“Cry Your Heart Out,” is the smartly sequenced album’s first head-nodding move toward the dance floor. “I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing.” “At all?” he cutely asks. “Mommy’s been having really big feelings lately,” she confides. It includes voice-notes-recorded conversation between Adele - whose last name is Adkins - and her son.
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“My Little Love,” produced by Kurstin, is the first of several tearjerkers. On “30,” Adele teams with songwriter-producers she’s worked with before, including Greg Kurstin, Max Martin and Tobias Jesso, with whom she co-wrote the confessional “To Be Loved,” which recalls early-1970s Carole King and is the album’s most grandiose track. The song - about our inability to ever really know each other - reaches back to pre-rock pop. The song is “Strangers by Nature,” a Judy Garland homage that’s a tip-off that “30” will expand the dusky voiced singer’s range. “For all of my lovers, in the present and in the dark.” The opening line sets the mood: “I’ll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart,” Adele sings.
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“30” was written pre-pandemic, and is full of tumult and torment - and songs of determined resilience. She’s in a relationship with sports agent Rich Paul - yes, that Rich Paul, the Klutch Sports exec who’s the target of Philly fans’ ire over his guidance of Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons, who hasn’t played a game this season.īut Adele fans needn’t worry that their hero is too content to make satisfying music. So I found myself in a lounge in Sony Music’s downtown Manhattan office with four other journalists last week, hearing “30” eight days early.Īdele has come across as impressively well-adjusted in pre-release interviews. No music was being provided in advance, unless critics wanted to head to New York for an early listen. That sense of the Adele record as a major event convinced me to do my early listening to “30” in unusual circumstances.
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If you give your car radio dial a spin, it’s hard not to hear it.įrom the “One Night Only” broadcast TV event (including a not terribly revealing interview with Oprah) to an emphasis on physical product (500,000 LPs have been shipped to retailers), everything about the rollout for Adele’s first album in six years has been old school. “Easy on Me” broke a Spotify record with 24 million streams in a single day and is a hit across multiple formats. The quiet, troubled song that addresses her ex-husband Simon Konecki (whom she married in 2018 and divorced this year) and their 9-year-old, son Angelo, is out of step with pop music trends, both in terms of tempo and volume.Īnalysts wondered if Adele - who is 33, but names albums after her age the year she began writing them - could again be a dominant force in a purely streaming musical age. “Easy on Me,” the one song from “30” released in advance of the album, is a down-tempo ballad sung with impeccable restraint that’s almost entirely absent of drums or percussion. When it comes to trouncing competition, Adele hasn’t lost her touch. And that’s perhaps for the best, considering that, in telling Oprah Winfrey (while both were wearing white pantsuits) about the boxing skills she’s honed, Adele joked that she has “a left hook that could kill you.” Nobody wants to go toe-to-toe with Adele.
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12, presumably to avoid a conflict with “30”. Adele’s closest sales competition has been Taylor Swift, who moved the release of her new “Red (Taylor’s Version)” ahead one week to Nov. The last decade’s two biggest-selling albums are her “21,” which moved over 12 million copies, and “25,” which has sold more than 9 million. Appropriate enough since, as a commercial force, Adele stands alone in the cosmos, above mere pop music mortals. On screen, she was presented as a ballad-singing goddess dressed in a black Schiaparelli mermaid gown, presiding over her own personal Mount Olympus. The dramatic visuals for the performance promoting “30”, the British singer’s self-assured and marvelously sung new album, which she has said is about “divorce, baby, divorce,” put the powerhouse vocalist up where she belongs. The setting at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles for “Adele: One Night Only,” the concert special that aired on CBS, was well-chosen, and not just because the overhead drone shots looked fabulous and the golden earrings in the shape of the planet Saturn that Adele wore struck an astronomical theme. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Photo: Robert Gauthier, MBR / TNS Adele performs during the 59th Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb.