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Adele reveals song too emotional to perform live amid 30 release
Not even Adele is immune from her own emotional songs (Picture: ITV)
Adele’s songs pull at our heartstrings and remind us we have working tear ducts like no other, but even the singer has tunes that get too much for her to perform live.
Last week the Easy On Me singer didn’t go easy on us at all as she dropped her latest album, 30, with a rollercoaster ride of emotions coursing through listeners as we took a ride through the star’s heartbreak.
Penned amid her divorce to Simon Konecki, Adele didn’t hold back in baring all in the tracks, with one song in particular, To Be Loved, standing out to fans as the ultimate tearjerker.
The song, which is the second last in the tracklist, is being praised as a career highlight for the superstar, as she sings: ‘I built a house for love to grow/ I was so young that it was hard to know/ I’m as lost now as I was back then/ Always make a mess of everything.’
Turns out that while that’s too much for us to bear (or at least listen to without bursting into wailing sobs) it’s also a lot for Adele, who revealed it’s one she won’t be performing live.
Speaking to Tamara Dhia on the Spout podcast, Adele discussed the tune and how emotional it can make her.
She said: ‘I have one called To Be Loved which is the one just before the last one… I’ve only really sung it a few times and definitely can’t even really listen to it without getting emotional.
‘So I will not be performing that one live.’
Asked whether she meant ever, Adele replied: ‘No I don’t think so, no, never.’
When Easy On Me came out, and then 30, the releases shot to the top of the charts, with it now the top-selling album of 2021 in the US, surprising precisely no one.
Adele has broken the record held by Taylor Swift’s evermore – which sold 462,000 copies in the first week – by selling more than 500,000 copies of her new LP in the first few days of release.
According to Billboard, stats from MRC Data revealed the new album takes the title of this year’s biggest individual week of sales, beating the record set by Taylor’s re-released version of Red, Red (Taylor’s Version), which dropped on November 12 and sold 396,000 copies by the week ending November 18.
When taking into account streaming figures, the total volume of Adele’s new album sold has hit more than 575,000 copies, according to the first drop of numbers, and the figure will be confirmed on Thursday.
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It is expected to hit number one on the Billboard chart – when it is announced on December 4 – and would therefore become the hitmaker’s third album to do so Stateside, after 2015’s 25 and 2011’s 21.
So congratulations on Adele for the sales and commiserations to those who want to cry while hearing To Be Loved live.
30 is out now.
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