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Her last album, 21, has moved more than 11 million copies in the U.S. since its release, in 2011, and 31 million worldwide.
It’s hard for me to make a definitive proclamation, since I’ve only had 36 hours with the album; music needs time to reveal its depths, or lack tof.
21-Adele’s second album following 2008’s 19-was an often angry breakup album, as you might remember from the bitingly sung chorus of “Rolling in the Deep”: “We could have had it awwwlllllllllll.” At present, Adele is in a relationship with a London businessman, the father of her three-year-old son, but she doesn’t sound much happier on 25 than she did on 21, which is too bad for her but probably good for fans.
You could call the new record a pre-breakup album, its songs alternating between poking a stick at old boyfriends and growing frustrated with whatever it is she’s got going on now.
“Hello,” which opens the album, is about ex-lovers and unfinished business.
“If you’re going to let me down, let me down gently,” she sings on “Water Under the Bridge,” to my taste the album’s weakest cut, the closest 25 comes to generic pop.
The album’s thematic centerpiece might be “All I Ask,” yet another piano ballad-Bruno Mars is a co-writer-with a churchy, rolling quality that puts me in mind of Carole King or Elton John.