Adele - Someone Like You (Music Video)

A microhistory. Written, directed, filmed and edited by Casey Ford Alexander. Music by Adele performing Someone Like You.

[CaseyFordAlexander]

Most of the film takes place at Princeton University, my alma mater. The story starts in high school and ends post-college. I'm 26, my friends in the video were 18 to 22 when we filmed. This world is very real to me. This story is about the ones I remember and will never forget.

[oipbhakeld]

Man. 6 years later and this is still the video for this song. Such a masterpiece.

[Gracie_t]

10 years later and I finally find this video!

[diceman]

Lol, official video has 1.7B views. Yet this is the one I ALWAYS look for

[scarlettcooper]

Watched it twice to figure out. Here's the story…

0:57 Girl and Blonde boy were high school lovers. Then they go to different schools for college...
1:31 He breaks up with her, and she moves on…
2:23 At Princeton, Blonde boy gets a gay boyfriend (Sam)…
2:42 At Brown, Girl has a new lover too (Adam)…
3:25 Blonde boy and his boyfriend break up.
3:29 After college, Blonde boy got engaged to an African American girl who we do not see any footage of—only a series of photos.
3:32 Gay guy finds out about this engagement on Facebook, and is heartbroken. He wants to tell Blonde boy that he’s still in love with him, but it may be too late, and now he's devastated.
4:29 Blonde boy had always been in love with Girl, the one who he broke up with, and now deeply regrets. Girl is still happy with her lover at Brown, and Blonde boy is trying to move on from the heartbreak by getting married to another woman.

[alinatv]

whos here after she deleted it from her official channel

[SilverSmurph]

This is my favorite music video ever. I love it because it demands to be felt, not be thought about. The emotions are real, and the frailty and beauty that love beckons is a subject most of us know, and understand. Every frame is perfect, a vignette that invites you to stop thinking, and start feeling. Don't analyze this video with your mind, use your heart. This video, and it's director, are works of sheer genius.

[xeupgpf]

I've seen this about two dozen times in the last couple of years and it still shakes me. Thanks so much for making it.

[cymmie]

I love the storyline. The lead Chris is dating Trinity in the beginning and has been for a while. But they are in a long distance relationship, separate universities. Chris meets Chole, they start texting and eventually they end up sleeping together and his relationship with Trinity ends because he cheated. Chris and Chole don't last long, and Chole ends up in a relationship w/ another guy. Chris hangs with friends, meets this guy name Samuel who he forms a friendship with and then begins to sleep with. Theres no fb relationship status reference in the video so im guessing it was secret.. Chris graduates and moves to the Bay Area, he and Trinity get back together and become engaged. Samuel finds out and apparently is hurt, and wants to talk to Chris about it. What happened between him and Chris in college meant alot to him. So he shows up to Chris house not really knowing what to expect. Chris opens the the door, looks in disbelief and lets it close.. Sometimes it hurts instead..

[yzra]

Omg, it's back!!! For a long time, I can't seem to find this video in yt. Im so glad to watch it again. Ten years ago, when I heard this song for the first time, I thought this was the original video! I love it so much!

[melissaeffinger]

Ive always adored this video. Done soon well. I watch it often. It remindeds me of my high school boyfriend so much.

[jennifernorth]

Nothing compares, No Worries or Cares, regrets and mistakes they’re memories made…who would have known how bitter sweet this would taste ….

♥️🫶🏻 … forever & a day.

[diceman]

This video always brings out the emotion in me like no other art I’ve consumed...just incredible 😢

[BrkenSmilez]

Can't listen to this without watching this music video truly a masterpiece and way better then her official.

[maemaeabinales]

So, I'm kind of correlating this to the movie "Like Crazy", but what I understood of the video is that the original lovers did not work out and ended up finding others (that I guess were like each other). Chloe I guess stayed with the one guy she found after Christopher, while Christopher seems to have ventured off trying to date a guy, Sam. That doesn't work out and the cycle ends for Chris getting engaged to Trinity, but now Sam is stuck in the pattern and is now stuck on Chris, trying to find his own "someone like you".

This is just my best interpretation, the director could have had a whole different concept, but nonetheless good job.

If you continue to watch the videos on the side (starting with Turning Tables) the story continues! Just caught this btw, even better!

[jay-b]

this video is just as good as it was when you made it 3 years ago. CFA you are awesome!!

[carlosandrade]

I love the combination of these videos and I think this is the best story ever! I feel like I understand the story for the most part because I have watched the videos several times, but I just can't figure out who is the guy dancing. Is he supposed to be Sam's boyfriend or how does he fit in the story? I get that Christopher was in a relationship with Chloe, then in a relationship with Sam, and finally he end up engage with Trinity. Chloe end up in a relationship with Adam after breaking up with Christopher, and Sam committed suicide after he figure out that Christopher was engaged with Trinity. I will really appreciate if someone can tell me who's the guy dancing because I don't understand that part. Thanks!

[sinjace]

I remember rewatching this video on loop, probably hundreds of times, back when it came out. And it just came recommended again. All those memories. I always got mad the two guys didn't end up together haha I never got over my crush on the words are for nerds tshirt guy (Samuel?). Always wanted a boyfriend like him. Ironic with the title of the song!

[BrianSoto]

Bro 9 years ago and I still looking for this video as the original one!

[jennifernorth]

Casey you should bring the same characters back and do like a 10 years down the road..and use Hello as ur track ...video once again amazing
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