Adele hits back on Damon Albarn, regrets working with him
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Adele has admitted regretting working with her one-time hero Damon Albarn after he called her “insecure” and branded her new songs “very middle of the road”.
The British singer-songwriter asked the Blur frontman to collaborate with her on upcoming album 25, but the pair failed to create any material worth putting on it.
Albarn said at the time that he did not believe “any of the stuff” would be used, telling The Sun: “The thing is, she’s very insecure, and she doesn’t need to be, she’s still so young.”
Asked by Rolling Stone about her sessions with Albarn, Adele described the experience as “one of those ‘don’t meet your idol’ moments”.
“The saddest thing was that I was such a big Blur fan growing up,” she said. “But it was sad and I regret hanging out with him. None of it was right. None of it suited my record.”
Adele also wishes she had not shared her fears about returning to the limelight with a child with Albarn. “He said I was insecure, when I’m the least insecure person I know,” she said. “I was asking his opinion about my fears, about coming back with a child involved - because he has a child - and then he calls me insecure?”
The Blur frontman worked with the Rolling in the Deep hitmaker on five tracks for the much-delayed follow-up to her 2011 record 21, but he is certain they will be rejected from the final album listing.
He tells The Sun newspaper: "Adele asked me to work with her and I took the time out for her... And I'm not a producer, so... I don't know what is happening really... Will she use any of the stuff? I don't think so. Let's wait and see.
"The thing is, she's very insecure. And she doesn't need to be, she's still so young."
Albarn also gave feedback on the material he had listened to, adding: "I heard the work she did with my friend Brian, aka Danger Mouse. It's very middle of the road."
Reports suggest Adele's new album could be released by the end of this year.
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