It wasn't long before she went over to the States and became one of the biggest stars on the planet. With 'Rolling in the Deep' at four, and her first two albums at 4 and 1 respectively, Adele became the first living act to have two top five singles and top five albums in the same week since The Beatles back in 1964. Read more: Watch when Adele performed stunning acoustic Smooth gig a week before superstardom Her show-stopping performance of the song at the 2011 BRIT Awards helped send it to number one a week later. 'Someone Like You' was a huge success, topping the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the United States, as well as reaching the top ten in many other countries.īy late 2015, it had sold over 1.5 million copies in the UK alone, making it the second best-selling single of the 2010s and the third-best-seller of the 21st century. I think that's the song I'll be known for." I didn't think it would resonate with the world! I'm never gonna write a song like that again.
"But after I wrote it, I felt more at peace. So when I found out he does want that with someone else, it was just the horrible-est feeling ever. She explained: "We were so intense I thought we would get married. Read more: The emotional day Adele went in disguise to surprise a group of Adele impersonators What happened in the real-life relationship?Īdele has said that she began writing the song on her acoustic guitar following the break-up of her 18-month relationship with the 30-year-old man she assumed she would marry.Ī few months after their split, he was engaged to someone else."I was really emotionally drained from the way I was portraying him, because even though I'm very bitter and regret some parts of it, he's still the most important person that's ever been in my life, and 'Someone like You,' I had to write it to feel OK with myself and OK with the two years I spent with him. She later said: "Well, I wrote that song because I was exhausted from being such a b***h, with 'Rolling in the Deep' or 'Rumour Has It'. Read more: Adele's 10 best songs so far, ranked Lyrically, the song talks about the end of Adele's first "real relationship" with her long-time friend and lover, and shows her confronting his new marriage. The track sums up the now defunct relationship that the album 21 is all about.
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