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Adele Tells Apple Music About Her New Album ’30’, Reconnecting With Her Own Music After Leaving Her Marriage, Parenting Through Divorce, How Creating The Album Helped Her, and More

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Adele joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to unpack her highly anticipated fourth studio album ’30’. The global superstar tells Apple Music about the emotional journey that lead to the album’s release, losing and regaining her connection with her own music, the anger she experienced after leaving her marriage, how making ’30’ helped her and why she thinks it can help others. She also discusses the challenges of being single and dating, not enjoying celebrity, her message for other artists, parenting through divorce, Amy Winehouse, and more.

Video and key quotes below — feel free to use and credit Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. Watch the interview in full anytime on Apple Music at apple.co/Adele-30Interview and dive deeper into the making of ’30’ on the Apple Music channel on Apple News HERE.

VIDEO | Adele Tells Apple Music About Her New Album ’30’, Reconnecting With Her Own Music After Leaving Her Marriage, Parenting Through Divorce, How Creating The Album Helped Her, and More

Adele Tells Apple Music About Initially Wanting To Release ’30’ Earlier…

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I wanted it to come out last year, obviously. And, when I drunkedly announced it at my best friend’s wedding on the stage. Expect my album in September, to a room full of people I don’t f***ing know. But, I wouldn’t know I’d be announcing it to everyone that already pretty much knew anyway. Who the f**k did I think I was? It would’ve been done by then. I hadn’t done the orchestras yet. And, I hadn’t finalized all of my BVs and stuff like that. But, it would have, had the world not shut down. And, it’s such an integral piece to my life story over the last few years, that I wanted it to come out. Because, when it does come out, it’s the final door closing on that chapter of my life. So, it feels like it’s dragged out for me a little bit.

Adele Tells Apple Music About Losing and Regaining Her Connection With Her Own Music…

I don’t think there’s any expectation of sincerity left in music from artists. And, I believe that artists are sincere. And, I think to be an artist, like an actual artist, it comes from deep within us. And, it’s a necessity that we have to put it out. And, I don’t just mean being an artist as a singer or a writer. It could be a painter. It could be a photographer. It could be a chef, an architect. Someone that’s creating something. And, I just feel like it’s just a transaction now. And, that’s not why I got into music. It’s just not my vibe. But, I’m not in it long enough at a time for it to really take me off of music at all. If I was doing this every year, I mean, I’d just be a zombie I think. But, I definitely did lose my connection with my own music and with how it made me feel and stuff like that. But, it came back to me on this album because I needed it so badly.

Adele Tells Apple Music About Her Anger After Leaving Her Marriage…

One thing that did happen, which was sort of going… It’s not really a song about it on this record. I got really angry after I left my marriage. It was really interesting because I never had arguments with any of my boyfriends, let alone… My marriage was very calm, you’ve seen us together. We never got into a screaming match and if we disagreed we’d figure it out, very quickly, there and then.I got this rage, a lot, afterwards. And I think it was frustration of me ignoring myself for such a long time. And me feeling like I was falling back into my old habits and stuff like that, but it was scary to me. That was very… I mean… I can fight. If I need to fight, I’ll fight. But I don’t start arguments. I don’t scream and lose my voice and stuff like that. Once I realized what it was, why that would happen, everything really started changing.

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Adele Tells Apple Music How Making ’30’ Helped Her, Why She Thinks It Could Help Others, and Maybe Even Save a Few Lives…

It was like it really helped me, this album. It really, really did. And I truly do believe, like when we started the interview where I was like, “There’s not an occasion or a scenario or a feeling where there is not the perfect song for it somewhere.” I really do believe, and I’m not being arrogant or anything like that here, it’s just like, it was my hell, but I really went to hell and back. And I realized, I actually didn’t like who I was. And I think I just really got, like most other human beings, especially of my age, really just got into that thing of just going through the motions. Like I’ve got to get over there. And wasn’t opening my eyes, and seeing what was actually happening at the time, and enjoying the world around me and stuff like that. And I really think that some of the songs on this album could really help people, really change people’s lives. And I think a song like Hold On could actually save a few lives. I really, really do

Adele Tells Apple Music About Being Single and Dating…

Adele: I’ve never been this well known and been single. So I was with someone most of 19 and then I was in the studio. It wasn’t with anyone, but I was in the studio writing about who that album is about. And then straight after 21 I got with Simon. So I hadn’t been… so I didn’t… I don’t- I just never experienced, A) dating as a grownup really but also everyone knowing who I am and then…I didn’t want to date anyone.

