Love is a Game really aged well in my household, so no

Yes it's forgotten af but it's good. To Be Loved and Can't Be Together > basic EOM

It's a great album but not as gp/streaming friendly as the rest of her discography as others have said. Can't really expect these 6 minute ballads to have good recurrent streams so many years later.

I think it's going to be more appreciated in the future, many songs on it have a timeless, classic sound.

It's pretty forgotten outside of EOM.

I like the album apart from the horrible pop tracks like Oh My God

she sounds amazing on songs like Woman Like Me and All Night Parking

I would revisit it more if it was more consistent

30 is definitely much more of an acquired taste, lyrically in particular. It's not as universal in its appeal and very specific to the situation she was going through so naturally it's not as appealing as 21 or 25.

It's so underrated. Hold On, Love Is A Game, I Drink Wine, Strangers by Nature, Easy on Me, My Little Love… SO GOOD.

Funnily enough, I listened to the album just yesterday!

Hold On alone is a career highlight, it perfectly encapsulates the feeling you get in your late 20s / early 30s when you realise how formative the decisions you've made are to where you're going. Even though you feel as if you should have matured so much, but still make "childish" mistakes and punish yourself for them. But, as you pass through that time, you realise that no one really knows what they're doing and you must be gracious and accept you will never get everything right.

Anyway. As an album, I do feel it's weak. I only use:

- Easy On Me
- I Drink Wine
- Hold On
- To Be Loved
- Love Is A Game

There are some really interesting moments like All Night Parking but they're never really seen through to their full vision.

its very underrated and one of her best albums

that being said I would like her to do some sort of different direction for A5

TBH, in the long run almost all albums are forgotten in favor hit songs.

Easy on Me has entered Adele's canon of top songs

21 will remain Adele's definint album

People saying this is her best album is absolutely lying.

I Drink Wine is a career highlight and EOM is a SMASH but this Album/Era is forgettable

They chose the wrong cover artwork. Another one would've been much better, like those.

Both.

I think the gp get tired of her 19, 20, 25, 29, 30 and so on albums.

I don't even like Easy on me, never really did

But 21 is an absolute classic of an album, 25 too, 19 too

Hold On, Easy on Me, To be loved and LOIAG aging like fine wine

Stan culture is brainrot !Not everything has to be a cultural relevance for it to be considered a smash.Its a top selling album ! She caters to adults who do not write or read thinkpieces about their faves or are checking stats every five seconds.She needs very little theatrics to sell an album.Her numbers speak for themselves.

It's honestly some of her best work. I don't think it really had a place in where music culture is going lately, but I think she knew that at the time and it was the album she wanted to make.

I don't get the impression that Adele is super bothered about her career, honestly. Obviously, her team and the label wanted it to do gangbusters and it didn't do what people hoped for.

going from 3.5M to 800k, yea it was bad for her.

and yes, the music is forgettable, same old ballads. artistic growth was there but sonically, she stayed the same.

It's her weakest album by far.

Forgotten, yeah. I remember all these unsold vinyls. I hope she does something different for her next album

I still think it's her best album but at the same time it doesn't have the replayability as her older albums. Does that make sense?

Anyway, she secured another effortless classic with "Easy on Me". So even during her "down" era (for her standards), she's still winning

People only know "easy on me" from that era and that's because she had a big hype after the huge success of "25"

Album is forgotten and has very little replay value. It's also these huge breaks she takes betweet albums that make her less and less relevant. Yeah, she will always be at least big legacy artist who can do cute lil residencies around the world

Well, yes, 25 ended it

Easy On Me is a great song. Other than that the album is a snooze and forgettable. To Be Loved is gorgeous but there's a tinge of elitism all over the album. Felt like she was looking down at the audience from her castle. Just the vibes she gave in the music and the promo. It gave out of touch. That's why it didn't resonate with the album. Felt like an HR woman is preaching to me.

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