Adele Releases Emotional, Piano-Backed Single 'Easy on Me' From Highly Anticipated Album '30'

Ladies and gentlemen,Adele.

The 33-year-old dropped her new single “Easy on Me” on Thursday, and it’s everything fans hoped for. The single is the first release from her upcoming fourth studio album,30.

Adele.Simon Emmett

When asked what the album would be based on during the Live session, the singer revealed, “Divorce, babe, divorce.”

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Adele and Simon Koneckifinalized their divorcein March, nearly two years after they first split. “Writing my music has been really therapeutic, for sure,” the singer added.

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The “Hello” singer announced she would soon be releasing her single earlier this month, after weeks of speculation that she had new music in the works.

She teased the track in a black-and-white clip on social media that featured her inserting a cassette tape into a player as she sat behind the wheel of a car. In the video, she drove down a country road as a gentle piano melody began and sheet music flew out of the car’s back window.

30 Cover Art.Simon Emmett

On Wednesday, the British starannounced that her album would be releasedon Nov. 19, almost six years to the day since she released her last record.

In a statement shared on social media, the singer explained that she had started on the album nearly three years ago — and was in a completely different place than she had expected to be.

“I was certainly nowhere near where I’d hoped to be when I first started it nearly 3 years ago,” shewrote. “Quite the opposite actually. I rely on routine and consistency to feel safe, I always have. And yet there I was knowingly – willingly even, throwing myself into a maze of absolute mess and inner turmoil!”

The “Rolling in the Deep” singer wrote that she’d “learned a lot of blistering truths” about herself along the way, but is finally in a place where she feels comfortable releasing her music to the world.

source: people.com