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Adele gives noncommittal album update
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 17 August 2020
Where’s this new Adele album then? She promised it would be out in September. And that was at a wedding, no less. And if I remember rightly, breaking a promise you made at a wedding is something you can still be imprisoned for in 47 countries around the world. Although it’s possible I just made that up. I’m not at a wedding though, so what are you gonna do?
Whatever, back in February a video of Adele performing at a friend’s wedding emerged, in which she said that wedding guests (and, therefore, I think it was totally fair for us to assume, everyone else) should “expect my [next] album in September”.
That was all before this bloody pandemic thing took hold, of course. In February, I think everyone thought that COVID-19 was just some quirky thing the Chinese were trying out that would never really catch on. But, hey, look how that turned out.
Soon that virus had everyone hiding out at home, refusing to go to weddings, and even declining to pop down to recording studios to finish off their new albums.
With that in mind, Adele’s manager Jonathan Dickens told Music Week in June that people should definitely not expect a new album in September. “It’ll be ready when it’s ready”, he then added. Unhelpfully.
But when is that? WHEN?! We need answers. Thankfully, Adele has given us another update. This time not via the medium of a wedding but, like everything else these days, through virtual channels. By which I mean she replied to a comment on Instagram.
Under a book review she posted on the social media platform, one fan pleaded, “Adele, where’s the album?” Quickly she wrote back, “I honestly have no idea”.
Note that the fan there didn’t ask “when” but “where”? So, technically that means Adele has no idea WHERE her new album is. Is there any possibility that the delay is not because the pandemic is preventing studio work, but instead she’s just misplaced it?
Maybe she took the master tapes with her to that wedding and dropped them somewhere. And then, because of COVID, she hasn’t been able to go look for them.
I lost a tie at a wedding once. No idea where that went. Never saw it again. I did phone the venue a couple of times. This big event occurring in that long-forgotten era where venues were still open. But no tie was ever found. It was a total mystery. Eventually, I just got another one a bit like it as a replacement.
Adele has previously dropped hints that the new album is a diary of her year spent being 30. But when it eventually emerges, do look out for the tell-tale signs that it’s actually about being 32 and desperately trying to remember where you left something.
