Adele has no tolerance for hecklers at her concerts, especially those who don't support inclusivity.
The singer was caught off guard when a fan shouted “Pride sucks!” during a break between songs at his “Weekends With Adele” residency in Las Vegas on June 1, the first day of Pride Month.
“You came to my damn show and said Pride sucks?” she said, turning to the audience from his piano. “Are you fucking stupid? Don't be so fucking ridiculous. If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up, okay?
The 16-time Grammy winner was greeted with loud applause as she flipped her hair and quickly moved on, jokingly asking the crowd if there were any husbands who had been dragged by their partners.
Adele has long used her platform and concerts to express her support for the LGBTQ+ community, wearing a dress with a rainbow train at a concert during Pride Month last year and honoring victims of homophobic violence during her shows.
“I would like to start tonight by dedicating this entire show to everyone in Orlando and to Pulse nightclub,” she said through tears as she took the stage in Belgium in 2016, just hours after initial details about the mass shooting were revealed. “The LGBTQIA community are like my soulmates since I was very young, so I'm really touched by that.”
She appreciates that her music has apparently inspired some fans to live authentically, telling Out in 2015: “I get a lot of emails from people telling me that I make them really happy to be themselves and really comfortable with who they are, which Love.”
The “Rumor Has It” singer explained in the same interview that she once received a letter from a teenage fan who used her music to talk to his friends. “He liked someone at school, but she hadn't gone out. And she heard 'Someone Like You' and she confessed it to her best friend and then to the boy she liked, and it turned out he was gay too, and now they're together; He is about 15 years old. I had to go. “So I didn’t start crying.”
In 2018, Adele became a minister so she could officiate the wedding of her best friend Alan Carr, the comedian and broadcaster she stayed with after the release of “21” in 2011, and Paul Drayton, who had been together for eight years at the time. years. The “Set Fire to the Rain” singer paid for the event and hosted it in her own backyard, although the men ended up divorcing in 2022.
Adele received significant support online for her quick response to Saturday's caller. “Do you want to know how to challenge bullies and hate this Pride Month? Take a page from the icon that is @Adele,” the Human Rights Campaign tweeted. “Your voice is powerful in song and in spreading alliance and joy.”
“It's pretty funny that the heckling idiot paid a lot of money to do this,” one fan posted, noting the irony of a person shelling out expensive tickets and subsequently becoming an enemy of the artist. “Adele wins again.”
Adele will play four more shows this month in Las Vegas before heading to Munich in August.
