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Today's featured article Adele "Can I Get It" is a song by English singer Adele from her fourth studio album, 30 (2021). Adele wrote the song with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback. It was released by Columbia Records as the album's sixth track on 19 November 2021. A pop song with pop rock and country pop influences, "Can I Get It" has acoustic guitar, drum, and horn instrumentation and a whistled hook. The song is about moving on from a breakup and desiring a committed relationship, exploring Adele's search for true love and a new relationship. Music critics were generally positive about its acoustic portion and lyrics but highly criticised its whistled hook. They thought the brazen pop production of "Can I Get It" catered to the tastes of mainstream radio, which made it an outlier on 30, and compared it to Flo Rida's single "Whistle" (2012). The song reached the top 20 in Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Finland, and Norway and entered the top 40 in some other countries. (This article is part of a featured topic: 30 (album).) Recently featured: Dorothy Olsen Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption Western Chalukya Empire   Susanna Hoffs ... that Susanna Hoffs (pictured) sang on the studio recording of "Eternal Flame" naked after producer Davitt Sigerson pranked her by saying that Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing? ... that Thomas Mann insisted on omitting a passage on homoeroticism in the English translation of his work "On the German Republic"? ... that more than 100 European royals boarded the Cruise of the Kings, a 1954 cruise organised by the Greek queen consort Frederica of Hanover to promote tourism in Greece? ... that the first Acadian newspaper, Le Moniteur Acadien, was acquired in 2023 for just CA$1? ... that NCVs can assign different values to the lives of civilians of different nationalities? ... that Yuu Nagira, the author of My Beautiful Man, did not expect readers to love one of the main characters because she had written him to be creepy? ... that actress Agnes Mapes had to improvise a complex choreographed dance from basic poses for the 1907 play The Holy City? ... that in March 2022 Sonja van den Ende was the only Dutch journalist to report from the Russian-occupied Donbas on the war in Ukraine? ... that a restaurant in a Thai hotel serves "Chicken Volcano", a dish containing whiskey?

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