I am beginning to worry that you all must think I live in a cave, but I have never heard an Adele song before. Seeing that “Hello” has 3.4B plays on YouTube Music, I think you are right. Know that at least Adele doesn’t live in here with me.
I tried to listen and got through the first 5 or 6 six songs without skipping but then I think I reached my limit and I skipped through the rest. I didn’t care for this at all, it’s just not interesting musically or lyrically and a little bit of her voice goes a really long way.
One of the first two or three songs reminded me so much of something else and it took almost the whole thing to catch it but it’s something from Taylor Swift’s 1989 – or at least the Ryan Adams version I am familiar with. I was going to go through and figure it out but I really didn’t want to listen to the Adele song again to try and identify which song it was. Besides, I don’t really care that much.
I put on Beck’s Morning Phase right after this (to clear the Adele out of my ears) and noticed that the song with the highest plays from it has 8.6M plays – it’s a strange and cruel world, I just don’t listen to music like most other people do I guess.
To learn more about the 1001 Albums Project, I first wrote about it here.
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