
I’d found out that he’d got engaged to someone else.” Release date I think that’s the song I’ll be known for. I’m never going to write a song like that again. I didn’t think it would resonate with the world. 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. The song’s about that and I’m scared at the thought of that.”Īdele started writing this song on her acoustic guitar not long after her break-up with her boyfriend-who later got engaged to someone else: “We were so intense I thought we would get married.


Adele also added: “I can imagine being about 40 and looking for him again, only to turn up and find that he’s settled with a beautiful wife and beautiful kids and he’s completely happy, and I’m still on my own.

Whereas that was about me saying, ‘I’m going to be fine without you’, this is me on my knees really. When I was writing it I was feeling pretty miserable and pretty lonely, which I guess kind of contradicts ‘Rolling in the Deep’. Adele told the story behind this smash hit in an interview, saying: “Well, I wrote that song because I was exhausted from being such a bitch, with ‘Rolling in the Deep’ or ‘Rumor 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.
