I’d found out that he’d got engaged to someone else. She added that, “I wrote that song on the end of my bed. I think that’s the song I’ll be known for.” It set me free. 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 horriblest feeling ever. “We were so intense I thought we would get married,” she said in an interview with Q magazine. A few months after their split, he had gotten engaged to someone else. And when I did it, I felt so freed.” Īdele had said that she began writing it on her acoustic guitar in the wake of the breakup of her 18-month relationship with the 30-year old man she thought she would marry. The track, which epitomizes the lyrical content of 21, summarizes the now defunct relationship that the record is about.Īdele has openly discussed the genesis of it saying, “Well, I wrote that song because I was exhausted from being such a bitch, with ‘ Rolling in the Deep’ or ‘ Rumour Has It.’ 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 okay with myself and okay with the two years I spent with him. “Someone Like You” was written and produced by Adele and American songwriter and producer Dan Wilson. 8 Cultural impact and appearances in popular media.“Someone Like You” is also the first piano-and-vocal-only ballad to hit number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2013, it became the most downloaded digital single of all-time in the UK. While it was always intended to be on the album, it was originally the third track on the album rather than the eleventh and final track. “Someone Like You” was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, which she won, in 2012. The live performances of the song were heavily praised by music critics and fans. Adele performed the song on several award and television shows including the 2011 Brit Awards, 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Critics praised the video for being simple and perfect for the sound of the song. The video showed Adele walking alone through the streets with a sad look on her face. In July 2011, it became the first single of the decade to sell a million units in the United Kingdom and it was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), as well as being certified 5x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States.Īn accompanying music video for the song was directed by Jake Nava and it was filmed in Paris, France. With that achievement Adele became the first female British solo singer in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have two number ones from the same album. The song also topped the charts in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Italy, France, Switzerland and has become Adele’s second number one in the United States. The lyrics and Adele’s vocal performance in the song were also praised.įollowing a well-received performance of the song at the 2011 Brit Awards, “Someone Like You” became Adele’s first number one single in the United Kingdom and it stayed on the top of the chart for five weeks. The song received positive reviews from music critics who chose the song as a highlight on the album and praised its simple sound. Accompanied only by a piano in the song (played by Wilson), Adele sings about the end of the relationship with her ex-boyfriend. XL Recordings released the song as the second single from the album on Januin the United Kingdom and on Augin the United States. The pop ballad was inspired by a broken relationship of hers, and lyrically it speaks of Adele coming to terms with it. Written by Adele and Dan Wilson in her second studio album 21. “Someone Like You” is a song by English singer-songwriter Adele.
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