Queen Adele.
Let’s face it, Adele didn’t just break the internet she broke the world. After taking a five year hiatus from the industry to live life and enjoy her son, the wickedly talented Brit is back and better than ever.
On Thursday [Nov 19], I kept looking at my iTunes account in hopes of some mishap or slip up, I needed the album in my life. I waited until the clock struck midnight and Adele’s much anticipated 25 hit my downloads. On first listen, I found the album to be ‘just ok’, then after my 100th listen, I fell in love.
While it is virtually impossible to out-do her last effort 21, which sold over 11 million in the U.S., and is the biggest-selling album of the decade in the United Kingdom, 25 will reign supreme on the charts. As of right now, it is forecasted that 25 will sell approximately 2.5 million in album sales in its first week, and it sold more than 900,000 copies on iTunes on the day of release. The album, if I can sum it up in one word is nostalgic. The album is a wonderful nod to everything that has already passed us by. In a world where everyone is so wrapped up in the future, Adele reminds us of our past.
Adele manages to make me feel everything for someone I know longer care for, someone I never met, and someone who I hope to never meet. She makes me want to be in a relationship, just to go through a break-up. Anyone going through a break-up right now, you win.
And for many of us just looking for Instagram/Facebook worthy status and captions, we win. Everybody wins. Adele’s 25 comes at such a clutch time. The holidays, the season with all the feels. So, if you’re actively status hunting, thank me later, and when I say me, I really mean Angelo’s mummy.
10 Quotes From Adele’s 25
- “Send my love to your new lover…treat her better.”
- “Let me photograph you in this light in case it is the last time that we might be exactly like we were.”
- “And if I’m not the one for you you’ve gotta stop holding me the way you do.”
- “I wasn’t ready then; I’m ready now, I’m heading straight for you, you will only be eternally, the one that I belong to.”
- “I know I’m not the only one who regrets the things they’ve done, sometimes I just feel it’s only me, who never became who they thought they’d be.”
- “Take your eyes off me so I can leave. I’m far too ashamed to do it with you watching me.”
- “Every story has its scars.”
- “I want every single piece of you, I want your heaven and your oceans too.”
- “If this is my last night with you hold me like I’m more than just a friend. Give me a memory I can use.”
- “Our love ain’t water under the bridge.”
Let’s face it, it’s an Adele world, and we’re just living in it.