Adele - Hometown Glory

INTERVIEW WITH ADELE

How did you prepare for recording the new album?
To start with I was doing a lot of hopping from one studio to the next and trying to find somewhere that had a good vibe. I also met up with a lot of producers and writers and musicians and hung with them out a little bit. I always like to hang out with people for a while before I work with them because it someone’s got a shitty sense of humour – no matter who they are or how good they are – I can’t sit in a room for seven hours with them if they don’t get my jokes.

Were you surprised at how well your first album, 19, did?
I really was. I thought it was just going to be a London or UK based album, I didn’t expect it to spread to so many places. I thought it would just be my friends and family buying it so I wasn’t expecting it to sell thousands of copies at all. I was hoping for a thousand. I personally didn’t have any expectations as such, but it surpassed anything my record company XL expected it to do.

Adele - Someone like you

The Adele interview that brought us yo tears

With a voice as instantly recognizable as Etta James and a talent for telling stories via song that would make Dolly Parton proud, Adele is a musical talent that is impossible to push aside.

And why would you even want to?

Slapping the music world across the face with her sophomore album "21," out Feb. 22, Adele brings an arsenal of 11 new tracks that tell the tale of simple moments in love. Avoiding layering songs about every guy she's ever simply smooched (see Taylor Swift or Lady GaGa), this UK songstress paints a LP romance from beginning to end about one boy who loved one girl, named Adele.

I sat down with Adele to talk about her new album, the newly-found country artist who inspired each track and the times she "loves for someone else to take over." What came at the end of 

the interview was completely unexpected, and gorgeously perfect.

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Adele - Rolling in the deep

Adele - Biography

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, (born 5 May 1988), is a Grammy Award-Winning English singer-songwriterfrom Enfield, North London. Her debut album, 19, was released in January 2008 and entered the UK album chart at #1. The album has since received four-times Platinum certification for domestic sales exceeding 1,200,000 units. The album included the hugely popular song, Chasing Pavements. 19 earned Adele two Grammy Awards in February 2009 for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Her second album, 21, was released on January 24th 2011 in the UK where it has since been certified ten-times Platinum for shipments in excess of 3,000,000 copies. 21 has also achieved multi-platinum status in the US, with shipments of over 2,000,000 copies. The album was released in the US and Canada on Tuesday February 22nd 2011. The album has spawned two singles thus far including Rolling In The Deep, Adele’s first US number one single, and Someone Like You, her first UK number one single. 21 has sold over 6 million copies worldwide so far.