73* Questions With Adele | Vogue

well i reckon that this is a perfect time to do 73 questions with adele to pinch myself that this is actually happening right now how are you i'm doing so much better now that i'm with you me too i'm so excited i know i think we've been trying to do this for a long time six seven years here we go seven years let's get into it okay how is adele doing these days i'm great i'm really

great i'm excited i'm about to put my new album out and i'd assume that that's the number one

thing you're most excited about in life right it is and that's why you're here that is the reason i'm here and it's so good to see you in hot and sunny los angeles it is typical brit wearing a track suit in this like 90 degree weather it's okay you look great thank you and how has los angeles and the states been treating you these days great i've loved being here i'm very calm the past year

has been challenging it has has there been one thing you've learned during this time just how much of a homebody i am and i probably would never leave my house if i didn't need to and i asked this

question on behalf of fans everywhere when are we going to see you next live or in concert

on tour as soon as possible i'm ready to go really it's just up to covid so just keep on wearing your mask and don't be spreading that delta and who knows let me help you with that

oh thank you okay i think we should uh dive into your childhood oh i'd love that let's do it

how did you realize that you had a great voice i guess because i got signed my favorites are like brilliant so i don't really rate myself with a singer is your mom musical she's like yeah she's

a fan of music so yeah and you did a camden crawl and you toured small london pubs i did what was

your favorite venue to play when you first started gigging probably madam jojo's i played there a few times plus all my friends used to play there as well do you think you still remember the hot spurs

chant oh yes glory glory tottenham hotspur glory glory tottenham hotspur glory glory tottenham hotspur god goes wild were you nervous to put your music up on myspace way back then i actually didn't

do that that was my friend linden so no i wasn't oh you weren't yeah and do you remember who any of

your top eight friends were i mean that's like 12 13 years ago um come on definitely jack pinate yeah definitely jamie t kid harpoon let me grab that thank you definitely laura marling definitely lilly allen because she was the queen of myspace at the time probably a bit of scroobius pip um maybe the maccabees that's how many is that like six i'm entirely sure have you ever considered a different stage name all this time no because my surname is so boring it's adkins

okay this is a beautiful beautiful home it's so cozy oh i'm glad you like it yeah i tried to make it for a little english countryside yeah i feel like i'm there and what's been the most surprising

aspect of living as a brit in america that my sarcastic humor doesn't actually travel

what's an unexpected similarity between london and los angeles tea and coffee culture

what do americans do that's different than brits you have your own funky language for things like this is actually coriander not cilantro and your eggplants are actually

your movie theaters we call cinemas your candy we call sweets kind of the list is kind of endless

really there's a lot to keep track of there is so okay so am i looking at a typical grocery run

from adele yes and no this looks super duper healthy because i'm making a vegetable soup tonight but normally there's some cereals some sugar cereal for my son and stringy cheese he loves and milkshakes and things like that but kind of yeah you know i watch i watch what i put into my body

these days what do you miss more tesco or sainsbury's well i say tesco simply because that was the only

supermarket that was in my neighborhood when i was growing up but actually it's marks and spencer's

all right we're gonna go back in time you're making your first album okay 19 what surprised you about professionally recording music back then i think how much i really enjoyed being in the studio environment actually and who in the crowd made you most nervous during your first

tv appearance was it your mom or sir paul mccartney without a doubt it was sir paul mccartney and then at the end of the show that i did my first ever singing performance on he sang hey june

so it was incredible what a moment and then there was snl there was what was the scariest thing about

performing live on snl live tv in america in general but also i knew that a few extra people were tuning in because of sarah palin so i'd definitely shout myself yep that happened and

you became a star and how did you handle being recognized in public um i don't love it but ever

since 21 sort of came out really i just my hair gets bigger my makeup gets thicker and my dresses get bigger so that i practically look a bald eagle or something like that in day-to-day life do you mind if

i take a gander at your book oh my goodness please do there's some good ones up there okay uh what's the best movie that you've watched recently probably minari and uh do you think it's true that you can learn a lot about a person based on the books that they keep well i would say that but i don't know that

many people that have real books in their house anymore they seem to have kindles or they just don't read at all or on their phone or something like that so i'd say back in the day yeah all right well now

we're uh 21 years old you're recording the second album 21 yes what did your diaries throughout the songwriting process look like them drunk chaotic distressed very very sad um yeah along those lines and what

did you do with them after the album was completed they are all hidden in a handbag somewhere in my wardrobe room in london and i actually have no idea which one so they could be missing for all i know

that's good bonus material it is which recording would you say challenged you the most probably don't

