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Adele tells the meaning behind each song on "30", her fourth album

2021-11-18T17:45:33.625Z


Adele returns with "30", her first record production in six years. We compile what the British singer has told about each of the songs.


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Adele is back with "30" the most personal album she has ever written in her career.

This is what the British singer-songwriter says in various interviews published days before the launch.

Adele has her audience accustomed to her personal ballads, to albums like "21" in which she spoke of heartbreak and from which some of the hymns in her repertoire such as "Someone Like You" were born.

In her fourth album production, the singer-songwriter speaks from pain, anxiety and her reinvention after her divorce.

The task of writing an album with emotions on the surface is not easy.

Adele, who keeps her private life and specifically her relationships out of the reach of the public, is vulnerable in each of the 12 songs that make up the album.

The vulnerability "is dangerous on my level of fame," Adele tells Apple Music's Zane Lowe.

Something that's dangerous, says Adele, "when I say it's dangerous I don't mean it's really dangerous, but [the] [emotional] places that I go on the [album]," she explains.

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And it is not only vulnerability when talking about his separation, to which he dedicated only one song, the single "Easy On Me", but also the vulnerability of accepting that he was carried away by the ego, or how, being the figure that is, looking for a stable relationship and not casual sex.

The album, more than being a depository of one of the most difficult moments of his life, is a letter to his son, Angelo.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Adele says the album's goal is to "teach Angelo who his mother really is: a complicated, multidimensional woman with an identity outside of relationship [with her father], who struggled, cried and suffered ".

When did you start writing "30"?

The singer tells Rolling Stone that she began writing the album at the beginning of 2019 and finished it in 2020. Most of the songs were composed in the summer of 2019, on a trip to London.

For the production, the singer recruited a team with whom she felt comfortable, with people with whom she had already worked before and knew her.

"[Working] with people I knew seemed safe to me because I knew I could tell them things and I would not leave the studio. But they have also been through [the divorce] with me," Adele told Apple Music.

Greg Kurstin, Tobias Jesso Jr, Max Martin and Shellback worked with Adele in "25

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The only relatively new person in this production is Inflo.

In her interview with Apple Music, Adele says that Inflo, whom she affectionately calls Flo, was her mainstay during the hard time after their separation and with whom she performed what she calls therapy sessions in the recording studio.

Each song on the album, Adele tells Rolling Stone, is presented in a chronological way of how she lived those months after their separation.

The songs of "30", according to Adele

The production begins with "Strangers by Nature", a theme in which he reflects on the separation, but without prejudice.

He says that, musically speaking, he was inspired by melodies and harmonies of old music, specifically in what he saw in the movie "Judy" (2019), the film starring Renée Zellweger.

"I saw the biopic about Judy Garland and I remember thinking 'why did everyone stop writing those incredible melodies, that cadence, those harmonies," Adele says on Apple Music.

The second track "Easy On Me", Adele talks head-on about her divorce.

In an interview with BBC 1, the singer-songwriter explained that this was the first song she wrote on her fourth album.

"My Little Love," the third track, was written from the perspective of her son or children who have witnessed their parents' divorce, Adele says on Apple Music.

"For me, it was important to tell Angelo's story, to say that it was difficult, that I was not doing a good job in one of the hardest times of his life," Adele tells Zane Lowe.

That song contains voice recordings of conversations between the singer and her son.

According to Adele's account to Apple Music and Rolling Stone, she performed them during a moment of extreme anxiety and as part of her therapy.

Apart from anxiety, Adele says that she also went through depressive periods and that is the theme of "Cry Your Heart Out".

The rediscovery of herself

"Oh My God" and "Can I Get It" talk about the process of reintroducing the singer into the real world.

"Can I Get It" tells about the process of thinking about the possibility of dating another person and establishing a relationship beyond casual sex.

They are followed by "I Drink Wine", a song that with just its name created a stir on social networks.

According to Adele's account on Apple Music, the song talks about the acceptance process of "that you are a disaster. Sometimes knowing that you are a disaster, once you realize it, everything is easier," she says.

"Hold On" was a song she wrote in February 2020 and she says that at the time of writing she realized that she was progressing emotionally and that therapy was helping her.

Adele revealed, in her interview with Apple Music, that for a year she could hardly laugh, something that could be surprising, considering that her infectious laugh is one of her personal hallmarks.

The song Adele will never sing live

In this sway of emotions comes "To Be Loved", a heartbreaking ballad of just over six minutes.

According to the singer, the song was written in the same place where "When We Were Young", one of the singles from "25", was born.

Adele documented the process of creating the theme.

With his computer he recorded a video, which he published this week, in which he is heard performing the song.

To Be Loved pic.twitter.com/r16x90FbAU

- Adele (@Adele) November 17, 2021

Although vocally the subject is challenging, Adele confesses that that is not the reason why she will never sing the song live.

Interpreting this theme generates an emotional drain on the story behind it.

In the interview with Apple Music, he says that he cannot listen to the song either, "it breaks me down", he reveals.

The album ends with "Love Is a Game", a song that, musically, takes inspiration from the sixties, from soul and why not, from Amy Winehouse.

In the interview with Apple Music, Adele says that the lyrics have an element of sarcasm, something that characterized Amy's songs.

Adele's "30" will be available on Friday, November 19.

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Source: cnnespanol

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