Someone Like Who?

Idolized for her soulful, prominent voice, Adele has already made a song that most Americans sing along to on the radio.  However, sexism is a controversial issue in social life today and Adele seems to be pro-male-dependent.  In the song "Someone Like You" Adele sings about the man that she loves moving on from her.  What is her resolution?  Finding someone like him.  This song advocates the idea of a weak woman.  Women are beautiful, clever, and mysterious and, in my opinion, if a man leaves a woman, she should be confident that she will find something better.

When Adele mentions the woman the man she loves is now happy with, she sings, "I guess she gave you things, I could'nt give to you."  By saying this, she is degrading herself and promoting a negative attitude among woman who may not have had their happy ending with the person they thought was the "one."  Women, especially in a society that is trying to break sexist barriers, need to have a positive outlook on the cards they are dealt.  Women need to have the mind-set that they will find another man that is worth being with them, a man who wants to make them happy, or, more extremely, women should be content on their own.  Why is it necessary to have a man in order to achieve happiness?  Being independent and successful on their own should be an aspiration for the contemporary woman.  Adele's music, thus far, brings women back to a time when a man was everything.

And no, I am not a lonely, skeptical person.  I endlessly and fearlessly loved the same boy for two years.  I put him at the top of my list of priorities and idolized him until the day our relationship ended.  Of course I was sad, it's never easy to lose someone that you care about, but when I found myself tearing up after our last goodbye, I realized that I didn't want to be like Adele.  I didn't want my life to end because someone did'nt want to be part of it, and I believe every woman should have that attitude.  Admittedly, I do hum to the melodies of Adele's songs but I simultaneously curse her lyrics for the dependent lifestyle she promotes in women as she belts out, "Don't forget me! I beg!"  I do not wish for women to be heartless, I solely hope that after a small period of grief, women learn what they do and don't want from what hasn't worked out; look forward to a new chapter in your life ladies!  Think of the endless possibilities ahead of you and never, ever wish for the past, or else your future might pass you by.  There is one thing Adele was right about, "sometimes it lasts in love and sometimes it hurts instead" and after the hurt, you must move on.