Adele lifts the lid on her new music
Adele phones Zoe from LA to talk about her new single Easy On Me, the themes on her upcoming album, 30, and her fans becoming detectives!
Adele is back! Six years after 25 we now have the first taste of her brand new album, 30, with a new single, Easy On Me, and she's on the phone to Zoe from LA to tell us all about it.
Adele is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 120 million records. She鈥檚 won nine BRIT awards, an Academy Award for her Bond theme, Skyfall, fifteen Grammys, eighteen Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, and two Ivor Novello Awards for Songwriter of the Year.
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Pause For Thought
I鈥檝e reached that oh-so-regular, first world problem: I鈥檝e finished a boxset I love. How will I cope? Well I鈥檒l watch something else. But what will replace... Ted Lasso. If you鈥檝e not seen it, Ted Lasso is a rather sweary but sweet sitcom about an American football coach, who moves to London to manage a British football team, knowing nothing about football. It鈥檚 American-made, with a British sensibility to it. Pubs, training, shouty football crowds 鈥� I didn鈥檛 think it would be my thing. But at the show鈥檚 pure beating heart, Ted Lasso is an irresistible character 鈥� there to improve us all with his Kansas wisdom: 鈥淭aking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse 鈥� if you鈥檙e comfortable while doing it, you鈥檙e probably doing it wrong.鈥�
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I love a show that feels like it鈥檚 making you a better person. Ted Lasso is a character that doesn鈥檛 change 鈥� he changes those around him. In the show, he鈥檚 also suffering 鈥� a marital breakdown, mockery at every step, daily struggles. Yet he persists in relentless kindness 鈥� an optimist in a sea of pessimists. Some critics have even likened Ted Lasso to Jesus. I can see their point: He鈥檚 got a dozen or so immediate followers (a football team), Lasso speaks of having faith, of miracles on and off the pitch, he encourages forgiveness 鈥� of other people, and forgiving ourselves... There鈥檚 even a sign outside Ted Lasso鈥檚 office saying 鈥楤elieve鈥�. He鈥檚 a revolutionary of sorts too: rebelliously sincere, Ted Lasso boosts his team of snarky, self-obsessed cynics, with folksy encouragement, making time for people: 鈥淚f that鈥檚 a joke, I love it,鈥� he says. 鈥淚f not, I can鈥檛 wait to unpack that with you later.鈥澨�
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Of course there are big differences between Christ and the coach. Jesus asks his followers to believe in something beyond themselves. But the crossovers 鈥� hope, joy, victory, sincerity... there鈥檚 a sense of those in both TV show and Bible. And sometimes in modern culture, I think we need models of how to live better. Selfless not cynical, building up not knocking down, because as they say in the show: 鈥淭eamwork makes the team work.鈥� I wish I had Ted Lasso coaching me in my life. Instead I鈥檒l just do what the sign says outside his door, and 鈥楤ELIEVE鈥�.
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- Fri 15 Oct 2021 08:05麻豆约拍 Radio 2