He remembered that Adele would often write sitting on the couch with her dog in her lap. At one point she said, “I’ve got something, let’s give it a go.” They simply swung a microphone toward her. She did not even get up from the couch and sang two takes of “Rolling in the Deep.” And that was it. Those are the takes that stayed on the record. Rankin said plainly that she really was that good.