The music video for Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" uses symbolic images to represent the singer's emotions over a broken relationship, showing her anger through shots of smashed plates and cups when singing about feeling betrayed, and clarity through images of clear glass to illustrate how she now sees her ex's true nature. The video reinforces the song's lyrics about the singer realizing what her former partner was really like by having corresponding images appear when she sings about specific feelings like seeing them "crystal clear".

1. Adele Rolling in the deep.
Alicia Keown

2. Screen Shots

3. What do they represent?
• The images represent her emotions and how she’s feeling, like
whenever, the warrior appears she singing about her emotions and
how she feels, when you get the images of her on her own they
represent that she’s lonely. When the images come up of the glass
it represents that she can see clearly now and that she can see
through the person that she is talking about. Also the images of the
broken cups and plates and when they are being thrown they
represent how she is feeling and that someone has made her feel
like that she is heart broken, she’s taking her anger out and she’s
breaking things.

4. What is the story?
• The story of the song ‘Rolling in the deep’, is about someone she
loved and that she has now see what they are really like ‘Finally I
can see you crystal clear’ which means that she can see through
him now and she now knows what that person is like and that they
have shown there true colours. Also this person she singing about
has done something to her or is threatening her through when she
sings ‘Go ahead and sell me out and I’ll lay your shit bear’ this
means that someone may have a secret on her and she’s say if you
tell my secret I'm going to tell yours, and she's say don't
underestimate me because I will do it. She also believe that they
has it all and they would be together and she gave him her heart
but he played her.

5. What effect does the images have
on the music video?
• The effects the images have on the music video is that they go with
the music video, when she sings about things the images are put
into the right place at the right time, and you can see the way she is
feeling through the way that the images are being shown during the
music video. For example; ‘finally I can see you crystal clear’, images
of clear glasses come up so it goes with she singing which shows
that she can finally see through now and she knows what that
person is all about now.

6. How do the images and lyrics link?
(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 your hand
• There's a fire starting in my heart (You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Reaching a fever pitch, it's bringing me out the And you played it, to the beat
dark (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
Finally I can see you crystal clear Could have had it all
Go 'head and sell me out and I'll lay your Rolling in the deep
ship [shit] bare
See how I leave with every piece of you You had my heart inside your hand
Don't underestimate the things that I will do But you played it, with a beating
Throw your soul through every open door
There's a fire starting in my heart Count your blessings to find what you look for
Reaching a fever pitch Turn my sorrow into treasured gold
And it's bringing me out the dark You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you've sown
The scars of your love remind me of us (You're gonna wish you never had met me)
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all We could have had it all
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless
I can't help feeling (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
We could have it all We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me) (You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep It all, it all, it all
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep) (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
You had my heart inside your hand
(You're gonna wish you never had met me) We could have had it all
And you played it, to the beat (You're gonna wish you never had met me)
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep) Rolling in the deep
Baby, I have no story to be told (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
But I've heard one on you You had my heart inside your hand
And I'm gonna make your head burn (You're gonna wish you never had met me)
Think of me in the depths of your despair And you played it to the beat
Make a home down there (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
As mine sure won't be shared
We could have had it all
(You're gonna wish you never had met me) (You're gonna wish you never had met me)
The scars of your love remind me of us Rolling in the deep
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
(You're gonna wish you never had met me) You had my heart inside of your hand
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless (You're gonna wish you never had met me)
(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
I can't help feeling But you played it
We could have had it all You played it
You played it
You played it to the beat.
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7. How do the images and lyrics link?
The images and lyrics The images and lyrics The images and lyrics
link by when she says ‘I link by when she sings links through when
can see you crystal about her emotions a you see all the smash
clear’, images of clear dance warrior plates she sings ‘You
glasses come up so it appears, and its like had my heart and
shows that she can that it was her soul’, which means
now she through the emotion is and when that she's heart
person she was with she sings ‘the scars of broken and she uses
and all the lies that he love remind me of us’ the broken plates to
told her and how he , that when the represent and to show
used her. warrior appears and how she is feeling.
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