Zane: Are people giving you advice? Are the like, you go on Tinder or something?

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Adele: No, but I would try and be like, “how did you meet so and so,” and they’d be like, “On an app.” But I’m like, “Oh fu** I can’t do that.” But what it was, I wasn’t interested in men at all. But what it was was that it’d be like… I was at my friend’s birthday party and people that I had just met in LA since I moved there or whatever, I was always married. I was always taken, suddenly were trying to chirps me at the bar. And I’ll be like, “Are you flirting with me? Don’t you…”. I’d be like, “I’m married.” I’d be like, “No, I don’t want to f***ing go out of you, I’m married.” And I wasn’t anymore. It was very, very strange. But “Oh My God” was sort of that and just being, please don’t let me voluntarily put myself in a f***ing situation that I’m going to regret. And also I’m grateful that I didn’t date for most of 25 and 25 because I feel like I’ve really gotten away with it. I’ve not had any horrible people come and tell stories about me or anything like that.

Adele Tells Apple Music About Considering Not Releasing ’30’, Not Enjoying Celebrity, And Her Message To Other Artists…

There were moments, when I was writing these songs, and even when I was mixing them and stuff like that, where I was like, “Maybe I don’t need to put this album out.” Like maybe I should write another. Just because music is my therapy. I’m never going into the studio to be like, “Right, I need another hit.” It’s not like that for me. When something is more powerful and overwhelming than me, I like to go to a studio because it’s normally a basement and there’s no f***ing windows and no reception, so no one can get ahold of me. So I’m basically running away. And no one would’ve known I’d written that record. And it’s like maybe I just had to get it out of my system and stuff.

…I think it’s hilarious, that I’m an artist for my f***ing job. But celebrity comes with it, and I’m not out for that. I don’t like being a celebrity at all… And this is my story, and I feel like it’s me taking back my narrative. I was on my own. I did it all on my own. If I’d like to thank anyone, it would be myself. Because I really, really committed to myself. And yeah, I think it’s an important record also for other artists to hear, those ones that I feel like are being encouraged not to value their own art, and that everything should be massive and everything should be, get it while you can. Because that’s not what artists are. And I know a few of them that feel this pressure. To be like… All the time. And I just wanted to remind them all that you don’t have to be in everyone’s faces all the time. And also, you can really write from your stomach, if you want. So yeah, it definitely, definitely is my album. I don’t think I will ever be like, “Oh, here you go, it’s yours.” Never.

Adele Tells Apple Music About Her Song “My Little Love” About Her Song Angelo and Parenting Through Divorce…

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I was in LA and I went to Greg’s house to write it. And I didn’t know what kind of vibe I wanted to get, but I knew I had to tell his story in a song because it was clear that he was feeling it, even though I thought I was doing a very good job of being like, everything’s fine. But I also knew I wasn’t being as present. I was present in real life, but I just wasn’t really there. I was just so consumed about her… by so many things, to be honest with you, so many different feelings. And he plucked up the courage to very articulately say to me, ” You’re basically a ghost. You might as well not be here.” When he said, “I can’t see you.” And I’m like, what kind of poet is that? For him to be little and say, “I can’t see you,” to my face broke my heart. And I just… that was definitely one of the things I was most scared of when I left our… I didn’t leave our family, but left that structure, was just what if he hates me forever? And it didn’t take him long to ask me why we weren’t together. And I said, “I left, it wasn’t your dad,” and stuff like that. And it’s a lot for him and I just feel like him sticking with me, not asking to not stay at my house, not asking to not spend time with me, still always saying, “Dad, I want to go and see my mom now,” and stuff like that meant that he was being my friend and he had some empathy for me. So I really felt like that side of his story but through myself, I can’t tell his story actually for him. But I can speak about where he was finding himself in it. And it was really, really beautiful. And while I was writing it, I just remember thinking of any child that’s been through divorce or any person that has been through a divorce themselves or anyone that wants to leave a relationship and never will. I thought about all of them, because my divorce really humanized my parents for me. And that song, writing it, made me just be… kind of get over things that my own parents did or didn’t do for me. And we all have our own expectations of our parents. Once we become a parent ourselves, I feel like we tend to be like, oh they did a s**t job.But in reality it’s f***ing hard.And then you’re like Jesus. Yeah of course. I feel like it was important for me to tell Angelo’s story and belike, it was hard and I wasn’t doing a very good job at the most wild moment of his life probably.

