--- title: Adele: 'Sweetest Devotion' About Being a Mother description: The singer shares details about the song "Sweetest Devotion" canonical: https://time.com/4117985/adele-25-sweetest-devotion/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-18T14:53:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:43:48.397Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Adele Says One Song on New Album '25' Is About Her Son og:description: The singer shares details about the song "Sweetest Devotion" og:url: https://time.com/4117985/adele-25-sweetest-devotion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adele Says One Song on New Album '25' Is About Her Son twitter:description: The singer shares details about the song "Sweetest Devotion" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Adele Says One Song on New Album _25_ Is About Her Son  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 18, 2015 2:53 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 18, 2015 2:53 PM CUT It’s practically a rite of passage for every major pop star to write a song about being a parent. [Britney did](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v-zZa0P%5F%5FY "undefined"), [Beyoncé did it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSsMhQv6KZ8 "undefined"), and now Adele is joining the club. The “Hello” singer shared details about the song “Sweetest Devotion,” a track off her highly anticipated new album _25_, which comes out Friday. “The song is all about my kid,” Adele [told _USA Today_](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/11/18/motherhood-adele-25/75530710/ "undefined"). “The way I’ve described it is that something much bigger has happened in my life. I love that my life is now about someone else.” The now-27-year-old singer welcomed son Angelo with boyfriend Simon Konecki in 2012 and has been vigilant about keeping him out of the public eye. (Though, like Beyoncé’s “Blue,” he even makes an appearance on the track.) “That’s the main reason I’ve grown up,” she says of her raising him. “My whole life, even this comeback—because that’s what it is—is built around my kid,” Adele says. “One of the scariest things about my new album is that, for the first time in my life, I’m looking into the future, into the next 20 years. Before it was all about what you’d do on Friday, plans for the weekend.” \[[_USA Today_](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/11/18/motherhood-adele-25/75530710/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4117985/adele-25-sweetest-devotion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4117985/adele-25-sweetest-devotion/"},"headline":"Adele Says One Song on New Album 25 Is About Her Son","datePublished":"2015-11-18T14:53:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:43:48.397Z","description":"The singer shares details about the song \"Sweetest Devotion\"","url":"https://time.com/4117985/adele-25-sweetest-devotion/","keywords":["celebrities","Music","Adele"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4117985/adele-25-sweetest-devotion/","name":"Adele Says One Song on New Album 25 Is About Her Son"}}]}] ```