Adele stands by decision to postpone her residency: It wasn’t good enough

[GagasLeftFoot 391]

It's incredibly unprofessional and we should start holding our performers at a higher standard. The least she could've done is offer refunds to the people that would want that and release their money. Also, it's a job and she should treat it as such. If anybody didn't show up at work bc they felt like it, they'd be fired. If you wanna treat it as a hobby, the shower is there.

[danbekim 2,699]

So sorry to those who already booked tickets and hotels.

[Killa 14,404]

Out of touch. Completely

you can’t buy me????

I can’t even, with the way this woman spinned this thing around. Ofc theres some backstage drama that we don’t know but when you treat the people who support you like this none of the rest matters. Not a thing

[RudraCNG 13,373]

People justifying the behaviour of a rich woman who made a lot of fans lose money just to see her show... Stan culture at its finest.

[gagawaffles 165]

Wait, it hasn’t started? It’s been 6 months 

[COOOK 76,405]

Send My Love (To Your New Fanbase)
Treat them better

We've gotta let go of all of her shows
We both know we ain't rich no more

Spoiler

omg jk!

 

[dit 43,478]

Adele really changed a lot from the 25 to 30 era...even in her interviews. She seems a lot more anxious and also kind of diva-ish. Not saying it is wrong but I just feel like she is going through a lot of change in her life right now and it is reflective even on her career decisions. 

Anyways, maybe she can work on new music instead. Prepare an album to be released sooner since 30 was not a big cultural phenom. Release the new album and tour both 30 and this new record simultaneously instead. That way she can make up for the ppl who flew from around the world to see the show and did not cuz of her last minute cancellation.

[NibbCub 118]

31 minutes ago, dit said:

Adele really changed a lot from the 25 to 30 era...even in her interviews. She seems a lot more anxious and also kind of diva-ish. Not saying it is wrong but I just feel like she is going through a lot of change in her life right now and it is reflective even on her career decisions. 

Anyways, maybe she can work on new music instead. Prepare an album to be released sooner since 30 was not a big cultural phenom. Release the new album and tour both 30 and this new record simultaneously instead. That way she can make up for the ppl who flew from around the world to see the show and did not cuz of her last minute cancellation.

I doubt she changed. I'm sure this is the person she's always been. Maybe it's just easier for her to be herself now. Sad.

 

[StrawberryBlond 13,263]

It's amazing how she just keeps bringing it all back to "the show just wasn't up to my standards so I had to cancel." If this were the case, she would've been aware of it well before the eve of the first show. There's a whole lot of backstage drama that clearly went on that she isn't divulging (the biggest rumour is that she had a falling out with the set designer or someone else major) and we know for a fact she was making demands that that venue couldn't quite adhere to, for example, requesting new speakers despite the existing system being good enough for every other act who'd ever performed there. We all know Adele's shows are very basically designed as she just stands and sings. She doesn't go through costume changes, or dance, or requires back up dancers or special effects. Artists who have much bigger residency productions have had no problem starting on schedule. All in all, spare us the excuses, they don't wash. She famously said on Graham Norton that the shows will definitely be re-scheduled for sometime this year because she wants to have a baby in 2023. That was a very big statement to make and she'd better be prepared for her fans to hold her to account for that. We're already in July and there's still no further word on when these new shows will happen. Mind you, she originally announced the shows a mere 2 months before they were scheduled to start, so with that in mind, if she keeps to her word and begins the shows this year, if she started them at the absolute latest in December, she'll have to announce them by October at the latest. Apart from potentially booking a new venue, I don't know what on earth is taking all the time to get a new one finalised.

In any other situation in life, if you can't do something you promised to do, you have to speak on it well in advance. If you want an extension on your university dissertation, you can't tell your professor the day before. And if you haven't carried out a task you were required to do for your job, you can't just tell your boss the day before that you can't submit it because it wasn't up to your standards. You'd be fired. It's high time we started treating artists like an employee of any other job and make it abundantly clear that last minute cancellations and showing up late is not acceptable and stop buying tickets to their shows if they do it too often. It's going to be very interesting to see how many people will buy tickets when new shows are announced. It will be even more interesting to see if the shows even happen at all because, considering Adele's infamous habit of cancelling (remember the final stadium gigs of her previous tour got cancelled last minute letting down 200k fans), I could see the whole thing getting canned because she's been so out of practice with the idea and the album has long since finished promotion.

