At last my not so much anticipated and long review of 25 is here...there will be personal (personal) points of view so let me take a deep breath
1 - Hello - it's a great song for the begging of an album and for opening a show (tour night), but it's not that massive for me and hitting me that hard as I expected to. The 30 second snippet made me cry while I was listening it on repeat when it came back in October, but the whole song didn't strike me at all. It's the only song that I'm skipping when I'm listening to the album. From the producing point of view is an outstanding track lyrically and musically wise.
2 - Send My Love - By far it's known that this is my favourite track on the album. It made me dance from the second I've heard the snippet for the first time. This song is so full of life and fun. And since I mentioned fun there is indeed a fun fact around the song. For each album I have a "top" and a "fav" song. Obviously for this album the fav is track number 2, but for 19 and 21 are Best for Last and Rumor Has which are also number 2 on both of the albums
Every second song is my fav. Adele ha magic and power on me
She should call me! I have a vision for the music video
3 - I Miss You - It's not a secret that that is a sex song took straight from a scene in a movie that you can see while you are listening to it. It's giving me a Haunted & Be Divine vibe which is good. There is the perfect balance between slow and up tempo sound, musically and vocally. Some of you guys want to have sex to that song...well I want to lost my V-card to it
4 - When We Were Young - it's the first song from the album that hit me personally. It reminded me of a person from my past when both of us were pretty young. He really looked like a movie and sounded like a song amd he still does and our time as best friends was like a movie and sounded like a song. It ended pretty long time ago but I still think and cherish the moments together. Gosh now I'm crying
It wasn't a good idea to listen the album track-by-track while I'm writing for each song track by track
5 - Remedy - Ryan is the perfect producer person for that song. There I said it
He's a piano specialist and he is perfectly showing it with those heavy low key chords. He's also a father of a boy which links both of them with Adele even more. And the song is about Angelo after all and it's perfect. That first verse is everything that she's saying about him in all of her interviews
6 - Water Under the Bridge - It's a potential album finisher but being in the middle of the album might not be coincidence. Yes it's about Simon and it's a gorgeous song and it's supposed to be next to Remedy. But if you think a little bit more deep into it you might see it. Well it's my little theory and I might be stretching a bit, but Simon showed in Adele's life in the middle of it all. 21 exploding more and more, her vocal problems and all the success. But that's just my point of view on it
The funny think that I can recall with the song is with the bridge where I can hear "ass ass ass"
The same was told about Hello last month
Not by me tho
7 - River Lea - That's the second song hitting me a bit personally from the album! It reminded me of a special place from the past. When I get around or by it it's not special and I can't go back to it the way I used to, but I'm cherishing it in me and it's always going to be part of me. River Lea is a 1/2 of Hometown Glory on the new record.
8 - Love in the Dark - The third personal song on the album
The lyrics perfectly describe the whole situation word-by-word. I'm not able to have a relationship with someone I'm caring about but couldn't love. I had to be cruel to him by ending everything before it had even started. I didn't wanted to start something that was going to be lye and him being hurt even more in the end. And I said it him when I was ending it "Better me being bad now and not worse later". He blamed me for dumping him, but he's happy now with someone else instead of being miserable with me.
9 - Million Years Ago - Fourth and last personally linked song from 25. And it's not just me! I think a lot of people will link and in one way or another will see themselves in it. A 100% Hometown Glory of the album! The guitars on it are pure heaven
The end of the chorus and the ending of the song are giving renaissance-ish vibe
10 - All I See - 2000s Christina Aguilera of the album. Perfect for a movie soundtrack. It could have been a really good duet with Bruno. Him on the piano and her right next to him
11 - Sweetest Devotion - I've said few days ago and I'm going to repeat myself right now. This is the perfect song for closing an album! HG and SLY didn't had that closing power because they are "top" songs. Now back to SD. I love the little ABBA vibe with the back vocals and the country sound! And the child's talk in the beginning and in the end of the song is shaping it really well. Is one of those songs that says "There, I've made it in the end of it all and it's worth it!"
12&13 - Can't Let Go & Lay Me Down - I can see why they are bonus tracks. They are also potential album finishers tho.
14 - Why Do You Love Me - It took her 7 years to sing "daydreaming" in one of her songs again
Also a great closing song and potential movie soundtrack song, and 99% my wedding song
If I have to place the songs in personal order:
MYA & RL > SML & LITD > WWWY & IMY > WDYLM & SD > R & WUTB > H > All I Ask > CLG & LMD
If I have to score the album: 99.9 out 100! Because we had to wait to much
The interesting thing is that I don't have a "top" song from this album. Nothing struck me like HG and SLY did with 19 & 21!
It took me almost 3 hours to write this and there was inner struggle for me to do it, but now I'm glad that I did and that it's out here in the base
P.S. With this post I've made my kind of proper comeback to the base, but I still won't be posting like I was use to back in the days. And I never missed checking on you guys every day during the last 9 months. Wow, now that sounds a bit creepy and weird when I'm writing it down
P.S.S. I've missed her SNL show, but I'll catch up on it later
it lucky she stan for Bey.
