She sings about love as she lives it. Adele, whose discography has accompanied the most difficult ruptures, was herself inspired by her own sentimental journey to write the various titles present on her new album, 30, which will appear on November 19, 2021. This is what she explained, in any case, in a long two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey for CBS, in the same setting as that used recently for Meghan Markle and the prince harry – Gayle King’s garden.
The clip of his title Easy on me, directed by Xavier Dolan, has been viewed over 150 million times on Youtube. But it’s another song, titled Hold On – “Hold on” –, which caught the attention of the famous American presenter. And for good reason, the lyrics summarize the state of mind in which she, her author, was at the time of her divorce from Simon Konecki. “My friends always told me to hold on when I felt this way, says the 33-year-old singer. It was just exhausting trying to move forward. Divorce is quite a process. It’s suddenly being a single parent, not seeing your child every day … that wasn’t really what I had planned when I became a mom.“
It was the start of a very lonely time
Adele’s interview will air on CBS on November 14, 2021, five days before the release of her new album. In a relationship with Rich Paul, the British artist will discuss her divorce from her ex-husband, and father of her 9-year-old son, Angelo, Simon Konecki. A few hours later, the world will be able to discover the full lyrics of the song. Hold On. “It was the start of a very lonely time, and I didn’t really know how to get out of it, she recalls. When I wrote this song, it was a little ode to myself, to my old self. It was a way of saying I was still there. “ Impossible, indeed, to miss such a phenomenon …