uh… regret in there.

A solid album, showcasing Adele's powerful voice. A bit letdown that she's still on the heartbreak train of her fantastic album 21.

You can't deny Adele's vocal prowess or song writing abilities. Each song smoothly transitions to the next, which seems even stronger than the song before. It's a powerful album.

strong voice, but rather one-dimensional songs

Lawd, why does every song sound the same? It sounds fine and all and lyrically this thing is great, but I would love for her to switch it up a bit.

she can sing, but this music is boring

God what a spectacular artist.

Water under the bridge is the best song..skippable, from an Adele fan.

Gorgeous

It's difficult to know what to do with this album., It's not that I didn't like it; Adele has a gorgeous voice. She is lovable celebrity who sings deeply introspective songs that are frequently focused on emotional growth. That makes her a very inspiring artists. And yet, this album often bored me. Too many of the songs are similar both thematically and in tempo, and almost all of them felt more familiar than they should have been. Some were obviously songs that has been lodged into my brain because of her ubiquity on the radio, but others turned out to be songs that just sounded an awful lot like the ones I knew. I don't know how to rate an album like this. It isn't bad, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. 3/5 is the best I can do.

As long as humans keep getting their hearts broken, we'll need big, overdramatic torch songs, and Adele may be the current queen of the genre. Adele's skill with a sad song gives us confidence when we have none, recognition when we feel alone, and on this album, acceptance when we need to move on. Is it all a bit much? Of course. But that's what the sign said on the way in, and when you need a torch song, nothing else will do. All that said, I do think the uptempo numbers on 21 work better for me than those on 25, and it's not clear to me why they both belong on an "essentials" list. But that's a critique of the list, not the art. To end on a high note, River Lea has amazing bones and deserves a raft of covers in different genres. I want to hear it in blues and Americana and roots rock...

Ugh… Not my vibe. I’m gonna skip the songs I already know. 1. Hello: skipped 2. Send My Love: skipped 3. I Miss You: bland 4. When We Were Young: good! This was a single, too, wasn’t it ? 5. Remedy: forgettable 6. Water Under The Bridge: skipped 7. River Lea: forgettable 8. Love In The Dark: I’m getting tired of these purely sad piano ballads and I haven’t even been listening to half the album 9. Million Years Ago: liked it 10. All I Ask: don’t care 11. Sweetest Devotion: good closer I guess I wouldn’t call this album a classic as much as 21

Some real bangers on here, although I had enough of heat break by the end!

Überbewertet!

Not my favorite Adele album but still good

Full of classics

Not for me DNF

Love Adele's voice... great album

Okaish Pop soul. Tremendous voice but after 21 the bar is high.

- While 21 was a 4.25/5 rounded down, this is probably a 3.75/5 rounded up. This album never hits the stellar highs of that one, but it is still quite solid. - There is no doubt in my mind that "Love In The Dark" is the best track. Almost gives you the same emotional push as "Set Fire to the Rain." - Once again, wish there were more albums like this overall.

Following up her previous album was never going to be easy, but Adele found a way. While I prefer 21 for myself, I have to acknowledge that 25 is a great album. Starting off with Hello, which you couldn't avoid when initially released, she sets the tone for the album right away that she is back with her beautiful voice. I think the next couple songs were slightly lower in quality but when you get to When We Were Young, the album fully hits it stride. I would probably give this album a 4.5 with half stars and have it closer to a 4.75 overall.

Undeniably, Adele is one of the finest vocalists around, and is in contention for top British vocalist of all time in my opinion. This is a good album that showcases her phenomenal ability, but I think it lacks any real depth. There is a lot of sentimentality, which I think one should expect from Adele. I like sentimentality, but only in doses. I think the album bordered on samey at parts. Good Sunday morning listening, I think. The production is good. Highlights: Hello When We Were Young River Lea

nice for the melancholy-minded

Bra sångerska, inte så jätte bra sånger

Adele’s debut album. Hello is a highlight to start off but find the rest of the album less inspiring. Hard to follow the lead act.

