Adele’s incredible song I Drink Wine from new album 30 was originally 15 minutes long

Adele’s record label insisted on chopping the album’s second album (Pictures: AP/CBS)

Adele’s gorgeous track I Drink Wine from her new album 30, her follow-up to her 2015 record 25, comes in at just over six minutes long.

However, the singer has revealed that it was originally much longer – but her record label insisted on chopping it down. 

The reason? They told the Grammy Award-winner that it wouldn’t get played on the radio. So, the long version got the axe.

‘[The label] was like, ‘Listen, everyone loves you, but no one’s playing a 15-minute song on radio,”’ the musician told Rolling Stone. 

The track, as it happens, is not really about drinking wine. During a recent CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey, Adele discussed how she coped with the breakdown of her relationship with ex-husband Simon Konecki while writing her latest album, revealing that she ‘stopped drinking’.

‘That’s one great way of really sort of getting to know yourself, is just drinking water and being sober as anything,’ she added.

Her fourth 12-track album – already hailed by critics as her best since 25 – is deeply personal to the hitmaker and documents her divorce from Simon – with whom she shares nine-year-old son Angelo – as well as tackling motherhood and fame.

The 12-track collection includes the acclaimed lead single Easy On Me, and sees the star expertly weave between blues, soul, as well as the pop ballads we’ve come to know and love.  

Adele recently opened up about the track, her second single from the album, as well as her divorce in British Vogue.

The 33-year-old singer split from the charity boss in 2019, with their divorce being finalised in March this year.

Adele has been open about her heartache over divorce from Simon (Picture: CBS/Getty)

She said the lyrics are also about shedding one’s ego, saying: ‘I took everything so personally at that period of time in my life.

‘So the lyric “I hope I learn to get over myself” is like [me saying] “once I’ve done that, then maybe I can let you love me”.’

She added that she drifted from Simon, explaining that their relationship ‘just wasn’t right’ for her 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,’ she said.

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The Rolling In The Deep singer confirmed that the track is particularly about ‘stuff that happened’ in terms of her relationship breakdown and she said she wanted to include it for her son.

‘I wanted to put it on the album to show Angelo what I expect him to treat his partner like, whether it be a woman or a man or whatever,’ she explained.

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