I set fire, to the rain

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Adele

A huge audience. A blacked out stage. Gwyneth Paltrow introducing me. How in the world did I get here? It seems like just yesterday I was freaking the fuck out because I got a record deal three days after graduation. It’s unreal.

These past few months haven’t been so good. Having to cancel an entire tour and disappointing thousand of ‘Daydreamers’… oh Lord, I love that they call themselves that. And I had to cancel my fucking tour! All casue of my Goddamn throat… Sometimes I just don’t understand.

It was the height of my career. I was on a sucessful tour, I had played the Royal Albert fucking Hall, and my album had sold ten million copies. Quite frankly, it doesn’t get much better than that. And just when I thought nothing could go wrong, my doctor tells me he has to fix the polyp that has developed in my throat or I might never sing again. What the fuck? It was totally unfair. Imagine having your most prized and treasured possession taken away from you. What is a singer without a voice? It’s like an athlete without his legs. A professor without his brain. So surgery was the only way to do what I love to do. I was constantly thinking of Julie Andrews and how her incredible four octave voice was taken away from her in one simple day. That could happen to me. That could fucking happen. To me.

After almost four months of staying inside and barely singing, I go to the Grammy’s. It’s been three years since I first performed here. That night, I won two Grams and felt really good. Even though when I went to accept my award, I was chewing gum and I had undone my belt. I never realized how much work I must be for my publicist.

So after winning three awards tonight, I know what comes next. My performance. It’s what will decide how my career will go this year. So after sweet Gwyn finishes my introduction, I start the song acapella. It feels good. I’ve never been able to hit notes like this. I know one thing for certain. I’m back.

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