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Adele during a performance before her artistic break in England (archive image)
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After a six-year break, the longing among Adele's fans seems so great that just a few seconds are enough to arouse complete delight.
Late on Saturday evening, the Briton played an approximately 35-second excerpt from her new single "Easy On Me" on Instagram Live, in which she sang to the sound of the piano.
It was already the song of the year, said some of their fans, although they could not even hear the song in full.
"Easy On Me" should appear next Friday.
Adele herself reported shortly after the performance that her phone was ringing and speculated whether there might be trouble about the playback.
Adele had already posted a short video clip of the song on Twitter and Instagram on Tuesday.
The black and white video shows how she (with typical cateye eyeliner and long fingernails) pushes a cassette into a car, looks in the rearview mirror, turns up the volume and drives down a country road while sheet music flutter out of the window.
In addition, melancholy piano tones can be heard.
The video has been viewed more than 16 million times on Instagram alone.
The 2015 Oscar and Grammy winner released her last album "25".
In an interview with the British "Vogue" Adele said that she had also recorded the new album to explain to her son their separation.
"I had the feeling that when he was 20 or 30, I wanted to use this album to explain to him who I am and why I voluntarily decided to take apart his whole life for my happiness," she said.
“It made him really unhappy at times.
And left a wound on me that I don't know will ever heal. "
The now 33-year-old separated from her husband Simon Konecki at the age of 30.
There is speculation that their album could be called 30 for that reason.
Adele comments on the criticized photo
Another topic was a photo posted last year of Adele wearing an African hairstyle, so-called Bantu Knots, and a bikini top in the colors of the Jamaican flag.
Critics saw an appropriation of African culture in the photo.
She completely understands that people would have found it appropriate if she had deleted the photo, Adele admitted in the recently published "Vogue" interview.
"But if I take it down, I'll pretend that didn't happen," she said.
The singer posted the photo in August 2020 while on vacation in Jamaica.
She wanted to commemorate the legendary London Notting Hill Carnival, which usually takes place every year, which largely had to be canceled this year due to the corona pandemic.
The carnival was started in 1959 by immigrants from the Caribbean.
Your fans defended the post.
It is shocking that it is considered cultural appropriation when someone enjoys someone else's culture, writes an Instagram user in a recent post.
Another said: "Don't consider it an insult, but a compliment."
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