↑ Adele talks about coming back to Earth at ‘30’ : NPR.↑ Adele: The '30' Interview | Apple Music - YouTube.↑ Adele's '30' Tracklist Revealed, Featuring the Amazing 'I Drink Wine' - Variety.↑ Adele Daily ³⁰ on Twitter: “THREAD: Credits of writing/production on ‘30.’” / Twitter.Let it be known that I tried, that I tried

Keep my heart safe till the time feels right I’ll stand still and let the storm pass by Yeah, I took some bad turns that I am owning I’ll be the one to catch myself this time Let it be known, let it be known that I tried Let it be known that I will choose to lose Means to lose all the things I can’t live without To be loved and love at the highest count Lyrics įilling rooms with all my hopes and fears The New York Times called it a “musical tour de force,” while Rolling Stone hailed it as a “vocal fireworks display.” Ragan Clark wrote for the Associated Press that “its sparse production serves Adele beautifully.” The Los Angeles Times added that, “It’s almost frightening, this song, in its intensity: A slow, stark, 6 ½-minute voice-and-piano ballad about learning to let go of trauma, ‘To Be Loved’ climaxes with what can only be described as a howl of pain, Adele’s famous God-given instrument so volcanic that it’s hard to believe everybody in Los Angeles didn’t stop on the day she recorded it and wonder what they just heard.” i-D Magazine favorably compared “To Be Loved” to the work of Céline Dion, one of Adele’s biggest musical influences. “To Be Loved” was also highlighted in NPR’s compilation of essential new music releases, #NowPlaying, in which writer Cat Sposato said she felt the song served as a sister track to the album’s lead single, “ Easy On Me,” concurring that it is Adele at her best. Chris Willman of Variety opined that “It’s not just the best singing Adele has ever delivered you might leave it thinking it’s one of the best vocals anyone has ever recorded.” Gio Santiago of Pitchfork named it “Best New Track,” writing, “Even by Adele standards, the degree of vulnerability on ‘To Be Loved,’ the penultimate track of her new album 30, is unmatched.” Billboard’s Jason Lipshutz called “To Be Loved” “the most masterful moment of 30” and listed it at #1 on his ranking of the album’s tracks.

Upon release, critics lauded “To Be Loved” as one of Adele’s best vocal performances, while also commending Jesso Jr. “To Be Loved” was initially considered for release as the lead single and have a Music Video from 30 before Adele ultimately decided “ Easy On Me” would be a better choice. Furthermore, she told Zane Lowe she probably will never perform it live because of how emotional it makes her to listen to or sing. “When I was writing and doing my vocals for it, I imagined my son being like, 30 or something, and being in the crowd and hearing my story in a different way than he does at this age, and it just turns me into a bloody wreck,” she said. You don’t even know us.’ ” Īccording to Adele, “To Be Loved” was the hardest song to write or sing for the album. That is really me being like, ‘They said this is what actually happened, like what everyone else says, you weren’t there.

But it was more of me just being like, ‘Actually, this is my story, and this is how I felt, and this is how extreme it was.’ So that’s what that lyric is. “I rarely respond to tabloid rumors and stuff like that about me. “There were so many stories that were written about why we broke up, our history, a sort of timeline of events that led up to it - I didn’t say anything,” she recounted. In an interview with NPR, Adele explained that “To Be Loved” - particularly the lyric “let it be known that I tried” - was prompted by media speculation that she didn’t care enough to make her marriage work. Lyrically, the song is a pensive reflection on Adele’s decision to divorce Simon Konecki and her hopes to move forward after it. in the same studio where they wrote “ When We Were Young” for her third studio album, 25. Adele co-wrote “To Be Loved” with Tobias Jesso Jr.

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