AUDIO: Love Is A Game by Adele

In Adele’s cover story interviews for the November 2021 issues of Vogue UK and the Vogue US, interviewers Giles Hattersley and Abby Aguirre have previewed this final track from Adele’s 30 albums. Hattersley reported:

She wants to play me the last song, the seven-minute opus that concludes the new album. It’s a knockout. A string-swirling, Garland-invoking, jazzy, campy, swooning delight, packed with world-weary end-of-the-show reflection, and featuring a vocal for the ages. She watches happily as I beam my way through listening to it. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was playing on the television in the studio when she recorded it, and she says it’s the end song the movie should have had. But it’s also the coda in her recent chapter.

Aguirre further reported “the arrangement is whimsical and wall-of-sound retro, full of strings and vibrato and midcentury romance, but the lyrics deliver a subversive twist” and quoted Adele as explaining:

As [Breakfast at Tiffany’s] finished, we were trying to work out how to end the song, and I said, ‘We should write it as if we were writing the soundtrack—you know, at the end of the movie, where it pans out.’