2 Adele albums in 3 days is a bit much. I like Adele but I didn’t think 25 was as good as 21.

It's not for me. That said, I can see the appeal. If you are a 16 year old girl who is heartbroken after breaking up with their boyfriend of two months, this album is for you. Hits you right in the feels (again, only if criteria mentioned above is met). Adelle is clearly an amazing vocalist, but instrumentally, there is not much going on. Which leads to a snooze fest and all the songs sounding the same to me. But I can recognize the appeal.

A major album for me

She's got a great voice but she ain't for me

Not my cup of tea, a bit samey imo. 2.5/5 stars.

Great album, great artist. Adele poppin off in this pop album.

Not as good as 21, but still a great talent and 'Hello' is still impressive. I suppose her audience demand these big production numbers but I'd prefer some more stripped back, intimate songs. Still, I don't expect she'll read this, so ...

Amazing album. Every song is very strong. Easy 5

really good album even though i just couldn't like 2 of the songs since i had heard them a hundred million times Favorite Song: Love In The Dark

83% Best: Hello; I Miss You; Water Under the Bridge; All I Ask; Sweetest Devotion Must-Hear? Sure

incredible voice yet not showcased at all on this album, this album got boring fast

Some good songs but, not a good album. It's not 21.

Amazing voice, fab production. It's all just a bit overwhelming in drama and emotion.

Adult Contemporary is not for me, this is not for me but it's on the list so I listened to it. Her biggest hit Hello is annoying, she doesn't even say Hello correctly, why are you saying Hallo Adelle? You're 25 and already having a fit about being old, "Oh I'm so mad I'm getting old It makes me reckless" Ok Adele, chill. "Life was a party to be thrown But that was a million years ago A million years ago" This album seems to be lasting a million years and I'm not being as dramatic Adele, get over yourself, you have a good voice and you choose to whine about being old. I understand this is geared towards those who drink wine with ice and tut-tut at weeds sprouting on their neighbours lawn but I did listen to the entire thing so I get to go off. Hello? Goodbye Adele... 2 stars

Adele is definitely a gifted singer. I love her lower register. I didn't have a problem sitting through this album but it was kind of boring and it's not my kind of thing. This isn't anything I would seek out on my own.

2 out of 5. While I admit Adele has a great voice her music doesn't quite do it for me.

I liked this more than I like to admit.

For some reason, I thought I was too cool to give this 5* but you know what, I'm not. Absolute corker, enjoyed every track and some of the lyrics are bonafide poetry.

Nostalgic.

For the record, this album was released when Adele was 25 years old, in case you're wondering how she came to this highly sophisticated album title. I've always had mixed feelings about Adele. In one way, she has an excellent singing voice, and is obviously talented. On the other hand, many of her songs tend to "blend in", if you know what I mean. They don't stick out much, and can be a bit boring. This album starts out strong, but unfortunately, dies off as it goes on. It was okay. Favorite Track: "Send My Love(To Your New Lover)".

Very good

This is kind of like extreme metal for me: I like it, but there are very few situations where I feel like listening to it. Adele is a great singer who work with talented people. The ideas for the songs are usually pretty interesting, but the ideas are never developed as much as they could have been. The majority of these songs contain about as much creative material as a 30 second section of a Genesis or Yes tune.

Do you want to feel sad about yourself for a few songs? Pop this on.

