Deep Analysis - My Little Love, Adele

My Little Love, popularly known for the lyrics " I'm holding on ( barely), demonstrates fighting for the love you have in life but battling so many other events independent from another. Adele's use of words to describe a mass problem in her life but leaves the viewers guessing became the reason why the song resonates with others. Regardless of what circumstances you are going through, that one lyric " I'm holding on ( barely)."

The Lyrics :

Mmh, mmh

My little love

I see your eyes widen like an ocean

When you look at me so full of my emotions

I'm finding it hard to be here, sincerely

I know you feel lost, it's my fault completely

Tell me you love me

I love you a million percent

I don't recognize myself in the coldness of the daylight

So I ain't surprised you can read through all of my lies

I feel so bad to be here when I'm so guilty

I'm so far gone, and you're the only one who can save me

Oi, I feel like you don't love me

Why do you feel like that?

Do you like-like me?

You know, mommy doesn't like anyone else like I like you, right?

I'm holding on (barely)

Mama's got a lot to learn (it's heavy)

I'm holding on (catch me)

Mama's got a lot to learn (teach me)

Mummy's been having a lot of big feelings recently

(Like how?)

Just, like, hang on lemme-, my fingers are trapped

Like, um, I feel a bit confused

(Why?) I don't know

And I feel like I don't really know what I'm doing

(Oh, at all?)

At all

And that would make me go

My little love

Tell me, do you feel the way my past aches?

When you lay on me, can you hear the way my heart breaks?

I wanted you to have everything I never had

I'm so sorry if what I've done makes you feel sad

I love your dad 'cause he gave you to me

You're half me and you're half daddy

Oh

I'm holding on (barely)

Mama's got a lot to learn (it's heavy)

I'm holding on (catch me)

Mama's got a lot to learn (teach me)

I'm having a bad day, I'm having a very anxious day

I feel very paranoid, I feel very stressed

Um, I have a hangover, which never helps, but

I feel like today is the first day since I left him that I feel lonely

And I never feel lonely, I love being on my own

I always preferred being on my own than being with people

And I feel like maybe I've been, like, overcompensating

Being out and stuff like that to keep my mind off of him

And I feel like today I'm home, and I wanna be at home

I just wanna watch TV and curl up in a ball and

Be in my sweats and stuff like that, I just feel really lonely

I feel a bit frightened that I might feel like this a lot

My Analysis

Adele has had her fair share of an arduous journey. Each album of Adele's is in numerical order, reflecting Adele's age and how her mind was throughout that time. Adele shares her painful experiences with her faithful viewers in her music. In this song, Adele mainly struggles to be a mom or even alive. Adele wants a fail-safe person to be there when she falls. Emotional is not even the word to describe this piece because the song's journey on a soul is a wow factor that even Simon Cowell would give a golden buzzer. A song so simple but is so elaborative of the pain experienced in life between paranoia, self-doubt, and depression. Not only is the song a reflection of Adele's life, but anyone can apply its simplicity to the struggles of almost everyone in this modern dystopia we call capitalism and this capitalist society. Although that is not a point Adele is bringing up in this piece, depression exists in this modern dystopia from many factors, mainly capitalism. Mass viewers engaged with this piece and the popular lyric " Im holding on(barely)", and seeing this lyric being used widely on the social media app Tik Tok because people are stressing out from work, jobs, or just plain society. It leaves the question to be, is Adele just holding on, or are we all reaching our breaking point?