Adele is Back! (and is as hilarious and legendary as ever)

wonders [Music] I'm a panelist apparently oh oh my God hello what time is it here you poor sold [Music] oh my God Adele you're back hello how are you I'm good how are you I'm so I'm over excited to be honest we haven't done an interview for a long long time more on that in a minute it's so great that you're back it's we're so excited for the new music this it must feel weird for you to I mean first of all to be doing everything on Zoom to launch the new the new songs and

stuff but are you just completely buzzing for this I'm buzzing I mean you know I was hoping to release this album last year but obviously 2020 happened full of us um so I've been living with it for a lot longer than I feel like I would have liked to um so so I'm just like I'm just I'm just so eager like for this for the easy on me to come out and every album to come out and stuff like that and for it just to exist for my truth just to exist in the world so

yeah I'm buzzing but you know I'm obviously not good it's like it's such a like a duck position like you know it's like I'm going about 25 miles an hour during my time off and then suddenly it's like a thousand miles an hour but it feels like good timing I feel like there's a reason it you know that I couldn't put it out last year it won't finish it wasn't I just chose not to um but it just feels like everything slowly falling into place with with you know the release of the record and stuff

like that which was I had to be patient in my life as well for everything's all into place so it feels fitting so yeah I'm I'm I am buzzing yes I'm buzzing good that's I wanted to check that you were in fact sorry no not at all I mean this is the thing is that it's great that you that you release the music when when you want and when it's ready and when you're happy with it but with that as you said it comes on expectation and also a stress because as you say you get

used to sort of you know just having your life and being a human being and then suddenly you've got a million idiots like me to talk to I really enjoyed your Instagram live the other day I think a lot of people did for me everyone but me well we've seen this idea so it's always as we'd all seen the beauty the brilliant Vogue front cover and you just look Sensational on that and we're like oh my God the cold sore I was just wearing a tea [Music] oh yeah it's still Adele and she's on Instagram

live and she's talking about crisps and I wanted to just bring this up quickly my favorite crisp is porn cocktail Walkers or just really salted Walkers with loads of Worcester sauce on it so the Worcester sauce ready so I think that's an actual thing is it tipping Worcester sauce into the bag oh yeah and then you let's talk then you shake it oh it's a dream okay well we've got a question from John in Stockport on that subject hi Adele from Stockport just like you are a massive fan of putting Worcester sauce on my red

salted crisps have to seeing my dad do it years ago I literally have them swimming in it but then to finish it off I like to drink the bag juice and get the last few soggy crisps at the bottom do you do the same yes darling I do the same and I saw my mother do it growing up and that's why I do it so hey we are twinning baby hello yeah that's exactly it and yes those soggy ones at the bottom are the best okay okay I just wanted to clean it up but the

ratio is like normally just meant to sprinkle it on like you know like a nice little like splash of it but by the end it's like just juice with a little bit of crumbs in it and what's the sauce can be spicy right well thank you yeah but yes absolutely absolutely it's my favorite thing my mother my mother loves it so yeah the most important thing right now is that we have this new song and people are desperate to hear it but now we love it we love it it's got the autops it just is

the autumnal chords it gets you right there in the heart it's it's very easy it is beautiful so easy on me is brand new from Adele and Adele's on the breakfast show with me this morning where where did that song come from talk us through that song please um it was the first song that I wrote for the album so you know going back beginning of 2019 really um and I was quite shocked that I got it out straight away like you know I haven't been back in the studio for like four or five years

before that um and it was just you know I was making decisions in my life which have been well documented over the last you know a few years but also obviously I just submit to use that and stuff like that but it was just sort of that thing of like initiating a discussion or you know whatever or even not in the case of you know my son's dad and some of that but or a massive bloody fight which I definitely started some fights post by relationship with myself with other people but um normally I'm very

not you know confrontational and stuff like that but it was just like you can initiate something and be like well hang on a minute no go easy on me it was just like just be like bear with me while I try and find my feet in a situation you know um and there's something like this really like hopeful about it as well as sad um and that I mean obviously bored my eyes out when I was writing it and when I was singing it you know for the recording and stuff like that but there's just