25 I’ve always quite liked Hello, and it is a very good song, the melodramatic and over the top bombast works well, with an interesting melody and some great piano. The lyrical conceit though. ‘Wanna meet up and go over everything that went wrong in our relationship 10 years ago in great detail?’ ‘Nah, you’re alright thanks’ The majority of the rest of it is nowhere near as successful as Hello. Many don’t feel like songs, just half formed ideas that rely on her vocal power to bludgeon them into something resembling a song, if you don’t listen too carefully. And again there’s not a great deal to convince me that she is a particularly great vocalist, or at least not anywhere near the reputation she has. Obviously she has an extremely powerful voice, but it lacks any subtlety or shade, and consequently doesn’t have a great deal of emotional weight, just brutal x factor cruise ship power. Thematically, of course, it’s very repetitive, which would be fine if the lyrics weren’t so limited and banal, at the level of Moon/June, with absolutely no insight into why this person was so special and so great that she just can’t stop singing about him. It just feels like instagram platitudinal emptiness and it’s particularly bad on When We Were Young (although the bass is nice on that song) and Remedy. River Lea attempts to evoke images of childhood and nostalgia, but it’s so heavy handed in it’s lumpen banality it sounds almost partridge-esque. Also, that something that’s in the water? It’s probably chemical waste. Musically River Lea and Sweetest Devotion are the strongest songs along with Hello, mainly as they steer clear of the awful piano dirges that make up the rest of the tracks, like Million Years, which is truly bad. So overall it’s pretty drab, Hello, River Lea and Sweetest Devotion aside, with very little of interest or character, either melodically, musically or lyrically. Tempted to go 1, but it’s not really the shittiest of the shittiest, it’s just insipidly and unambitiously boring 👋👋 Playlist submission: Hello

Another reviewer said Adele is obviously talented but makes such uninteresting and uninspired music, and I have to agree. It’s a well-crafted album that doesn’t make you feel the emotions it’s trying to make you feel. No original point of view, very sterile album.

Hell(o) yeah

I’m happy this was one of the 1001 albums I listened to before I died.

I haven’t listened to this album a ton (or maybe even all the way through ever tbh). The first two singles didn’t hit for me like her first two albums did, so I didn’t give it the time it definitely deserved.

Beautiful voice beautiful gowns. There are a few lulls on the album but overall an excellent listen

Great voice. Hello was so over played it’s nice to listen to it fresh and remember what a good song it is. I thought it was going to be a 4 until I listened through it and found some of it formulaic compared to 21 or 19

Not my kind of music. Great voice though.

Lovely.

Escuchar este disco de Adele sin haber escuchado el resto es como ver Volver al futuro 3, sin haber visto las primeras dos. Cuando la ves te parece una genialidad, cuando ves las otras dos te das cuenta que son lo mismo. Aunque Volver al futuro 3, para mí, es la mejor este disco de Adele no es el mejor de la trilogía. El mejor es "21", obvio. Este disco carece del factor sorpresa, no tiene ni un solo riesgo y tampoco presenta algún otro punto de vista que no sea el de "mujer que vivió un desamor, procesa su amor en privado y sigue con su vida". Claro que quizás a sus primeros discos la formula le fue de mucho éxito, pero donde esta la dicha de estar enamorado, la de conocer una persona nueva, alguna historia nueva, algo. Claro que la voz de ella es espectacular y con el correr de los discos mejora aún más. Puntos altos: When we were Young (Dios mio hermana, que canción), All i ask (Destreza pura), Millon years ago (un bossa?)

Wow, it’s impossible to hate adele

Day 42 - September 9th Not an Adele fan, but there were enjoyable tracks. 3/5

It's undeniably good. So much passion in her voice

Same old same old, which is great if you like Adele, which I do so yay for me.

Not bad, as to be expected, but emotionally jaded. Would have wished for more joy, silliness, and fun, or even real sadness, desperation, or rage. All I get from this album is a very mature rational distance to all things, very well sung onto uninspiring ballad tunes.

