Adele's 'Someone Like You' Video: Queen Of Pain

goes to call a former love (with high hopes of a reconciliation), only to discover he has not only touched on with his life, but is in a much better place. And though she`s heartbroken, she puts on a brave face, stubbornly proclaiming she`ll see someone just wish him, even if she knows that she never will. And that decision makes you ache not simply because it`s so daunting, but because it`s so real. We`ve all felt that way, tried to prank ourselves into thinking that any other event was possible. In Adele`s music, much like life, there are no happy endings.

"Someone Like You" was a natural selection for the following one from 21, and on Thursday (September 29), Adele premiered the picture for the song ? an equally somber affair that matches not only the song`s emotional wallop, but its straightforward, downright crushing simplicity.

Shot in Paris, in the really early hours of the morning, it is little more than Adele wandering the deserted streets of the city, gazing longingly at the Seine, very nearly breaking into tears. Director Jake Nava made the wise decision to take it in arty, smudgy black-and-white, which just adds to the clip`s desolate, haunted feel. In a lot of ways, as she drifts along, Adele is little more than a ghost, haunting the streets, destined to remain invisible to all, especially the one she wants to notice.

It`s a lot like how everyone feels after heartbreak, and that`s what makes the "Soul Like You" video so powerful. There are no special effects, no camera tricks or elaborate choreography, because those are quick fixes. Life doesn`t work that way, especially when the bottom falls out and we are all alone. Our years are endless, our hearts black, our skies are gray. And when it gets to that point, all we possess is our pain, majestically, beautifully so. Thankfully, we too have Adele, and that sonorous, sorrowful voice of hers. Long survive the King of Pain.

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