Adele Tells Apple Music Music Was The Most Reliable Friend She Had Growing Up…

I was an only child. And, I was lonely a lot of my childhood, whether it be actually, or just felt it. And, I was just always very available to the way that music made me feel, from a very, very young age. I was lucky that my mum was really into music. And, she was so young when she had me that she was still at that point of being somewhat fanatical about music, or an artist. And, that really rubbed off on me. It was the most reliable friend I’ve ever had in my life. There is a song for every emotion. There was a song for every feeling… and that was just that consistency.

Adele Tells Apple Music About Working With a Small Crew and People Who Make Her Feel Safe…

I worked with a lot fewer people than I normally do. And, it was all with people I knew, other than Flo. The first time I met him, I felt like I’d known him my whole life. And, because he was a north Londoner, we’re the same age and stuff like that, it was just very, very natural. And then, I went back to the UK for the summer and I texted Jonathan and I was like, “I want to work with Flo.” Just me and him in a room. But, he’s also an integral part to my survival emotionally over the last few years. He’s been so careful with me. It was really, really amazing. But, other than that, keeping it with people I knew felt safe to me because I knew I could tell them things and it wouldn’t leave the studio. But, also they’d been through it with me. So, as long as I’m doing things that make me feel safe, then I’m up for doing it. I feel like what I’ve done and the record I’m putting out, when I say dangerous, I don’t mean it’s actually dangerous. But, I go places on it.

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Adele Tells Apple Music About The Meaning of Her Song “Can I Get It”…

“Can I Get It”, obviously it’s got this massive pop chorus and stuff-… but the lyrics in the verse that I just love, and that one is about, when I was, oh, okay, I could be open to dating. First of all, LA is not the f***ing place to go dating when you’re Adele, I tell you that. It was like watching my friends, it was all casual sex. And everyone had slept with each other. And I was like, I’m not doing that. I’m not, I’m not, that’s not… I’ve left my marriage to go forward, not to f***ing go backwards. So that’s what that’s about.

Adele Tells Apple Music About Amy Winehouse…

I definitely didn’t take direct influence or inspiration from her, but you know how much Amy means to me. Like ‘Frank’, that record is more important to me than Back To Black is for most other people. It’s the whole reason I picked up a guitar. And it’s one of the most heartbreaking things of being an artist of never, ever being able to hear one of your favorite artist’s voice… at the time again. But I definitely, I can totally see why I remind people of Amy. But that’s nice for me. She’s one of the greatest British artists of all time.

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Rising Ghanaian Afro-Fusion Singer, Mega EJ releases new song, “Taya”

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With current struggles arising in communities and the wave of drug influence hitting the youth, “Taya” is a statement for all who are against vile activities by corrupt leaders which has impacted on their citizens negatively.

Born Johnson Elike Kondobrey, Mega EJ, a Ghanaian Afro-fusion Singer and Songwriter has teamed up with Germany-based Producers, pappuy and Favela to register his discomfort about the wary economic situation in his home region, Ghana on a new song titled, “Taya”, released under Yaadie Supply.
Listen to “Taya” by Mega EJ on Boomplay;

Experimenting with sound and fusing genres curated by Pappuy; a Germany based producer, and mixed and mastered by Favela, and Bass Guitar by Nee Mantse, “Taya” depicts a story of beautiful town which is be stained by the activities of incompetent and corrupt leaders. Also, forecasting the repercussions of their activities, Mega EJ warns of possible instability if the youth are awakened and demand accountability from these corrupt leaders.

