She recalled when she realized that her marriage was over: while doing a magazine quiz with her friends that posed the question "What's something that no one would ever know about you." "From a very young age, I promised myself that when I had kids that we'd stay together and we would be that united family and I tried for a really, really long time. In the candid tell-all with Winfrey, she shared how she'd been obsessed with being a nuclear family her whole life, simply because she never came from one. Song titles in the 12-song tracklist include "I Drink Wine," "Woman Like Me," "Can I Get It," and of course "Easy on Me" - the single's official video has already been watched more than 160 million times on YouTube. Keeping to her tradition of naming her albums after milestone birthdays - her previous record-breaking albums were titled 19, 21 and 25 - the 33-year-old had told the UK and US editions of Vogue that she had written 30 to explain her divorce from Konecki to her young son, Angelo. There had been much hype in the weeks preceding the release of 30, with the British singer first releasing the song "Easy on Me," then dropping the official tracklist, and finally opening up to US talk show host Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast last Sunday about the life events that inspired her latest album on a CBS two-hour special, "Adele - One Night Only."ĭressed in matching white pantsuits, the two sat down in the now-familiar rose garden - the same venue where Winfrey conducted the infamous interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle earlier this year.Īmongst others, the two discussed Adele's divorce from long-time partner and former husband Simon Konecki, how and why she shed 100 pounds (45 kilos), and her current boyfriend, Rich Paul, founder of Klutch Sports Group that represents several prominent NBA players.Īdele's pre-recorded 'One Night Only' exclusive concert was packed with Hollywood A-listers The 'divorce album' Within hours of its release, it has already topped the US iTunes album sales charts, edging out Taylor Swift's "Red (Taylor's Version)." Meanwhile, Twitter is awash with memes of people crying emotionally after digesting the 12 tracks of her fourth studio album.
It's her toughest, most powerful album yet."Īnd evidently her fans worldwide concur. After weeks of teasing on social media platforms, Adele's fourth studio album finally came out on Friday - six years after her last album, 25. Perhaps the Rolling Stone review sums it up best: "Adele has never sounded more ferocious than she does on 30 - more alive to her own feelings, more virtuosic at shaping them into songs in the key of her own damn life.
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