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Nee Lewman said:
5/8/25
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Adele - 25



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25 - Adele | Album | AllMusic

25 by Adele released in 2015. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Absolutely adore her and this album and this is easily my favorite of her’s. I still remember where I was the moment Hello dropped and I still vividly remember my first time listening to this album. I was at a real low point in my life and this album was a huge comfort for me at the time. I love 21 and enjoy 19 and 30 but this is my Adele album and I’ll die defending it lol
 
Fleetwood-Matt said:
Absolutely adore her and this album and this is easily my favorite of her’s. I still remember where I was the moment Hello dropped and I still vividly remember my first time listening to this album. I was at a real low point in my life and this album was a huge comfort for me at the time. I love 21 and enjoy 19 and 30 but this is my Adele album and I’ll die defending it lol
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Hello is a great song. As is Send My Love. None of the songs are bad. It’s just a little ballad heavy for me. Nothing (besides her kind of anemic stage presence) felt safe from her before this. This feels like a polished album made by a forty year old who can sell out Madison Square Garden by thinking about doing a show there.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Hello is a great song. As is Send My Love. None of the songs are bad. It’s just a little ballad heavy for me. Nothing (besides her kind of anemic stage presence) felt safe from her before this. This feels like a polished album made by a forty year old who can sell out Madison Square Garden by thinking about doing a show there.
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I'd say this is pretty spot on how I feel about it too. I'm sure this played well in her Vegas residency.

Who else is disappointed that When We Were Young isn't a Killers cover???
 
Nee Lewman said:
Hello is a great song. As is Send My Love. None of the songs are bad. It’s just a little ballad heavy for me. Nothing (besides her kind of anemic stage presence) felt safe from her before this. This feels like a polished album made by a forty year old who can sell out Madison Square Garden by thinking about doing a show there.
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It is ballad heavy and that’s part of why I like it. I do appreciate the more pop moments like Water Under the Bridge but it’s the ballads that keep me coming back It is very polished but the emotion behind the songs still connects for me. Like the nostalgic feelings on Million Years Ago and River Lea are palpable. Also gotta say getting dumped by my first boyfriend and then listening to All I Ask a week or so later broke me in a way no other song has ever done lol. Still my favorite break up song that isn’t on Rumours.
 
Funny. He showed up as an Artist I might like on Roon today and I marked his debut for later listening.

I know the title track really well, one of the all time great songs. I’ve heard this but don’t really know the album.
 
Also, this might’ve just been a Midwest/Illinois thing but on the song “American Pie”, there was a call & response portion to the chorus where, every time Don would sing “This’ll be the day that I die”
The crowd at the dance/bar/party would all shout in unison “DRINKIN’ BEER WITH MY FUCKED UP FRIENDS!”.

I still interject that every time I hear the song.

Not sure if it was just us weirdos in the Midwest or if this was something that occurred elsewhere in the US/world.
 
The book says Vincent is “unjustly overshadowed” by American Pie and that Crossroads “deserves better than also ran status.” Um yeah, no. Nothing else on the album even remotely comes close to the epic nature, singability, and literate brilliance of the title track. He was not a one hit wonder but one song certainly towers over his career.

TenderLovingKiller® said:
Also, this might’ve just been a Midwest/Illinois thing but on the song “American Pie”, there was a call & response portion to the chorus where, every time Don would sing “This’ll be the day that I die”
The crowd at the dance/bar/party would all shout in unison “DRINKIN’ BEER WITH MY FUCKED UP FRIENDS!”.

I still interject that every time I hear the song.

Not sure if it was just us weirdos in the Midwest or if this was something that occurred elsewhere in the US/world.
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I’ve certainly never heard it.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Welcome to grade 9 art class
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You just reminded me that my 9th grade art teacher used to play music but had a very strict No vocals policy (it distracted from the creative process or something?). One of my funniest high school memories were her darting across the classroom to change the song when there was some humming in the song that was playing. This album would have been too cool for my 9th grade art class.
 
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