Just about that clip of Adele

Give me three glasses of wine and I'll put on Adele (with four glasses I'll sink to the questionable level of Whitney Houston, but more on that another time). Preferably, I watch and listen to Adele's performance at the Royal Albert Hall where she sings ‘Someone like you’. That's definitely crying.

Adele and I are friends, so I did a little dance when Jet texted that a new song was out. She sent me a link to the music video and our Amayzine-WhatsApp group was busy collecting all sorts of superlatives. ‘Goosebumps, crying, everything,’ Jet wrote. ‘Holy, yes me too,’ was Liesbeth's reaction. To throw in another message with: ‘Wow, so beautiful.’ Our sales director Daan was also touched. ‘Crazy, right, so beautiful.’

Adele and I are friends, so I did a little dance when Jet texted that a new song was out.

What I'm about to say I'm sorry for all the members of our WhatsApp group, for all the millions of others who find the song beautiful, for Adele, but especially I'm very sorry for myself. Because I can't deal with it. And that's mainly because of that clip. Because really guys, I'm almost alone here in the editorial office, but that clip just can't be.

Because really guys, I'm almost alone here in the editorial office, but that clip just can't be.

First of all, she comes in through the back door. I find that strange-ish. Why? The house has been uninhabited for so long that there are even chunks of stone on the windowsill.

Then Adele immediately starts dramatically tearing down the drapes that hang in front of the windows and are draped over the furniture. Who still does that, putting drapes over furniture when you're away for a long time? Exactly. Grandmas do that.

After that, she looks sadly into the camera for half a minute.

Okay, the guy is nice. Although I don't necessarily need to see that moment in the rain where they argue seven times.

Then we see the desk. Apparently, the house has been completely prepared for a long period of vacancy, but the desk is just as it was. Messy with notes and staplers and everything.

Then it comes. Adele is going to call her beloved. Apparently, she has already called him ‘a thousand times’, but she still doesn't know his number by heart. She presses on one of those ultra old-fashioned telephone number devices (that your parents had at home back in the day) and then goes to call that number. And how long have you been apart exactly if you were still calling with a Bakelite phone back then?

And how long have you been apart exactly if you were still calling with a Bakelite phone back then?

Then the director adds some extra symbolism with a shot of a overgrown phone booth standing somewhere alone in the woods. Have you ever seen a phone booth standing in the middle of a forest? No? Funny, me neither. Then we go into that phone booth where you see the receiver dangling on the wire, symbolic of the silence or not answering on the other end.

Dear, beautiful, lovely, wonderful Adele, I was so happy you were back, I missed you so intensely and I don't mind that you keep mourning in your songs while we all know you're actually very happy with a much nicer man, but could you please hire a different director for next time? Or not make a video? Is that an option? That would really make me very happy.

My colleague from team Adele came up with this link with an explanation about the clip, but I don't think it's very strong if you have to come up with a manual at all. Anyway, don't hate me for this. I mean well.