Sometimes you just need a re-do. That’s what happened to Adele during her George Michael tribute at last evening’s Grammys.
The 28-year-old diva, who took home three awards last night, including Album of the Year, was performing a slowed-down arrangement of Michael’s ode to casual gay sex “Fastlove.” It was her second performance of the evening.
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During the opening of the song, she missed a note, throwing throwing the rest of the intro of the song off-key. Rather than power through, Adele just…stopped.
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“I know it’s live TV,” she said. “I’m so f*cking sorry. I can’t do it again like last year.”
She was referring to her 2016 Grammy performance of “All I Ask” that was plagued by technical difficulties.
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“I’m sorry for swearing and I’m sorry for starting again,” Adele said. “I can’t mess this up for him. I’m sorry, I can’t.”
Check out the true diva moment below…
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Curious choice considering GM has so many appropriately moving ballads
genericbrand
I thought the exact same thing at first, but similar to disco, the lyrics are pretty sad the further the song goes and a slowed down version really highlighted that in this song for me for the first time
Charlie in Charge
A very wise choice by Adele, instead of the news being “Adele screws up tribute” it is “Adele starts over to get it right.”
I wish more folks in the public sphere would take this approach to their mistakes. Stop, start over, get it right.
skilos
It was hardly ‘mid-song’, it was at the beginning of the song.
argleflarglebargle
I love how this is called a “Diva” moment. No, this is a professional knowing they made a mistake and not wanting to give a subpar performance so they made sure they fixed it right away.
cleancut123
She restarted and nailed it!! adele is the sh*t.