"25," Adele's latest album has been released and it is breaking records after records. Beyoncé no longer holds the title for iTunes' artist with the fastest selling album in history and even NSYNC was bumped off as the record holder for single-week album sales.
Rolling Stone listed down the stories behind the record-breaking album.
"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"
Originally titled, "We Ain't Kids Anymore," it's a pop song Max Martin produced about a former flame. "I was too strong you weren't trembling/you couldn't handle the hot heat rising."
"Remedy"
Written and recorded in one day with Ryan Tedder, the ballad was the beginning of 25. She shared with Rolling Stone that she got her confidence back in her writing because she believe in herself.
"Water Under the Bridge"
The song, inspired by her boyfriend Simon Konecki, is "sort of about a relationship suddenly getting really, really serious and then getting a bit frightened by it, realizing it must be right and the same relationship she wants to be in for as long as she can.
"Million Years Ago"
"I miss the air, I miss my friends/I miss my mother, I miss it when/Life was a party to be thrown/But that was a million years ago," written after driving by a park she and her friends hung out in growing up.
"Sweetest Devotion"
This is about her son. With uncondional love, she sings, "There is something about the way you love me/That finally feels like home."
In related news, although the songs from "25" cannot be streamed either from Spotify or iTunes, listeners can catch it on Pandora radio, a sort of streaming in a different form.
Entertainment Weekly reports that a Pandora spokesperson stated to them, "It is clear radio listeners love Adele and are coming to Pandora to enjoy her incredible music. Since "Hello" was added to our platform last month, her total station adds are up 1200 percent. Within that same timeframe, spins for 'Hello' are more than 5x the number for the next most popular song 'Someone Like You."
The same news portal added that Spotify also issued a statement wishing Adele would allow her fans an opportunity to listen to her latest collections via Spotify.
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