This Adele Fan Tried (and Failed) to See Three Separate Concerts, Finneas Invites Her to His Show Instead
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It’s tough being an Adele fan — at least for one TikTok user.
Eleni Sabracos took to TikTok on Thursday (Jan. 20), just hours after Adele announced she is postponing her Las Vegas residency, to hilariously reveal that this isn’t the first time she tried to see the “Hello” singer to no avail.
“I bought tickets to see Adele at Madison Square Garden, but they were fake tickets,” she said against a photo of herself frowning outside MSG with a t-shirt she made for the star. “But nobody felt bad for me because I bought them off Craigslist so that was my own doing.”
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She continued that she also bought tickets for Adele’s 2017 show in London, where she would be seated in the “Golden Circle,” directly surrounding the stage. “She canceled her show,” Sabracos added. “Mind you, I risked my life flying to London on this cardboard airplane called WOW Airlines that is now discontinued. The only thing ‘wow’ about it was it was surprising that the airplane could fly.”
To add fuel to the flame, her Uber driver that took her to get dinner after the show was canceled was named… Adeel.
As if two canceled shows wasn’t enough, Sabracos revealed that her brother surprised her on Christmas in 2021 with tickets to Adele’s Vegas residency, which was scheduled to kick off on Friday (Jan. 21).
“I am in Vegas right now, and Adele canceled her show again,” she concluded, before screaming “Why” off her balcony in Sin City.
Her story, thankfully, has a happy ending. Finneas happened to be scrolling through TikTok and found her video just as hilarious as the 6.5 million other viewers did, and commented, “‘I’m in Vegas right now’ had me DYING.”
Sabracos, of course, replied to Finneas’ comment gushing over both him and his girlfriend, Claudia Sulewski. “Please invite me to the Christmas party because I make a rad gingerbread house,” she said.
Finneas, to make up for Sabracos’ three canceled Adele shows, then replied, “If you ever want tickets to a show, lemme know! Hopefully we won’t cancel [laughing face emoji.”
See the interaction below. Here’s to hoping Eleni makes it to a concert in 2022.
Adele ‘at risk of losing her voice’ during her £30million Las Vegas residency
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Adele has been warned she could face damage to her vocal cords during her upcoming residency in Las Vegas - worth £30 million - due to the dry heat in the desert city
Adele ‘at risk of losing her voice’ during her £30million Las Vegas residency
Adele could be at risk of losing her voice during her £30million Las Vegas residency.
She was warned by rock legend and Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott, who said the dry heat in the scorching hot city could affect her vocal cords.
Joe, 62, previously played his own residency at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino back in 2019, and said the lack of humidity in the desert had an adverse effect on his iconic voice.
“I had to fill my bath with boiling water every night and put kettles and humidifiers all over the place so you wake up drowned,” he told the Daily Star, as he complained the climate in Sin City was a “killer for singers”.
And he urged the Hello hitmaker to invest in some good equipment to keep her voice in tip top condition.
“For god’s sake get a humidifier for your room,” Joe pleaded.
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Adele has had problems with her vocal chords over the years, and in 2011, she underwent surgery after suffering a haemorrhage to her vocal cords.
She made a full recovery, but in 2017, she was struck down again and was forced to cancel the final two shows of her world tour at London’s Wembley Stadium after damaging her vocal cords.
The Nevada resort is one of the driest cities in America, and the parched atmosphere has previously affected other singers, including U2 frontman Bono, and Jon Bon Jovi.
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Back in 1997, when the Irish rockers kicked off their PopMart world tour, the dry air played havoc with the singer’s throat, while Bon Jovi vowed to never play a gig in Las Vegas again after his voice became damaged while performing in the city.
Adele will rake in more than £500,000 per show when her Weekends With Adele residency kicks off on Friday at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum.
Tickets to see the mother-of-one range from £700 to more than £9,000, and as well as getting a cut of ticket sales, Adele will also make money from exclusive merchandise sold at the venue.
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It was reported the Easy On Me hitmaker will be splitting her time between a luxury £30,000-per-night suite at Caesars Palace, and her home in Los Angeles which she shares with son Angelo, 9,
The 24-concert residency will take place on Fridays and Saturdays until 16 April, and then she’ll be back in the UK to prepare for her headline gig at British Summer Time Hyde Park in July.
Go easy on her: Adele needs to stop being so hard on herself
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It was the worst news for Adele fans. The British singer’s much-hyped Las Vegas residency came to a stuttering halt last night (Thursday 20 January), after she revealed that half her team had been struck down by Covid, and a number of deliveries had failed to turn up. In a tearful video posted to Instagram, she said she and her team had been awake “for over 30 hours” trying to figure out a solution, but had been unable to make it work. She apologised to the people who had travelled miles to see her perform at Caesar’s Palace, promising rescheduled dates would be announced soon.
“We’ve tried absolutely everything that we can to pull it together in time and for it to be good enough for you but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid,” she said. “Half my crew, half my team are down with Covid, they still are, and it’s been impossible to finish the show… and I can’t give you what I have right now and I’m gutted, I’m gutted, and I’m sorry it’s the last minute.”
