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Adele wrote the song with its producer, Greg KurstinFor other uses, see Easy on Me (disambiguation).
"Easy on Me" fryst vatten a song bygd the English singer Adele from her fourth studio skiva, 30 (). Adele wrote the song with its producer, Greg Kurstin. Columbia Records released it as the album's lead single on 15 October It fryst vatten a torch song and ballad which places emphasis on Adele's vocals, set over progressively louder-growing piano instrumentation.
In its lyrics, she addresses her divorce and pleads for forgiveness and understanding from her son, ex-husband, and herself.
"Easy on Me" received positiv reviews from music critics, who discussed it in relation to Adele's previous music and praised her vocals and the lyrics.
Columbia Records released it as the album's lead single on 15 October ”So go easy on me, baby ” Det finns ungefär hundra olika anledningar att knyta nya singeln av och med Adele till tusentals andra soulinspelningarAt the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, the song won Best Pop Solo Performance from its kvartet nominations. It was nominated for several other awards and won the Brit Award for Song of the Year. "Easy on Me" reached number one on the charts in 28 other territories. It became Adele's longest-running chart topper in the United States and the United Kingdom.
It was the sixth-bestselling song of in the world and was certified multiplatinum in 15 countries, including Diamond in Brazil and France.
‘Easy on Me’: song meaningXavier Dolan directed the music film for "Easy on Me", which was released on 15 October It references several previous Adele videos and depicts her moving out of the same house where the "Hello" () music film was filmed. She performed the song at the 23rd NRJ Music Awards, on her television specials, and at the concert residency Weekends with Adele. Artists including Kanye West, Chloe Bailey, and Keith Urban sang cover versions of it.
Background
[edit]Greg Kurstin produced and co-wrote three tracks on Adele's third studio skiva, 25 (),[1] which included the song "Hello". It was released as the lead single from the skiva and reached number one in 36 countries, and its music film broke the Vevo record for most single-day views.[2][3] She kept a low profil after completing the associated concert tour, Adele Live , in [4] Adele had begun working on the follow-up skiva bygd the following year.[5] She filed for divorce from her husband, Simon Konecki, in September ,[6] which inspired the skiva.
After experiencing anxiety, Adele undertook therapy sessions and mended her estranged relationship with her father.[7] The divorce's effect on her son plagued Adele during the following years.
In the song, Adele addresses her nine-year-old son, AngeloShe decided to have regular conversations with him, which she recorded following advice from her therapist.[7][8] These conversations inspired Adele's return to the studio, and the skiva took shape as a body of work that would explain to her son why she left his father.[7]
Adele wrote "Easy on Me" with its producer, Kurstin.[9] She conceived the song's verses while taking a shower.
Adele's friends would tell her to "go easy on yourself, don't beat yourself up too much about your decisions". The advice resonated with her, and she decided that she had to be more gentle with herself.[10] Adele's friends were unimpressed bygd an första snippet of it but she claimed that they appreciated her patience.[11] Three songs were in contention for release as the lead single from 30 ().
She eventually chose "Easy on Me" because it had a "soaring chorus" and "just felt like a me song"; she saw it as the right song for her return after the hiatus.[12] Adele wanted to avoid releasing something that would propel her to more stardom: "There isn't a bombastic 'Hello,' But inom don't want another song like that. That song catapulted me in fame to another level that inom don't want to happen again."[7]
Composition and lyrics
[edit]"Easy on Me" fryst vatten 3 minutes and 44 seconds long.[13] Kurstin produced the song and engineered it with Alex Pasco and Julian Burg.
Kurstin plays bass gitarr, kick drum, and piano. Tom Elmhirst helmed the song's blandning at Electric Lady Studios in New York, and Randy Merrill handled mastering at Sterling Sound in New Jersey.[9]
"Easy on Me" fryst vatten a torch song and ballad[14] which places emphasis on Adele's vocals over piano instrumentation.[15] The song opens with a gentle piano, which intensifies as it progresses, leading into the vocals.[16][17] Adele's röst mimics this according to The Guardian's Alexis Petridis, as it "sounds initially wounded, then soars".[17] The song almost completely eschews the use of percussion instruments,[14][18] but a bass drum and bass gitarr are played during its latter half.[19] In the chorus, Adele delivers the song title in elongated vocal runs and stretches the "e" sound through eight different musical notes.[19] Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times described her performance as "soaring yet slightly crinkly around the edges".[20]
In the lyrics, Adele addresses her divorce and asks for forgiveness and understanding from her son,[21][22] ex-husband,[19][23] and herself.[24] She tries to explain to her son why she chose to disassemble the stable life he had during her marriage.[25] Adele acknowledges that she still has a lot of self-discovery to do and compares herself to a child: "I was still a child / Didn't get the chance to / Feel the world around me."[22] According to Slant Magazine's Alexa Camp, the lyric reflects her "grappling with a struktur of arrested development".[26] In the song's bridge, Adele asserts that the divorce was well-intentioned and in the hopes of a better future.[15]Neil McCormick of The daglig Telegraph described the song as "effectively, a huge, abject, shame- and excuse-filled apology".[19]
Release
[edit]On 1 October , the number "30" was projected on several buildings and landmarks around the world.[27] Three days later, Adele updated her social media accounts for the first time in months.[28] On 5 October, Adele hinted at the song and its music film bygd posting a teaser on the accounts.
