A fantastic Adele cover
Spyke
When Linkin Park performed their live set at the itunes festival on the 4th July in London they broke tradition and actually performed a cover of someone else's track; and what a track to choose! 2011 really has been the year of Adele with Rolling In The Deep spending 7 weeks atop the Hot 100 and Someone Like You selling its millionth copy in the UK earlier this week. So choosing to perform Rolling In The Deep was a very relevant and apt choice for the band.
Earlier this year we saw the track being covered by John Legend and featuring on Glee. The track just sounds so powerful and emotive when it is stripped right back in this way. Chester Bennington really brings out the passion and pain of the track. As Oli pointed out earlier this year one of the great aspects of '21' is that it full of genuine timeless tracks which are written straight from the heart and hence the album could easily have been released at any point other the past 50 years and still performed as successfully. As much as I love the studio version of Rolling In The Deep I find the live versions just bring out the individual story that each performer puts behind the lyrics. If you've ever been through a break up then I'm pretty sure you can relate to something on the album; I dread to think how many of her tracks are going to get obliterated on the X Factor this year.
This version is currently sat top 20 on UK itunes which could be enough to see it chart top 40 later today; it just depends if they've made it chart illegible or not.
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