This album was the Jagged Little Pill of 2015, half the album ended up as massive singles, every person I knew loved it at the time and now no one admits they ever liked Adele. Good songs, she has a great voice. This album was definitely overrated. Even as singles I'm not loving these songs as much as I did when it came out. I Miss You is good though, Skyfall feeling (great Bond song). Maybe it's more of an exhaustion issue with the singles? When We Were Young was the best of the hits, reminds me of her cover of Dylan's Make You Feel My Love. It's hilarious when she talks about getting older and being young at the age of 25. This is a great song. Water Under the Bridge is also better than I remember, maybe it is just Hello and Send My Love (To Your Lover) that got overplayed (still are?). River Lea, Love In The Dark, both good. Maybe it is only the hits that are overrated. All I Ask was produced by Bruno Mars and you can hear it, another good one. I stand corrected, this album is underrated. Despite everyone complaining about Beyonce not winning Album of the Year, this was a deserving choice.

Great variety, from Sigrid-esque pop, to orchestral, to almost almost a country lean in the last song. And a fantastic voice, of course

HELLO. ich weiss no wo de song usecho isch und sofort köar gsi isch dases en riese hit wird und daser lang wird en hit blibe. finden nöd esoo guet aber er isch so catchy und het afoch e ernsthaftigkeit wo d adele überebringt. doppelrefrain am schluss isch recht heftig. sie het ebe scho e riesestimm. find d chords vode strophe chli arsch. send my love isch etz im verglich gad chli weird. musikalisch mega unbeschwert textlich gar nöd. wenn de beat im refrain inechunt machts nonig ganz sinn. find de song etz weeeniger geil. drums uf i miss you sind geeeeil. de federhall au. coole song aber etz nöd soo catchy. when we were young isch wieder mega adele meega schöne bass mit plektrum gspielt, suuuper schöni chords sie singt au afoch fantastisch. aaah und IV-moll. schöööne song. Remedy tönt guuuet. finden weniger spannend musikalisch als when we were you g aber defür dörf d adele chli runs mache und chli ihri stimm spiele loh. sie het au e perfekts pop-vibrato. water under the bridge isch jo uuuultra werbigsmusig hasses hasses hasses. jo nai ich check was de song will aber die mega hallige trommle nai. river lea isch au chli i die richtig aber defür ischs huuere bluesig magi etz meh. und sie verzellt chli uf die mystisch 60er johr art e story. love in the dark goht huuere nöch, strings sind super arrangiert. million years ago macht jazz chords tönt noch irgendme standard aber macht doch sis eigene ding. nice. all i ask isch au schön aber chli schwerfällig. defür gfallt mer sweetest devotion seehr.

FUCKKKK ALLES GLÖSCHT AAAAAAAH also hello hani z hüfig ghört aber es isch trz sehr es schöns lied. bin jz bi river lea (wo no cool isch) und find die meiste lieder ener langwilig, s passiertmer z wenig und sie chan uhuere singe und so aber es berüehrt mi iwie nüt speziell. send my love findi straight up nervig und water under rhe bridge isch es lied für de abspann für e schlechti pro7-sendig (aso daa chan d adele nüt defür aber joa hilft nöd) bin leider echt chli am kämpfe love in the dark mega schöne ahfang oke ja allgemein cute hmm d strings sind mer fast chli melodramatisch au million years ago fallt id kategorie "jaa schono schön und super gsunge aber joa" ja es fangt mi fast ah nerve die ganz melodramatik WUH LETSCHTE SONG oke sweet devotion no cool als closer bin sehr tempted es 2 z geh, will mier die musig eifach 0 entspricht? glichzitig wett ich s offesichtliche talent und de ihfluss vode adele eig nöd mit füess trete hahaha

She has an amazing voice, but the later part of the album isn’t as strong as the first.

Okay, but I’m not a huge fan of Adele’s voice.

My colleague loves Adele. When 19 came out it was unique and cool and was also my Kate Nash era. Now its fine. She's and incredible singer. But the constant over the top vocal theatrics and sameness just get to be too much. I'll stick to hearing the occasional single and maybe switching channels depending on my mood.

Didn’t really want to listen to this, but she’s got a really good voice!

