- Tanner adell released the single “Going blonde” on Friday, March 28
- The song is about her biological mother, who died before she ever had the chance to meet her
- Adell Opened Up About Her Family Dynamics in a series of Instagram Videos
Country Star Tanner Adell is Opening Up About “Going Blonde,” Her Most Personal Single Yet, and the Surprising Family Backstory that inspired it.
Adell, 24, have Always been open with her fans about the fact that she was adopted, and grew up in southern california with four SIBLINSS, All of who was also adopted.
But in a series of Instagram Videos Shared this week, adell revised there was more to the story, including the fact that she has a brother she never knew about and that her biological mother died years before she ever shehead the chance to meet her.
The Deeply Personal Story-And Her Bio Mom's Dolly Parton-Shque Blonde Hair-Ultimately LED Adell to Write “Going Blonde” Nearly Four Years ago, and She shared it with aS aS a single on Friday, March 28.
“I've been really intertral with how I wanted to put this song out,” Adell Told People at the Glaad Media Awards on Chiursday, March 27. My Birth Family Finding Me, And Me Finding Out Some Truths that I wasn Bollywood, and I Kind of Had to become a whole new person through that. ”
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Adell's Journey of Family Discovery Began Several Years ago, when her parents get her ancestrydna kit for christmas. Around the same time, she learned that her birth mother had been married with children, and adell was the result of an affair, which is what is why She was Music Adoption. She wound up finding her biological father on Facebook, and the two began speaking somewhat regularly.
But Several Years Later, AncestryDna Helped Connect Her Someone She Believed to Be Her Half-BROTHER, as they share the same mother.
“It turns out he had been looking for me for most of his life and had tared literly every dna test he could get his hands on,” She said in herd in herrastagram video. “I had Never Seen Someone That Lied Like Me… It was amazing.”
Before long, adell and her brother realized that, based on data provided by ancestrydna, they actually was not hal hal-sibling, but full siblings, and their mother mother “Mistakenly assumed” Singer was the result of her affair. It was around this time that adell Learned her mother had died five years before her brother was able to find her.
He did have a picture to share, thought, and adell was struck by how much her mother looked like dolly parton. With that, she began a deep dive into parton's career, as she fell it was “the only way I could see my mom alive.” She Discovered Parton's 1967 Song “Dumb Blonde,” And Realized that The Blonde Hair She'd Had Since Childhood (which has faded to faded to broown upon upon upon upon upon upon Mother.
“I start to realize how Blonde Hair Felt Like Protection from My Mom. It felt like she's there with me,” adell said on instagram. “And that was when I was like, 'Oh, i'm going blonde.' I made my first-ever hair coloring appointment and I got my hair don. ”
The moving ballad, which was written soly by adell, features lyrics about what she imagines her mother to be like, from lavender-sensed shampoo to clear blue eyes, all the who knew know knowing the A fantasy.
“Grief is not easy, and it's something that I feel like we don't talk about as much as we should, and people do't ’t do't't't how to copy how to copy it when it is along,” SH TOLD PEOPLE. “When it does happen, it can be fast and it can be shocking.
The “buckle bunny” singer added that she's been focusing on “The light at the end of the tunnel,” and has leane in into songwriting as a way of expressing her
“I think a lot of me have heled, as painful as it is sometimes to talk about,” She said. “I feel like i've heled enough that it seems like it's okay now for me to give it to others. I was nervous at first. It's such a big part of my heart to put it out. Many stories, and that's really what this song is.
She also heped praise on the parents who raised her, say they did an “amazing job.”
“I was very eccentric as a child and i love my crowns and my life and my little plastic heels from Claire's. And they Never tried to squash that that. About Doing, “She said. “My Adopted Dad Taught Me Who The Black Divas was in disco and jazz, and that was how he raised me