'You look like a movie, you sound like a song, My god this reminds me, Of when we were young,' is the lyric that will squeeze your heart and give you a minor midlife crisis. Although Adele is only 27 (and this album was written in the year she turned 25, of course), it's a reflective serenade about treasuring the moments you will look back on in years to come.

The production feels nocturnal, but Adele's vocal delivery blazes through the darkness.Ĭhances are you've already sobbed a few times to this one already. 'Pull me in, hold me tight, don't let go, baby, give me life,' she echoes over tumbling beats and a wobbling organ, it all coming together like a sultry love letter from the pages of a Fifty Shades novel. This is the first of two tracks which hears Adele reuniting with 21 producer Paul Epworth, and the pair have combined their talent for a moody love song brimming with desire and devotion. It's remarkably sprightly for an Adele album, but the 27-year-old's affecting tone keeps it packed with purpose. 'We've got to let go of all of our ghosts,' Adele tells an ex over the jaunty chorus, that bounces around with plucky guitar and upbeat claps. The Swedish producer also played a massive hand in Taylor Swift's pop crossover, and some of that influence has seeped in here. This is the most pop Adele has ever sounded, so it'll come as no surprise that it's the one she did with Britney Spears hitmaker Max Martin. But despite all the impressive accolades, nothing comes close to the enormity of 'Hello's soaring chorus, opening the album with one heck of a bang. Biggest first-week digital sales in the US ever fastest music video to reach 100 million views on VEVO ever the most-streamed song during its first week - you guessed it - ever. Never before in the history of time has a greeting broken so many records.

During that time she's taken harsh but truthful criticism from Rick Rubin, and scrapped a load of songs from big collaborators (including Sia) before she finally felt she had the material worthy of continuing her legacy.īut with so much hype that it's impossible for 25 to fail miserably, is the album the world has patiently been waiting for actually any good? Here's our track-by-track first listen review. Which is why the 27-year-old star has been working on new album 25 for over three years. That is how many Adele's record-breaking last album 21 sold.

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