(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Adele says writing her new album left her with a broken heart.
The British singer is currently promoting her second album 21 in America, the follow-up to her hit debut 19. The record has received critical acclaim as well as proving to be a chart success in countries across Europe and Australia.
Adele has been overwhelmed by the reaction to her new material, which was inspired by the end of a relationship, and says it has helped her begin to get over the love split.
It broke my heart when I wrote this record, so the fact that people are taking it to their hearts is like the best way to recover. It's going to take me 10 years to recover, I think, from the way I feel about my last relationship," she told MTV News. He was older, he was successful in his own right, whereas my boyfriends before were my age and not really doing much. And he got me interested in film and literature and food and wine and travelling and politics and history, and those were things I was never interested in. I was interested in going clubbing and getting drunk."
The 22-year-old musician experimented with a series of different genres for the new album, including country, R&B and bluegrass. Adele decided to try new sounds after spending time in the US when she was promoting 19. After listening to a host of diverse artists, she felt inspired when it came to writing her latest songs, which include Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You.
"I was a proper sponge when I did my big bulk of American touring. I'd be in Baltimore and hear this amazing, crazy hip-hop, and then be in Atlanta, and then in Texas, Nashville and end up in California," she explained. "And that rubbed off on this record. I don't think I've made an Americana-sounding record, but certainly the delivery of a lot of the blues and country and rockabilly artists, and hip-hop. Like, I'm totally fascinated with the way Kanye and Nas and Mos Def manipulate a word to make it rhyme and to make it really fascinating when it's actually pretty mundane." (C) Cover Media