adeles: “I feel like this album is self-destruction, then self-reflection and then something like se
adeles: “I feel like this album is self-destruction, then self-reflection and then something like self-redemption. But I’m ready, I really want people to hear my side of the story this time.” She recorded it – like a lot of the album – for her son, she says, “My son has had a lot of questions. Really good questions, really innocent questions, that I just don’t have an answer for.” Like? “‘Why can’t you still live together?’” She sighs. “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. It’s not like anyone’s having a go at me but it’s like, I left the marriage. Be kind to me as well. It was the first song I wrote for the album and then I didn’t write anything else for six months after because I was like, ‘OK, well, I’ve said it all.’” ADELE photographed by Steven Meisel for BRITISH VOGUE (November 2021) -- source link