Hello Adele!

I was hoping to write on the variation in my emotions and how listening to music can push me into a parallel world altogether. This morning as I woke up feeling less of myself — possessed by an uncanny freakish somebody — I chose Adele to be my rescuer. I remember the first time I had heard “Rolling in the Deep” on a summery August afternoon of 2011 and how the voice mesmerised me in a thousand ways and I asked my friend “who the fuck is this singer?” Not a lot of things distract me when I am working but that captivating voice was strong enough to pull me away from what I had been brainstorming on all this while. I paid the price of it — listening to it for more than a dozen times until it was tiring enough to consider listening to music anymore for the evening.

Music has always been my safest escapade — from all things good, bad or worse. Adele’s song have always been enticing enough to make me feverish, high and I am fixated upon once I start listening to them — on uncounted loops! It keeps me thinking making me realise that it’s been three years since Adele came up with a new album and all this while — since that summer of 2011 — her songs continued to create that window I wish to look out of when in otherwise ‘reality’.

It’s funny how a melody can sound like a memory and even before you understand the how of it you’re already living it in your head. The sense of understanding the power of dulcet tones and beautiful lyrics is inexplicable — you’re breathing spaces in a dreamy land and it might seem stupid at times. Ah, how they say music is like drug — for me that drug has been highly moreish when it comes to listening to Adele’s song — I lose touch with reality — the music, the voice, the anecdote of compulsive lyrics creating a certain ‘something’ to an extent that I wake up writing an ode like this- on a Sunday morning.

Three years since a new song from that powerful voice didn’t seem like a wait- it was there all this while injecting life whenever I wanted to breathe less with the mind — more with the heart.

Hello again, Adele — this is me on the other side! :)