Not Just Another Sad Love Song: R&B Songs About Real-Life Heartbreak
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Iva Anthony
Adele’s “Chasing Pavements”
Adele has a history of turning heartbreak into hit songs. Her first album was critically acclaimed and well received in the U.K. as well as here in the U.S. It contained the song “Chasing Pavements,” which she wrote after she found out her boyfriend of six months was cheating on her. “I went to the pub [where he was] and punched him in the face,” Adele recalled. “I got thrown out, and as I was running away, the phrase ‘chasing pavements’ came to me. I sang it into my phone, went home and got three chords together.”
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