The True Meaning Behind My Little Love By Adele

Adele's highly anticipated album "30" dropped on November 19, serving listeners a raw experience of her life post-marriage. Adele and ex-husband, Simon Konecki, split in April 2019 and filed for divorce shortly after, according to the Daily Mail. The divorce was a major upheaval for Adele and "30" is her cathartic release from the emotions and turmoil that ensued. While Adele made the album for herself, it was also for her son, Angelo, whom she shares with her ex-husband. The album, in many ways, is her medium for explaining to her son what happened between her and his father.

"He has so many simple questions for me that I can't answer, because I don't know the answer," Adele told Vogue in October. "Like, 'Why can't we still live together?' 'That's just not what people do when they get divorced.' 'But why not?' I'm like, 'I don't f***ing know. That's not what society does.' And: 'Why don't you love my dad anymore?' And I'd be like, 'I do love your dad. I'm just not in love.'" Adele added, "I can't make that make sense to a nine-year-old."

Well, her song "My Little Love" does a pretty good job of doing just that.

Adele's "My Little Love" comes third out of the 12 songs on "30" and is dedicated to her son, Angelo. The song has a soft, melancholic tone of a bygone era. In fact, interviewer Abby Aguirre, who listened to the track for her Vogue piece on Adele, said that the song had a "sexy '70s groove" and this is exactly right.

Adele taps into feelings of guilt over the changes in her son's life compounded by her own heartbreak. "I don't recognize myself in the coldness of the daylight / So I ain't surprised you can read through all of my lies," she sings. "I feel so bad to be here when I'm so guilty / I'm so far gone and you're the only one who can save mе," per Genius.

The song is woven through by recorded conversations that Adele has with her son. "Mummy's been having a lot of big feelings recently," she says. "Like how?" Angelo asks her. "Just, like, hang on, my fingers are trapped / Like, um, I feel a bit confused," Adele admits. But Adele also uses the song to speak about her relationship with her ex-husband.

In Adele's "My Little Love," the singer speaks to her son, Angelo, about the end of her marriage to his father, Simon Konecki. What's so unique about the song is that Adele brings Angelo into her personal heartbreak. "Tell me, do you feel the way my past aches? / When you lay on me, can you hear the way my heart breaks? / I wanted you to have everything I never had / I'm so sorry if what I've done makes you feel sad," per Genius. Adele says something very kind about her ex-husband in the song too. "I love your dad 'cause he gave you to me / You're half me and you're half daddy," she tells Angelo.

Adele and Konecki have an amicable co-parenting relationship. According to People, Konecki is Adele's neighbor so that Angelo has easy access to both parents and the three even have movie nights occasionally. Clearly, Adele's doing what she needs to do for herself, but putting her son first too.