Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler's music started showing up during his early stand-up comedy routines in the 1990s. He'd write songs that mixed humor with a kind of plainspoken sentiment, like 'The Hannukah Song' or 'I Wanna Grow Old With You.' They felt like part of the act, not a separate career, and that's how most people first heard them.

He put out a self-titled debut album in 1993, which included some of those early tracks. Over the next couple of decades, he'd release more albums through his own Happy Madison Productions, sometimes leaning into comedy and other times trying more straightforward singer-songwriter material. The songs never really left his comedic persona behind, even the sweeter ones.

You can hear that blend in tracks like 'Red Hooded Sweatshirt' or 'Buddy.' They're not trying to be profound art songs, but they have a specific, recognizable tone, a little goofy, a little sincere, built for a live audience that's already laughing. That's probably why they stuck around.