 Genius Meanings
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Adele – Easy On Me
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“Easy On Me” marked Adele’s return after a six-year hiatus. The song is the lead single off her fourth studio album 30. In an October 2021 BBC Radio 1 interview, Adele revealed
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Adele – Make You Feel My Love
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Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” is performed by Adele on her debut 19. Despite being the only cover (and the only album track she didn’t write), it’s her favourite song on the
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Adele – Rolling in the Deep
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The 2012 song and record of the Year at the Grammy’s, “Rolling In The Deep” was described in an interview with Spin Magazine as a ‘gospel disco’ kiss-off to an unfaithful dude:
It
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Adele – Chasing Pavements
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On “Chasing Pavements”, Adele wonders whether or not to try and pursue a relationship with the man of her dreams. It actually caused a bit of controversy in the States because
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Adele – Love in the Dark
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Many might assume that “Love In The Dark” is yet another ode to the relationship that most of 21 is based on, however, it’s far more likely that this is based on the rebound
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Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow
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“Shallow” is a song by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from the 2018 movie A Star Is Born. It features on the film’s soundtrack. The track is about jumping headfirst into love and not
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Adele – Daydreamer
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“Daydreamer” is the first track off Adele’s first album, 19.
In 2008 interviews with The Sun and Daily Star Adele discussed the song’s inspiration:
It was about a friend of mine
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Adele – Strangers By Nature
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“Strangers By Nature” is a homage to Judy Garland and opens with Adele taking flowers to the cemetery of her own heart and wondering if she’ll ever learn “to nurture what I’ve done
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Adele – Skyfall
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“Skyfall” is the theme song for the twenty-third James Bond film of the same name.
In 2013, “Skyfall” won “Best Original Song” at the 70th Golden Globes and then Best Original
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Adele – Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
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Adele wrote “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” in collaboration with Max Martin and Shellback for her third album 25.
Adele played guitar on the record, and it was this riff that
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A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera – Say Something
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“Say Something” is a song by indie band A Great Big World. The song became a breakout hit after Christina Aguilera performed it on The Voice.
The song represents the struggle of
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Adele – Cry Your Heart Out
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“Cry Your Heart Out” is a crisp Motown-gone-reggae track with whimsical vocal effects and ad-libs. Disguised as an upbeat-pop track, “Cry Your Heart Out” is about depression.
In
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Sia – Chandelier
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“Chandelier” was released as the lead single from Sia’s sixth studio album, 1000 Forms Of Fear. Despite its soaring melody, the song has a sad theme describing the life of a “party
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Adele (Ft. Erroll Garner) – All Night Parking Interlude
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[Verse 1] / I know you've got things to do (I do, too) / I just wanna spend all my time with you (It feels so good) / I'm so hard to impress, don't leave me on this stretch alone
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Lady Gaga – Judas
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“Judas” talks about the struggle between light and dark, good and bad guys, and purity and sin.
This song was the second single from Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. Lady Gaga directed
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Adele – I Miss You
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“I Miss You” is the third track on 25 and fifth collaboration between Adele and Paul Epworth, having previously collaborated on “Rolling in the Deep”, “I’ll Be Waiting”, “He Won’t
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Adele – Hold On
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In Adele’s cover story interview for the November 2021 issue of Vogue (US), interviewer Abby Aguirre previewed “Hold On” from Adele’s upcoming 30 album. The track was described by
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Adele – Melt My Heart to Stone
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[Verse 1] / Right under my feet is air made of bricks / That pulls me down and turns me weak for you / I find myself repeating like a broken tune / And I'm forever excusing your
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Adele – Set Fire to the Rain
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“Set Fire To The Rain” talks about a relationship coming to an end. Girl meets guy, he is wonderful and she falls really quickly. He tells her all of these amazing things, but
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Adele – When We Were Young
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Newly-returned pop icon Adele worked with songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. and producer Ariel Rechtshaid on the “‘70s styled shimmery disco ballad” “When We Were Young,” the second
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Adele – Love Is A Game
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[Verse 1] / All your expectations of my love are impossible / Surely, you know that I'm not easy to hold / It's so sad how incapable of learning to grow I am / My heart speaks in
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Bob Dylan – Make You Feel My Love
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While “Make You Feel My Love” was originally written by Bob Dylan, the first released recording was actually done by Billy Joel, who put it on his Greatest Hits Volume III. The
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Adele – My Little Love
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In Adele’s cover story interview for the November 2021 issue of Vogue (US), interviewer Abby Aguirre previewed “My Little Love” and described it as having a “sexy ’70s groove” and
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Adele – To Be Loved
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“To Be Loved” is the penultimate track on British singer Adele’s new album, 30. Instrumentally, the song is a simple, slow piano ballad with a BPM of 103.
Lyrically, the ballad
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Adele – Woman Like Me
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A diss song through and through “Woman Like Me” jumps toward the end of Adele’s relationship. It finds Adele chiding her ex for being complacent, lazy, and insecure, wasting the
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