Up until last week, it had been a long time since we'd heard new music from Adele - and even longer since we'd read a new interview with her.
However, the Londoner took part in her first interview in three years with Vice's i-D - which was published yesterday - and revealed some interesting tidbits in the process.
One of them was that she loves Taylor Swift's song 'I Knew You Were Trouble', and that she - amazingly - wasn't aware of the world's biggest pop songwriter, Max Martin.
She also revealed that Labrinth's song 'Jealous' makes her cry, and that if it wasn't for Amy Winehouse's debut album 'Frank', she would never have picked up a guitar. "One hundred per cent I wouldn't have picked up a guitar, I wouldn't have written Daydreamer or Hometown and I wrote Someone Like You on the guitar too," she said. "Contrary to reports, me and Amy didn't really know each other, we weren't friends or anything like that. I went to Brit School and she went for a little while. But a million per cent if I hadn't heard Frank this wouldn't have happened. I adored her."
In the revealing interview, she recalled her famous BRIT Awards performance of 'Someone Like You': "I never thought it would change my life the way it did," she said. "I'd been shitting myself about standing on that fucking B-stage on my fucking own, belting it out. I thought everyone was gonna boo me off."
She also claimed that it was difficult to avoid playing the fame game. "I'm uncomfortable with giving into that kind of thing," she said. "Me being photographed in Waitrose is being famous for no reason and that is something that I am not up for and I will not stand for, for myself."
She added: "It's not me trying to be like fucking anti-famous cunt-y, I just want to have a real life so I can write records. No one wants to listen to a record from someone that's lost touch with reality. So I live a low-key life for my fans."
Read the full interview here.
