Adele is the British singer whose 2008 debut album won two Grammy Awards and made her a leading pop singer in the U.K and the United States. Adele was raised in London, and began singing in earnest at age 14. After posting songs to MySpace.com, Adele was discovered by XL Recordings in 2006. Her 2008 debut album, 19, included the singles "Hometown Glory" and "Chasing Pavements" and won her Grammy Awards as best new artist and best female pop vocal performance. Never a pop waif, Adele is known for her smoky voice and plus-sized body, which she uses to belt out power ballads and soul-tinged pop. (Her voice "could stop traffic," journalist Paul Rees once told the BBC.) Her follow-up album, 21, was released in 2011, debuted at #1 on the U.K. music charts, and stayed there for 10 straight weeks, selling millions of copies.
After having surgery on her vocal folds, she returned to perform "Rolling in the Deep" at the Grammy Awards in 2012. That night she took home all six Grammys she was nominated for!
Listen to two of her most important songs " Rolling in the deep" and "Someone like you". Both of them are strong songs with lots of feelings of rage, revenge, pain.
ROLLING IN THE DEEP
ROLLING IN THE DEEP
THE SONG deals with the feelings of a woman after her relationship ends: pain and anger at her lover's betrayal and the desire for revenge.
- Listen to the song and fill in the gaps.
- Which words and lines talk about revenge? Look for them!! and discuss about them.
- Here you have some definitions of some words that appear in the song. Read them and look for the right words:
1. A lingering sign of damage or injury, either mental or physical
2. Absolutely clear
3. Breathing with difficulty
4. water coming out of your eyes
5.Mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss, or despair
6.A state of extreme agitation or excitement
7. To look down on someone. Think they are inferior
8. Things will happen to you good or bad, according to how you behave ( look for an idiom)
There´s a __________ starting in my ____________
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go 'head and sell me out and I'll lay your ship [shit] bare
See how I leave with every piece of you
Don't ______________ the things that I will do
There's a ______ starting in my ___________
Reaching a ________ _________
And it's bringing me out the ______
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 ___________
I can't help feeling
We could have had it all
(You're gonna _______ you never had _____ me)
Rolling in the deep
(_______ are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
You had my heart inside of your hand
(You're gonna ______ you never had _____ me)
And you played it, to the beat
(______ are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
Baby, I have no story to be told
But I've heard one on you
And I'm gonna make your head ________
Think of me in the __________of your __________
Make a ______ down there
As mine sure won't be shared
(You're gonna __________you never had ____ me)
The scars of your love remind me of us
(________ are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
(You're gonna _____you never had _____me)
The scars of your love, they leave me ___________
(______are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
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)
We could have had it all
Rolling in the deep
You had my heart inside of your hand
But you played it, with a beating
Throw your _______through every open door (woah)
Count your blessings to find what you _____ ____(woah)
Turn my ________ into treasured ______(woah)
You'll _______ me _______ in kind and reap just what you sow (woah)
(You're gonna ________ you never had _____me)
We could have had it all
(_____ are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
We could have had it all
(You're gonna _______you never had ___ me)
It all, it all, it all
(______ are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
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)
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)
But you played it
You played it
You played it
You played it to the beat.
Here you have another of her most important hits. "Someone like you". Listen to the song and complete the quiz
