Adele - 'Easy On Me' Single Review

Adele is an English pop singer and songwriter whose soulful, emotive voice and traditionally crafted songs made her one of the most broadly popular performers of her generation. As a child, she enjoyed singing contemporary pop music and learned to play the guitar and the clarinet. However, it was not until her early teens, when she discovered rhythm-and-blues singer Etta James and other mid-20th-century performers, that she began to consider a musical career. While she honed her talents at a government-funded secondary school for the performing arts, a friend began posting songs Adkins had written and recorded onto the social networking Web site Myspace. Her music eventually caught the attention of record labels, and in 2006, several months after graduating, she signed a contract with XL Recordings.

After building anticipation in Britain with some well-received live performances, Adele (as she now billed herself) released her first album, 19, in 2008. (The title referred to the age at which she penned most of the tracks.) The recording debuted at number one on the British album chart, and critics praised Adele's supple phrasing, her tasteful arrangements, and her ability to channel her intimate emotional experiences (especially with heartbreak) into songs that had wide resonance. She also earned comparisons to Amy Winehouse, another young British singer conspicuously influenced by soul music. (For many fans, however, Adele's zaftig figure and down-to-earth persona made her the more-relatable star.) A performance on the television program Saturday Night Livehelped introduce Adele to American audiences, and in early 2009 she won Grammy Awards for best new artist and best female pop vocal performance (for the lush bluesy song "Chasing Pavements").

It seems that the entire population of the world has been waiting for Adele to release new music following the success of her 2015 album, '25'. On 15th October, Adele dropped her first new music since that album, entitled Easy On Me, which is a letter to her son about her divorce from Simon Konecki. In this song, she once again displays incredible vocal talents and destroys the wrongful stigma surrounding young divorce. She never fails to deliver beautiful, heartfelt lyrics, and Easy On Me is no different with the first listen more likely to bring tears to the listener's eyes than not. Because of the rarity of hearing songs about divorcees, I predict that this song will become an anthem amongst those searching for their own freedom and happiness in a marriage and outside of it. In truth, it is a hauntingly beautiful song and reminds me of the music of a mature Taylor Swift despite the fact that they are almost the same age.