there's an element of Hope in it which in turn gave me hope you know because I was at my wits ends you know in the beginning of 2019. um and yeah just there was a few choices but you know we just I decided obviously in the end but it was a discussion with a few people in my team that it felt like that was what people were missing from me you know the people that like my music so I mean it feels bold to go over piano better because even someone like you like that was

never like that was never meant to be a kind of lead single it was after um the Brits that it just blew up yeah so like you know to come back we've just said I mean I think it's kind of punk you know but like well I think it will it will have affected a lot of people's days and I think it will be the song that you're I think you're absolutely right it will be a song that people are waiting to hear and go oh my god I've not heard that sentiment in the song

you know three and a half four minutes of just like hopefully it will encourage people to acknowledge how they're feeling which I feel like we are all encouraged not to do right exactly and what was the reaction from your nearest and dearest about that song from from the people it concerned well they loved it I was saying the other day um that you know I paid sent a snippet of me singing it as I was writing it to three of my closest friends here and one didn't like it the other one was like well yeah

maybe keep trying though you know is he working so that was the perfect um response for me um but um no it was people like you know my nearest they love my patients in it like you know and like I'm such a ninja person like you know I'll be like I don't like it don't forget it all those things and I'm like that with my music I'm like that with like just things I want to do I'm like that with my feelings and stuff like that and it was I think it was clear to them

you know in the lyrics of easy on me that it was like I abided my time like you know and I wasn't reacting you know to a reaction or anything like that it was just it was just you know a feeling that I'd sort of stirred on for a while but um they loved it and you know I really I don't do any music in my time off like it's not a muscle that I exercise you know writing or singing so most of the time you know even like just for like my best friends and

even my manager their first reaction no matter what a song is is it's just nice to hear you sing it again that do you know what though that's exactly for them but it's to say it's the same for it's the same for all of us I think is that when I first played that song I went oh it's so nice of your voice again it's so it is just so nice to hear your voice again thank you it is why why am I think what you've been doing what is it not like a boring day

for you I've been obviously I'm on the school ground and stuff like that you know I love cooking and stuff like that I love hanging out with my friends and like getting a bit drunk after bedtime and stuff like that and like chatting absolute nonsense um I love films that you know I've always I've always spent most of my time watching films and stuff like that um now I'm just spoiled for Choice it will be streaming services but just just very very mundane like living your life isn't which is important because in my life sometimes

feeling everything sometimes feeling nothing um but you know definitely it creeped over this time because it was the longest I've gone without you know making music releasing music whatever and you know pouring it promoting it whatever and it was like it was a year and a half two years too long for me but you know like I said it would have come out had 2020 not happen but um I got very very bold you know like everyone else did but it was like but you know but yeah it was but yeah my day today is

yeah just what it is that's um it's a it's a dangerous cocktail of being bored but impulsive isn't it so yeah what are we say are we are we definitely saying are we sticking to the album on the 19th of November definitely not gonna change your mind that's definitely happening no that's been in that's been in the pipeline for quite a while like I'd say maybe like where are we now October like that's been in the pipeline for six thumbs up and sit on this date okay um because you know I'm I'm printing CDs and

vinyl like I'm all up for like the way the world's changed it doesn't mean I'm just only going to do it the way that the world has changed like these as well there was like a 25 week lead time whoa like it was it was because of covid and because of like restrictions and stuff like that so many PD factories and vinyl factories they're bloody closed down even before coverage yeah so it's it's the the day is has been set right for a long time by the way I love that you're worrying about how it's

being manufactured and stuff I mean it's important isn't it but I mean it's great that you're sort of that's one of your memories is looking like squid games right now they've got people over them with guns I'm telling you because I'm like if this album leaks but also it didn't leak last time which was a CD and a physical era so I'm feeling all right about it but you know it is what it is it is so long there'll be people listening now that will be working in those factories that will be making those CDs

