The Real Meaning Behind Adele's Wild Wild West

Adele opened up about her divorce in the lyrics of both "Easy On Me" and "Wild Wild West." She hinted to British Vogue that she'd delve deeply into the topic across the album. Why? The hitmaker said her goal was to explain her feelings so her son Angelo would one day understand why she made the choices she did in life.

"My son has had a lot of questions. Really good questions, really innocent questions, that I just don't have an answer for," she said. For instance, he wondered why their family couldn't still live together after the divorce. "I just felt like I wanted to explain to him, through this record, when he's in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness. It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that's a real wound for me that I don't know if I'll ever be able to heal."

She told Vogue that although it addresses her divorce, the album is not a divorce album. "He's not one of my exes," she said of Simon Konecki. "He's the dad of my child." She added that "30" is "more me divorcing myself," and that it was extremely personal. "This is my album. I want to share myself with everyone, but I don't think I'll ever let this one go."