It’s finally here.
Adele’s has released her highly anticipated new album 30! The 33-year-old singer’s fourth studio album dropped Friday (November 19) and contains music inspired by her divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki and touches on motherhood and emotional struggles as well.
30 features the lead single “Easy On Me” as well as tracks like “To Be Loved,” “I Drink Wine,” and “Hold On.” Several songs from the album were debuted by Adele during her CBS special Adele One Night Only, which aired Sunday (November 14).
There is a Target deluxe edition of the album, which features three additional songs: “Can’t Be Together,” “Wild Wild West,” and a new version of “Easy On Me” feat. Chris Stapleton.
Here is the complete track list for 30:
01 Strangers by Nature
02 Easy on Me
03 My Little Love
04 Cry Your Heart Out
05 Oh My God
06 Can I Get It
07 I Drink Wine
08 All Night Parking (With Erroll Garner) Interlude
09 Woman Like Me
10 Hold On
11 To Be Loved
12 Love Is a Game
13 Wild Wild West (Bonus Track)
14 Can’t Be Together (Bonus Track)
15 Easy on Me (Bonus Track) (with Chris Stapleton)
In a new interview with The Face Magazine, Adele opened up about her career. She talked about her distinct sound and why she has no plans of switching it up:
“Why should I shake up my sound? No one else is doing my sound, so why would I change it up?”
She also spoke about not seeking validation from other people:
“I was told that from a young age. If you want something, you do it yourself. If you wanna end up somewhere, it’s your journey.”
As to what advice she would give to her younger self, it’s this:
“I tell myself — Just keep going. Because when you turn 33, it’ll all start falling into place.”
Adele also spoke to Zane Lowe for Apple Music ahead of 30’s release, and she dished that she had actually wanted to release the album much sooner. She shared:
“I wanted it to come out last year, obviously. And, when I drunkenly announced it at my best friend’s wedding on the stage. Expect my album in September, to a room full of people I don’t f–king know. But, I wouldn’t know I’d be announcing it to everyone that already pretty much knew anyway. Who the f–k did I think I was? It would’ve been done by then. I hadn’t done the orchestras yet. And, I hadn’t finalized all of my BVs and stuff like that. But, it would have, had the world not shut down.
And, it’s such an integral piece to my life story over the last few years, that I wanted it to come out. Because, when it does come out, it’s the final door closing on that chapter of my life. So, it feels like it’s dragged out for me a little bit.”
At the same time, she also revealed that there were times she almost opted not to release the album at all:
“There were moments, when I was writing these songs, and even when I was mixing them and stuff like that, where I was like, “Maybe I don’t need to put this album out.’ Like maybe I should write another. Just because music is my therapy. I’m never going into the studio to be like, ‘Right, I need another hit.’ It’s not like that for me.
When something is more powerful and overwhelming than me, I like to go to a studio because it’s normally a basement and there’s no f–king windows and no reception, so no one can get ahold of me. So I’m basically running away. And no one would’ve known I’d written that record. And it’s like maybe I just had to get it out of my system and stuff.”
