“Hello” is not really a compassionate breakup song, like Carole King and Toni Stern’s “It’s Too Late” — the breakup here seems to have happened long ago — but rather an acknowledgment that you can never really make a clean break, that the memories float around like emotional flotsam and sometimes still land ashore. The walloping chorus, with the line “to say I’m sorry for everything that I’ve done,” seems to draw power from its vagueness; yet it’s another line that I keep returning to: “Did you ever get out of that town where nothing ever happens?” Over the decades, a thousand indie bands have expressed that sentiment in coy or circuitous or just generally more poetic ways, and yet Adele, even in one of the quieter vocal moments on “25,” gets to something elemental, with her usually stately voice not afraid to admit a few cracks. Many of the songs start with a solemn or earnest piano section similar to the one in “Hello,” then whip into a frenzy, giving Adele the chance to flash her super vocal power, and then calm down again to remind us that hey, she’s still one of us.
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