Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/To Be Loved (Adele song)

To Be Loved (Adele song)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 19, 2023 by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:23, 28 September 2023 (UTC)



"To Be Loved" is a song by English singer Adele 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 Whitney Houston and highlighted it as her all-time best. Several publications included "To Be Loved" in their list 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.
 * Most recent similar article(s): There's "Love Story" scheduled for September 15 and the one or two song articles that may be scheduled for later.
 * Main editors: MaranoFan
 * Promoted: November 9, 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: 2nd anniversary of the song/album's release. One of Adele's most acclaimed songs and it will be a whole year removed from her last TFA.
 * Support as nominator. NØ 09:25, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support Hawkeye7   (discuss)  20:23, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support Pseud 14 (talk) 20:40, 7 September 2023 (UTC)