It also doesn't make sense because Adele recently went through a divorce and obviously that's going to mean she's going to write a lot of sad songs about it. Of course, she's going to write some ballads. I don't know what people were expecting a country album or something. I can understand wanting a favorite artist of yours to change around and to mess around with different genres and to experiment with their music because listening to the same type of music can get old for a while