Who's the real queen now?
Beyoncé has been reportedly pursuing Adele for a duet to be included in 25 - for almost a year.
But surprise! Adele turned the down Bey's offer.
"Bey has been asking Adele for a year to join forces," a source told Britain's Heat magazine. "She went into the studio with Adele at the end of last year and tried to convince her to collaborate on a track. Adele turned down the offer, so now Bey is putting the song on her new album instead, which everyone is saying will drop before the end of the year."
The reason is still not clear as to why Adele didn't go with the partnership with Beyonce. But speculations are coming out saying that 25 need not to feature well known pop stars to sell - since Adele can handle her own PR and marketing strategies for her new album. Another possible reason is, since she openly admits that fame can become a struggle for her, she guards her personal life so carefully.
"I'm just frightened of it, you know?" she said. "Frightened of it destroying me and it ruining my and me getting lost... It's a bit toxic, fame. I've got enough toxins in me body. I don't need any of that!" says Adele in an interview.
According to a press release published in the Belfast Telegraph, Adele has also been picky when it comes to choosing which tracks are to be released, let alone be included in her comeback album, even ditching out a track about her being a mom to her three year old son, Angelo.
"Definitely for this record I would say so, because when I was writing my last record no one was waiting," she told DJ Nick Grimshaw, when asked if she worried about what to say this time around. "There was no one sitting with a pen trying to analyse what I was talking about. It took me a long time to focus on how I wanted to write and what I wanted to write about. I mean, I can't write 21 again because I'm not in that place; I'm in a great place. I had to find another part of my life - I did pretty much write an album about being a mum, but that's pretty boring for everyone who isn't a mum (so) I scrapped that."