Brand new and still the same Adele. With a new single, the heart is melting again – Hudba.sk

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You may have read everywhere in recent months that the singer Adele lost almost 50 pounds a year. It’s a really respectable change and it looks amazing, but if you’re interested in something other than her body box in the case of the most successful British artist in recent decades, you’re in the right place. Today she released the long-awaited new single and it’s great.

Many have already missed her, because her new work has been waiting for six long years. Today, however, that has changed. By the stroke of midnight Adele has released an announced single called Easy On Me and launched the next chapter of her mega-successful career, which includes more than 120 million records sold, 15 Grammy Awards and nine statuettes of the BRIT Awards.

The novelty is the first tasting of her fourth album called 30. Like all her previous albums, the 33-year-old singer, composer and lyricist named him after the year of her life, which inspired her with her events. Not surprisingly, the song Easy On Me she is a slow ballad full of emotions, which is mainly carried by her phenomenal voice. Although Adele has undergone an incredible transformation physically, the style of music that has won the hearts of millions of fans around the world remains the same. In the song, she is accompanied only by the piano, which beautifully complements her emotional singing, later an inconspicuous beat is added in the background.

In the lyrics Easy On Me Adele confesses to her son Angel and now to her ex-husband Simon out of regret that she could not do more to make them a happy family. It is a statement from a woman who has realized that at the moment when her relationship is falling apart, she must think primarily of herself and not feel guilty about it, even if she cannot do without hurting her loved ones. In contrast to the strong atmosphere of the song, there is an intro of a video clip, which captures a normal telephone conversation between a mother and her child or her husband that she is following him and may be late. It’s typical Adele – when you hear her in conversations, you wouldn’t even think about the gold she hides in her throat.

Adele is also characterized by the visual itself, the author of which is a film director, actor and costume designer. Xavier Dolan. He also took care of the first video clip of her previous album for the hit Hello and the novelty has a very similar aesthetic. An important moment of the clip Easy On Me occurs in the second half, when it changes from black and white to full color. It happens after the sentence “I changed myself to put you first … But now I’m giving up”, which captures the whole legacy of the song. Despite the night hour, hundreds of thousands of fans watched the premiere of the video and has more than 15 million views in the first eight hours since its release. However, nothing else happened in the pop return of the year (together with news from the legendary quartet ABBA) could not be expected.

An album about divorce with yourself

In addition to the single Adele, this week also confirmed the release date of the album 30. It will hit the market November 19 and its cover is already known, on which the singer’s profile photo from Simon Emmett is without her name or the title of the recording.

In five weeks, the longest wait for the new album of the greatest British female singer star of the 21st century will end. Her previous studio 25 was published in 2015 and Adele has meanwhile experienced many fundamental changes in her personal life that have affected her work. It managed to marry (2018) and divorce (2021). Her husband was a businessman and a philanthropist Simon Konecki, with whom she has been a couple since 2011 and in 2012 their son Angelo James was born. Next week, October 19, the boy celebrates his 9th birthday.

The family lives in Los Angeles, with both Adele and Konecki having houses across the street, and despite breaking up, they meet regularly for joint movie nights. The singer recently admitted that she lives better in LA than in London because she always wanted to live where there is “fresh air and where she can see the sky”. By the way, she bought the ex-husband a house.

Album cover 30 (photo: Simon Emmett)

In extensive current interviews for American magazine Vogue and his British version Adele revealed that the new album will be the most personal record she has ever offered. Divorce and the relationship with the son play a large part in this. As she said, she regrets that she caused him a lot of pain by ending her life with her father, but she thinks it was the right decision. “Once, when he was about six and a half years old, he asked me if I saw him. I told him yes, but he replied that he couldn’t see me. Then my whole life fell apart. He knew I wasn’t there, “she admitted. Since then, he has been trying to talk regularly with his son about what happened. The next day, she even wrote a song for him, which will appear in the studio.

The singer also sees her fourth album as a kind of reference for her son in the future. “I felt like I wanted to explain it all to him through this studio when he was in his twenties or thirties. To explain to him who I was and why I voluntarily decided to break down his whole life in pursuit of my own happiness. Sometimes he was really because of me. “I don’t know if I can ever heal this wound,” she admitted. However, Adele does not think that this is a typical gauge, respectively. divorce album. “It’s more about divorcing myself,” she laughed in an interview with Vogue.

“When I was working on the album, I was very fragile. That’s why I only wanted to work with a few people,” she added. She wrote two songs with Greg Kurstin, with which she collaborated on the hit Hello. He added a hand to the work on the other two songs Inflo, a London producer with whom Danger Mouse often collaborates. They left their handwriting in other compositions Max Martin, Shellback, Ludwig Göransson or Tobias Jesso Jr. As usual, Adele used the original vocals from the demo recordings because, as she claims, they have a unique charisma and urgency that they lose when re-recording.

Exercise for a healthy body and mind

A native of London, she also told Vogue about another significant change in her life. In May 2020, on the occasion of her birthday, she published a photo in a black dress on Instagram and people could not believe their eyes. They saw the “new Adele”, which weighed several tens of kilograms less. Specifically about 45 kilograms. She achieved this thanks to regular exercise, which she continues to do. She confirmed that she did not follow any diet. Her goal was not to lose a few kilograms, but to be stronger both physically and mentally. As she revealed, it was thanks to regular exercise that she got rid of the frequent feelings of anxiety she had experienced before.

In addition to the new image, he also has a new partner. He’s a sports agent Richard Paul, whose client is, for example, basketball player LeBron James. They met at the party years ago, when, in her own words, the singer was a little under steam and she liked that Paul, unlike other men, just didn’t stand up, but danced. On that occasion, she also admitted that “she has always had a very close relationship with alcohol”. “I’ve always been very fascinated by it. Alcohol has been a barrier between me and my father, so I’ve always wanted to know what’s so amazing about it,” she said. Her father, who left the family shortly after the singer’s birth, died this year. Their relationship was not the best, but in childhood she was greatly helped by music. “Music was a sibling I never had,” said big fan Beyoncé and Amy Winehosue.

Artists wave a great gift. Turbulent years are often positively reflected in their work, and according to the first single, it looks like this will also apply to Adele, who is very much looking forward to returning. “I’m ready to be famous again,” she said after years spent away from the spotlight. This time, however, she will also be thinking of her son, who has not yet seen her perform in front of a sold-out stadium. Although he already has some experience. At the age of four, his mother took him to a concert by his favorite singer Taylor Swift and when he saw thousands of fans, “his sleigh fell.” By the way, it was Swift who postponed Adele to release a new version of her 2012 album Red from a week earlier.

Authors: Patrik Marflák, Lukáš Dedík (text below video)
Photo: Raven B. Varona

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