Someone Like You It is the most popular and special song of AdeleIn it, the singer expresses her feelings towards a hard breakupwhich inspired the artist to compose much of her second album: 21.
“It doesn’t matter, I’ll find someone like you / I wish the best for you too / Please don’t forget me“, he sings in the chorus.
Although Someone Like You was published in 2011her sensitivity is still perfectly alive. And this is what Adele has demonstrated during the first of the ten concerts that she will give in Munich. Before performing the song, the British singer He wanted to hear how the public sang it. deeply.
As Adele expressed in a long and emotional speech before singing Someone Like Youthis composition marked a before and after not only in his professional career, but also in his life. “This song changed my life for the better, and I wish someone had told me that when I was 21; that people were going to sing this song someday.“, has said.
Adele’s emotional and sincere speech in Munich
In the same speech in which Adele has ironically confessed that she feels like “a gay man”, the artist has described how important it is Someone Like You for her and how much it helped her to cope with a sad period in her lifein which she felt very alone.
“This song really changed my life. I wrote it at a time in my life when I was at the lowest I’ve ever been.“I wish I could have told my younger self that it was going to get even worse,” he began, to laughter from the audience.
“I ventured to write my second album [21] without realizing what I was doing. I stayed up late every night and cried alone many times.I didn’t want to see my friends. I was depressed“I’m a very depressive person. I’m sure you know that because you know my music,” he joked.
“But I am okay with my sadness and my depressive state.It’s part of who I am, so I learned to embrace it. When I was young, I didn’t know what to do with it. My second album was my first musical friend“, he continued.
“When I was growing up, I used to listen to a lot of female singers.“, he admitted just before uttering the most viral words of the concert: “I often think that I am a gay man trapped in the body of a heterosexual woman.”
“I used to listen to female singers and feel like they were my friends. I spent a lot of time alone, so I took comfort in having someone else speak to me through their songs in my room.“When I was young it was a great comfort to me,” he continued.
Adele has even said that, If it weren’t for his album 21she “would not be here.” “I am very aware of that”he stressed.
“Con 21 It was the first time that my music became my friend. And obviously, I change my life. […] It’s weird that in my third and fourth albums I also have sad songs, but when I sing this [Someone Like You] for a large audience I find it overwhelming that it is my song“, has added.
And, as the great ballad artist that she is, she has defended that you can listen to sad songs while being happy. “I find it very interesting that [Someone Like You] brings me so much joy now. […] We can sing sad songs even when we are happy and that is okay. Or be sad and sing happy songs. That is the genius of music.“.
