question most of us had was where would she
draw inspiration and would she continue to
share with her audiences the candid glimpses
of her true self ?
“...the Ultimate Truth:
nothing exists in the
universe that is separate
from anything else.
Everything is intrinsically
After an almost four-year absence, these questions were answered in kind. Adele left no
doubt that the inspiration she drew from was
her own life and once again, she willingly laid
herself bare. Not surprisingly, her album, 25
and her come back song ʻHello’, catapulted her
back to the top of the charts. In an interview
with etalk she admits “It was the hardest
record I’ve ever made.” Admitting it was challenging speaks to her honesty about being
a new Mom and the challenges that go along
with it. She adds, “The process was hard and
making it was hard as well. I never had to balance anything before, it was always only me
before that mattered and once I became
a mom, all of my attention is on my kid.”
connected, irrevocably
interdependent, interactive,
interwoven into the fabric
of all of life.”
- NEALE DONALD WALSCH
- ADELE
In speaking with numerous people from all different walks of life, the answer became increasingly clear: Adele has an uncanny ability to emotionally connect with her followers. Her music and her lyrics are not only a
product of who she is, they are a piece of who she is. Her third album –
25 – released in November of 2015, once again left no doubt that Adele
is the much deserving Queen of the modern music landscape.
We’ve watched Adele grow from an emotional 19-year-old into a more
mature, sophisticated 28-year-old Mother and yet, she remains the
refreshingly cheeky, candid and unapologetic singer she began as. Her
willingness to lay her life and soul in her lyrics was and still is remarkable
and refreshing. As her life shifted towards motherhood and stability, the
In spite of the challenges she faced in creating
25, Adele found a way to connect with her
inner feelings and share this connection. Surely
this was a journey of discovery for her as who
she was at 19 had receded further into her past.
That care-free teenager was long gone. It was
the feelings of losing herself that she wrote
from, a place of sadness of leaving people and
her past behind. One of the songs featured in
her album 25 accentuates this point. A Million
Years Ago sounds like a song of regret and
with lyrics such as, “I miss my friends, I miss my
Mother, I miss it when life was a party to be
thrown but that was a million years ago.”
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