She is a truly gifted artist. I never heard whole album, there are sometimes that are overplayed and ... ugh.. bit overall pretty impressive. Just don't get hooked on drugs and pass out! I've waffled back and forth ... but will lean towards the 4

Adele is one of my “I don’t listen in front of other people but in may car I be hitting those notes”. Adele is great on this album but I just don’t like the backing instrumentation as much as her earlier albums, wiki says something about using 80s style R&B or something like that and I think that’s what turned me off of it a little bit. Still amazing vocals I just won’t be getting caught at a red light with this one.

Great album, wonderful voice 4/5

Pretty fucking average. Good for promoting sleep. Just never gets out of first gear.

Great vocals and melodies, but they are out over the most generic instrumental arrangements imaginable.

+: I Miss You, When We Were Young, Water Under the Bridge, River Lea, Million Years Ago +-: Hello, Send My Love (To Your New Lover), Remedy, Love in the Dark, All I Ask, Sweetest Devotion 5,2/10

Not sure you need both 21 and 25 on this list, but okay.

Didn't expect to like this as much as I did. More varied than I expected, a *big* voice and just an overall quality listen.

Not my kind of music. Favorite song was the one with the fleet foxes cords.

Undeniably great voice, not super thrilled with the backing music - could have been anything.

I love ballads... but I feel like Adele is just a powerful voice without much personality behind it

Nothing to it. On something like Rolling In The Deep there's a cool hook under the sheen. I too felt like I'd closed all the doors by the time I was 25 but this soundtrack for Hallmark movies doesn't help anybody. Might be a 2 but being the blue-eyed soul version of nothing music drops it another. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

All I have to say about this as a listening experience, is that it’s a really really good singer performing nothing music. Like Beyoncé a few weeks back, it was written and produced by an army of people, and it sounds that way. But also: how is it possible that someone who was 25 years old sang these songs and everyone accepted it and thought it was relatable? These are the songs of a 45 year old, at least!

Bit dull

This woman's voice is amazing. I admit I don't care much for the lyrics, but she could sing anything and I think it would sound incredible.

She’s a really good singer. But not something I’d put on.

The marketing genius of this album is so sick!

Hello from the other side. I’ve heard Adele’s popular stuff but not much more. I liked it fine but probably wouldn’t actively pursue listening to it

Hello from the “larger” side!!! Great album, full of catch tunes and sweet vocals. This one brings back a lot of good adventure memories with the spouse. Big fan of Adele.

Un monumento costruito intorno ad una voce enorme. Forse é proprio questo il problema: oltre alla voce non c'è nulla. E se qualcosa c'è, non mi ha emozionato.

I can't say it was bad; her talent and voice are amazing. It just felt like it was missing something. 3/5

Rating: 6/10 A more poppy album than 21, which is not necessarily a bad thing but definitely sounds more derivative than its predecessor. Adele excels at her trademark soul sound, which this album has but not nearly as much as 21. There are a few fantastic songs here but many that fall flat. Best songs: Hello, Send My Love (To Your New Lover), I Miss You. Worst song: All I Ask.

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Best Song: All I Ask. I like the way she has the piano mirroring parts of her vocal melodies. Worst Song: Sweetest Devotion. Don't know that it's the worst, but it just really didn't need to be here. Overall: She obviously has a powerful and impressive voice, but I found myself sometimes wishing that she reigned it in a bit more. This probably isn't a fair criticism, because that vocal power is a big part of her appeal- and I get it - but sometimes that it felt too repetitive knowing that each song was inevitably going to soar to some towering height. I wish there were a few totally soft-sung songs here to break up the consistency, and let the big songs sound bigger through the contrast. That said, her voice is great and the production is solid throughout.

R&B. Venga, un 4 por el vozarrón.

No es mi favorito.

I saw Adele live at the time. She said about 4 songs in "you better dance to this one because it's all slow from now on" or something like that. It was and so is this. Shouty lyrics and soulful sounds and my god it's tedious. I can't believe this will stand up to history. But hey. It sold "a lot".

