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Music News: Read Rolling Stone preview of Adele's new songs!
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Read Rolling Stone preview of Adele's new songs!
Read the full long interview here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...eturn-20151103
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Contrary to various contradictory rumors, she notes that she and Konecki have neither married nor split up. "I have said a million times I'm not married and everyone still says we are," she says. "But, yeah, we're still together. We haven't broken up. We've never broken up. We've been together. We just haven't felt the need to get married. We've got a kid together. I feel like that's a big enough commitment."
One new track, "Water Under the Bridge," is about him. It's a notably clear-eyed love song, with a feel vaguely reminiscent of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature": "If I'm not the one for you," she sings, "why have we been through what we have been through?" — and the chorus pleads, "If you're gonna let me down/Let me down gently."
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Adele gazes up at her old apartment, her expression hard to read for once. Her yearning for her old self, her nostalgia, pervades multiple songs on her new album. Her favorite track is the Elton John-ish ballad "When We Were Young," co-written with singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr., which shares a tiny bit of DNA with "The Way We Were," a song that brought her to tears when she saw Barbra Streisand perform it in person at the Oscars. At the last minute, Adele changed the name of another standout track from "We Ain't Kids No More" to "Send My Love (To Your Lover)." "Otherwise, you might as well just call the ****ing album Old," she says.
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On the lovely "Million Years Ago," which sounds like a Nineties Madonna ballad mixed with "The Girl From Ipanema," Adele sings, "Sometimes I just feel it's only me/Who never became who they thought they'd be."
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Earlier this year, she spent two months in Los Angeles, determined to move forward on her album for real. Among other sessions, she ended up working with the ubiquitous pop auteur Max Martin (along with collaborator Shellback) on the slinky "Send My Love (To Your Lover)," which may well be her catchiest, most modern song ever, built around an almost African-sounding guitar lick Adele wrote several years ago.
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A key early song was "Remedy," a big ballad with rolling piano chords written with Ryan Tedder, who also co-wrote "Rumour Has It" and "Turning Tables," from 21. It feels like Adele's own version of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love," which she covered on her first album. "When the pain cuts too deep and the night keeps you from sleep," she sings, with exquisite tenderness, "I will be your remedy." It made her tear up as she wrote it, and it has a similar effect on listeners. "I wrote it about my child," she says. "But I sang it for everyone that I really love. When I wrote it, I got my confidence back in my writing 'cause I believed in myself."
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She and Bruno Mars made an attempt at an uptempo song but instead created the unapologetically dramatic ballad "All I Ask," complete with a climactic key change and Adele engaging in what she calls some of her most "showoff-y" vocals. "I've never sung like that before," she says. "Never sang that high. The funny thing is that Bruno was hitting those notes in the studio too." ("She's a superstar and sassy as ****," says Mars, who recalls a brief disagreement over one lyric. "Once she recorded it, it became one of my favorite parts of the song. She told me she hopes I'm in the audience when she sings that line live so she can flick me off.")
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Adele wanted to modernize her sound, to add some synths and drum pads, to move away from the young-fogey vibe of 21 — on "River Lea," her track with Danger Mouse, she sings over choirlike keyboard chords created from her own sampled voice. "This time, it was about trying to come up with the weirdest sounds that I could get away with," says Epworth, who co-wrote two tracks on 25. "This album feels like it fits in maybe more with the cultural dialogue instead of being anachronistic to it. It's almost like she's trying to beat everyone else at their own game."
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I can't wait to hear these! 
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Im ready for Send My Love (To Your Lover)
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Oh my god.
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On the lovely "Million Years Ago," which sounds like a Nineties Madonna ballad mixed with "The Girl From Ipanema," Adele sings, "Sometimes I just feel it's only me/Who never became who they thought they'd be."
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Send My Love seems the best, can't wait
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I refuse to read previews etc. I want this to be an album I experience fully without prejudice
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"Send My Love (To Your Lover)," which may well be her catchiest, most modern song ever, built around an almost African-sounding guitar lick Adele wrote several years ago.
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YAS 
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Omg, I'm so hyped for all the tracks
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AFRICAN SOUNDING GUITARS
MADONNA INSPIRED
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omg those lyrics
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I'm already slayed
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("She's a superstar and sassy as ****," says Mars, who recalls a brief disagreement over one lyric. "Once she recorded it, it became one of my favorite parts of the song. She told me she hopes I'm in the audience when she sings that line live so she can flick me off.")
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This part killed me. 
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Wtf does African sounding guitars even mean
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I love her
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the album of the decade is upon is for real
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Remedy sounds like the song she connects with the most. Can't wait for it
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Can't wait
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