1. It took only 12 takes to film the entire video. "After we had a few that we were really happy with, then we started to play with the emotions, the prevailing emotion in the take, and also a different reading," he explained. "As we went along, we really built it together in terms of, we got it this covered this way. Let's cover it this way on a different path."

2. It wasn't choreographed, but Adele had to remember what she did in the previous take. "There were certain suggestions of what would look good when repeated many times over. After a couple takes, once everybody was a little bit looser in term of us on the camera side, she just really let go," Daughters shared. "Towards the end, we were doing takes that were more about the movement and less about the emotional performance."

3. Adele chose the dress! No costume designer or stylists needed.

4. Daughters was suffering from a migraine when they had to film, but it didn't affect too many decisions. "It was an unusual curveball. I mention it just because I remember having a migraine and kind of sitting in the dark and they're bringing photos over: 'This is her first choice, and this is her second choice, and this is her third choice…' I was like, this first choice, that looks great," he recalled. "That was the only bit of directorial decision-making that was required during the migraine."

5. Editing was minimal. "But in a way, as you watch the video many times, you start to make your own edits because you focus on different layers of her performance," he noted.

Yes, drag ha until she releases another bopT like this

No, because nobody cares for this video. The song is cool. The dress is giving post socialist granny though!

When has Adele ever released a memorable music video

Aren't all of her videos a waste of time? It's either just her walking or sitting and looking sad

Why?

12 minutes ago, Solaria said:

When has Adele ever released a memorable music video

11 minutes ago, glitch said:

Aren't all of her videos a waste of time? It's either just her walking or sitting and looking sad

The way Set Fire To The God had massive potential

If Rihanna can get away with the disastrous 777 Tour, Adele should be perfectly fine

Not really, other artists filmed much worse videos in their third eras

13 minutes ago, Solaria said:

When has Adele ever released a memorable music video

12 minutes ago, glitch said:

Aren't all of her videos a waste of time? It's either just her walking or sitting and looking sad

Adele can create the most boring and go girl give us nothing music video ever and people will still eat it up

I just remember how they were mentioning that the video has a choreography.. until we saw.. it didn't. lol

Queen of chairs, sitting and standing

I mean all of her videos are like this but I think it makes sense for a stripped back song

Girl please

Was expecting the thread to be about this

I just realized I'd never seen the whole video, so I watched it just to confirm that ATRLers really have way too much free time on their hands.

27 minutes ago, Loca said:

Was expecting the thread to be about this

Me too

1 hour ago, aesthetic bih said:

Adele can create the most boring and go girl give us nothing music video ever and people will still eat it up

cause the music is TEA

No one stans Adele for her videos. She is not a visual artist and that's ok

I remember the lead-up to this video being that "adele is gonna dance in her next one!!!!" And i was expecting full on choreography

Adele is not an video artist for me, but Rolling In The Deep was good

It is the same with Celine or with Whitney for me personally, I never really cared about the videos since the vocals were all we needed

Idk why but the pose + hand on her hip sends me to this day. Like okay let me pose and serve before I do absolutely nothing for 3+ minutes

Isn't that song is the fifth or fourth singles come from smash era? And no, she should not get dragged for sitting or standing alone in her mv, even her smash hit RITD she still sitting.

Queen of low budget mv.

18 hours ago, Solaria said:

When has Adele ever released a memorable music video

Why bother when she had a memorable music.