Music Video: Adele – “Easy on Me”
Adele just released her highly anticipated new single, and as expected, she stayed firmly in her lane.
“Easy on Me” is a piano-driven ballad that allows Adele sell heartbreak like only she can. Co-written by Adele and frequent collaborator Greg Kurstin, the song is about a breakup — presumably about her divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki.
In her recent interview with Vogue, she said that much of 30 is her trying to explain her divorce from Konecki to their nine-year-old son, Angelo. With that revelation in mind, it is fair to assume that “Easy on Me” is being sung from the perspective of a single mother trying to help her young child understand why his parents no longer live togother.
As mentioned earlier, “Easy on Me” is standard Adele, which means it is solid track but far from spectacular, but as you can imagine, the internet has already began overreacting to the song.
The music video for the track is understated in that I’m-a-very-serious-artist kinda way. It starts of black-and-white before we get a little bit of color. It appears to be set in the past, but this isn’t clear — the cars in the video are old and Adele is seen playing a cassette tape, but she is also seen using a cellphone (an iPhone at that). No chronological consistency, just vibes.
In any case, if you were looking for something semi-depressing to get you right as the daytime gets shorter and shorter, Adele’s got you covered. Click play.
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