If you were given the opportunity to put money on the upcoming Grammy Awards and for some reason bet against Adele, you’d be a fool as she’s going to win just about every single award she’s nominated for. But is Adele – one of the few artists who’s selling tons of albums and records in 2011 – and her “21” album really the “GREATEST THING EVER!!!!!111” like so many people are proclaiming? The first half of “21” and last track (“Someone Like You”) are absolutely stunning songs with the underlying theme of a failed relationship. Opening track “Rolling in the Deep” is certainly one of these examples. But what kills the album as a whole is the fact that songs six through ten on this eleven track album just feel so derivative. Everyone knows that Adele can sing, but she deserves better songs than the some of the generic mid-tempo ballads that she’s singing on the second half.
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