you remember it was sort of my attempt at a country song um it starts super duper tender and soft which i'm not brilliant at by the end i'm wailing which is way more my comfort zone but um i'd say don't

you remember yeah and then there's your throat surgery it was i heard uh john mayer offer some guidance after this procedure what did he share with you he just you know he was just sort of very

encouraging to stay silent and be patient and that actually my injury was a very common singer's injury so not to worry too much about it so yeah he was great he's such a sweetheart i like him so much

how would you describe the difference in your voice pre and post procedure it was definitely

heading towards a tom waits sound that i had before my surgery getting very very husky um and afterwards it was a brand new voice it was so clean and pure yeah yeah and would you ever release the alternate

version of 21 no because if i wanted to do that i would have done it already fair point okay so fashion questions okay heels or slides hate slides it's got to be heels barefoot or heels on stage barefoot

so i don't fall over and what's your most iconic style moment well i would say probably my armani moment in 2012 at the grammys and i was pregnant so i just love that dress who's your fashion icon

cate blanchett who always gets it right on the red carpet cate blanchett okay and what do you never leave the house without wearing dear wings who makes your favorite eyeliner pat mcgrath and what

fashion advice can you offer me right now um just keep on doing what you're doing comfort over style

thank you it's what i do too i appreciate that and when you're making your third album 25 you said that making this album was the hardest thing that you've ever done it was but what was the easiest song on the album to write definitely remedy i think it's probably because about my son and what was the most valuable thing that you learned from producer max martin all about the hooks uh for anyone looking to write a killer pop song what's the most important piece of advice to consider it's all about the hooks about the hooks okay and what was the biggest difference between working on 19 21 and 25. well 19 i

had a long been signed so i only had like four songs so i had to actually really write an album it felt like uh 21 i couldn't stop writing it it was just pouring out of me i was such a hot mess and then 25 i just didn't have time to write really so i just had a newborn baby so not much let's go outside

okay let's do it it's lovely out here which venue was most intimidating or terrifying to perform in

um after you i would say the anz stadium in sydney it was something silly like a hundred thousand people oh this is beautiful oh this is very english out here it feels like it yeah it's also very gray

gardens yeah yes what was your favorite city to play in always london yeah have you found any cures for stage fright sadly not no no none whatsoever ah what's the strangest thing you've seen

someone do at one of your shows a middle-aged woman drink too much pass out then piss herself while she got carried out vegas obviously vegas obviously obviously obviously do you cry while singing

any of your songs i do to quite a few of my new ones yeah wow what piece of advice would you give to your 19 year old self that your love life's gonna get a lot worse oh truth truth yeah uh how about

any advice for anyone getting started in music well the best advice i ever got was um to keep your heart safe and your music dangerous and i live by that so that would be my piece of advice too that's good

how has becoming a mom changed your songwriting um i just don't really have much time to do it anymore and what's the best advice your own mom gave you about parenting to chill out and stop being so

regimented with the routine what's your happiest memory with your mom probably when she moved back in with me when i was 21 i was really falling apart and she lovingly put me back together so sweet and i

would assume that she's your roommate on the road when you're on tour no because she's still my mother so

she still thinks that she can tell me what to do so no she just comes to the shows it's always going

to be like that and why was it important for you to support victims of the grenfell tower fire just

felt like i had to it was right around the corner from where my house in london is and it was you know it was overtook the uk we couldn't believe that there was a building like that in the middle of central london that had burnt down um and i just wanted to be a safe and consistent person for them

which i hope i was what word would your friends use to describe you definitely loyal

and i heard you do a killer al pacino impression can you give me some of that yes but it's i think

it's good it's hoo-ha from his role as reason centers or maybe it tanked yeah okay now i thought we

can have some more fun besides al pacino impressions yes always i have a phone here with an app on it where you can sing a little stuff into it and then you can change your voice into whatever you want fun

okay let's give it a go hello from the earth have a look okay there's a lot of options let's start

with helium helium the album the chipmunk try tunnel reverb that sounds like i'm singing in a shower i'm up for that one i'm up for that sounds like a shower yeah that's definitely me on the new album all right now let's hear you drunk just tell me the next album is like that pretty much pretty much

that's what the whole album sounds like thank you okay now would you be able to rank the top three favorite songs that you've ever created what are they i'm going to mix them with what mine are and

what the fans are i reckon so i reckon someone like you would be number one i think there's a new song on um the new album that would be my number second or be my second one and then when we were young i really love that song i love singing it it means a lot to me great selections and can you

do the same for beyonce's top albums you know that could be controversial uh the hive might come and

