Adele's careerAdele has had a very successful career, starting at a young age when she released her first album, 19, in 2008. She followed up two years later with her album, 21 which was extremely successful and the longest running number one album by a solo female artist in both the UK and the US. Her recent success was singing the theme song to the James Bond movie, Skyfall. She has won many awards including 10 Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and 13 Billboard Music awards.
Adele's MusicAdele's music is of the soul and pop genre. Her songs are known to be soulful, powerful and emotional. Many of her songs are based upon personal experience with relationship and heartbreak.This combined with her voice, create songs that are compelling to listen to and can be extremely relatable, given the inspiration for which the songs were written. The piano is also an important part in her music and serves as the background and soul of her songs. Her songs have memorable choruses that drive the songs built around verses that express the emotion and pain she suffered from these breakups.
adele's songwritingIn addition to the gorgeous and soulful voice that Adele sings with, another reason she stand apart from the rest is that she also writes her own songs. She does collaborate with others to make the lyrics, but the ideas and emotions that are put into the songs are strictly hers. One great example is "Rolling In The Deep":
CHROUS: The scars of your love remind me of us They keep me thinking that we almost had it all The scars of your love, they leave me breathless I can't help feeling We could have had it all (You're gonna wish you never had met me) Rolling in the deep (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep) You had my heart inside of your hand (You're gonna wish you never had met me) And you played it, to the beat (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep) Adele had initiated the desire to write the songs and wrote it shortly after a breakup, wanting to express the emotions she was feeling. This makes her unique in the modern music world because many singers set their music around someone else's words but by choosing to write her own lyrics of her songs adds another level to her musicianship and ability to create memorable, catchy pop songs. |