Again, Mega EJ invites you to embrace a sound that breaks free from conventions and celebrates the power of musical exploration. This song is not just a track; it’s a testament to Mega EJ’s commitment to pushing the limits and leaving an indelible mark on the ever-evolving music scene.
Listen to “Taya” by Mega EJ here; (https://linktr.ee/MegaEJ)

ABOUT MEGA EJ

In the early days, he recalls skipping classes and driving to Hohoe, a town in the Volta Region of Ghana, for his first recording. From pursuing his dreams to earning over organic 50k plays in the US in the past year over his favorite song Feel Am for Body, Mega EJ clearly has the road ahead of him spotted with stardom and greatness.

He believes his music serves a bigger purpose of impacting lives. Mega EJ is never afraid to delve into his spirituality, and draw inspiration from the world around him, tapping into the sounds of Reggae, Jazz, Rap, and other diverse genres. Out of his loved genres, his musical influences are Chronixx of Jamaica, Worlasi of Ghana, and Burna Boy of Nigeria, hoping to perform with them on world stages someday.
Mega EJ released his first single on all digital distribution platforms in 2018 and since then has released personal EPs, a collab EP, and a charting album in 2021. His most recent EP, Amber, with four songs, exudes a feeling of softness and peace toward the listener to be appreciated.

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The future of Mega EJ is written in the stars. In a couple of years, it will be no surprise to see him headlining arenas worldwide with superstar exposure. As an artist who is constantly on a reflective journey, advice he would give to his younger self is that there is never a reason to panic. Everything passes – advice passed down to him that he holds dearly in his daily walk of life.

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Litovibes unveils highly anticipated music video for hit single ‘Gimme Love’

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Litovibes, the dynamic and emerging force in the music industry, has delighted fans once again with the release of the captivating music video for his single, ‘Gimme Love.’ The video serves as the perfect complement to the soulful mid-tempo love anthem that has already captured hearts nationwide. Stream ‘Gimme Love’ here: https://onerpm.link/GIMME-LOVE

Following the successful audio release of ‘Gimme Love’ in November last year, Litovibes continues to showcase his unique musical prowess with this visually stunning interpretation of the song.

‘Gimme Love’ explores the intricacies of love in its purest form, inviting listeners to embark on a journey of emotions. The music video amplifies this narrative, offering a visual representation of the song’s heartfelt lyrics and enchanting melody.

With the release of the ‘Gimme Love’ music video, Litovibes once again demonstrates his versatility as an artist and his commitment to creating music that resonates with audiences on a profound level. As anticipation builds for his debut EP, Litovibes continues to solidify his reputation as a rising star in the music scene.

ABOUT LITOVIBES:

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Litovibes is an emerging artist known for his distinctive blend of soulful melodies and evocative lyrics. With a growing fan base, Litovibes continues to make waves in the music industry. Keep an eye out for his highly anticipated debut EP, coming soon.


Fans can connect with Litovibes on social media to stay updated on upcoming releases and performances:

Instagram: @litovibes
Twitter: @lito_vibes
Facebook: Litovibes

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Listen Up: Embrace God’s Love with Universal Rap Group’s Message of ‘Grace’

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Universal Rap Group features YungRukki and Sablar on this song to recognize and appreciate the immense love of God shown to us through Grace. (more…)

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Fameye teams up with Nigerian singer Patoranking on ‘Sober (Soo Bad)’

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Ghanaian singer, songwriter and performer Fameye and Nigerian sensation Patoranking have joined forces to deliver an anthem! (more…)

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BAABA J RETURNS WITH A RICHLY SMOOTH SINGLE, “SUNSHINE”, TO REMIND US OF THE BEAUTY OF LIFE GOING ON, AND THE PEACE IT BRINGS

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Following on from her most recent body of work “Okay Baby, Letʼs Do This”, Ghanaian based singer and songwriter Baaba J finally reveals her first single of 2024, “Sunshine”. Aer teasing fans and listeners with news of the upcoming single, Baaba J is now ready to share her music with the world, and it has been worth the wait. Working with Grammy nominated producer, GuiltyBeatz, on the production of the track, the multifaceted emerging star is excited to release her single today – Friday 22nd March – as she eases us into a new year ahead filled with fresh new music.

