Adele wowed at Sunday's MTV Video Music awards.
The British soul singer belted out the simple ballad, "Someone Like You," from her album "21," with none of the theatrics or hype of the night's other performers, like Beyonce, Chris Brown and Jay-Z and Kanye West.
Onstage with just a piano behind her, Adele delivered a low-key, but killer performance.
"Well, I wrote that song because I was exhausted from being such a [expletive,] with 'Rolling in the Deep' or 'Rumor Has It,'" she told MTV about the song's meaning.
Adele, who won four Moonman trophies for "Rolling in the Deep," used a past relationship for the now-ubiquitous, mega hit.
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