Adele Opens Up About Parenting In Brutally Honest Interview: 'It's F****ing Hard... But Phenomenal'
Adele On Motherhood: 'It's F****ing Hard'
Amy Packham— The Huffington Post UK
Adele has opened up about how becoming a mum has affected her.
In her first interview in three years, the 27-year-old singer admitted she once thought life as a parent to her now three-year-old son Angelo would be "easy".
"He makes me be a dickhead, and he makes me feel young and there's nothing more grounding than a kid kicking off and refusing to do what you're asking of them.
"It used to be that my own world revolved around me, but now it has to revolve around him."
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The honest interview saw Adele speak about how her perspective has changed as a mother, as well as revealing details for the first time about when she gave birth.
The singer said being a mother has helped her stop worrying about the past as she "doesn't have the capacity" to worry about as many things as she used to.
"Now I'm a mum I only have so much head space," she added.
"I've got to clear a lot of stuff the fuck out, which is really therapeutic, 'cause I can really hold a grudge."
In the least surprising music news of the year, the singer confirmed her third album will be called ‘25’, which follows the tradition of her first two albums being named after the age Adele was when she wrote and recorded them. (credit:XL Recordings)
When is it released?(02 of04)
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Adele’s third album has a release date set for 20 November 2015. Just in time for Christmas. (credit:i-D)
What can we expect?(03 of04)
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If ‘19’ and ‘21’ were break-up records, this is (in her words) Adele’s ‘make-up’ album. She’s in a very different place since she released the 30 million-selling ‘21’ in 2011. Four years on and she’s given birth to her son Angelo and hibernated to spend plenty of QT with him and her partner (and Angelo’s dad), Simon Konecki. So there’s been no heartbreak (as far as we know) but plenty of growing up, as Adele so beautifully put in her open letter to fans, which she shared on social media on 21 October...
Has anyone heard the entire album yet?(04 of04)
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Well Adele most certainly has. And a select few senior record company peeps, but that’s pretty much it. No one wants to risk what is going to be the biggest album of the next few years leaking, so security around this release is tighter than Amanda Holden’s forehead. Even Adele’s famous mates haven’t heard it, although Ed Sheeran recently claimed he knew friends who had and they were ‘really complimentary’. The same can’t be said for Damon Albarn. The Blur frontman worked on five tracks for the album at Adele’s request, none of which have reportedly made the final cut. He later described what he had heard as ‘very middle of the road’. Sour grape anyone? (credit:Drew Gurian/Invision/AP)