Taylor Swift inspired Adele's 'Send My Love'

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4 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Very odd how she'd never heard of him until now. I mean, I thought the actual people she worked with were more obscure. I couldn't tell you much about the likes of Ryan Tedder, but I thought everyone in the music industry must know who Max is.

Anyway, I'm really surprised she wanted to work with him. A quick glance at his productions confirms that his speciality is providing generic pop songs for young popstars, not deeper neo soul songs for more grown up, mature artists. So saying, I think he's probably the best out of the generic producers (and he certainly has a better reputation than Dr Luke) but he still makes generic pop music at the end of the day. Why would he appeal to someone like Adele? You'd think it would make people say she had sold out by choosing him to work with. Send My Love is hands down the worst track on the album and that's echoed by fans and non fans alike. Max just can't make songs for non popstars. I couldn't believe it when I heard The Weeknd on Can't Feel My Face - how did Max take this very dark, experimental, adult artist and turn him mainstream and just like everyone else? And why would you want to? And now he's done the same to Adele with this song. It doesn't fit on the album whatsoever and the chorus is atrocious. It sounds like she's about to break into a yodel. Adele doesn't make sounds like that. The verses even sound like one of Taylor's songs (definitely a bit of IKYWT in there) which shows that Max tends to repeat productions. Really shocked it made the cut. There must have been a scrapped track that was better than this, surely? To think she turned down Sia's Alive but kept this!

I'm surprised at your opinion. I don't know or don't really care about other people's feelings for each song on 25 (not to mention about the producers of the tracks) but for me Send My Love is one of the best on the album, so unconventional for Adele. I like that cause 21 may have been her biggest  success but also her curse cause it means people put her in a box and labeled her "This is Adele" and from that point on they expect her music to be pretty much in the same vein and if it is not the reaction would be "What is that, this doesn't sound like Adele, it's not what I expect from her, blah blah". This is super annoying.

It's funny how Can't feel my face is also the only song I truly like from The Weeknd apart from his duet with Lana and Ariana's Love me harder. 

Alive would have been a beautiful song from Adele, but once I've heard it by Sia it is extremely hard to imagine someone else singing it. Besides the song's chorus is too basic and boring compared to the songs on 25. It's basically yelling "I'm alive". 

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4 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Very odd how she'd never heard of him until now. I mean, I thought the actual people she worked with were more obscure. I couldn't tell you much about the likes of Ryan Tedder, but I thought everyone in the music industry must know who Max is.

Anyway, I'm really surprised she wanted to work with him. A quick glance at his productions confirms that his speciality is providing generic pop songs for young popstars, not deeper neo soul songs for more grown up, mature artists. So saying, I think he's probably the best out of the generic producers (and he certainly has a better reputation than Dr Luke) but he still makes generic pop music at the end of the day. Why would he appeal to someone like Adele? You'd think it would make people say she had sold out by choosing him to work with. Send My Love is hands down the worst track on the album and that's echoed by fans and non fans alike. Max just can't make songs for non popstars. I couldn't believe it when I heard The Weeknd on Can't Feel My Face - how did Max take this very dark, experimental, adult artist and turn him mainstream and just like everyone else? And why would you want to? And now he's done the same to Adele with this song. It doesn't fit on the album whatsoever and the chorus is atrocious. It sounds like she's about to break into a yodel. Adele doesn't make sounds like that. The verses even sound like one of Taylor's songs (definitely a bit of IKYWT in there) which shows that Max tends to repeat productions. Really shocked it made the cut. There must have been a scrapped track that was better than this, surely? To think she turned down Sia's Alive but kept this!

21 is pretty mainstream too.... Or at least not very different from 25 in that regard