Showing posts with label Adele. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adele. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Make you feel my love / Zo puur kan liefde zijn

Make you feel my love / Zo puur kan liefde zijn

 When the rain is blowing in your face,
 and the whole world is on your case,
 I could offer you a warm embrace
 to make you feel my love.

When the evening shadows and the stars appear,
 and there is no one there to dry your tears,
 I could hold you for a million years
 to make you feel my love.

Ik ben geen mens die hoge eisen stelt.
 Of iemand die je met een ring beknelt.
 Noch die de uren van ons samen telt.
 Zo puur kan liefde zijn.

Ik ben de vogel die je vliegen leert.
 De trooster als het leven jou bezeert.
 Maar niemand, als je in jezelve keert.
 Zo puur kan liefde zijn.

I know you haven't made your mind up yet,
 but I would never do you wrong.
 I've known it from the moment that we met,
 no doubt in my mind where you belong.

Jouw ogen zeggen mij vaak zoveel meer.
 Dan woorden ooit hebben gedaan.
 Als jij me aanraakt voel ik telkens weer.
 Vrijheid kan met liefde samen gaan.

I'd go hungry; I'd go black and blue,
 I'd go crawling down the avenue.
 No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do
 to make you feel my love.

Mijn liefde is van levenslange duur.
 Soms als een waakvlam, soms een laaiend vuur.
 't Zal je verwarmen tot het laatste uur.
 Zo puur kan liefde zijn.

(Intermezzo)

The storms are raging on the rolling sea
 and on the highway of regret.
 Though winds of change are throwing wild and free,
 you ain't seen nothing like me yet.

Is soms het pad door 't leven steil en zwaar.
 Als niets meer lijkt zoals het was.
 Pak dan mijn hand en droog je tranen maar.
 Dan ben ik heel even jouw kompas.

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true.
 Nothing that I wouldn't do.
 Go to the ends of the Earth for you,
 to make you feel my love

Slaap nu maar zacht, ik doe het licht wel uit.
 Je bent zo mooi (when you close your eyes) als jij je ogen sluit.
 Mijn handen strelen zacht je blote huid.
 (As pure as love can be) Zo puur kan liefde zijn.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Rolling in the Deep

"Rolling in the Deep" is a song recorded by British singer-songwriter Adele for her second studio album, 21. The song was written by Adele and Paul Epworth. The singer herself describes it as a "dark blues-y gospel disco tune". The largest crossover hit in the United States from the past 25 years, "Rolling in the Deep" gained radio airplay from many different radio formats. It was first released on 29 November 2010 as the lead single from 21 in digital download format. The lyrics describe the emotions of a scorned lover.
"Rolling in the Deep" was acclaimed by music critics and represented a commercial breakthrough for Adele, propelling her to international success. The song reached number one in 11 countries and the top five in many more regions. It was Adele's first number-one song in the United States, reaching the top spot on many Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 where it was number one for seven weeks. By February 2012, "Rolling in the Deep" had sold over 7,600,000 copies in the United States, making it the highest selling digital song by a female artist in the US, the second best-selling digital song in the US and Adele's best-selling single outside her native country, topping her previous best-selling "Chasing Pavements". Worldwide, it was the fifth best selling digital single of 2011 with sales of 8.2 million copies, later going on to sell over 14 million copies. The song spent 65 weeks on the chart, making the song at that time the fourth most weeks spent on the chart, tying the place with Jewel with her double single "Foolish Games"/"You Were Meant for Me".

Music video
The music video for "Rolling in the Deep," directed by Sam Brown, premiered on Channel 4 on 3 December 2010. The video begins in an abandoned house, where Adele is sitting in a chair singing. During the video, the scenes show hundreds of glasses filled with water that vibrate to the beat of a drum, a mysterious person (played by Jennifer White, who also choreographed the sequence) dancing in a room with white flour and dust, the drummer playing the drums behind the stairs, china being thrown and breaking on the wall in front of the staircase, and a white model of a city which is set on fire by five bursting light bulbs at the end of the song.

On 20 July 2011, the music video was nominated for seven MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Best Direction, and won three for Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction.[10] The video won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video on 12 February 2012.
In July, the video was nominated for seven MTV Video Music Awards nominations, making it the most nominated music video of the year. The video won three awards: Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. "Rolling in the Deep" was also the Billboard Year End Hot 100 Number One Single of 2011. On 12 February 2012, "Rolling in the Deep" received three Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Short Form Music Video. Critics and music publications ranked the song highly on their end-of-year lists.
Rolling in the deep lyrics
There's a fire starting in my heart.
 Reaching a fever pitch and bringing me out the dark
 Finally, I can see you crystal clear.
 Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare.

See how I leave, with every piece of you
 Don't underestimate the things that I will do.

There's a fire starting in my heart,
 Reaching a fever pitch and it's bringing me out the dark

The scars of your love, reminds 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... (you're gonna wish you)... Inside of your hand (Never had met me)
 And you played it... (Tears are gonna fall)... To the beat (Rolling in the deep)

Baby I have no story to be told,
 But I've heard one of you and I'm gonna make your head burn.
 Think of me in the depths of your despair.
 Making a home down there, as mine sure won't be shared.