Fans are justifiably upset – some are angry – at the way the announcement was made. “It’s my birthday and I am on an airplane right now using the last of my vacation time for a whole year to see you along with some non-refundable deposits and a week of babysitting… I’m sad you couldn’t decide this until the last minute,” one wrote.
It certainly might have made more sense to warn fans of the issues earlier. But the way Adele’s Las Vegas saga has unfolded – and her apology video – is a classic example of how she tends to carry the burden of expectation on her shoulders alone. Back in 2017, she was forced to cancel the final two shows of her Wembley Stadium run after she damaged her vocal cords. She was apparently so desperate not to let her fans down that she’d considered miming. “But I’ve never done it and I cannot in a million years do that to you. It wouldn’t be the real me up there,” she said at the time. “I’m sorry for your disappointment… You know I would not make this decision lightly… I’m sorry. I’m devastated… Please forgive me.”
Adele has always treated her fans like family, so any time she feels she’s let them down comes with a hefty dose of guilt. In recent interviews, she spoke of being hurt when she saw some fans who felt “let down” by her recent weight loss, even while acknowledging that their feelings about their own bodies was not her responsibility. “It makes me sad that people expected that much from me, because that’s unattainable for anybody,” she said. “Things that people say, how someone looks, whatever. It’s not my job.” Despite this, you got the sense she couldn’t help but worry about them.
She also seems to be blaming herself for the collapse of the Las Vegas residency. Yet it’s not her fault that the music industry has been devastated by the pandemic, or that deliveries didn’t turn up on time. I doubt we’d see such an emotional apology from Ed Sheeran, or Drake, if the circumstances were so clearly out of their control. Adele should take her own advice and go easy. No one can deny how hard she’s tried.
Meat Loaf once reached out to offer Adele support after she suffered the same vocal-cord injury he’d had
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Meat Loaf, whose death was announced Thursday, told the Daily Mail in 2012 that he reached out to Adele about her vocal-cord injury.
Adele had surgery in 2011 to remove a hemorrhaging polyp on her vocal cord.
Meat Loaf performed a 2011 Australia tour with a hemorrhaging vocal cord, he told Billboard.
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Meat Loaf once sent Adele a message of encouragement after the singer injured her vocal cords and had to undergo surgery in 2012.
The death of the singer and actor, whose real name was Michael Lee Aday, at the age of 74 was announced on Thursday evening. Known for his best-selling album “Bat Out of Hell” and for appearing in films like “Fight Club” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” he died with his family around him, according to a statement posted to his Facebook page on Thursday evening.
Meat Loaf told the Daily Mail in 2012 that he had sent a message of encouragement to Adele regarding an injury that both of them had suffered, a vocal-cord hemorrhage. In 2011, the “Rolling in the Deep” singer had surgery to remove a hemorrhaging polyp on her vocal cord, CBS News reported.
“My problems were similar to Adele’s,” Meat Loaf told the Daily Mail. “I actually sent her a message saying that every singer understood what she was going through.”
Adele’s 2011 surgery was successful, but in 2017 the singer had to cancel the final two shows of her tour at Wembley Stadium in London as the result of a vocal-cord injury.
Meat Loaf suffered from a similar injury, telling the Daily Mail that he had rebuffed doctors who had cautioned him about performing during an 2011 Australia tour due to the injury. In 2015, he told Billboard that he had done the tour with a hemorrhaging vocal cord and was “spitting blood every night on stage.”
Still, Meat Loaf finished the tour and completed his 2011 album “Hell in a Handbasket” on the road, which was released first in Australia and New Zealand and later released globally in 2012.
At the time of his death, he had a television show and new music in the works, Insider reported. The singer was working on a relationship reality-competition show named after his single “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That),” as well as a four-song EP.
Adele ‘Gutted’ By Postponement Of Las Vegas Residency
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A tearful Adele apologized to her fans on Thursday after announcing that she is postponing her Las Vegas residency.
The singer was scheduled to kick off Weekends with Adele on Friday at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. In all, 24 shows are lined up before April 16. All of the roughly 100,000 tickets were snapped up within hours of going on sale.
“I’m so sorry but my show ain’t ready,” Adele said, in a video message she shared on social media. “We’ve tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID. Half my crew, half my team are down with COVID.
“It’s been impossible to finish the show and I can’t give you what I’ve got right now and I’m gutted. I’m gutted and I’m sorry that it’s so last minute. We’ve been awake for over 30 hours now trying to figure it out and we’ve run out of time. I’m so upset and I’m really embarrassed.”
Adele apologized to fans who have traveled to Las Vegas to see her this weekend. “I’m really, really sorry,” she said. “I’m really sorry.”
The singer promised that the shows will be rescheduled. Ticketmaster is offering refunds within the next 30 days.
Earlier this month, David Lee Roth cancelled the final nine shows of his Vegas residency due to the spread of COVID-19.