I had fun with this. Nice to listen to it without the distraction of Winehouse being part of the weekly news cycle, though of course I'd prefer that to her being dead. My big takeaway here? Mainly wondering if Adele would have had a harder pathway to success had this record not popped 2 years prior to her debut. Hard to say there's anything original here, but I don't know. My bar was low and the record exceeded it.