Adele posts letter about new album, will premiere single this week

Adele has broken her silence around her reported new album, confirming that it's happening—and we're getting our first taste this week.

After the singer posted a note on her Facebook page and Twitter Wednesday morning discussing her new album, BBC Radio 1 reportedly announced they're premiering the record's first single on-air Friday.

In the note, Adele writes that the new collection of songs (her first since 2011's 21) is a "make-up record," describing her journey over the past few years of growing up, shedding the past and "making up for everything I ever did and never did."

"25 is about getting to know who I've become without realising," she wrote, possibly hinting at the title of her new record. "And I'm sorry it took so long, but you know, life happened."

The note stays vague about the album's official title and release date.

Earlier this week, a supposed 30-second preview of a new Adele song aired during a commercial break on The X Factor Sunday night in the U.K. It's unknown whether this is the single that will be premiering Friday.

Read her note here:

(warning: explicit language)