kill me i'm okay my personal favorites my first one is sasha fierce that sublime double album the second one would be lemonade the third one is a bit of a toss-up between two but i'm gonna go with my gut and my heart and i'm gonna say b-day you're actually gonna watch this was breaking your grammy in half for beyonce easier or harder than you thought it would be it was actually really easy i was just so uncomfortable and nervous up on the stage trying to give that speech right in front of her i just sort of twisted off and fell off in my hand it felt like fate now on the internet there is david

attenborough narrating your hello music video there is with his iconic voice yeah uh was that totally

surreal watching that it was incredible it was live on radio i don't even know if he knew that he was doing it he just sort of had to watch the video and read the lyrics oh you know read his script and stuff like that but he's like everything in the uk like we love him so much um and he's my mom's hero

so it was phenomenal yes do you read what people write about you on the internet very rarely what's the most ridiculous rumor you've ever heard about yourself i think all the crazy rumors about my love

life um you know since i've been single and stuff like that they're just none of it's true so probably

those in your career do you think there was ever a time that you felt like you couldn't be yourself

no i've been very very lucky with that and i know that no never what's the proudest possession that

you own it's actually inside let's go in okay let's see in the meantime uh how about some british this or that questions okay blur or oasis yeah noel or liam definitely liam without a doubt prince william or prince harry prince harry spicy spice goes with the beatles i mean that's a bit unfair but i'm gonna go

spice girls by the way what's the most impressive thing about the spice girls they really don't care they really really really don't care about anything and i can think just their brashness and stuff like that i think okay what do we have here it's pretty amazing all right celine dion's gum that's right what's going on here james corden who's a friend of mine but also does carpool karaoke which i did uh he did it with her and knew how much a fan of her i was and so he made her spit

her gum into a piece of paper he framed it for me and it's my proudest possession three questions

left before i get out of here adele okay well the whole world is waiting i'm gonna attempt to try to get you to spill some tea good luck all right if 25 closed a trilogy what is something new you'll explore for the first time your next album does anything ever really end what one specific thing that's different in this album than every other album it's definitely my most personal one yet i think yeah the last question question number 73 what's the new album's name well let's keep going and maybe you'll find out uh that's unconventional this is a 73 question interview and oh let's do it

it's so much fun sit down okay uh i love the skyfall theme oh good how is recording this bond

theme different than recording your other stuff well i was heavily pregnant actually when i did the vocal for skyfall so and it's the only song that i recorded while i was pregnant with him so my voice was a lot lower and he also hated it when i was singing um the high notes he'd sort of kick around inside of me who would you bet is going to be the next james bond i mean it's a tough one there's been lots of lots of different choices and stuff but i would like jonathan major to be the next one but i know if that's allowed because it's american would you like some milk uh yeah yeah i'd love that um but

i think idris elba and what song not yours have you sung the most in your life my heart will go on

and who would you love to cover one of your songs barbara streisand now i know you love nikki minaj i do uh if you were to collab on a track with nikki minaj what would it be called

mum lee there you go oh thank you and that was um question 78 but now that we're having tea i might as well stick around might as well okay uh question number 79 uh favorite restaurant in london kai's i'll just keep going with the british questions oh please do uh favorite pub of all time

the warmer castle oh the tea is good what's the stereotype about the uk that's totally true

that it always rains what about one that's completely false i feel like everyone thinks that we've all met the queen and we haven't so yeah we'll be there now we're at 82 questions with

adele having fun uh yeah good me too keep going uh favorite curse word what telly have you been

binging these days oh i noticed that i have been binge watching on the telly ted lasso i think it's great it's very british as well what might people not know about wearing your hair in a beehive well if it's your own natural hair as a beehive it gets a bit smelly yeah well best tip for putting on false

eyelashes and asking for a friend get someone else to do it for you what decade of fashion is your favorite probably the 60s what should everyone have in their wardrobe a cozy jumper aka sweater okay we're at question 89 now biggest risk you've ever taken leaving my marriage

what would you be doing if you were not a musical artist i'd like to think i'd still be doing small little gigs in pubs and clubs on my guitar even though i'm sure no one will come and see me um but i really wanted to be an english teacher before all this happened so i'd like to think that i'd be

doing that yeah what are your favorite lyrics you've ever written they're all on a new album oh yes uh who is your favorite lyricist leonard cohen oh love him me too and who is your favorite composer han zimmer who's your dream duet partner chris stapleton wow uh what's your most listened to

album of the 2020. you know i went for comfort i was listening to show some emotion by joan armor trading it reminds me of home reminds me of my mum so i was listening to that a lot that's sweet

how many are we up to now we are at 95 oh yeah great let's call it a day we're we're done 95 questions wow you can take the tv form oh thanks yeah yeah that'll give something for the fans to work out see you in seven years thanks sadell