Adele: “I Stand By That Decision” To Postpone Her Las Vegas Residency

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To Adele, the decision to postpone her Las Vegas residency is now water under the bridge.The British songstress, who is headlining two festival shows at BST Hyde Park this weekend, told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that going forward with her planned Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace earlier this year was impossible, saying the show simply was not up to her standards.The concerts were initially scheduled to begin Friday, Jan.

21 and run through mid-April. The postponements without any make-up dates remains a sore spot for many Adele fans and critics.“I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down, and I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn’t, and I stand by that decision,” she said in the BBC interview.She acknowledged the backlash was “brutal” from fans angry at shelling out money for travel and hotels, not to mention taking time off from work.

That anger left her a “shell of a person for a couple of months.”She added ““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.