Adele: He won't go

 

            Adele has been known for her music and her powerful voice. She was born on May 5, 1988, when she grew up in London and went to BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Adele started singing at four years old, which is where she started to become interested in singing. She had her first album, 19 released in 2008 and was UK’s bestselling debut albums. Which she then proceeded to do another album 21 in 2011 which was an international success and where you get the songs “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone like You”. Then in 2015, she released another album 25 which had record breaking first week's sales including the song “Hello”. The piece that I will be sharing is the song “He Won’t Go”.

He Won't Go

A quote from the song is:

“There will be times
We'll try and give it up
Bursting at the seams, no doubt
We'll almost fall apart then burn the pieces
So watch them turn to dust
But nothing will ever taint us”

            Relating to the book, he talks a lot about trying things and not giving up, which is what is described in this set of lyrics. During the song, it focuses on working to try to take risks and help the person. In the book, Rick talks about taking risks and an example of a risk that he took was when he stated his appendix burst that he did not get it removed because he read that we should not trust doctors. It should be like both Adele and Rick’s creative process is about taking risks. Adele was talking about taking risks in her song and then Rick talks about taking risks within his book. By creating the song, Adele went through relating it to her own experiences and then adding on to that since the song is about close friends where one helped the other get over their heroin addiction. Overall, both of these people are very creative in their own ways, but they also have similar ideas with how they are talking within their art.

 

References

Rubin, Rick. The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Penguin Press, 2023.