I’m going to talk about six pieces of vocabulary from the song. I will put a link to the video in the description for this podcast and on the page on Learn English Vocabulary. The first song she sings is from her second album 21 and is called Someone Like You. I was looking for an appropriate song and found myself on NPR Music – Tiny desk concerts which are amazing and saw a video of the British singer Adele from 2011. However, the language in songs is often really advanced and sometimes very difficult to understand even for a native speaking English teacher. I think that song lyrics are a great way to improve your vocabulary because there’s something about music as a context that makes the language easier to remember. Today, I’m going to look at some song lyrics. If you do, please leave me a rating and review as this will help other learners find these podcasts. These podcasts are graded from A2 which is around lower intermediate all the way to C2 which is advanced. My name is Jack and I’m making this podcast for you to learn or revise English vocabulary. "But it's not so easy.Hello and welcome to Learn English Vocabulary. "Hey, if I had a scientific method for making a heartbreaking hit, I would do it every day," Wilson says with a chuckle. We get to have an imaginative experience." And so instead of being devastating, we're like children play-acting. And when you and l listen to that song, we walk through her shoes through that heartbreaking experience - but it's in our imagination. "That walked her back through that experience. "With Adele, we wrote this song that was about a desperately heartbreaking end of a relationship, and she was really, really feeling it at the time, and we were imaginatively creating," Wilson says. "That's why when you listen to The Replacements, you get this kind of giddy drunk feeling, probably because they were drunk when they recorded and wrote their song." "A good song allows us, the listeners, to walk through the songwriter or composer's thoughts and emotions as they wrote the song," he says. He has another theory about the song's roiling emotions. Tiny Desk Concerts Adele: Tiny Desk Concert " sort of talked about how Adele and I had used this secret trick about putting appoggiaturas in, but I didn't know what that was." Wilson says he first heard of the term appoggiatura in the Journal article. "It's like a little upset which then gets resolved or made better in the chord that follows."Īll Things Considered host Melissa Block put Sloboda's theory to someone with a bit of insider knowledge about Adele's song: Dan Wilson, who co-wrote "Someone Like You" with Adele. "The music taps into this very primitive system that we have which identifies emotion on the basis of a violation of expectancy," he says. When Adele bounces around the note on "you," there's a tension that is then released, Sloboda explains. So when that chord is not quite what we expect, it gives you a little bit of an emotional frisson, because it's strange and unexpected." "And generally music is consonant rather than dissonant, so we expect a nice chord. So when we're listening to music, our brain is constantly trying to guess what comes next. "Our brains are wired to pick up the music that we expect," says Sloboda.
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