Drawn in with strong guitar licks, Baaba J laces her distinctly addictive voice over melodic tones and irresistible rhythmic peaks, led by drum patterns; “Sunshine” is a heartwarming track that will truly cement her captivating presence across the Afro inde and alternative scene. Wrapping together a unique blend of Soul sounds, contemporary Pop and Afro indie elements, “Sunshine” is a beautiful example of her Art, effortlessly personifying Baaba Jʼs songwriting skills in just under three minutes.

Speaking on the meaning behind the track, Baaba J says, “Sunshine is a song about acceptance. Accepting that, the only constant in life is change. It is a story about two lovers who have reached a point in their lives where they have to go separate ways. One to sunshine, one to rain. Rain and sunshine are used as metaphors in this song to describe the different phases of life these two lovers have to face on their own. Nobody wants to let go of a good thing, so the reality of letting go of a lover is a difficult experience. But in sunshine , we let go peacefully. We wish our past lovers the best of luck and the warmest of love. We accept that love lost leaves room for new love and sometimes although the sun looks good on the other side, what we may need is rain.

Baaba J started writing her own music in high school under the alias BBJ. She sought out local producers whose sound matched the production style in her head and started recording demo songs. Initially, she made music for herself as a way to escape the monotonous nature of life until she later released music because it became “too good to keep to myself.” She describes her music as “message heavy Indie/Alter-native Afro”, and wants to show people they “can be unconventional and still achieve your goals”.

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Drawing inspiration from the likes of Koffee, Asa and Imagine Dragons to name a few, Baabaʼs unique artistry effortlessly creates room for her to weave together smooth Soul, Afro indie and folk sounds, with an alternative twist. Her take on music allows her to embrace her own unique sonic style, a distinctive sound which sets her apart from her peers.

Not only is Baaba a rising star, but she is a respected voice and artist who has been best described as an “exceptional musical talent who has gradually garnered dedicated listeners for her rich vocals”. Currently honing an impressive 11,000+ monthly listeners on Spotify alone, Baaba J noteably continues to authentically grow her fanbase from strength to strength through her plethora of original music.

Jemima Baaba Haywood-Dadzie (professionally known as Baaba J) is a singer, songwriter, and film maker from Tema, Ghana. Growing up with aspirations to excel in her passions, Baaba floated between dreams of being in the army and playing football until she finally landed on music and filmmaking in her teens. As a child, she split her time between Teshie Rasta, Santa Maria and Tema – three distinct Ghanaian suburbs which gave her a unique perspective on society and helped shape the foundations of her world view.

Honing editorial support from key tastemakers and well respected publications including NATIVE Magazine, iMullar, Pan African Music Magazine and plenty more across Africa, Baaba J is ready to take her music globally as she prepares us for a season of new music to dive into. Aside from the editorial support pouring in, she is catching the attention she deserves with notable co-signs from DSP powerhouse Spotify where she has been championed as Spotify EQUAL Africa artist for April, while also being spotlighted in their New Music Friday and Afro Indie playlist selects. Baaba J continues to keep listeners gripped and excited to hear more with every new release, making her one to watch on her road to stardom. Keep your ears to the ground as weʼre so excited to reveal a lot more to come over the year.

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Zulubwoy Drops A New Song “Oh Yeah”

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With his latest single “Oh Yeah,” young, rapidly-rising, multi-talented trap Dancehall singer and songwriter Daniel Seidu-also known as Zulubwoy in the entertainment industry—is poised to wow
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Growing up in Nima, Zulubwoy is renowned for his passionate performances and hard-core lyrical calm. What sets him apart is his ability to transition between different genres.

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Zulubwoy’s song “Oh Yeah” is a major step forward in his career and demonstrates his versatility and artistic ability.

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