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Adele’s single-boring and self absorbed ( and slightly cringeworthy)?

253 replies

TheReluctantPhoenix · 16/10/2021 07:16

Firstly, I love Adele’s music and very much admire her character and was very much looking forward to her new music.

However, her new song never goes anywhere. There is nothing, musically, to make your hair stand on end or really want to listen. If I were having a conversation in the car, I would not notice it in the background.

Of course, her voice is, as ever, sublime, but many of the ornaments sound forced and some good clear long notes would have been far better. In addition, after about 90 seconds it is , effectively, ‘on repeat’.

As for the words, I can just imagine her child listening to them as a teen or young adult and cringing.

Of course, the professional reviews love it, but I suspect they would not review Adele badly regardless of what she put out.

So AIBU or do I just not appreciate what is being done here (open to any opinions)?

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brittleheadgirl · 16/10/2021 08:14

So bland, just unbelievably boring.
I feel the same about so many other apparently 'amazing' artists.
Ed Sheeran?! Honestly I feel like I'm a visiting alien when my colleagues start gushing about the music they like Confused

P0ntiacBandit · 16/10/2021 08:16

The Coldplay album is amazing, on the other hand. (ok! I am biased, but listen to them please)

gofg · 16/10/2021 08:16

I'm not a fan of her music, and from what I've heard of the new song it's not doing anything to make me a fan. I'm not in the UK, but the fact that she has a new song has been on the national news two days in a row here - really Hmm

Rosesareyellow · 16/10/2021 08:17

It’s a nice enough song but it’s very ‘Adele’ to the point that it’s not original - all her music kind of sounds the same. But some people like it for that reason. I agree it’s a bit cringe and tiresome to be going through the whole break up music spiel again, even more so that she said it’s for her son to listen to when he’s older so he can understand the circumstances of the break up between his parents Confused yes it’s sad you got divorced (but that hardly makes your music more profound… they were only married for about 5 minutes).
I liked the song for about 30 seconds and then realised it sounds exactly like this the whole way through. Boring.

Lachimolala · 16/10/2021 08:18

@ChrissyPlummer

I don’t find any of her songs amazing TBH. I had her first album but it’s same old, same old after that.

I remember seeing a meme that was something like ‘What do people do at Adele concerts? Just stand and cry?’. She has a good voice but man, release something cheerful!

I actually went to see her in Manchester when she did her only tour, it was amazing! She is hilarious and really high energy, it was a lot more upbeat and more fun than I thought it would be!

That being said, I do feel the same way about the way song as most others on this thread. It’s a bit boring and doesn’t flow very well, I’m a massive Adele fan so I’m a little disappointed.

SwordfromtheStone · 16/10/2021 08:18

I just wonder how her ex must feel having their relationship and breakdown used to make money. Sure loads of people write about personal stuff but not as blatantly as this. And it does feel very ‘none of it was my fault’ - there’s a line about being just a child, she was 30 ffs!

That said I bet it’ll be stuck in my head for weeks!

KaptainKaveman · 16/10/2021 08:19

She is really not to my taste.

Especially since that fateful day when she tore into the tax system for making her pay loads of tax - neglecting to mention that this was because she'd earned about £10 million from the sales of one of her albums. She can go and do one as far as I'm concerned. Miserable, boring, unimaginative music to play in lifts. Nice eyebrows though.

OliverBabish · 16/10/2021 08:22

I like it. I understand the sentiment of having a child and just trying to do your best even when you’re still growing yourself.

Okbye · 16/10/2021 08:23

I agree, I'm not a fan of her at all she's so overrated in my opinion. If her music comes on the radio I turn over the channel.

She's so boring, I like music with a beat not just wailing and crying about heartbreak to a piano 🥱🥱🥱

insancerre · 16/10/2021 08:24

@BristolBaker
The thread title is simple to understand
Unless you don’t know what a single is?

mydogisthebest · 16/10/2021 08:25

I haven't like any of her records so doubt I would like this one. To me she has a whiny voice and her songs are so so depressing. I much prefer lively happy music.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 16/10/2021 08:27

I don't like any of her music. She's an incredibly talented woman but I like upbeat music that makes you want to dance, I can't stand depressing waily stuff like Adele, Ed and Lewis Capaldi.

Fernhilde · 16/10/2021 08:28

@BristolBaker

I don’t know what you mean by ‘single-boring’, the thread title doesn’t really make much sense tbh
Substitute the hyphen for a colon?
Spidey66 · 16/10/2021 08:30

I've got her other CDs but I do think you hear one youve heard them all and it's unlikely I'll get the new one.

She's going the same way as U2, Coldplay etc, who've I've liked until the world put them on pedestals and who then succumbed to Death by Overkill imho.

MrsLargeEmbodied · 16/10/2021 08:32

i just listened on youtube, - video bit distracting
finished it as it was starting to play on the radio!
spooky

i guess you will get a lot of people warbling along to it.
she is well loved

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TheReluctantPhoenix · 16/10/2021 08:33

@BristolBaker,

It is an ‘em dash’. Maybe a colon would have been better, but the main purpose of this thread was an opinion on Adele’s song, not to be parsed for grammar. All bar you seem to have understood the meaning.

And, no, I am not sensitive, but ‘it’s my thread and I’ll cry if I want to’…

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IComeInPeace · 16/10/2021 08:36

Same as you @TheReluctantPhoenix I love Adele more as a person than as an artist. I loved that when she was asked what the new album was about she said without pause or apology ''divorce babes!''

But the new released song hasn't overwhelmed me.

I have to laugh at the suggestion that you should have KNOWN there were other threads about Adele.
Like you, I was hard at work all week, worked a 38 hour week so no, not aware of every single thread that was posted on mumsnet earlier this week either ! You're not alone there.

That person could be earning money somewhere

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 16/10/2021 08:37

Not particularly a fan of her music. Really don’t care about her weight. Massively object to her whining about taxes.

shamalidacdak · 16/10/2021 08:37

Controversial opinion: Adele would have no career if Amy Winehouse had lived

potter5 · 16/10/2021 08:42

Amazing song, amazing voice!

TractorAndHeadphones · 16/10/2021 08:44

It’s really boring.
Adele’s music is often unique - ‘Hello’ for example had a unique progression of chords, the rising feelings of the chorus was amazing.

This was just…another generic song.
Every Adele song gave me earor but this? Wouldn’t recognise it if I heard it again

TractorAndHeadphones · 16/10/2021 08:45

Earworm!

SisterAgatha · 16/10/2021 08:45

She has a formula. She knows it works. That’s what you get with an Adele song really, they are all quite samey. And I say this as someone who is in to rock, I will always like her because she lived local to me as a kid but the songs aren’t ever massively different.

Evesgarden · 16/10/2021 08:51

I wonder at the state of people mental health when they purposely start negative threads then other negative people gather to bitch.

There are so many threads like this lately.

I love Adele she is on my drive to work playlist, I think other songs she does are better, maybe this one is grower. But never have I felt compelled to start a thread about not liking some ones song, its just not that a big deal. Just turn it over. And its always a women singer - every-single -time.

Maybe if you DM her she will write you a personal apology for your disappointment or distaste because your so special ...

Proudboomer · 16/10/2021 08:52

Loved her 21 album but not really a fan of 25. Back with a vengeance with sky fall but the new one is just commercial self obsessed drivel. I expected better.