{"id":35257,"date":"2021-11-23T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/featured\/adele-30\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T17:00:22","slug":"adele-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traklife.com\/culture\/adele-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Adele&#8217;s 30 Is Just More Of The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve always been a fan of Adele. Not in the sense that I buy concert tickets and watch her music videos as soon as they premiere, but in that I buy her albums and listen to her deep-cut tracks regularly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, I was pretty excited for her latest album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">30<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. I enjoyed \u201cEasy On Me,\u201d I love her voice; I was ready for more Adele.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagine my disappointment when, while listening to the album, I found myself thinking, \u201cWow, this is boring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of it may be because I\u2019m not necessarily Adele\u2019s target audience of 30-something women in long term relationships. While I can relate to the emotional turbulence of her earlier work, I can\u2019t see myself in her new songs about divorce, ambivalence towards a romantic partner, and how much she loves her son.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, isn\u2019t the mark of a good artist that they <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">make<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> you relate? I listen to \u201cTears in Heaven\u201d and I feel Eric Clapton\u2019s pain and loss. I\u2019ve never been to California, but I can see it in my mind when \u201cCalifornia\u201d by Joni Mitchell plays. I just can\u2019t seem to find a way to connect with Adele\u2019s new music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking at it from a practical standpoint, the album is bloated. Five out of the twelve tracks on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">30<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are over six minutes. Now, I\u2019m a fan of longer songs (not to bring up Clapton again, but the OG version of \u201cLayla\u201d is transcendent), but when you overload your album with them, the message is lost. It no longer seems like the artist had so much to say that they threw out radio-play guidelines, but like they started rambling and couldn\u2019t stop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It doesn\u2019t help matters that Adele is known for a very specific sound. Big vocals, piano melodies, lyrics about relationships that run from fiery anger to weepy grief; put it in a blender and voila! You\u2019ve got an Adele banger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s obviously worked for the artist, but with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">30<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the formula is getting stale. Add in the fact that the songs run long, and it feels like the album is just one huge hour-long song about divorce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m being harsh, I know, and it probably sounds like I have some weird vendetta against Adele, but I swear, I am a fan! I\u2019ll keep listening to her old albums and cheer her on at award shows. 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