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... (you're gonna wish you)... inside of your hand (Never had met me)
 And you played it... (Tears are gonna fall)... To the beat (Rolling in the deep)
 Could have had it all
 Rolling in the deep.
 You had my heart inside of your hand,
 But you played it with your beating

Throw your soul through every open door (Whoa)
 Count your blessings to find what you're looking for (Whoa-uh)
 Turn my sorrow into treasured gold (Whoa)
 And pay me back in kind- You reap just what you sow.

(You're gonna wish you... Never had met me)
 We could have had it all (Tears are gonna fall... Rolling in the deep)
 We could have had it all yeah (you're gonna wish you... never had met me)
 It all (Tears are gonna fall)
 It all
 It all (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... (you're gonna wish you)... of your hand (Never had met me)
 And you played it... (Tears are gonna fall)... to the beat (Rolling in the deep)
 We could have had it all ( you're wish you never had met me)
 Rolling in the deep (tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
 You had my heart... ( you're gonna wish you)... Inside of your hand (Never had met me)

But you played it
 You played it
 You played it
 You played it to the beat.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

James Bond chapter I

SKYFALL
The popularity of Adele starts to get insane forms. In Netherlands her song Skyfall, the soundtrack of the new James Bond movie, was already in the iTunes top10 without anyone had heard it. What just only a name can do!
"Skyfall" is a song performed by Adele, and the eponymous theme song of the 23rd James Bond film from Eon Productions, Skyfall. The track was co-written by Adele, Joel Pott and producer Paul Epworth, and features orchestration by J. A. C. Redford. "Skyfall" was released on 5 October 2012 at 0:07 BST, as part of "Global James Bond Day", celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of Dr. No, the first James Bond film.
Skyfall is due to premiere on 23 October 2012, be released in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2012, and it will be the first James Bond film to be released in IMAX venues. The film's release will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the series, which began with Dr. No in 1962.
Skyfall is a classic Bond song, which stays true to both the style of 007 and Adele. The song builds to a huge climax, which ultimately ominous everyone will ROAR.
Newsday was very positive, writing that "Skyfall" is "unlike anything else she's done in her young career. It's self-assured and grand, drawing inspiration from Dame Shirley Bassey, while adding her own powerful phrasing to make it her own. Adele's style so far has been to downplay her massive voice with lyrics that are questioning and self-deprecating. On "Skyfall," though, it sounds.

Skyfall lyrics

This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again

For this is the end
I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen

Let the sky fall,
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky fall,
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At Skyfall
At Skyfall

Skyfall is where we start
A thousand miles and poles apart
Where worlds collide and days are dark
You may have my number
You can take my name
But you'll never have my heart

Let the sky fall
(Let the sky fall),
When it crumbles
(When it crumbles)
We will stand tall
(We will stand tall)
Face it all together

Let the sky fall
(Let the sky fall),
When it crumbles
(When it crumbles)
We will stand tall
(We will stand tall)
Face it all together
At Skyfall

(Let The Skyfall)
(When it crumbles)
(We will stand tall)
(Let The Skyfall)
(When it crumbles)
(We will stand tall)

Where you go I go
What you see I see
I know I'd never be me
Without the Security of your loving arms
Keeping me from harm
Put your hand in my hand
And we'll stand

Let the sky fall
(Let the sky fall),
When it crumbles
(When it crumbles)
We will stand tall
(We will stand tall)
Face it all together

Let the sky fall
(Let the sky fall),
When it crumbles
(When it crumbles)
We will stand tall
(We will stand tall)
Face it all together
At Skyfall

Let the sky fall
We will stand tall
At Skyfall

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Someone Like You

There are songs that give me goosebumps and shivers down the spine.
One is "Someone Like You" performand by Adele.

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele, is an English recording artist and songwriter. Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on MySpace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK. 19 was certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

"Someone Like You" was written by Adele and Dan Wilson for her second studio album 21. The piano and blue-eyed soul ballad was inspired by a broken relationship of Adele's, and lyrically it speaks of Adele coming to terms with it. XL Recordings released the song as the second single from the album on 24 January 2011 in the United Kingdom and on 9 August 2011 in the United States. Accompanied only by a piano played by co-writer Wilson, Adele sings about the end of the relationship with her ex-boyfriend. The song received positive reviews from music critics who chose the song as a highlight on the album and praised its simple sound. The lyrics and Adele's vocal performance in the song were also praised.
At the 2011 Q Awards, "Someone Like You" was nominated in the category for Best Track. The song was also nominated in the category for Best Song at the 2011 Music of Black Origin Awards. "Someone Like You" received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards, on 12 February 2012. http://www.adele.tv/home

"Someone Like You"

I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl and you're married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you.

Old friend, why are you so shy?
Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light.

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, "
Yeah

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
We were born and raised
In a summer haze
Bound by the surprise of our glory days

I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded
That for me it isn't over.

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."
Yeah

Nothing compares
No worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes
They are memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."

Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead."
Yeah