It is the lead single and opening track on the album. The song was written by Adele and Paul Epworth. The singer herself describes it as a "dark blues-y gospel disco tune". The lyrics describe the emotions of a scorned lover.

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The video premiered on Channel 4 on December 3, The video begins with an abandoned house, where Adele is sitting in a chair singing. During the video, the scenes shows hundreds of glasses filled with water that vibrate to the beat of a drum, a mysterious person played by Jennifer White , who also choreographed the sequence dancing in a room with white flour and dust, the drummer playing the drums behind the stairs, plates being thrown and breaking on the wall in front of the staircase, and a white model of a city which is set on fire by five bursting light bulbs at the end of the song.
The song was written by Paul Epworth and Adele, who described it as a "dark blues-y gospel disco tune. The song was critically acclaimed upon its release. The single peaked at number one in some countries in Europe, as well in Canada and the United States. As of November , "Rolling in the Deep" had sold over 28 million copies in the United States, making it her best-selling single outside her home country, topping her previous best-selling " Chasing Pavements. The song has also become Adele's first number-one song in the United States, reaching the top spot of four Billboard charts. Adele wrote the first verse of the song in a Chinese restaurant that she had performed at in and then didn't finish the song until two years later, when she finished the song with Paul Epworth, seeking inspiration for the remainder of the song in her relationship with her ex-boyfriend. She showed up ready to write a tragic and lovelorn ballad. In an interview, she expressed her initial reservations prior to meeting with Epworth due to their divergent musical styles, but characterized their collaboration as "a match made in heaven.
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