Being a little over a week since Adele announced her comeback, Adele’s promo train, while minimal at the moment, is picking up steam. Upon the release of her new chart-topping single, ‘Hello,’ and the announcement of her brand new album 25, Adele has been one of the highlights of the music industry these past few days. Now, to give people just a sense of what she’s been up to for the past few years, Adele talks with Rolling Stone magazine as she covers their new issue. In a lengthy discussion, one of the striking points is Adele mentioning just why she’s frightened of fame.
“People think I hate being famous,” Adele says. “And I don’t. I’m really frightened of it. I think it’s really toxic, and I think it’s really easy to be dragged into it.” Early in her career, she faced frequent musical comparisons to Amy Winehouse, whom she met only a few times: “Watching Amy deteriorate is one of the reasons I’m a bit frightened. We were all very entertained by her being a mess. I was fucking sad about it, but if someone showed me a picture of her looking bad, I’d look at it. If we hadn’t looked, then they’d have stopped taking her picture. That level of attention is really frightening, especially if you don’t live around all that showbiz stuff.”
Touching on many other topics such as just how out of touch with the current music scene she is, and feeling that she doesn’t fit in with certain celebrities, the singer makes herself more relatable as the days go on. With her album slated to release in a little over two weeks, being out of touch with certain celebrities can be the least of her worries as the general public will go out by the crowds as show just how much they love her. Peep more of the interview, here.