With Someone Like You, one only hopes pop radio would also give a gut-wrenching ballad the chance to be something big. It gave a deserving and great song the chance to be a huge hit and it ended up staying at #1 for 7 weeks at the Hot 100. With Rolling In The Deep, US pop radio took a bold step in the correct musical direction. But everyone related to Someone Like You because everyone found something that struck a cord within the specific vulnerability conveyed among the lines of that song. It was written for a specific person, with no intention of making it something that everyone can relate to. The lyrics were written in a way not to let it seem open-ended. What’s more of a testament to the strength of this song is that it’s deeply personal. Her Brits performance got this song to go to #1 in the UK almost overnight due to the massive sales she generated after bringing people to tears. How so? Every single performance she has delivered of this song was even better than the album version. There is a sense of vulnerability with her delivery that channels the pain she’s feeling when she was recording this masterpiece. On Someone Like You, Adele delivers a brilliantly chilling vocal performance that is so full of nuances that it delivers the lyrics without much effort. I don’t care.” With Someone Like You, Adele is crawling back slowly to her former lover, acknowledging that she’s not as strong as she thought – “who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?” Rolling In The Deep was a song that basically said: “you’re leaving? fine. With whom she can share her memories, her moments and her life. So even though she wants him to remember her and even though she still loves him, she hopes, in the song, to hopefully find someone like him, someday, to make her feel that sensation of love. She cannot show up out of the blue and have such a confession for him. But she knows acting on the plot she set up with “ Someone Like You” is not the correct thing to act on. The whole scenario of how he would act and how she would response is in her head, sort of like the countless times when we imagine scenarios and play them out in our imagination before trying to act on them. She’s imagining herself standing in front of him and giving her heart away. Someone Like You is a hypothetical song that Adele is singing to herself, not her former lover’s face. It’s about her being in love – so in love, in fact, that she can let the person go and wish nothing but the best for him, regardless of how much that might hurt her. Someone Like You is not a song about Adele being bitter. “You’d know how the time flies, only yesterday was the time of our lives… we were born and raised in a summer haze, bound by the surprise of our glory days,” alluding to a summer romance that took place between the two before she apologizes again about showing up out of the blue uninvited, hoping that when he had seen her face, he’d be reminded that it’s not over. The song proceeds to the path of memories. I remember you said, sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.” And then she begs: “Don’t forget me, I beg. Her voice breaks when she wishes nothing but the best for them two. I wish nothing but the best for you two…” You can feel the desperation in her voice as she sings those lines. And then she confesses that she she had hoped by turning out of the blue, uninvited, and by seeing her face, he’d be reminded that for her, it’s not over.Īnd then Adele sings the heartbreaking chorus: “Nevermind, I’ll find someone like you. She tries to feign courage by asking him why he’s shy, since it’s very unlike him. He settled down, found a girl and married her. Someone Like You starts with things Adele heard about him. It’s a deeply personal song about all the words Adele couldn’t say to the person to whom this song is meant. Someone Like You is a song about the regret that you feel but cannot share. Why review the song now? Well, what better opportunity to write an extensive praise of such brilliance than when this unconventional choice for US radio is preparing to hopefully become a hit there as well? Adele recently announced Someone Like You as her US follow-up to her mega hit: Rolling In The Deep.Īlready released in the UK as a single off her international multi-platform monster of an album, 21, Someone Like You got to #1 after a brilliantly heartbreaking show-stopping performance at the Brits.
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