There is little doubt that a great majority of the
songs recorded today are written and recorded with some idea of appealing to
the masses. On occasion, though, an
artist punches through the common noise with something that is both beautiful
and filled with raw emotion.
Adele did that with nearly every song she recorded
on 21, her second album.
Today I am posting a song that, at the end, shows
the depth of the emotion that drove her to write the song. The live setting shows how absolutely the
audience connects. The song, Someone
Like You, was not originally part of the album. Adele wrote the song after recording the original
tracks and after finding out that her ex-lover had recently engaged. Adele considers the song one of her most
personal and she fought the urgings of her recording company to add a full band
to the arrangement.
The video is a bit longer than I typically post (a bit over five minutes), but is well worth watching through to the very end.
--Mitchell
Hegman
If the posted video fails to launch, please
click on the following link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsO41YkYpY
I envy Adele's ability not just to express emotion but to enshrine it in a song that most everyone who has ever been in pain can very easily relate to.
ReplyDeleteI agree. This, and several other songs on the album, are so powerful I often cease whatever I am doing so that I can stop and listen.
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