Biography adele rolling in the deep download

“Hello, it’s me,” declares Adele Adkins at the start of 25, her third album. It wasn’t just a greeting to the fans who’d been waiting almost five years for a new record. The British singer-songwriter was also, in many ways, addressing her old self, in the hopes of finding a way forward: As she later sings: “I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet.” Adele has always named her albums for the age at which she wrote them, with each release becoming a sonic scrapbook of emotions and experiences she weathered during those times. But when it came to making 25, she was feeling directionless—at least creatively. By the time she was in her mid-twenties, the Tottenham-born singer-songwriter and once-in-a-generation chronicler of heartbreak was in a long-term relationship and had recently given birth to a son. But, she later revealed, she felt writing about becoming a mother wasn’t interesting enough. That conflict led to a bout of writer’s block—not to mention plenty of

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