Adele: Postponed Las Vegas residency was ‘worst moment in my career, by far’
nypost.comEasy on Me.”The 34-year-old songstress called her scrapped “Weekends with Adele” performances “by far” the “worst moment in my career.”“I was so excited about those shows,” she told Elle in a new cover story. “It was devastating.”The highly anticipated shows were scheduled to take place at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace this year from Jan.
21 through April. But in a tearful video posted to social media in January, the “Rumor Has It” singer declared that “it just ain’t ready.”“There was just no soul in it,” Adele told Elle. “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.”The cancellation was heavily scrutinized since many fans already bought tickets and arranged to travel to Sin City — and some were already there when she canceled the shows.
In July, Adele told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that she was a “shell of a person for a couple of months” after disappointing fans through the debacle.But for the mother of one, the setup as it was in the 4,300-plus-seat Colosseum lacked intimacy. “The first couple of months was really, really hard,” Adele told Elle about the cancellation. “I was embarrassed.
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