
A manicured hand is proffered, a firm but fluttery handshake bestowed, followed by the most comforting of salutations: ''Ello, I’m Adele. Will she be happy? Will she be heartbroken? Will she have gone very 'LA'? Will she be thin? The thrum of a thousand tabloid headlines echo in my head and then – boom – she is before me, perched at a table amid the flora and fauna, as nervous, glamorous and rare-seeming as a snow leopard, with a tumble of caramel-coloured blow-dried hair and a burst of Byredo perfume, in Etro double patchwork-denim, Fashion Nova vest and white leather heels. "Well, no one has seen her, have they? Mysteries abound. Take the intro of this recent profile in Vogue U.K., for example: Sure, occasionally there are paparazzi shots or the aforementioned SNL hosting gig, but stepping into the limelight usually comes on Adele's terms alone.Yes, fans know her divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki was finalized in 2021, but we won't hear however much she wants us to know about the split until she puts it into her music.įor as open as she is, much of Adele's life is shrouded in a mystique uncommon to modern celebrities. After all, part of the reason an Adele release is such a major moment is because she tends to lay low between albums, retreating back to a personal life that she keeps rather private. For the rest of us, it’s a tonic.Sometimes, it feels like Adele never actually meant to become famous. If you’ve recently experienced heartbreak, your prescription is thus: take once a week with plenty of water do not exceed the stated dose. There isn’t a single shock over these 12 tracks, all of which sound, essentially, like Adele songs, but the nods to Hollywood scores, 1960s soul and even her own back catalogue inject the melodrama needed to pull off the more languished ballads. Nonetheless, you'd listen to Adele sing the phone book, even at this funereal pace. Karyanya yang satu ini menjadi track ke-11 dari 12 lagu dalam albumnya yang bertajuk ‘30’. The almost seven-minute To Be Loved is as drawn out as a Taylor Swift short film, which will nourish the grief tourists and annoy the daylights out of anyone who wants to get on with it. Sonora.ID - Lagu yang berjudul ‘To Be Loved’ ini adalah lagu yang dinyanyikan oleh Adele yang dirilis pertama kali pada tanggal 19 November 2021 yang lalu. Can I Get It swaps piano balladry for steely acoustic guitars and whistles, but while the background whoops in the verses might be a homage to Serge Gainsbourg, the chorus is more like Ed Sheeran at his most chart-focused. To Be Loved unfolds with the drama of an 11 o’clock number, and Adele’s untouchable delivery places it solidly among a pantheon of heartbreak songs. The thumping bass drum and handclaps of Oh My God hark back to the era of Rolling in the Deep, when she was caught up in the post-Amy Winehouse frenzy of jazz-inspired chart singers. Sonically, at least, it's not all doom and gloom. It’s a welcome injection of Adele the likable celebrity-who’s-just-like-us, before she batters us with woe again. “All right, then, I’m ready,” she says at the close of the song.


Sweeping strings, mournful organ and Adele’s signature vocal range comfortably move through the paces. “I’ll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart,” she begins on Strangers by Nature, played with all the warm timbre of an old gramophone. What is on Adele Adkins’s mind at 33? The same heartbreak that fuelled her breakthrough, with 21, and shot her to global stardom, with 25, persists on 30, a record of melodrama, ballads and a hint of 1960s soul. Critics who’ve heard Adele ’s imminent 30 album have raved about the song To Be. Or you might be waiting for the delivery of some other artist's LP, cursing pop music and everything it stands for because Adele decided to press 500,000 copies of her latest album during a vinyl shortage. Adele Belts Out New Album’s Vocal Standout, ‘To Be Loved,’ From Her Couch in Social Media Post. What is your relationship with Adele? Maybe you're one of the 277-odd million people who have streamed Easy on Me on Spotify, awaiting a return to permissible (even encouraged) long-form heartbreak.
