--- title: Adele's New Album: 'Sorry It Took So Long' description: The singer says the album, expected in November, will be a "make-up record" instead of a break-up record canonical: https://time.com/4081003/adele-new-album-make-up-record/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T12:30:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T00:10:04.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Adele Says Her New Album is a 'Make-Up Record,' Will Probably Make You Cry Anyway og:description: The singer says her new record is a "make-up record" not a break-up record og:url: https://time.com/4081003/adele-new-album-make-up-record/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd1ea6afb51cda2b/69886595ab6d77868d6a660f/adele-bond-theme-song-singers2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: adele-james-bond-theme og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adele Says Her New Album is a 'Make-Up Record,' Will Probably Make You Cry Anyway twitter:description: The singer says her new record is a "make-up record" not a break-up record twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd1ea6afb51cda2b/69886595ab6d77868d6a660f/adele-bond-theme-song-singers2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Adele Says Her New Album is a 'Make-Up Record,' Will Probably Make You Cry Anyway  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Updated: Dec 14, 2023 12:10 AM UTCPublished: Oct 21, 2015 12:30 PM UTC  Adele sang the theme song for Skyfall Adele sang the theme song for SkyfallFred Duval—FilmMagic  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Updated: Dec 14, 2023 12:10 AM UTCPublished: Oct 21, 2015 12:30 PM UTC Adele has written some scorching break-up songs, but you probably won’t find any of those on her long-awaited new album. After teasing new music in a television spot [over the weekend](http://time.com/4077661/adele-new-song-x-factor/), the “Skyfall” singer wrote fans a letter on Twitter that said her new album, titled _25_ in the vein of her last two records, will be not a break-up record but a “make-up record.” “I’m making up with myself,” she wrote. “Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never did. But I haven’t got time to hold on to the crumbs of my past like I used to. What’s done is done. Turning 25 was a turning point for me.” She also apologized to fans for the long wait between albums. “I’m sorry it took so long,” she says of the upcoming LP, [expected in November](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/28/adele-new-album-november), “but you know, life happened.” (She had her first child in 2012.) **Read next:** [_Hear Sia’s New Song ‘Alive,’ Co-Written By Adele_](http://time.com/4048036/sia-alive-adele/) > [](https://twitter.com/Adele/status/656787881349009408) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4081003/adele-new-album-make-up-record/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4081003/adele-new-album-make-up-record/"},"headline":"Adele Says Her New Album is a 'Make-Up Record,' Will Probably Make You Cry Anyway","datePublished":"2015-10-21T12:30:15.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T00:10:04.000Z","description":"\"Sorry it took so long,\" she told fans in a letter","url":"https://time.com/4081003/adele-new-album-make-up-record/","keywords":["Adele","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd1ea6afb51cda2b/69886595ab6d77868d6a660f/adele-bond-theme-song-singers2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdd1ea6afb51cda2b/69886595ab6d77868d6a660f/adele-bond-theme-song-singers2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"adele-james-bond-theme","caption":"adele-james-bond-theme","creditText":"Fred Duval—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"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":"/tag/adele/","name":"Adele"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4081003/adele-new-album-make-up-record/","name":"Adele Says Her New Album is a 'Make-Up Record,' Will Probably Make You Cry Anyway"}}]}] ```