# Adele's 'Rollin' In the Deep' **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214 "2011-06-20T22:03:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/21 "2011-06-22T01:59:07Z")
Speaking of Moby, I like the mashup of [Rolling & Extreme Ways](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5v-FlwR650). ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/22 "2011-06-22T02:19:57Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > You know, hearing that version just reinforces my strongly held notion that I have heard Adele’s song before somewhere, or it shares a strong connection to a Negro Spiritual or Old Timey Bluegrass/Hills Music, or Blues song that I have heard before. Maybe just melody and a certain structure. I wanna say Mahalia Jackson, but it’s more bluesy than her usual. I think it sounds like the [Gnarls Barkley song “Crazy.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w) ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/23 "2011-06-22T02:35:38Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I think it sounds like the [Gnarls Barkley song “Crazy.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w) And the [Mashup.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQCqCdZZ-s) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/24 "2011-06-22T03:19:10Z")
FWIW there’s a British group called [Roll Deep](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Deep). ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/25 "2011-06-24T12:21:37Z")
First thing I thought of when I heard this song is that the chorus reminds me of the backup singers lines in the Stones Gimme Shelter. Maybe it’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/26 "2011-06-25T04:04:22Z")
More a bit like the Carter Family, I thought. There’s a lot of country in it, and a bit of Motown. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/27 "2011-06-25T04:35:40Z")
No, this is all fine and nice, but I think I have heard this song as a female lead, call and response negro slave spiritual, maybe a holler dirghe— seriously almost the same. I don’t want to say it plagiarizes, but this song is very derivative. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214/28 "2011-06-25T18:47:13Z")
Nice to hear something classic on the pop charts, isn’t it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-rollin-in-the-deep/586214.md?page=1)