No, go easy on me,'" she said during an interview on BBC Radio 1 Breakfast With Greg James.
"You could initiate something and be like, 'Well hang on a minute. This was the first song Adele wrote for the album, which she penned in early 2019. In the chorus, "Go easy on me, baby / I was still a child / Didn't get the chance to feel the world around me / I had no time to choose what I chose to do / So go easy on me," Adele is seemingly talking to her son, her "baby," and asking for understanding while reflecting on the fact that she rose to superstardom and became a mother at a young age. "It reminds me of that."īy ending the song with "Alright then, I'm ready," Adele signals to listeners that she's ready to talk about everything and kicks off the rest of the album. "You know in the old movies when someone's having a flashback or a memory to something else, and it's almost like they'll shoot a river or a pond and the water goes all ripply?" she told Rolling Stone of this song. She also anticipated they would hurt at some point because of her absent father, so she wouldn't make an effort either. As she explained to Oprah, she had zero expectations in her relationships. With the opening lyric "I'll be taking flowers to the cemetery of my heart / For all of my lovers in the present and in the dark / Every anniversary I'll pay respects and say I'm sorry / For they never stood chances if they could," Adele apologizes to and comes to terms with her past romances. As she told Oprah, "I have to dig deep and tell my stories." Consider this your official cheat sheet: From sorrow to self-discovery, there were few emotions that the star didn't cover. E! News unpacked every detail from Adele's "30"-the most heart-wrenching lyrics, the real-life connections and the lessons learned. "I don't know if I'd ever be able to have that conversation with him in real life, so therefore, he can go and listen to it."Īnd now, so can we. "I just wanted him to hear me talking madly, deeply about who I am and how I feel," Adele further explained during her special. The album is also sweetly dedicated to her 9-year-old son, Angelo, but don't be mistaken: "The whole album's not about him," she told Oprah. This is "All Night Parking (With Erroll Garner) Interlude." The song is an island in and of itself.Unique Pop-Up Art Installation Is ‘Reminder' Holiday Season is Here Yet there's one track on the album that just hits differently. Judging from the global reaction to Adele's new album, many fans feel the same. And I think a song like 'Hold On' could actually save a few lives. It really, really did." She later added, "I really think that some of the songs on this album could really help people. She spoke about this with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, saying in the November interview, "It was like it really helped me, this album. But Adele didn't just make the album for herself she made it for all her fans who might be going through some variation of upheaval and rupture. Like any good artist, Adele turned to her art as a form of catharsis from such a challenging time. Adele's album "30" was released on November 19, hot on the heels of her divorce from Simon Konecki, with whom she shares her son, Angelo, per CNN.