[salty like sodium 727]

13 hours ago, Teletubby said:

Adele has no regrets when it comes to canceling her Las Vegas residency in January, saying the show was not up to her standards.

Speaking to Desert Island Discs presenter Lauren Laverne, Adele said: "I definitely felt everyone's disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down.

"I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn't, and I stand by that decision."

She continued: “You can’t buy me, you can’t buy me for nothing,”
"I'm not going to just do a show because I have to or because people are going to be let down or because we're going to lose loads of money. I'm like, the show's not good enough."

"Of course I could be someone on TikTok or Instagram Live every day being like, 'I'm working on it'," she explained. "Of course I'm working on it! I'm not gonna update you if I ain't got nothing to update you with because that just leads to more disappointment.

"I was a shell of a person for a couple of months," she continued. "I just had to wait it out and just grieve it, I guess, just grieve the shows and get over the guilt, but it was brutal."
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nothing about her answer works. 

"i'm not going to just do my job because i have responsibilities and commitments. my personal pride and image matter more than other people's (her fans) lives/finances/plans."

not a great look, Adele.

For the record, some other big pop performers almost never cancel shows, and usually when they do it's for a really good reason (for example, a global pandemic lol)

[NATAH 31,306]

8 hours ago, JanStan said:

What I don’t understand is why some of you keep saying she should keep apologizing. She has APOLOGIZED multiple times. It’s so weird that when someone makes a mistake some of you expect that that equates to never being able to do anything but be miserable for the rest of their lives. Especially if you don’t have tickets and weren’t impacted…

it's not the apology, it's the blatant lying

[Naak Le Vaar 984]

13 hours ago, reallydima said:

I'm not even going to address the first comment on here. 

 

Good for her for staying true to herself and her art. It isn't about quantity, it's about quality. And she knows that. 

I work at a casino in Vegas in reservations and if our headliner did this it would be a complete and utter nightmare to deal with. You genuinely don't understand how people will move everything aside to watch a performer and for her to cancel like that is unimaginable 

[doppelganger 3,740]

She's entitled to be a diva and a perfectionist. I understand from a creative standpoint, that she should have her way but Vegas is no Hyde Park. 

The last minute cancellation/delay doesn't only affect her fans (especially the ones that have already flown to Vegas for the first show), but countless others who need the income from working on the production. 

[Alfonso 1,202]

Yeah, I'm sorry, but as everyones is saying, this just doesn't make sense... the fact that she just did (and "prepared") the London shows is unbelievable to say the least; they should make a decision asap and either cancel the residency or go with it and announce the real opening date tbh

Personally speaking, I think the most professional thing to do was to start the residency as they could (with whatever they had prepared or not, I mean who cares about the backstage drama, they could've done anything as their plan B if they wanted to) and then if she wasn't happy with it just change it afterwards (work on it while doing the first dates and then rebrand the show for the next leg).. I mean, it's not like she wasn't able to perform due to a health condition or the theater not being built, you know what I mean? Those fans that were literally hours away from the concert should've gotten to see her even if the show was stripped back (and I think they wouldn't have minded since she's not even a act that was offering a performance to begin with; and again, if this is what she wanted to, she could've waited.. right now it seems pretty selfish) 

[Economy 43,998]

15 hours ago, reallydima said:

I'm not even going to address the first comment on here. 

 

Good for her for staying true to herself and her art. It isn't about quantity, it's about quality. And she knows that. 

I think the first comment is perfectly valid

 

If I spent money on a ticket and hotels etc I'd be pretty darn cheese to get a postponement because it wasn't done well enough

 

I get Adele's point of view but the frustrations are equally as valid