In a new video for ELLE, Adele is sharing stories behind some of her biggest hits like ‘Rolling in the Deep,’ Someone Like You,’ and ‘Hello.’

 

 

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While playing ‘Life in Lyrics’ with ELLE,  Adele shares, “I think my lyrics have probably changed a bit over time in terms of my vocabulary growing, considering that I started out when I was 19.  Definitely read loads more books and stuff like that since then. So I think my imagination has grown and therefore my lyrics have progressed.  But, you know, they always tell about the same thing: me, and, seemingly, my failed relationships. Which is crazy ’cause I actually don’t feel like that, but yeah.”

After reading a lyric from ‘Easy on Me,’ Adele tells the magazine, “It makes me think about how lost I was when I left my marriage.  A lot of my friends throughout that rainy period of my life kept saying to me that, ‘You have to go easy on yourself, don’t beat yourself up too much about your decisions’ and stuff like that, and, you know, ‘You’ve just got to give it time,’ and it just really, really stuck with me that, like, I have to be kind to myself.”

 

 

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Adele then shared songwriting criticism for her younger self, “I do remember that on 19, I always use the word ’cause.’ It’s so lazy. One time, I was in the studio with Sia, and I kept being, like, ’cause’ or ‘but’ and ‘and,’ and she was like, ‘We don’t do those words. We don’t do those words, we don’t use words like that. It’s just, like, lazy.’ But clearly I’m lazy.”  Adele admitted that ‘All I Ask’ off the album 25 is “absolutely about having sex and then never seeing each other again.”  “I’ve actually never done that.  F*** off! That’s what I say,” she joked.

 

 

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Adele, who is on the September cover of ELLE magazine (both US and UK), opens up about her cancelled Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. “By far. I was so excited about those shows. It was devastating,” she shares.

 

COVID-19 played a massive role in Adele’s decision to cancel ‘Weekends With Adele,’ “The stage setup wasn’t right. It was very disconnected from me and my band, and it lacked intimacy. And maybe I tried too hard to give it those things in such a controlled environment.”  Adele has since rescheduled her Vegas residency, which will begin in November.

 

 

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Ready Adele’s cover story for ELLE magazine here.

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