For Adele, the decision to postpone her residency in Las Vegas is now water under the bridge.
The British singer, who heads two festival shows at BST Hyde Park this weekend, told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that moving forward with her planned residency in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace earlier this year was impossible, saying the program just wasn’t up to par. their standards.
The concerts were initially scheduled to begin on Friday, January 21 and last until mid-April. Postponements without any makeup date remain a painful point for many Adele fans and critics.
“I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and scared to let them down, and I thought I could do it and make it work and I couldn’t, and I stick with that decision,” he said. to the BBC. interview.
He acknowledged that the reaction was “brutal” from angry fans to pay money for travel and hotels, not to mention free time from work. That anger was left by a “one-person shell for a couple of months.”
She added “” You can’t buy me, you can’t buy me for nothing. I’m not just going to do a show because I have to do it or because people are disappointed or because we’re going to lose a lot of money. I say, “The show isn’t good enough.”
There is still no scheduled date for what was supposed to be a “postponement”. According to reports, the stages of the planned show have been destroyed and the venue has advanced with other artists.
“I won’t update you if I have nothing to update you, because that only leads to more disappointment.”
It is unclear why the shows were canceled. Adele blamed the beginning of the pandemic, saying that “Half of my crew, half of my team is down with COVID, they still are, and it’s been impossible to finish the show.” Later, it was reported that there were professional clashes between Adele and the production team over a choir of 60 people and a pond from which the singer would take the stage.
The London shows, at London’s Hyde Park, featured an exclusively female line-up of artists, highlighted by Kacey Musgraves.