"To Be Loved" is a song by English singer Adele (pictured) from her
fourth studio album, 30 (2021). Adele wrote the song with Tobias
Jesso Jr., who produced it with Shawn Everett. It was released by
Columbia Records as the album's 11th track on 19 November 2021. A torch
ballad, "To Be Loved" has piano instrumentation and sets Adele's echoey
vocals over minimalistic production. The song is about the sacrifices
one must make upon falling in love and addresses Adele's divorce from
Simon Konecki, attempting to justify to her son why their marriage did
not succeed. It received universal acclaim from music critics, who
compared Adele's vocal performance to those of Whitney Houston and
highlighted it as her all-time best. Several publications included "To
Be Loved" in their lists of the best songs of 2021. The song reached the
top 40 in Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United States and entered
the charts in some other countries. Adele vowed never to perform it live
due to its emotional nature.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_Loved_%28Adele_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1921:
Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward,
Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_riots>
1933:
The Union of the Right, a coalition of right-wing parties, won
the majority of seats in the 1933 Spanish general election, the first
election in the country with suffrage extended to women.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Spanish_general_election>
1985:
The first of five summits between Soviet general secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Summit_%281985%29>
2013:
A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut,
Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Iranian_embassy_bombing_in_Beirut>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
to a man:
Including every person; without exception; unanimously.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_a_man>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nothing is more uncertain than the result of any one throw; few
things more certain than the result of many throws. When applied to
human life, the law of averages exhibits many striking results.
--James A. Garfield
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield>
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