Sometimes you can forget songs and then they take you back to a place and time where you realised how much of you future was shaped in the past. I had just left my job at the bank when Adele's 19 was released and I was given the CD to as best new comer to the company. I think that was also the night that a close work college/friend and I were called a pair of hobbits. Hometown Glory is the last track of the album and there is a strongly independent lyric to someone just listening to the city that they live it. I know that being in the middle of composting my novel; I would use Edinburgh as a place to walk through my prose. A independent woman walking around, seeing the city through the eyes of her characters. I would normally spend my time listening to songs connected to be characters, but this song says something about me and the independent streak inside of me. I think the line that stand out for me "I like it in the city when two worlds collide". Edinburgh maybe a city but it is a village and even if you think two lives are separate; it is amazing how quickly one world connects to another.
When I heard this song today, in the pouring rain on the way to work, I had forgotten how much of an impact this song had over the change of direction in my life and as I am in the process of changing lanes again; I had my vision of standing firm in the direction of my choice.
Adele burst onto our music scene in 2008 after winning the Critic Choice award at the Brits; and her impact on the music scene is already legendary. She has become a household name and I hope that the familiarity of her music doesn't take away from her talent. If you need time with your own soul, this is the song for you
Listen to the track here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BW9Fzwuf43c
Written by Adele, 2008
Album: 19
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