Adele has finally broken her silence regarding the long awaited follow-up to the ridiculously successful 21, an album reportedly stacked with collaborations from Pharrell, Max Martin, and Danger Mouse. The elusive megastar teased less than a minute of new music in the middle of a commercial break during a recent episode of The X Factor, immediately prompting Twitter to flex its speculation muscles:
Shortly after shattering the internet, One Republic's Ryan Tedder (a collaborator on the forthcoming album) confirmed that the frustratingly brief clip is in fact Adele:
Though brief, the lyrics certainly serve as Adele more or less reintroducing herself to a world that most certainly hasn't forgotten her:
![](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 203 115"%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Hello
It's me
I was wondering if, after all these years, you'd like to meet
to go over everything
They say that time's supposed to heal you
But I ain't done much healing