Highlights from the Adele Vogue story
For the first time ever Vogue and @BritishVogue profile one cover star. @Adele is back-and this reemergence is different. https://t.co/5SvEldGN5U pic.twitter.com/b7GdOcAnqY
- Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) October 7, 2021
I read this entire thing. Some highlights:
- New boyfriend is Rich Paul - confirmed.
- First time speaking with a journalist since 2016 and has been married and divorced in that time.
- Has been quarantining in California with her son Angelo in her home next to Jennifer Lawrence.
- Greg Kurstin, Ludwig Göransson and Max Martin worked on new album.
- Much of the new album is not about the divorce except the lead single: “I feel like this album is self-destruction,” and adds “then self-reflection and then sort of self-redemption. But I feel ready. I really want people to hear my side of the story this time.” And much of the album is for her son. “I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, through this record, when he’s in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness. It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that’s a real wound for me that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to heal.” For this and other reasons, the new album is different from her previous albums. “I realized that I was the problem,” Adele says. “Cause all the other albums are like, You did this! You did that! Fuck you! Why can’t you arrive for me? Then I was like: Oh, shit, I’m the running theme, actually. Maybe it’s me!”
- The new single: The interviewer listened and remarked "A slow, meditative arrangement, then - pow! - that voice. “Go easy on me…” entreats the chorus, which sits between verses that recall her fraught childhood, her lost marriage and the lessons learnt and unlearnt about family, love and abandonment along the way.
- Her weight lost journey: “It was because of my anxiety. Working out, I would just feel better. It was never about losing weight, it was always about becoming strong and giving myself as much time every day without my phone. I got quite addicted to it. I work out two or three times a day.” Three times a day, I marvel? “Yeah,” she replies, matter-of-factly. “So I do my weights in the morning, then I normally hike or I box in the afternoon, and then I go and do my cardio at night. I was basically unemployed when I was doing it. And I do it with trainers.” She very much gets that it’s a rich person’s game. “It’s not doable for a lot of people,” she says, a bit embarrassed.
- Searching for Happiness: “Well, my therapist told me that I had to sit with my little seven-year-old self. Because she was left on her own. And I needed to go sit with her and really address how I felt when I was growing up. And issues with my dad. Which I’d been avoiding.” And what were those issues? “Not being sure if someone who is supposed to love you loves you, and doesn’t prioritize you in any capacity when you’re little. You assume it and get used to it. So my relationship with men in general, my entire life, has always been: You’re going to hurt me, so I’ll hurt you first. It’s just toxic and prevents me from actually finding any happiness.
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