Adele has returned after a three year pause to raise her son, Angelo, with an album that is making fans tear-up over her emotional songs. In just a few weeks, she has crushed Britney Spears and NSYNC records, making artists cry over their once held records now broken by the young artist.

Even after the artist teasing that 25 wouldn’t be all heartbreak and wallowing, I must admit, I finished the album in tears. The powerful voice of Adele, fails to disappoint with her tear-inducing songs such as her earlier released single “Hello” and, my personal favorite, “River Lea.”

In the first single released “Hello”, the song could not have amazed me more, unlike most singles released before the album which can lack in quality. This song was still able to capture my heart. The song is both beautiful yet miserable.

25 has much more depth and meaning to it than the single “Hello”. As the song quickly grows in fame worldwide, no one can deny the power of the song with its released video to go along with it. However, the song relates much more to her older albums than the new tone of 25 does, giving it an older, used sound to it.

“Send my Love (to your new lover)” and “River Lea” are perhaps the best songs in the album because they are the most transformative. Different from her usual mellow and sad tone, “Send my Love” shows a new side to Adele in an almost upbeat and ironic way as she expresses new found confidence she had not in her past albums 19 and 22.

Although “River Lea” may not quite be as transformative as “Send my Love (to your new lover),” the song still shows growth in Adele as a performer. I personally felt the need to get up and sing along to the song.

Perhaps the most interesting fact about this album is the meaning behind it. In almost all the songs, Adele mentions the act of getting older and relates to the past when she was younger. It seems she is telling her fans to stay young in songs like “When We Were Young” and “Million Years Ago.” Perhaps it is because of her new son that has caused this reminiscing of the past and past lovers.

Adele has shown a new side to her singing and writing in 25 in a way everyone can love this album. It’s well worth the inexpensive price of only eleven dollars and I look forward to seeing what else she will accomplish at such a young age. Maybe this time I won’t need to wait three years.