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Originally posted by Artoo
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I don't get why they haven't planned a worldwide tour yet? Is it still about covid or Adele is not keen on the idea of touring? Styles is touring stadiums at the moment...
I agree with you! It's ridiculous..Originally posted by Artoo View PostComment
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It’s really odd she hasn’t announced a tour, making me wonder if the Vegas shows were supposed to extend and she’s somehow under contract for unannounced shows?
I have a bad feeling about this.Comment
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It isn't even that the shows haven't been rescheduled; it's the silence. She addresses that in the interview, but in such a ridiculous way.
On one hand, she says something like "I'm not going to get on Insta and TikTok to say 'I'm working on it!; I'm working on it!' ... Of course, I'm working on it!" OK? Why wouldn't you want to tell fans that?
And then almost in the same breath she says she's not going to update people if there's "nothing to update". Like, which is it, Adele? You're working on it or there's nothing happening?
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I assumed she isn't keen on doing a worldwide tour, which is why she wanted to do those Vegas shows and the one-off festival here and there.Comment
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I'm reading on reddit that people who held on to their tickets did not have a say in which show for which they were rescheduled. Some got scheduled right around Christmas. Since I had closing night tickets, I'm guessing mine would have gone up in March, nearly a full year after I was supposed to have seen her.Comment
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Have you seen her live before?Originally posted by cheapthrills View Post
I think the whole Vegas thing has been so badly handled. I really hope she pulls something amazing out of the bag to justify it, because if it’s just Adele stood in front of a screen…I have a bad feeling about this.Comment
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No, it was kind of a bucket list item to see her, but the whole situation really soured me, and I realized I wasn't even excited anymore to see her.Originally posted by Artoo View Post
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She’s good but I totally get your reaction. Even if she performs in twenty years, it’ll probably be the same show…Originally posted by cheapthrills View PostI have a bad feeling about this.Comment
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Her lack of interest in this whole era is just astounding.Comment
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https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a...er-cover-2022/Adele was terrified of letting everyone down. But she also knew in her bones that something about the show did not feel authentic to her. “There was just no soul in it,” she says. “The stage setup wasn’t right. It was very disconnected from me and my band, and it lacked intimacy. And maybe I tried too hard to give it those things in such a controlled environment.”
At a dress rehearsal the night before she announced the cancellation, she got frustrated enough that, during the first song, she walked to the end of the 15,700-square-foot stage, sat down, and crossed her legs over the side. Then she pulled her mic away and started singing a cappella to the mostly empty, 4,300-plus-seat Colosseum. Even unplugged, she says, “they could hear me up at the top.” As she sang, Adele looked out into the first few rows and realized it was exactly this feeling she’d been missing: an intimate and unpretentious moment with a stardom that has, over 15 years and more than 120 million albums sold worldwide, become its own life force.
“This would be the best part of the show,” she remembers thinking. “For me, and for you. This is what I want,” she continues, motioning to an imagined small audience in front of her kitchen table, the proximity of a fan’s beating heart. “And none of that—” she gestures behind her, to the idea of a Vegas stage with its trappings and special effects—“has that.” The next morning, she called off the shows.
“The first couple of months was really, really hard,” Adele says. “I was embarrassed. But it actually made my confidence in myself grow, because it was a very brave thing to do. And I don’t think many people would have done what I did. I’m very proud of myself for standing by my artistic needs.”
So she basically lied and the whole COVID-19 excuse was bullsh*t. That's so disrespectful towards her fans!
The song was totally ready to go, but her ego decided to cancel last minute. She could've at least done the first couple of legs and changed the show throughout the run, if she wasn't happy with its concept. How are you going through months of conceptualising and rehearsing, only for you to change your mind and cancel at the very last moment.
I don't get why she keeps talking about this. Because with every interview she makes herself look worse and more unlikeable.Comment
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^ She must be a nightmare to manage. Her management, PR, record label and booking agent probably couldn't even say a word to her.Comment
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She's on her way to ruin her own legacy. That Oprah interview already shown she's not that humble Adele people fell in love anymore.
Was obvious that covid was just an easy excuse. She should stay silent until the show starts. I don't envy people who still have tickets for the 1st performance.Comment
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Sadly I have to agree. Silence is golden and the more you try to explain and justify, the worse it gets. Basically she messed up and instead of owning it and getting on with it, she walked away from it.
Yes, you can call it artistic temperament etc but you don’t get the feels that it’s all wrong twenty four hours beforehand. As I’ve said here before, Adele did a full show in London that was just her and a microphone (for TV). That’s all Vegas needed to be.
It almost reads like she had a big elaborate production that she felt wasn’t her, and wanted to redo the whole show. That’s fine, but if she wanted intimacy I’m not sure why it took so long when she could literally just stand under a spotlight and sing for two hours. I mean that’s essentially all her last tour was too.
