'30' Is Adele at Her All-Time Best

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( ALBUM REVIEW [30 Is Adele at Her All-Time Best]( This is the music she should’ve been making all along. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS Adele is a volcano, stewing in secret for years until the moment she cuts loose and melts everything in her path. Her studio albums — 19, 21, 25, and the new 30 — are snapshots of unique junctures in her personal life. Like British director Michael Apted’s Up documentary series, which has checked in on the lives of a string of subjects at seven-year intervals since the 1960s, the London-born singer lets us in every few years to share what she’s learned about love and loss and creativity and art. On 19, Adele arrived amid a new wave of U.K. soul revivalists, successful artists like Duffy and Amy Winehouse who, at that moment, were being touted as a kind of new British invasion. Adele’s soulful, cinematic “Chasing Pavements” was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, this after the maudlin ballad “Hometown Glory” fared decently on European charts. [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [The Bachelorette:]( Much Ado About Vikings • [Vanderpump Rules:]( Mission Statement Impossible [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Michael Che Is Better Than This For much of Shame the Devil, he’s offering apologies and taking them back, giving explanations then rolling his eyes.]( [There Are So Many Dianas We Had to Assign Superlatives From film to TV to a filmed musical performed onstage.]( [The Brutal, Bloody, Bawdy, Beautiful Return of The Great Season two of Hulu’s “occasionally true” drama about the Russian monarch takes its characters to a place of implausible but fully convincing humanity.]( [Fact-checking Impeachment’s Final Act An expert analysis of the finale’s depiction of the Starr report’s release and political fallout and our characters’ post-impeachment fates.]( [The Cast of Queen Sugar Closes the Book on Season Six “A lot of the flowers we see in season six,” says Nicholas L. Ashe, “were planted as seeds in season one.”]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. Photo: United Artists Releasing • There’s no shortage of page-turning stories making their way onto our screens as 2021 comes to a close. While you might not make your way through them all, these are the [15 book-to-screen adaptations]( worth reading. [Read more from Vulture]( NOVEMBER 30 at Union Hall Vulture’s weekly comedy show, Pretty Major, will be hosted by Jay Jurden. [Buy tickets here.]( Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2021, All rights reserved