I loved it Very nostalgic for me Last few songs I enjoyed less but overall an amazing album would give 4.5 but will round up

So many great songs on this album.

Adele is an artist that i am very familiar with since a lot of her stuff played on the radio when i was a kid but i still wasn't expecting 25 to be this good. I have heard all the singles quite a lot on the radio and they are all good songs but here i found that even the regular album tracks were fantastic. Adele's singing combined with the instrumentals were absolutely great and could even be enough to nearly bring me to tears especially with the sadder lyrics. Even Send My Love (To Your New Lover) while feeling distracting at first, is a pretty nice break from the sadder stuff. The album may have dipped in quality a bit with the last 3 songs but other than that, this is an absolutely great album. Best Song: River Lea Worst Song: All I Ask

25 is nowhere near as good as 21, but it's kind of impossible to be that good, so it was always gonna be a challenge as a follow-up. It comes across as an attempt to be more mature without actually having the depth to pull it off, and it's mostly boring, losing all of the edge and passion and fire that 21 had in favour of bland cllches and vagueness, it's pretend nostalgia wrapped up in overproduction. Hello and Love In The Dark are the only decent songs, a disappointing 2, doesn't do enough to lift it to a 3.

Starts really strongly, those first two tracks are superb. But it's all a bit too safe, the songwriting isn't as raw as on previous albums and the ramped up production doesn't help there. Her voice remains absolutely fabulous, but a lot of it, particularly towards the back end of the album, sounds quite samey. Think it merits a 3 given the strength of her voice and a couple of iconic songs, but it's definitely disappointing from someone with her talent.

It's funny to see the Global Reviews whenever you're assigned a pop album. You hardly ever see tepid, lukewarm reviews; it's either a straight 5 or 1. Rarer still are reviews that actually grapple with the music itself. Like many of you, I too had contempt for pop music (back in like, middle school), thinking that it was insipid and craven. And some pop music is, but even then, it still says something about The Times We Live In. Now I find I'm someone who has a hard time keeping up with most pop music, which I realize is to my own detriment. Adele always seemed to be one of the few pop artists that managed to reach across the aisle. That may be due to the aesthetic sensibilities and overt influences found in her earlier records that sought to usher in the 60s jazz-soul resurgence in the early 2000s. '21' - her previous album and the era that truly marked her musical dominance - was rife with this particular sounds that rendered her music as bearing more authenticity than her pop counterparts, at least seemingly so. Like "Rolling in the Deep," "Hello" was a monster of a lead single. I remember this song was absolutely everywhere. Its premiere was like, a massive global event. And truly, everyone loved this song: your mom loved this song, your grandmother loved this song, your boss loved this song. SNL had like 200 sketches about it. Everyone sang "hello from the other siiiiiide!" as a meme for even the most mundane things. It's a powerful single and a powerful way to start the album. Probably a test for a listener to see if you can endure Adele's Whole Vibe, especially on this new record. "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" summarizes the album's thesis, which is about living life as someone in your mid-20s, when you start to think "we both know we're not kids anymore." Bruce Springsteen said the same thing on "Thunder Road" and he wrote that song when he was 24. This track has that classic Max Martin bouncy chorus with an effective and catchy breakdown of the words, syllable by syllable. Truly, the rest of the album peters out for me and is nowhere near as consistent as '21.' Some pained singing that at times resonate and at other times feel just screechy. I would point out "A Million Years Ago" as a highlight and man, I do wish Adele would do songs of an understated quality a little bit more. B+

some bangers, extremely popular album

Amazing as always

Decent, still don't dig her voice too much

Very good. Strong songs throughout.

One and a half great songs, and no clunkers, but generally not something I'd put on repeatedly.

Compared to some others, easy to listen to and a great voice.

Not exactly my cup of tea and the album is pretty melancholy, but she has an amazing voice and listening to “Hello” gave me chills

Baaarely three stars though. Adele got a tremendous voice (duh) and I like several of the songs, but holy hell does it get weary with how repetitive and melodramatic it is on the subject of love and about aging (from a 25-year-old!).

