Adele's new album: her most daring and interesting | Israel today

When Adele released the single "Easy on Me" about a month ago - the first swallow to announce the arrival of her new album "30" - opinions about it were divided.

There were those who saw it as a classic Adele song, in a good section.

A piano ballad that gives the singer's great and familiar voice the lead, with a catchy chorus full of pathos.

On the other hand, there were those who hated him for exactly the same reasons.

For them it was another of the familiar, existing and safe we ​​had heard on previous albums.

Another "Hello" style kitsch.

Even the clip of the new song was filmed in the same house as that huge hit.

The sense of repetitiveness became even more jarring when Adele told in recent interviews about big changes in her life: the divorce from her husband Simon Conkey, the significant weight loss, the addiction to fitness, and her tendency to drink too much wine following the corona and personal crisis.

"Complacency is a bad thing," the British star sang in one of the songs on her new album.

Indeed, many thought that not all dramas in her life could be translated into an album that leaves her in the same place.

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So if there is one sure thing that can be said about the album "30" is that it is definitely not a treadmill on the spot. In fact, the song "Easy on Me" does not represent it at all. If anything, it seems like some attempt by Adele to make it easier for the audience to get the new album, the fourth in number, which is the most interesting, good, daring and diverse song collection she has released so far, in a decade and a half of activity. It's not that Adele suddenly started singing in a scorched voice and doing metal. It's simple that she now presents her familiar stunts - love songs, longing and pain - from a cleaner, more original and painful place than ever before, and chooses a variety of styles to communicate her anguish.

It begins with "Strangers by Nature" which opens with the words "I will take flowers to the cemetery of my heart". From the beginning Adele confronts us with her personal crisis, which accompanies this whole album in its spirit. The jazzy "My Little Love" is a dialogue between her and her 9-year-old son, Angelo. "Mom has been feeling great emotions lately," she says in it. "Feeling confused, like I do not quite know what I'm doing. I wanted you to have everything I did not have. I'm so sorry for what I did." At some point, this blatantly non-hit song becomes a psychological session. "I like to be alone, I always preferred to be alone than to be with people. I want to watch TV at home, stay in my sweatshirt." Adele even cries here, and it sounds completely authentic.

There are lines on this album like "all I do is bleed into someone else".

It also has a folk song accompanied by an acoustic guitar like "Can I Get It", and Amy Winehouse's flashes of songs like "Cry Your Heart Out" and "Woman Like Me".

"Oh My God", a solo track with an addictive chorus, can already be bet on as the next single.

"I Drink Wine" is an excellent and very Elton-Johnny song, which deals with her fondness for alcohol in "Such Crazy Times".

Even before it came out, "30" was a big event.

Adele promoted him in two cover interviews for the British and American Vogue magazine, and in an exposed interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The album broke pre-order records, and even delayed the printing of vinyl records by Ed Sheeran, Abba, Taylor Swift and Coldplay because of the amount of orders.

The good news is that this album was worthy of all the hype.

He certainly delivered the goods.