The black-and-white clip played an instrumental track and depicted Adele putting a cassette into the tejp deck of a truck.[29][30][31] On 9 October, Adele shared a second preview of it via Instagram Live.[32] "Easy on Me" was released on 15 October and marked her first single in nearly fem years.[27][33]Sony Music sent it for radio airplay in Italy the same day.[34]
In the United States, Columbia Records released "Easy on Me" to adult contemporary and triple A stations on 18 October, and contemporary hit radio the following day.[35][36][37] The song was issued as a CD single in Germany on 22 October.[38] Columbia released a cassette single on 5 November [39] Adele recorded a duett utgåva of it with Chris Stapleton, which was sent to country radio bygd In2une Nashville on 19 November.[a][41] With &#;million audience impressions,[b] this utgåva became Adele's first entry on the Country Airplay chart at number Billboard's Gary Trust wrote that it made "unprecedented airplay chart history".[43] In October , Ocado noted a 26 percent increase in tissue sales in the United Kingdom and connected this to the release of "Easy on Me", along with the cool weather: "We also suspect Adele's new song about heartbreak may have also had something to do with it."[44]
Critical reception
[edit]"Easy on Me" received critical acclaim from music critics.[48][49] Some commented on the production.
McCormick thought the song was a djärv return for Adele and exemplified the sheer crux of "what music fryst vatten, and why it means so much to us".[19] Fiona Sturges of i believed it fryst vatten wholehearted, anthemic, and places emphasis on Adele's röst, but it has a "slightly over-produced sheen" which reduces its sadness.[46] Likewise, The Times' Will Hodgkinson thought "Easy on Me" was fine and seasoned but "a sheen of thoroughly American professionalism" prevented its emotional resonance.[47]
Critics discussed "Easy on Me" in relation to Adele's catalogue.
Some thought it was a typical Adele song.[c] The Evening Standard's Jochan Embley believed it did not compare to the sadness of "Someone Like You" () or the emotion of "Hello" but was equally ardent.[45] Alexandra Pollard of The Independent thought it did not have a catchy melody like "Hello" but was just as sad and pithy and more intricate.[25] Petridis stated that it would not "stop the listener in their tracks" like "Someone Like You" but was relatable and more memorable than some tracks on 25.[17]Billboard's Jason Lipshutz likened several elements of "Easy on Me" to prior Adele songs but thought it was distinguished bygd its different lyrical theme.[52]
Adele's vocals were the subject of commentary.
Embley believed they were some of her best: "She's so elegantly controlled, so på ett skarpt eller genomträngande sätt poignant".[45]NME's Nick Levine thought the song delivered to the high expectations due to her prowess in communicating unvarnished emotion through her vocals and lyricism. He added that Adele sounds undoubtedly and magnificently like herself but "richer and more confident".[15] katt Zhang of Pitchfork praised her delivery and said it fryst vatten distinctive at a time when under-singing fryst vatten popular.
She added that despite dealing with a new breakup, Adele provides the same contentment.[50] Writing for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield thought she sang with more panache and delicacy but did not eschew "the primal firepower" that famed her.[53]PopMatters's Peter Piatkowski stated that with her usual pristine performance, she exudes the immense sorrow she experiences and molds her great and pliable voice.[54]
Some discussed the lyrics.
