Adele's new album includes voice notes from Tyler, The Creator and Skepta
Adele has revealed that while her album doesn't include any collaborations, it will feature clips of voice notes from Tyler, The Creator and Skepta.
It's been a big week for Adele. After teasing her return with numerous 30 billboards in cities across the world, Adele finally announced her comeback single "Easy On Me", which arrives next week.
Following the announcement of "Easy On Me", not just one, but two new Vogue interviews were published - one for the British version and the other for the US magazine. In both interviews, Adele spoke about her follow-up to 2015's 25, and revealed that no artists will actually feature as collaborators on the record, but it will include voice notes from Tyler, The Creator and Skepta.
Adele told US Vogue, "I thought it might be a nice touch, seeing as everyone’s been at my door for the last 10 years, as a fan, to be like, 'Would you like to come in?'"
The British Vogue interview reveals that Adele worked with Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, Inflo (Little Simz) and Ludwig Göransson on her new album. Speaking about having no featured artists, Adele said, "It’s not that I don’t want to. It’s not calculated. It’s just never been right for some reason."
Elsewhere in the interview, Adele said the majority of the new album was recorded for her son Angelo as a way to explain her divorce from Simon Konecki, "My son has had a lot of questions," Adele said. "Really good questions, really innocent questions, that I just don’t have an answer for. "Why can’t you still live together?" 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."
Adele's "Easy On Me" single will be released next Friday (15 October). Read the full interviews with Adele at vogue.co.uk and vogue.com.
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