Top 5 Adele Songs

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Adele is a British singer and songwriter. She is a seven times platinum artist in the UK, and double platinum artist in the US for her album 19 (platinum meaning that the album has gone to sell 1 million copies). Adele is said she taught herself how to sing by listening to Ella Fitzgerald for acrobatics and scales, Etta James for passion, and Roberta Flack for control. Thus, here is a list of her top songs. I hope that you enjoy.





5. Chasing Pavements

Writers: Adele, Eg White
Producers: Eg White

"Chasing Pavements" won the Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. The song was influenced by an event Adele had with a former boyfriend of six months. After she discovered he had cheated on her, she went to the bar he was at and punched him in the face.

Adele was then thrown out of the bar. While she walked down the street she thought to herself, "What is it you're chasing? You're chasing an empty pavement." She sang and recorded it on her phone and set the chords when she got home.

4. Rolling in the Deep

Writers: Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth
Producers: Paul Epworth

The song was reportedly inspired by a "Nashville-schooled US tour bus driver," and composed by Epworth and Adele in one afternoonafter Adele's breakup with her boyfriend. It was her response to being told that her life was going to be boring, lonely, and that she was a weak person if she didn't stay in the relationship. She was truly insulted, and wrote the tune as an "f*** you."

Rolling in the Deep reached number one in 11 countries. It was Adele's first #1 song in the United States, reaching #1 on many Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, upon which it was number one for 7 weeks. By February 2012, the song had sold over 7 million copies in the United States, making it the highest selling digital song by a female artist in the US, the second best-selling digital song in the US, and Adele's best-selling single outside her native country.

"Rolling in the Deep" is the fourth song to top the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles chart and to win both Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the same year.

Related: Download Adele's Album 25 at Amazon.

3. Set Fire to the Rain

Writers: Adele Adkins, Fraser T Smith
Producers: Fraser T Smith

The song describes the divergent factors of a relationship, and the impossibility of letting go which is presented within the lyrics.

2. Someone Like You

Writers: Adele, Dan Wilson
Producers: Adele, Dan Wilson

"Someone like You" is about a boyfriend who broke up with Adele. She wrote it with American songwriter and producer Dan Wilson. It was one of the last written for her album, 21. The track summarizes the now obsolete relationship that the record, 21, is all about. Adele has openly discussed the genesis of it saying:

"Well, I wrote that song because I was exhausted from being such a b****, 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 OK with myself and OK with the two years I spent with him. And when I did it, I felt so freed."

1. Rumour Has It

Writers: Adele, Ryan Tedder
Producers: Ryan Tedder

Adele clarified that the song was not influenced by the media, but was intended at her own friends, who frequently spread rumours about her break-up with her boyfriend:

"People might think it's about blogs and magazines and papers, but it's not. It's about my own friends believing stuff that they hear about me, which is pretty mortifying really."

 Adele said that "Rumour Has It" and "Rolling in the Deep" were lyrically opposite of "Someone Like You".

Bonus:

Hello

Writers: Adele Adkins, Greg Kurstin
Producers: Greg Kurstin

The lyrics of the song focus on themes of recollection and guilt and plays out like a dialogue. The songs lyrics were also seen as revolving around "all the relationships of her past", ranging from friends, family, and ex-partners. Speaking on the songs lyrical content Adele told Nick Grimshaw on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show:

"I felt all of us were moving on, and it's not about an ex-relationship, a love relationship, it's about my relationship with everyone that I love. It's not that we have fallen out, we've all got our lives going on and I needed to write that song so they would all hear it, because I'm not in touch with them."

According to Adele, the line "Hello from the other side" signifies "the other side of becoming an adult, making it out alive from your late teens, early twenties."

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