The Mark Simone Show.

Well, hey, I'm a big Erica America fan.

She's on Z100, one of the great radio hosts.

But she can explain things better than a lot of people.

Because in real life, she's also a therapist and she's a great pop culture analyst.

Erica America, how you doing?

Hello, Mark.

How are you?

And she also has the greatest name. I love that name, Erica, America. So,

thank you. How you doing? I'm good, but you, we need you to explain the phenomenon of Adele. Now, she's got an

incredible voice. I could see why she would have all these hit records. But what was every woman in America

doing transfixed by that

special a week ago uh so identifying with her because she ooh she had a divorce she lost weight

that's everybody in america what why is she touch people so much that's a great question mark

and i think it goes it goes deeper than. That's what it seems like on the

surface, which it is all those things. And just a little information. So she has this new album,

30, which dropped a couple of days ago. And it's years in the making covering her experience

thoughtfully of divorce, being a single mom, of course, things that people can relate to.

But what's unique about Adele is many artists, you course, things that people can relate to. But what's unique about

Adele is many artists, you know, they pop out albums, you know, year after year, some of it is

just on kind of generic topics that they might not actually have been through. Adel has this

deep emotional connection with her fans that she takes years and years between albums to really reflect on and then deliver in such a beautiful, exquisite way where the interesting thing about music is that it has the ability to help people get in touch with emotions that they may not be able to express. So that's really what I think beyond what is behind this.

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