The ego though needs a reality check, I think. She clearly has good management that must have used a pretty good ‘get out of jail free’ clause in her contract to cancel with twenty four hours notice.I have a bad feeling about this.Comment
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She lost me with this album, even w last one album, but I’ve waited for 30 to see can she top 21 and do something different and good. Sadly, this is such a borefest album, and she’s not the same Adele we fall in love with.
And that doesn’t mean that she needs to stay same forever without any growth, but she went so superfical and she enjoys being in rich and wealthy company.Comment
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I don’t know that I agree entirely. I don’t know if I’d call her superficial but there’s definitely an ‘air of LA’ around her now - which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.Originally posted by croatiaxtina View Post
It’s easy to forget sometimes that despite only being on album four, she’s been around for fifteen years - in that time she’s had a kid, moved continent, got married and divorced. She’s grown up and it would be naive to think she’d be the same woman we were introduced to.
At the same time, she’s completely self made and I don’t see anything wrong with her enjoying her money and success, the doors it opens, and the access it grants. In terms of the artist she wants to be, she’s taken it as far as she can - she has mammoth sales, plays stadium shows around the world, appears on the cover of the biggest and most prestigious magazines and does TV interviews with Oprah.
Has she lost herself along the way? Possibly, but find me someone who hasn’t over time. ‘30’ is an acknowledgement she knows she lost something and whilst it’s indulgent album, I do believe it’s an honest album, and selling us her truth continues to be her biggest USP - so she’s still in there.
But with fame and celebrity comes ego - and cancelling a show with twenty four hours notice, knowing fans have travelled to a specific part of the world at great personal expense just to see her, is a terrible amount of ego. She can call it brave, but it occurs to me that the brave thing to do would have been to do a show you didn’t want to do for your fans.I have a bad feeling about this.Comment
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Celine Dion, Olivia Newton-John, Dolly Parton to name but three.Originally posted by Artoo View Post
I don’t disagree with you btw, just responding to this particular point.
As she’s become a bigger star, I’ve definitely observed a change in her - and that’s fine, but this interview with Elle doesn’t do her many favours really.Comment
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As someone who bought tickets to see her original run, how does the most recent interview make you feel?Originally posted by cheapthrills View PostComment
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"And I don’t think many people would have done what I did. I’m very proud of myself for standing by my artistic needs.”
Adele sweetie, I know you have a big mouth but you really need to learn when to keep it shut, especially when you gave a completely different reason for the shows being cancelled at the time.
" Princess of Pop Katy Perry "
Stan of Meredith.Comment
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The one with Oprah too.Originally posted by Wayne View Post
Celine Dion, Olivia Newton-John, Dolly Parton to name but three. I don’t disagree with you btw, just responding to this particular point.
As she’s become a bigger star, I’ve definitely observed a change in her - and that’s fine, but this interview with Elle doesn’t do her many favours really.
When she was talking about her training and she stops and goes " Im an athlete " Like I was waiting for her to burst out laughing and say she was joking and I think Oprah was too.. but the fact that she was 100 percent serious. I mean Adele please.
" Princess of Pop Katy Perry "
Stan of Meredith.Comment
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I was actually speaking more metaphorically - we all travel roads we didn’t expect to take and become versions of ourselves we couldn’t imagine.Originally posted by Wayne View Post
Celine Dion, Olivia Newton-John, Dolly Parton to name but three. I don’t disagree with you btw, just responding to this particular point.
As she’s become a bigger star, I’ve definitely observed a change in her - and that’s fine, but this interview with Elle doesn’t do her many favours really.I have a bad feeling about this.Comment
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Exactly! She said it was a brave thing to do, but i completely disagree. It was very unprofessional. I am really concerned she's ruining her legacy but i hope I'm wrong.Originally posted by Noahh View PostComment
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The fact that she clearly lied “which was evident from day 1” is just really rude and gross… “she’s brave” for canceling? Please, brave would have been performing even if you didn’t 100% believe in it cause your fans have spent thousands of dollars and travelled from around the world to see you the next day.
She used to come across really well but the last year something has really changed.Comment
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So what I’m getting from her explanation is that the original show concept was too overproduced for her liking and she wanted a more intimate setting.
How on earth is THAT a reason for cancelling at the last minute?!
Adele, honey, if you wanted to sit on the edge of the stage and unplug your mic you could’ve done that. Easily.
I mean, yeah, you would’ve wasted the time and effort of everyone who worked on the show, but now you did just that AND lied to and disappointed your fans, most of which had to make expensive travel arrangements to be in Vegas at that time.
And she honestly feels “brave” for doing that?
Lol at the postponed shows most likely being nothing more than a mic and a light, which was exactly what people suggested she should have done on the original dates instead of postponing. It certainly doesn’t take months to set that up.
I used to love her personality, but not anymore, I guess.Comment
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