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. “This would be the best part of the show,” she remembers thinking. 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. Then she pulled her mic away and started singing a cappella to the mostly empty, 4,300-plus-seat Colosseum. Mario SorrentiĪt 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. And maybe I tried too hard to give it those things in such a controlled environment.”Ĭoat, Celine by Hedi Slimane, $3,500. It was very disconnected from me and my band, and it lacked intimacy. “There was just no soul in it,” she says. But she also knew in her bones that something about the show did not feel authentic to her.
Adele was terrified of letting everyone down. Not to mention that many thousands of ticket holders had planned travel around birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations to come to Vegas and see her. And there was so much on the line: months of planning and rehearsals, her crew’s and band’s livelihoods, and untold dollars in investment. But her team, already ravaged by absences from the Omicron surge, felt they’d accomplished more under tighter deadlines before. It was devastating.”īefore Adele posted the video, she’d been up for more than 30 hours straight, tormenting herself over a choice she’d known for a week was the right one to make. She hasn’t spoken publicly about the debacle in the five months since, even as rumors about production issues and set disagreements swirled, and she’s eager to address it right away.
“It was the worst moment in my career, by far,” she says, within 10 minutes of us sitting down. Last November, after a six-year hiatus, Adele released her fourth studio album, 30, which became the best-selling album of the year in the U.S.īut sitting in her Beverly Hills kitchen one blistering afternoon in June, Adele can easily identify her own professional nadir: It was the morning of January 20, when she uploaded a teary video to Instagram to inform her fans she was canceling her Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, which was set to premiere the following evening. She has won 15 Grammys and, with her devastating vocal power and narrative command, has achieved such celebrity that her name has become shorthand for heartbreak itself.
The British singer- songwriter has been on a steady, galactic trajectory since the 2008 release of her celebrated debut album, 19. Mario SorrentiĪdele’s career does not have much by way of low points. We all could use a good cry every once in a while, so the next time you're going through a sad time, queue up one of these sad country songs, grab your tissues, and let all the feelings flow.Adele wears a repurposed shearling coat from Pologeorgis (in accordance with the ELLE International fur-free charter). From songs about death-losing a parent, a partner, and even a child-to the most gut-wrenching breakup stories, the story-like lyrics and slow, twangy instrumentals just have a way of tugging at your heartstrings. When it comes to sad songs (oh, the sad songs), country music does it so right, capturing those somber, sick-at-heart emotions like no other genre can.
The list of the best classic country songs of all times just keeps growing and growing! There are the grittier "Hard Workin’ Man"-like anthems that tell the sweaty tale of getting up every morning to “do it all over again.” And when you’re in love, the best country love songs celebrate the highs of love won and the heartbreaking lows of love lost. To get the weekend started off just right, there are those feel-good, "It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere"-type hits, especially summer country songs that never get old. No matter what’s going on in your life, there’s a country tune that matches your mood.
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