My wise friend who always gives the best advice. Home is where the heart is. Christi Carras is an entertainment reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Travis Scott sought to uplift Houston. Did he let it down? Fans show in droves for Day N Vegas festival, but Astroworld tragedy not far from mind. According to Vogue U. One impassioned song documents her post-break-up dating experiences, replete with disappointing and emotionally unavailable men.
Unlike so many star-studded records these days, there are no featured artists on Adele is notoriously private, well-known for avoiding and playfully misleading reporters.
Since then, her life has undergone several significant developments. She wed her long-term partner and the father of her child, charity executor Konecki, in , contrary to press reporting that it was two years earlier.
The split was amicable, however. They kept the split a secret for so long to protect their son, Adele told British Vogue. There was no one reason for the break-up. The pair met through mutual friends, but only got together a few months ago. Fans and music critics hailed her return, with the song's video getting more than 18 million views on YouTube in the first 10 hours of its release.
Britain's Telegraph newspaper called it "a bare bones ballad that is more than just music. This beautiful single is what music is for. Known for hits like "Someone Like You" and "Hello", Adele is one of the most successful pop artists of all time, topping charts around the world and winning 15 Grammys as well as an Oscar for James Bond movie theme song "Skyfall". So that was the perfect response. Once it was finished, however, "they loved it". It's not a muscle that I exercise - writing or singing," she added.
While Easy On Me is very much a traditional Adele ballad, there have been hints that the rest of the album will showcase a more experimental side to Adele's music. According to Vogue, one track features her vocals "sampled and resampled over a hypnotic beat", that is reminiscent of electro-pop act Goldfrapp. Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley, who has been played a handful of the songs, said there are "all kinds" of sounds and genres on the album. The music world meanwhile has been reacting to Adele's long-awaited return, with Canadian star Drake alerting his Instagram followers to the fact that "one of my best friends in the world just dropped a single".
Elsewhere, Clueless film star Alicia Silverstone posted a humorous video on TikTok of her preparing to drown her sorrows while listening the London singer's latest heartfelt offering. However it sounds, 30 is certain to be a shot in the arm for the UK music industry. Only one British album released since the start of , Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia, has sold the , copies required to be awarded a platinum disc.
It took her 10 months to achieve that feat. By contrast, Adele's last album, 25, went platinum in its first 24 hours. It went on to become the UK's 14th best-selling album of all time, with sales in excess of 3.
Sony, her new record label, will be hoping to match those sorts of sales heights - although the CD market has declined precipitously since ; and Adele's streaming numbers don't yet match those of her peers. She currently has 22 million monthly listeners on Spotify, compared to Ed Sheeran's 75 million and Taylor Swift's
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