Fantastic album

Powerful singles all around, but also some really great deeper cuts that have more energy than the piano ballady songs Adele is known for. The middle of the album is incredibly weak to me, but the rest is really well done stuff. Quite like the drums in I Miss You. Also this is Adele you already know these choruses are great as well. Just wish the album didn't have all those duds in the middle, would have been perfect with 3 songs cut

Poor Adele, she doesn't really get a fair chance with me. It's such a shame because I can very easily recognize what a gorgeous voice she has and her music is quite beautiful. But unfortunately it has a few things going against it. I first was introduced her her music when 21 came out and Borders decided to play the album in it's rotation. Because I worked there, what might have been an album I found ok with a few good songs, became something I dreaded hearing the first few notes of. I was completely sick of it. I know that album is coming at some point on the list, and I hoping sincerely I can listen with new ears because that one I think maybe has a chance to win me over. This one however... very unfortunately was an album my cousin's ex wife was absolutely obsessed with. I won't give too many personal details about their lives, but all I can say is I literally can't think of "Hello" without it being something that I can see going through her head years after the divorce. I was hoping there might be other songs on this album that I might like enough to distract me from that but thematically... oof. Very hard for me to separate this album from the pain she caused. Personally, I'd like to rate it a 1 for how it makes me feel to listen to it (I honestly almost skipped because of the personal history) BUT I think this album is better than that, actually. I'm going to compromise for a 2 and just say, it's very much not for me but absolutely worth a listen because you might fall in love with her voice and the piano.

Favorite Track: Love In The Dark

Ouaip, pas tres piano voix effectivement, meme si elle chante vraiment tres bien

I knew this was going to be bad. Halfway through the first song I was already checking how long the album went for. By the second song I was wondering what I had done to deserve this. By halfway through I was starting to remember the only Adele fan I knew and I realised that it explained a lot….I.knew my own run of great albums, Harvest, Number of the Beast and Dookie, had to end but did it have to end this way???

4/5

Great voice. Good songs.

Thoughts on Adele 25: Adele has the distinction of being the only artist I've ever heard on a retail PA that made me find an employee and ask with feverish urgency, "WHO IS THIS????" She's always blown me away, and paying proper attention to this album, she's done it again. The woman has IT just raining off of her. The first two tracks are perfect. Unimprovable. "Water Under the Bridge" was so good I had to go back and listen to it 3 more times. There are a few songs that suffer from "poem stapled onto song" syndrome - those are inevitably the weakest songs - but the production is strong enough and her performance is always so powerfully heartfelt that she still sells it and makes it work, even when I'm wishing the whole song that she'd put it through another draft. But overall, WOW. What a singer. What a songwriter. You never know, but I'd bet big fat money they're still talking about her in 100 years.

Hello 3.3 Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 3 I Miss You 3 When We Were Young 3.2 Remedy 2.9 Water Under the Bridge 3.1 River Lea 3.1 Love in the Dark 3 Million Years Ago 2.8 All I Ask 2.9 Sweetest Devotion 3.2 Score: 3.045454545

Not my favorite Adele album but a good one anyways

Powerful voice sadly paired with mostly plain songs .

One trick pony x

Top track: I Miss You

To cheese sens as for me. Not my type of expression in the voice. Maybe i will try to listen to it again

Great album, highly recommend listening to again. Her voice is top notch, really relaxing and nice to listen to. Her vocals really drive the song. 9.0/10.

Fuck me. Please don't make me listen to this. I will give it a shot, but fuck me really? OK, I will admit Hello is a good song. It's catchy. She actually sounds good. She doesn't belt like she wants to be Amy Winehouse. But aside from the very first song, I found the rest boring and not my type of music at all. This album sold tons of copies and people go apeshit over Adele for some reason as if she is Pavarotti or something. But I don't see the hype. I'm gonna go for two stars just because I did get Hello stuck in my head over the weekend, but the rest of the album is narcissistic pandering to the masses.

