Thursday, September 29, 2011

Adele’s “Someone Like You” Video

Adele’s “Someone Like You” turned out to be achingly beautiful for reasons very different than 21’s first smash, “Rolling In Deep”: it’s a bare piano ballad that puts her rafter-reaching heartbreak front and center. The long-awaited video is just as simple: Adele wanders the streets of Paris in the lonely wee hours, and her sense of loss is displayed in gritty black and white. Our readers felt “Rolling In The Deep” deserved to win MTV’s prize for Video Of The Year. Will “Someone Like You” (directed by Jake Nava) prove to be as compelling? Watch below.