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A classic from a first listen: Adele's new is one of her best songs

After a six-year hiatus and an international teaser tour, Adele - the greatest singer in the world - is back with a classic piano ballad, somewhat conservative but one that also reveals a new and sexy self-confidence.

And perhaps most importantly - her voice has never sounded so good

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Ben Byron Braude

Monday, 18 October 2021, 00:00 Updated: 00:13

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"No feeling compares to the moment you listen to a song written by someone you do not know and will probably never meet, and somehow manages to describe exactly how you felt at some point in your life." This is how James Corden introduced Adele at the Brit Awards in 2011, just before she started singing the ballad that has already become timeless - "Someone Like You".

Since this show, which is considered an iconic pop moment in itself, Adele has managed to release only one more studio album, ("25" in 2015), and establish her status as the most successful singer of our generation. Six years - to be exact, five years and eleven months - she later returns with a new song, "Easy on Me" named after her. The first taste of her fourth studio album, "30", which will be released in a little over a month, on November 19 and features twelve new songs (fifteen in the deluxe version).

To say that the world has been waiting for this comeback with bated breath would be an understatement.

Even without the global promotion campaign that began with rumors that were "leaked", continued with huge signs with the number "30" around the world, and ended in a few seconds of the song, its first place was cast of concrete.

So the fact that the song itself is no less wonderful, is just a bonus.

A solo, airy and pathos (relatively) piano ballad, which Adele co-wrote with producer Greg Korstin ("Hello").

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Does not reveal to whom the lyrics are addressed.

Adele on the cover of Vogue (Photo: Stephen Meisel to British Vogue)

Two significant things have happened in Adele's life since we last heard from her (at least the ones we know about): her divorce from Simon Konki (her son's father - Angelo) and significant weight loss. The new song and the clip that came out with it provide the audience with a glimpse of both. The words "Easy on Me" (Hebrew translation will miss the exact meaning) do refer to divorce, but as she said in interviews with cover articles in Vogue magazine (American and British) earlier this month, their subject remains vague.

Adele we see in the clip, directed by Xavier Dolan - an esteemed director ("Mami", "I killed my mother") and who is also responsible for the clip of "Hello" - is more confident than ever, referring to that clip ("Soon I will have no reception" , She says to a conversationalist) and is aware of her status as an icon. Yes, the shyness that was there seems to have been replaced by self-confidence. There may be some who will miss her a bit, but in my eyes Adele has kept her biggest asset (after the vote):Authenticity.

"I was another girl / I did not get the opportunity to feel the world around me / I did not have time to choose what I chose to do" (in free translation, very).

In the blitz interviews she gave over the weekend, Adele said that this song, the first she wrote for the new album, is her attempt to explain to her son Angelo why she chose her happiness and dismantled the shared house with his father.

But "Easy on Me" is not just a letter from a white mother, later she also addresses the ex-partner directly, saying: "It is impossible to change when we are both so deeply stuck in our habits."

Which brings me back to the same Korden show.

Adele has never been the best songwriter in the world (the late Amy Winehouse, to whom she was compared in the beginning, was a much better writer), but no one knows better than her how to talk about herself candidly and still make so many people feel like she's talking about them.

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Sounds better than ever.

Adele (Photo: Simon Emmett)

The text is of course one tier.

Still - for most fans, English is not a native language.

Adele's voice, rough, deep, powerful and soft (and all at the same time), is what intrigued them most of all, especially after that famous weight loss.

If we put aside the silly thought that weight loss changes the voice and address the facts, in "Easy on Me" Adele sounds better than ever.

Just follow her previous songs (yes, even "Hometown Glory") and you will notice that her voice is not only refined, it is also looser than ever, the non-stressful production, unlike that "Hello", only allows us to enjoy it more.

In a post she posted on her Instagram in honor of her thirtieth birthday (remember, her albums are named after the age she started writing them), Adele wrote: "Thirty is going to be a Drum v. Base album." This statement, which even then sounded like a joke, alongside the recent external change, made many hope that it would come back to us with a new sound. There were even some who hoped to see her admiration for Beyoncé (she is probably Kevin Bee's biggest fan in the world) translated into pop songs that include choreography, something we have not seen from her yet. "Easy on Me" is the complete opposite. Is a 'classic' Adele song, one that only she could put out, and sounds just like her.

In interviews she gave to British Radio in honor of the song's release, Adele said she and her team often debated which song to choose as their first single.

The dilemma was between a song that sounded like the electronics duo Goldprop, a 'singer-songwriter' song that reminded me of the Carpenters, but in the end they chose "Easy on Me".

Crying is exactly the sound that fans have missed.

Whoever sees this choice as cowardice, misses out on a huge, Adele's choice to return with 'another' piano ballad while the whole world is just waiting to be refreshed, is a display of self-confidence that is unusual to see in the pop world.

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Breaking records.

Adele (Photo: Simon Emmett)

In the same interview with Vogue, Adele said she was not interested in returning with another "Hello" because she did not want to be "bigger than she is today". Unfortunately, it seems that it is precisely in this forecast that she misses: his first weekend, "Easy on Me" broke even the most optimistic forecasts, became the most played song on Spotify in one day, surpassed the number of views of "Hello" in one day and more and more. Critics around the world fell in love with the song, NME critics, the Telegraph gave the song five stars, while the Times and Variety 'contented themselves' with four stars, all agreeing that it was an irresistible song.

In a press release, Dolan talked about working together with Adele, after a break of years: "It was an opportunity to celebrate the way we both developed but also stayed true to the things that mattered most to us. Everything remains the same, but different." If you look at "Easy on Me" as an indication of the album, for its transition from black and white to color (and songs by those whose souls were not captured at the moment in the clip), the novelty is not going to be in the sound segment - although its work with Inflo, Good news - except for Adele's self-confidence.

For three albums, Adele has written from a needy, sometimes apprehensive place, at "30" (by the way, the first round age starring as her album name) she seems to finally understand her full potential.

This is also the first time she has released the album under her own label, Melted Stone, which shows that on the business side she has also taken matters into her own hands.

Against the backdrop of severe controversy in corona times, Adele's comeback is the unifying gift the world so desperately needed after two difficult years.

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