- Adele's eagerly awaited album "30" dropped today.
- "30" is Adele's fourth studio album and the first one to be released since 2015.
- Her debut single from the new collection, "Easy on Me," blew up on the charts and streaming services.
Oprah is just like us: She, too, can't get Adele's new songs out of her head.
Oprah Winfrey reacted to Adele's new album by sharing an exuberant selfie of the two of them together.
"I've been signing the songs for a month now," Winfrey tweeted Friday. She added that "Hold On" will "become an anthem around the world for anybody going through a struggle" — and "I Drink Wine" is a song for anyone who, well, drinks wine.
In an interview with Winfrey that aired on Sunday, Adele opened up about her weight loss, coming to terms with the collapse of her marriage and juggling motherhood and her musical career.
English football team Tottenham Hotspur sent their support to fellow Tottenham native Adele on her new album.
Last month, ahead of the release of "30," Adele opened up about the upcoming album.
She said that while her sophomore album, "21" — which contains hits "Rumor Has It" and "Rolling in the Deep" — belongs to everyone who took it to heart, "30" will always belong to her.
"It's sensitive for me, this record, just in how much I love it," Adele said. "I always say that 21 doesn't belong to me anymore. Everyone else took it into their hearts so much. I'm not letting go of this one. This is my album. I want to share myself with everyone, but I don't think I'll ever let this one go."
She talked about going through a divorce, saying self-care and the work she put into making her new music have helped her deal with anxiety in recent years.
"It was a lot of sound baths. It was a lot of meditation. It was a lot of therapy. And a lot of time spent on my own," Adele said of her efforts, adding time at the gym was also key. "It became my time. I realized that when I was working out, I didn't have any anxiety. It was never about losing weight. I thought, If I can make my body physically strong, and I can feel that and see that, then maybe one day I can make my emotions and my mind physically strong."
The artist linked to her album's page, and she described the journey to get to this point "as a ride" alongside a photo of her raising her hands.
The same post was also shared on her Instagram account.
Filmmaker and producer Tyler Perry thanked Adele for her new song "Hold On," urging anyone going "through anything" to listen to every word.
Adele's full album "30" has finally arrived — but some of the tracks you may already know.
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"I swear to God I'm such a mess, the harder I try I regret / Every day feels like the road I'm on, might just open up and swallow me whole. Let time be patient / Let pain be gracious / Just hold on, just hold on / I will survive," Adele sings.
While we're all having some feelings over Adele's new album, it's worth remembering how Adele Laurie Blue Adkins became the first-name-only icon we know today.
“Chart music was all I ever knew,” she told The Telegraph in 2008. “So when I listened to the Ettas and the Ellas, it sounds so cheesy, but it was like an awakening. I was like, oh, right, some people have proper longevity and are legends. I was so inspired that as a 15-year-old I was listening to music that had been made in the Forties. The idea that people might look back to my music in 50 years’ time was a real spur to doing this.”
She left school at 14 but continued making music and in 2006 landed a record deal after executives found her music on MySpace. The rest is, as they say, history.
“It’s a great way of getting stuff out there,” she said of the social media site at the time. “I’d much rather 5 million people heard my music than I earned £5 million. I write bulletins and blogs, and I listen to what people say, maybe too much sometimes.”
Her debut album, “19,” was a hit in the UK, and in 2008, she won the prestigious Critics’ Choice at the Brit Awards.
But it was her luck to land on “SNL” the night 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin made an appearance. Her performance sent her single “Chasing Pavements” racing up the charts, and US fans were smitten.
Ritz Crackers — yes, that Ritz Crackers — has been tweeting up a storm over Adele and her new album "30."
And it seems like the cracker giant is just as excited as we are about Adele's album.