Adele Laurie Blue Adkins professionally known as Adele. Adele is a British singer – songwriter currently aged 23. She has written two albums, which have nationally been number one hits. Her music talks about heartthrob and relationships break ups. This has such a connection to our emotions in those circumstances. The connection has been put in place not only through the music but also through the lyrics. The most important part of the song, her honesty and realism is extremely complimentary to her work. Relative feelings and situations allow others to relate with their own personal experience, allowing them also to gain something from the song. I am going to investigate the power language has in regards to its impact towards our emotions looking at lyrics of Adele’s songs. I have chosen two songs to investigate which is ‘Someone like you’ and ‘Rolling in the deep’ both by the artist Adele.
To start, I analyzed the song ‘Someone like you’. First pointers would be each verse has been written telling a story. They follow on after one another. Each line rhymes with the next. These prosodic features allow the lyrics to flow and makes them significantly memorable. The song is about letting go of your loved one. Although it is slightly forced as the person involved has moved on therefore compelling the other to move on despite their feelings. All of the situations that are expressed in these lyrics are very stereotypical break up circumstances allowing the audience to connect easily with their own personal experiences. This makes the language very interactional. The lyrics have been written using spoken discourse. This is shown with words used such as ‘Aint’. Adele has a very broad east London accent. However you would not know this through her singing. It is only of knowledge to us when she is interviewed. Every artist needs to uphold a certain idiolect and image to promote their music. Thus meaning Adele uses mostly proper English in her lyrics to portray the socialect that is expected of someone with such quality. The distinctive grammar and vocabulary which is associated with Adele’s regional use of language is hidden.
Adele uses many phrases which soften or weaken the force such as ‘maybe’. Lexical Cohesion is used greatly in all songs to repeat the most important lines.
‘Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead’ this line is exceedingly formidable. It is constantly repeated throughout the song due to it being in the chorus but the line is repeated in the chorus indicating its importance. This line itself is powerful as there is a statement being made. It is an opinion expressed by Adele illuminating that sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t and you’ll suffer. The opinion of an artist is especially influential to fans. This is an impeccable example of how powerful language can be when spoken/written from someone so influential and prominent to others on such a copious scale.
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