You’re on your 47th listen of the hour, tears still swelling up in the bottom water beds of your eyes. You don’t know why you’re crying, but you can’t stop and probably won’t stop. Is it her powerful, striking, deep voice that swallows you up with all of its beauty and emotion? Is it that she’s talking directly to you and for you that makes these beads roll down your cheeks? Is it that you’ve missed her absence over these past three years? Or is it all of the above?
It’s all of the above. Adele, you are a genius.
Adele has done it once again; she has taken us in, used our words and lives full of struggle to sing not only a beautifully crafted song, but belts words we weren’t even certain we were feeling before they escaped her perfect lips. She’s breaking our hearts, holding us while we cry and putting us back together with one word – hello.
Hello, Adele. Thank you for your perfect new song. Thank you for being the mom who takes care of us while we experience yet another bad break-up, bad day, and quite frankly, bad couple of months. We’re losing our shit over this song, but we know you’re there for us, for it’ll only be a short amount of time before you release another piece of pure genius from 25 that will help explain our confusing and pitiful lives yet again.
"Hello", put simply, is beautiful; it is light and sparkly, then shout-y and heartbreak-y. We appreciate this because like the song, our lives are never all fairies and ponies or lightning and sandstorms. We’re up then we’re down, all over the place and then crying for no reason just wishing for a song to make us understand everything. Bless Adele for giving such a song to us.
This song is emotional, but a mature and soulful. Adele roars to us, conveying every emotion that comes with picking up the pieces of a broken heart. We feel our hearts break all over again, but we don’t mind because she makes it sound so much prettier than it really is. Our puffy faces may be ruining the romantic sepia and wind-blown picture she’s creating, but she knows that heartbreak isn’t a hand-crafted filter. She’s breaking our hearts, but elegantly and artistically, creating an automatic response of refresh and repeat on our music players.
I couldn’t stop listening even if I wanted to, which is exactly the point. We don’t want to experience heartbreak, but we do. We don’t want to unleash those repressed feelings and visit the gut-wrenching emotions that bring us back to that time of our lives, but we do. We listen on repeat. We feel on repeat. We love Adele on repeat.