She sold a lot of records, and there are some pretty songs on this album, but I don't really see the appeal. I like much more dynamic music, with rhythm and swing and bass and energy and edge and quirkiness. I can't argue with the musicianship, or production, but it's not for me.

Some of these songs are indeed catchy. I usually prefer the faster ones. Her voice isn’t shrill. Ugh, but the lyrics. I hate break-up songs that are like, it’s definitely over between us…but maybe not? I’m leaving you…but only if you are still secretly in love with me. This is a whole album of those.

Great voice, but still - I simply don't really like her music

Great pop music! When I saw it, I thought “oh, shame, this is a lesser Adele album” and then somehow I knew like half the songs! She’s just inevitable! She permeates the culture! Long live Adele!

It's hard to believe that 2015 is almost 10 years ago until you hear the generic pop songs from that time.

I find it fascinating how Adele begins this album. The opening line, "Hello, it's me," the realm of the character in the song and addresses the listener directly: this is Adele, the powerhouse, the voice of heartbreak. Overall, I really enjoyed this album, but I don't see a coherent concept that justifies releasing a whole album instead of just singles. Still, solid.

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

looking at the writers' credits for this album was an education in the who's who of pop production. Max Martin, Greg Kurstin, Bruno Mars, even Rick Rubin who was unimpressed by an earlier version of the album. Following up 19 (my personal favourite of hers) and 21 was always going to be difficult, and Adele claimed she suffered writer's block for years. Working with those at the forefront of pop production always helps! But ultimately I think this falls a bit flat compared to her older stuff. Less soul behind it. Of course, vocal performance as always was stunning, but it was brought down by "safe" songwriting and an overly-pop feel (I understand why she went further down that route though - the album was credited with saving the pop music industry the year it came out!). Also interesting to note that all the other big names in pop music (apart from Coldplay) rescheduled release dates to avoid chart competition with Adele. Some power! Favourite songs: When We Were Young (co-written with Tobias Jesso Jr.) Love in the Dark (co-written with Samuel Dixon) Million Years Ago (co-written with Greg Kurstin) All I Ask (co-written with Bruno Mars and his entourage - and it indeed sounds like a quintessential Bruno Mars song...) Sweetest Devotion (co-written with Paul Epworth, some nice instumentals on this one) I hope that this is not the only Adele album they chose for this list. If it is, I really wonder why 19 or even 21 weren't chosen instead. 3.3*

Verry impressive Singer-Songwriter album

i liked it but it wasn’t all that i hoped

Incredible voice. Great songs

Not a huge fan of this kind of pop ballad-y type of stuff. But give Adele credit for an amazing performance

Well produced pop music. She’s got a great voice, but all songs are pretty similar. Hope she gets a good boyfriend and heals her heart soon

Nice voice. lame songs

Perfection

This album came out during my junior year of high school (probably the worst year of my entire life) so returning to it is interesting. I’m not old enough to be able to associate most of the other albums on this list with a specific time in my life. I was surprised how “meh” this album is. Adele is an incredible vocalist, but much of the music on this album sounds like royalty free travel vlogger music. I feel like 21 is a much better Adele album, so if this is her only entry on the list, I’m surprised this is the one they went with.

I was not expecting to enjoy this album as much as I did. I knew Adele was a good singer, but "good" is underselling it. Great vocals here, although the music is fairly basic (it's perfectly fine, but nothing exceptional). I'm glad this is on the list, and I'll add this to the options for days when I want something to chill me out. 4.1

1000/10. This album is a masterpiece from performance to recording.

An amazing voice that I couldn't care less to go out of my way to listen to

Agree with Jake's assessment.

Second Adele album on this list. We had 21 already, which is a better album imo than 25, but still top notch. She's an incredible vocalist.

A really good album by Adele, I've never heard all of it before but it was fantastic!

A classic