Album Review - 30 by Adele
Adele is an artist that is known by many and for good reasons too. She brings her musical talent in every song she’s released to highlight her range in music.
The album 30 has been said to be this way to tell her son, Angelo, about the heartbreak of divorce. The album serves as this journal of experiences since she started writing it at the age of thirty as it brings to life the emotions and reality she has experienced in life.
The album starts off with “Strangers by Nature” which holds this appeal. There are times in the song when it feels like a classic song from the 60s but works to show Adele’s growth through life. This song is placed at the beginning of the album sets the emotional meaning that the album holds and sets the expectations high.
The third song in the album, “My Little Love,” brings this emotional understanding to the listener. The song is a message to her son and acts to apologize for the divorce. She calls it her “fault completely” which only amplifies the song when she brings in voice memos of her and her son talking. This song is one to bring you to tears because of the intense message that it shares especially with the voice memos she adds. One line that speaks out is her saying “I feel like today is the first day since I left him that I feel lonely / I never feel lonely, I love being on my own” which brings to light the struggles that she has been going through in finding herself and working through the pains of heartbreak.
“Love is a Game” finishes off the album and the tune sounds like it belongs in a Disney classic, but Adele’s lyrics make it her own in a unique way. She talks of love, heartbreak and how she has grown in her time writing the album. The song finishes off with her talking she would “do it all again, like I did then” which just shows her growth over the years after her divorce.
It brings this joy to go through her journey through her music in this album because it walks through her growth and experience in finding herself after divorce. Overall, this album is a wonderful listen between the tune, lyrics and the album’s general vibe and I recommend this to anyone who needs a life me up to show it can get better over time.
