Adele has given fans a sneak peek of her emotional new single ‘Easy On Me’.
The singer announced her highly anticipated return to music earlier this week, with her upcoming single set for release on October 15.
The 33-year-old took part in her very first Instagram Live on Saturday, where she played a snippet of the comeback track.
Adele has played a little bit of her new single #EasyOnMe on Live. pic.twitter.com/yDWUIYKoFv
— Adele Daily ³⁰ (@adeledailynet) October 9, 2021
The track begins with a brief piano solo, and then Adele sings: “There ain’t no gold in this river that I’ve been washing my hands in forever. I know there is hope in these waters but I can’t bring myself to swim when I am drowning in this silence. Baby, let me in.”
The songstress then stopped the song and said: “Oh my phone is already buzzing, I’m gonna get in trouble!”
When asked what her fourth studio album would be based on during Saturday’s Instagram Live, Adele replied: “Divorce, babe, divorce.”
“Oop me phones already buzzing, I’m gonna get in trouble”. – Adele after she played a snippet of “Easy On Me” on her Instagram Live. pic.twitter.com/AiS0MP3dUR
— Adele Daily ³⁰ (@adeledailynet) October 9, 2021
Adele announced her split from Simon Konecki, who she shares a 9-year-old son named Angelo with, in 2019.
In a new interview with Vogue magazine, the London native opened up about their divorce for the first time, saying: “It just wasn’t right for me anymore. I didn’t want to end up like a lot of other people I knew.”
“I wasn’t miserable miserable, but I would have been miserable had I not put myself first. But, yeah, nothing bad happened or anything like that. I was just going through the motions and I wasn’t happy.”
“Neither of us did anything wrong. Neither of us hurt each other or anything like that. It was just: I want my son to see me really love, and be loved. It’s really important to me. I’ve been on my journey to find my true happiness ever since.”
Adele said she hopes her new album will help her son Angelo understand why she left his dad in the future.
“I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, though this record, when he’s in his 20s or 30s, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness,” she explained.
“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.”