so they'll be they'll be looking out for it now I reckon yeah better thanks for your hard work though right Adele we gotta talk about the last time I worked out the last time we did an actual interview we've seen each other before since yes but the last time I did interview let's just go down memory lane here we go oh down memory lane I'm nervous do you know what I didn't realize this you were my first ever internet yes I know I was I know I remember that first I remember that 2007. this is

the most 2007 thing you're ever gonna hear here we go oh my God this is Greg James on early breakfast and let's say good morning to Adele hi Adele you're right yeah I'm fine thank you how are you I'm very good thanks oh my God it made me feel really weird listening back to this know I'm my skin is falling my hungover am I still out what's going on hello yeah I'm fine so I guess you were 19 and I was 21 I guess there you go oh my God we were babies so here's here's

my one of my first questions at the beginning the exact sort of month where it all sort of went oh wow people will start and then Zayn started playing um Hometown as the hottest chocolate in the world that was like one day in that week and then um everyone else caught on and not all the Press kind of came on or not so busy I'm not used to being busy it's a bit weird and nothing's changed nothing's changed that's amazing I'm not used to being busy oh and then a big shout out to the social

media at the time yeah exactly so the Myspace has really helped isn't it really I mean yeah you know the phenomenons on it but uh like you know my like Grassroots band you know I've got all of them for it so it is it actually helps edible shout out to Myspace oh no problem we love you where are you babes I mean I used to have a personal Myspace page but you know I wasn't even in charge of my music Myspace until well just before I got signed but you're in charge of the CDs Now

I'm in charge of the CDs I'm single-handed me running the TV well this is uh I think this is quite a bold question from 21 year old me here we go is there anyone in the competition that you don't like not really no one that is a bold question also before like social media like spats when it was just good old MySpace so no one was like people I'm like I mean I know there's a couple of things that have that have been said or I've said or someone else said and I reacted to like

over like the last sort of like 12 13 years um I just I feel like well especially now obviously the artist or where I was as an artist in fact in just completely 360 actually I'm just nowhere near that person there that you're talking to really but I feel like it's my job to only Elevate oh it's like you know I'm not I'm not you know I learned my lesson from a disagreement that I had early on with someone and and I just yeah I just music is it music is universal it's all those things

and I won't be doing this forever like I don't want to do it forever and also people won't want me to do it forever and I just want want to just I don't know I just I love artists I love music so much you know so I wouldn't dare so no no I think I I think people will want you to do it forever that's the problem you're going to have well it's about that remember when I did that interview with Alan it was like whoa I'm 95 who wants to hear me whining like chain

smoking or something like that I'm living like a gray Gardens character like all my cats being eaten alive well it was um it was amazing to listen to that again and Hometown Glory is still one of my favorite songs of all time it's a very special it was a very special moment it was great to talk to you in that moment it was amazing as well like 2006 in London it was like the best year ever yeah it was nostalgic favorite year it felt like something very special was about to happen and oh my God

we couldn't have predicted how special it is oh that's very sweet thank you for saying that Adele it's been a treat to speak to you again um please when you are you coming back to the UK at some point soon can we even come here oh wait I'm coming back in a couple of weeks yeah right okay so album 19th of November we'll see you back in the studio at some point soon would love to hang out a bit more of course you've always had me before anyone cared and you're still here now so yes

I will definitely yeah we we care very very much so I'm gonna I'm gonna play the song one more time and I'd like you to what would you so for people who are listening on a Friday morning feeling maybe a bit lost feeling a little bit all over the place and that they need something just to remind them that everything's gonna be all right we're gonna play this song for them and is there anything you want to say to those people um trust the process um go over God and um it's also Fridays it's the

weekend so cheer up [Laughter] your hair in some rollers go out have a laugh find someone that you may or may not ever love but hey do it drink the bag juice drink the bag juice I don't see you soon nice to see you thank you Greg have a wonderful day thank you everyone cheers bye BBC if you enjoyed this then please like And subscribe it and click the Bell icon to keep up to date you can watch more great radio on videos by following the links on screen now for more great audio and video

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