The Making of Adele’s Someone Like You Song
At the age of 19, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins,
Popularly known as Adele, met a son of Abraham. After two years, a heart broken, bitter, and depressed Adele sent a text to the guy, ending the relationship. Premium tears
Through connection from a mutual friend, Adele’s next stop was the famous Harmony Studio in Hollywood, where she met legendary producer Rick Rubin.
Adele was armed with her acoustic guitar, which had become her bosom friend during nights of loneliness, despair, and frustration. It was that guitar that gave the melody to a song she wanted to record
Adele told Rick she could use his help to record a song about her heart break. If there is any respected person in the music world when it comes to production, it is Rick, and his message to Adele was simple: “tell me about the guy who broke your heart, and let’s turn that story into a very personal song”
Adele made it known to Rick how the relationship had stopped being fun, and toward the end, the never-ending bickering and conflicts.
This isn’t what the young, probably naive Adele had signed up for when she met the son of Abraham. In her words, the first few months of the relationship were intense. She would be sent to heaven, almost daily. The connection then was to die for. Adele believed they were destined for each other. What she did not know, was that there was something she wasn’t giving the man. And it wasn’t strange that one day, she found out that the man she had fallen in love with, had another woman
Rick went to work. With his piano and years of experience, he produced the song Someone Like You, a song that has 1.9 billion views on Youtube.
Adele sings:
I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now
I heard that your dreams came true
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you
Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light."
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The song is emotional and raw. It was Adele being vulnerable. It also allows us to peep into the heart of a heart broken woman. The irony is that Adele, in the song, hopes to find someone like the man who had broken her heart:
“Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you, too”
Margaret Ogola, in the book The River and the Source writes about the danger of holding pain in the inside. When Akoko found Nyabera crying after losing her lost her son, Akoko tells her daughter:
“Weep my child and do not hold pain within yourself for it will turn into a snake that devours you from the inside.”
These words applied to Adele. Only after she wrote the song Someone Like You, did she start the journey toward healing. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she said:
“After I wrote the song, I felt more at peace. It set me free. I didn't think it would resonate with the world! I'm never gonna write a song like that again. I think that's the song I'll be known for."
When Rick Rubin went home and played the demo song to his wife, she cried. It is reported that everyone who heard the song while the recording was ongoing, cried.
According to Billboard, in the US, Someone Like You topped the Billboard Hot 100, the Adult Contemporary, and the Adult Pop Songs charts. It sold over 6 million copies in the US alone and it was certified 6 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).