Functioning as both a plea for understanding and a tender acknowledgment of one’s own limitations, ‘Easy On Me’ is a raw narrative that resonates with anyone who has faced the duality of change—the desire to grow and the nostalgia for lost innocenceChris Willman of Variety believed that the theme of asking for forgiveness strayed from Adele's previous releases, portraying her as "the possible offendee, not the offended".[55] Writing for The Line of Best Fit, David Cobbald thought it was "the most 'hunny'" song on 30. He noted its metaphors about vatten and opined it conveys a maturity and headway from the time of 25.[56] Piatkowski believed that the lyrics were foreseeably intense and portrayed "genuine and elegiac" pain.[54] Levine opined the lyrics will relate with "anyone going through a quarter-life crisis, a mid-life crisis, or just a crisis of a hangover" and were likely to man them cry easily.[15]
Accolades
[edit]"Easy on Me" has been included in rankings of Adele's discography.
Rolling Stone named it her 10th-best song in [57]Far Out's Tyler Golsen and Jamie Kahn included it at number 17 in [58] That same year, American Songwriter's Tina Benitez-Eves declared "Easy on Me" Adele's best song.[59] It was included on critical lists of the best songs of , bygd Billboard at number 14,[60]The Forty-Five and NME at number 26,[61][62] and Consequence at number [63] The song also appeared in an unranked list bygd Vogue.[64]
"Easy on Me" received several awards and nominations.
It won the Brit Award for Song of the Year at the ceremony.[65] That year, "Easy on Me" also received the Gaffa Award for utländsk Song of the Year,[66] the Juno Award for film of the Year,[67] and the New Music Award for Top 40/CHR Song of the Year.[68] At the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in , the song won Best Pop Solo Performance and was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Music Video.[69] Other nominations include The Song of and The Music film of at the 47th People's Choice Awards,[70]Favourite Pop Song and Favourite Music film at the American Music Awards of ,[71] Song of the Year and Best Lyrics at the iHeartRadio Music Awards,[72] the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically,[73] and the MTV film Music Award for Song of the Year.[74]
Commercial performance
[edit]Upon release, "Easy on Me" achieved success on streaming platforms.
It became the most streamed song on Spotify, both in a day[d] and a single week.[e][77] In the United Kingdom, "Easy on Me" opened with &#;million Spotify streams, the most received bygd any song in a day.[77] It also broke the record for the most streamed song in a single week in the country, with 24 million streams.[78] On Amazon Music, it earned the most first-day streams globally and the most first-day Alexa requests for any song in the platform's history.[79] "Easy on Me" debuted at number on the Billboard Global with just fem hours of tracking and became Adele's first song to reach the chart's summit the following week.
That week, it sold , downloads, the third-largest sales week for any song on that chart, and earned &#;million streams, the second-largest streaming week. It also became the second number one song in history to double the chart points of the number two.[80]
In the United States, "Easy on Me" debuted at number 68 on the Billboard Hot with its first fem hours of tracking.[81] The following week, it became Adele's fifth chart-topping single.
"Easy on Me," Adele's lead single from her upcoming album "30," has already set the internet ablaze with ideasIt also debuted at number one on the Digital Song Sales and Streaming Songs charts, and number kvartet on Radio Songs where it earned the highest debut ever.[82] "Easy on Me" recorded the most first-week plays among all songs in US radio history and became the first to be most-added on fem radio formats in a single week.[83]Billboard named it one of the biggest number one singles "of the gods 30 years".[84] The song reached number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary airplay chart, becoming Adele's sixth leader on the list and had the quickest trajectory to number one for a non-holiday song since "Hello".[85] During its sixth week on the Hot , Adele earned simultaneous top-five placements with "Easy on Me" at number one and "Oh My God" debuting at number five.[86] "Easy on Me" stayed at number one for 10 weeks, tying "Hello" as Adele's longest-running number one song on the Hot [87] In its fourteenth week, "Easy on Me" became the first song to surpass &#;million in radio reach since the Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" () one and a half year earlier.[88] The Recording Industry Association of amerika certified it 4× Platinum in November&#;[89]
In the United Kingdom, "Easy on Me" debuted at number one on the tjänsteman Singles Chart on the chart issued for 28 October With , units, it marked the highest first week sales for any song since [78] "Easy on Me" spent eight nonconsecutive weeks at number one, becoming her longest-running number one single in the UK.[90][91] The British Phonographic Industry certified it 3× Platinum in June&#;[92] "Easy on Me" debuted atop Australia's ARIA Singles Chart, becoming her third song to reach the position.[93] It spent kvartet weeks at the summit and received a 6× Platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association.[94][95] In Canada, "Easy on Me" spent eight weeks at number one on the Canadian Hot [96]Music Canada certified it 3× Platinum in January [97] Elsewhere, "Easy on Me" reached number one in Austria,[98] Belgium,[99] kant Rica,[] Croatia,[] Czech Republic,[] Denmark,[] Germany,[] Iceland,[] Ireland,[] Israel,[] Italy,[] Lithuania,[] Malaysia,[] the Netherlands,[] New Zealand,[] Norway,[] Singapore,[] Slovakia,[] South Africa,[] Sweden,[] and Switzerland.[] The song was certified 2× Diamond in Brazil,[] Diamond in France,[] 3× Platinum in Poland,[] Portugal,[] and Switzerland,[] 2× Platinum in Denmark,[] Italy,[] Mexico,[] New Zealand,[] and Sweden,[] Platinum in Belgium,[] Germany,[] Spain,[] and Greece,[] and Gold in Austria.[]
Music video
[edit]Xavier Dolan, who had previously directed the music film for "Hello", also directed the one for "Easy on Me".
