no adele thread yet?

'hello' is all-time

this is better than any of her previous huge hits

looking forward to the inflo tracks at least

I listened to 21 a ton. Then Hello and 25 came out and they were garbage, and I stopped listening to 21.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Z8J7-sZks

not even that can really salvage "hello" unfortunately

only this can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrLr1mF7ZdU

I made the mistake of listening to "Easy On Me" after a morning blasting soft Jessie Ware.

It's fine. You know what's a jam? "Rumour Has It." Forgot about that one. I pretend Ryan Tedder credit doesn't exist.

I think "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" absolutely destroys everything else she's ever done. New song seems "adult contemporary" in a really bland way, but the chorus has a nice melody

Not life changing but it’s pleasant

i really dislike some of the songs ppl are singling out as their one adele song they like

“Rumor Has It” is a jam! (I’m not gonna look up who Ryan Tedder is)

ryan tedder is partly responsible for lil nas x's "thats what i want" (not saying he's best known for that, but it is something he has done lately)

basically there is a line, and the dude from the fray is on the "yes okay i can dig this piano ballad" side and ryan tedder is on the "there is no justice that you have eyeballs but stevie wonder is still blind" side, and on top of it all, the fray guy is the one confined to his own band's songs. (not like i'm itching to hear what the guy from the fray would write for beyonce, im just saying)

― meme-first attitude (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 27, 2009 6:29 PM bookmarkflaglink

New song is pleasantly mediocre; it may grow on me (most of 21 did).

I think the news song is great

What is the chorus of Send Your Love reminding me of? Cocteau Twins?

sorry, Send My Love (To Your New Lover), which someone mentioned

Tove Styrke - Say My Name?

xps that Nola mix is awesome!

enjoying the new song

I'm not a huge Adele fan, but I think her voice sounds terrific on this new single (good song, too).

You're all real poptimists again, well done, you can stop doing this now

to be clear i don't think the new one is good, just a more tolerable sort of blandness than she's managed in the past

everything about this has been entirely predictable - how it sounds, what it's about, the reaction to it. I think it's really sad that arguably the biggest popstar in the world just now, and the team behind her, are so afraid to take any risks whatsoever. I'm not saying it would make sense for her to go hyperpop or spearhead a nu-metal revival, but even Ed Sheeran will go do features with artists you wouldn't necessarily expect.

Basically what I'm saying is, when are we getting Adele's big disco album?

When Silk Sonic beat her for Album of the Year.

I wish she would do a collab similar to what Anohni did back in the day with Hercules & Love Affair. She has a voice that would sound great if properly used on a disco / house anthem. I generally dislike piano ballads with histrionic singers so I’m not really into her. Hope she tries something different but I don’t have my hopes up.

Funny that just some months ago I was writing that Inflo is underrated in the mainstream and should work with a higher profile musician like Adele.

Oh don't worry, Inflo is going to be absolutely everywhere very very soon

Unclear whether boxedjoy means the big disco album would be the risk or the entirely predictable move, lol

He has proven to have great taste as a producer and be versatile enough that I wouldn’t mind if he did started popping everywhere.

She should hook up with the Dap Kings, or cover "Stand Up In It", or both.

haven't heard this yet, but damn is it getting written up well. any poptimists here wanna stan and convince me, who really hasn't cared much for her or her music, to dive into this?

it's the most compelling she's ever been but still not even inflo could make her interesting

i am coming around on the new song, i dunno she has a kind of witchcraft with this stuff imo

have not listened to the album but i don’t think i’ve ever listened to an adele album

Imagine a time there was no Adele thread

I listened to the last track because a friend asked me to. It was okay!

i was interested in this because of the inflo involvement, but the best tracks for me are "all night parking" and "my little love" (though the latter features voice notes that are almost uncomfortably intrusive), which are greg kurstin productions. he's also responsible for "i drink wine" which is probably the worst song on the album. all in all, i probably concur with ufo that it's generally a step in a more compelling direction but i'd definitely reach for joy crookes' skin or cleo sol's mother over this (which are but two recent albums using a similar sound palette)

yeah i absolutely thought 'if only it was more like mother'

I've heard it couple of times when driving with my BF and although it's decent, couldn't get rid of the thought that I 'cannot wait' to get back to another recent divorce album, kacey's star-crossed

Oof, talk about damning with faint praise.

Here’s a secret: she’s not 30
I know this is a small detail but lol

I guess she needed some time to kind of figure out what it felt like to be 30

this album sounded trippy af to me, the first side anyway

Not really an Adele nerd, but aren't her titles the age she was when started on the album?

it’s okay this is a safe space

I can only imagine what this album sounds like. “Ooh, thirty…thirty now”

why is she balling about not having a concert? jfc

bawling rather lol it's just weird

Because she's so sad. Maybe she'll release an album about it. She could call it "Lost Vegas."

I always wished I caught this show The timing was ridiculously perfect - like they booked these small venues before she really turned into a megastar, and things just rapidly blew up during the course of the tour. Apparently even then-mayor Rahm Emanuel pulled some strings to get into the show.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgpJL9WzXMYFyIvA7gJ0XTtTB27hwT3HU

Honestly, those are my favorite kinds of shows, where you catch the act at a place you are already well aware they will never play again.

I worked at Tower Records in Manhattan in the early 90s. Nirvana came in and did about a 45 minute set in the store right when Nevermind was released. My biggest memory of the event was that they were fucking loud.