![]() “Oh My God” reflects the inner turmoil she had when she tried to start dating again after her divorce. I feel like that could really be a possibility.” “ I’ve been so lucky that no one I’ve been with has ever sold a story on me. “Everyone is someone or everyone wants to be someone,” she told Rolling Stone. Now living in LA, Adele doesn’t believe it is conducive for dating. ![]() And so it’s no surprise that the idea of dating again has brought such anxiety. Especially since her song-making is so intertwined with her personal experiences of romance.Īfter details of Adele’s divorce to her now ex-husband Simon Konecki emerged, there were countless pieces about what could have caused it – and the likelihood of music borne out of the experience. ![]() Since releasing her first album 19, when she was 20, her love life has been under constant scrutiny. So, with a whole new excuse to play this song on repeat, what do the lyrics mean? READ NEXT: Watch Adele’s Glamorous “Oh My God” Music VideoĪccording to Rolling Stone, the song “ explores wanting to put herself out there but having trouble doing so as a superstar”. GMT (the first since “Easy On Me” in October). And now this tune is being blessed with a music video, released on Jan. The songstress has managed to balance out the melancholic ballads with more upbeat tunes, including the absolute bop “Oh My God”, one of the rare tunes of Adele’s that you can dance along to. And we can all acknowledge she’s blessed us with some hard-hitting and quote-worthy lyrics. And, rightfully, her songs have smashed records, with her first single “Easy On Me”, breaking Spotify’s record for the most streams in one day. To promote it, she has provided us with quality content, with numerous interviews and live performances – including her unforgettable “An Audience With Adele”, which featured a wildly dancing Emma Thompson. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,Īnd this be our motto - “In God is our trust,”Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveAdele has been riding high on the success of her latest studio album 30, which came out back in November 2021. Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! O thus be it ever when freemen shall standīetween their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!īlest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a Country should leave us no more? O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore, ’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,Īs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?Īnd the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Friederich, the music is played as it would have been heard in 1854. This 19th century version (MP3) of the Star-Spangled Banner was performed on original instruments from the National Museum of American History's collection. Shortly afterward, two Baltimore newspapers published it, and by mid-October it had appeared in at least seventeen other papers in cities up and down the East Coast. A local printer issued the new song as a broadside. ![]() Back in Baltimore, he completed the four verses (PDF) and copied them onto a sheet of paper, probably making more than one copy. Inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after the bombardment, he scribbled the initial verse of his song on the back of a letter. Francis Scott Key was a gifted amateur poet.
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