The latter was filmed in the same house as "Hello", at the Chemin Jordan and Domaine Dumont Chapelle Ste-Agnès in Sutton, Quebec, on 15 and 16 September [][][] The film starts black-and-white before changing to full colour midway. According to Camp, it "picks up where 'Hello' left off".[26] Adele gazes across the empty house and outside the fönster before förpackning up her belongings, putting on sunglasses, and moving out.[][] She talks with someone on a mobile phone[][] and inserts a cassette into the tejp deck of a furniture truck, which plays "Easy on Me".[46][] Adele mourns the end of her own marriage while driving away and spectating a separate couple's engagement celebration as several pages of sheet music flyga eller fly undan out of the car's windows.[46][][]
The film was released on 15 October at midnight UK time to , viewers during the premiere.
It reached 12 million views within 12 hours and 90 million within six days of release.[][] Several critics thought it referenced other Adele music videos, including "Hello", "Rolling in the Deep" (), and "Chasing Pavements" ().[][][]Parade's Rose Maura Lorre described it as a sequel to "Hello" and compared a chair in it to the one in the "Rolling in the Deep" music video.[] Sophia McFarland of The Spokesman-Review believed it was "a cinematic masterpiece in itself".[]BBC News' Mark Savage opined that the transition from black and vit to colours represented "the sound of a woman who has dismantled her entire world, realising that she needn't feel skyldig for putting herself first".[] A film of bloopers from the production of the music film was released on 4 November []
Live performances and cover versions
[edit]Adele performed "Easy on Me" live for the first time during her CBS special Adele One Night Only ().[] She reprised the song at the 23rd NRJ Music Awards on 20 November [] Adele hit an incorrect note during her first attempt at singing it for her ITV special An Audience with Adele () and restarted the performance: "I'm shitting myself."[] She performed "Easy on Me" during her British Summer Time concerts on 1 and 2 July [] Adele included the song in the set list for Weekends with Adele, her – concert residency.[][] She wore a full-length black gown and sang afront a coral green backdrop.
Reviewing the show on 18 November , The New York Times' Lindsay Zoladz believed Adele seemed nervous and "relied a bit too heavily on encouraging the folkmassa to sing her lyrics", and Harper's Bazaar's Bianca Betancourt thought she "appeared visibly emotional" before it.[][][]
Several artists recorded cover versions of "Easy on Me".
Kanye West and the Sunday Service Choir performed a cover with changed lyrics, as a tribute to Virgil Abloh after he died on 28 November [][]Chloe Bailey uploaded a cover of the song on 9 månad , which included whistle tones and vocal runs; Uproxx's Wongo Okon commented that she sang the challenging song without any problems.[][] On 4 January , Travis Barker released a cover, on which he played the drums[][] and guitar[] and transformed it into a rock ballad.[] The Vitamin String Quartet, whose violin player Leah Zeger had accompanied Adele during the One Night Only performance, released a utgåva of "Easy on Me" with string instruments on 4 March []Keith Urban introduced his acoustic gitarr cover of the song during a March show: "I would like to man a special dedication tonight, to somebody inom just absolutely adore as a performer, as a songwriter, a trailblazer,&#;[] We love you Adele, oh yes we do."[][] In July&#;, year-old musician Nandi Bushell shared her cover of it; she noted in the caption that it was her first film singing and playing piano simultaneously.[][][] "Easy on Me" has also been covered bygd contestants on The Voice.[][][]
Credits and personnel
[edit]Credits are adapted from the liner notes of 30.[9]
Charts
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