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Adele Doubles Down On Decision To Cancel Her Las Vegas Residency: “You Can’t Buy Me”

<p><strong>Adele <&sol;strong>fans were disappointed when the singer announced she was no longer moving forward with her Las Vegas residency&period; Nevertheless&comma; Adele recently told BBC Radio 4&&num;8217&semi;s Desert Island Discs that she stands by her decision to pull out of the agreement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I definitely felt everyone&&num;8217&semi;s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down&comma; and I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; and I stand by that decision&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She added that the backlash she received from fans was &&num;8220&semi;brutal&&num;8221&semi; and she felt like a &&num;8220&semi;shell of a person for a couple of months&period;&&num;8221&semi; The criticism she received didn&&num;8217&semi;t change her mind&comma; however&period; Adele expressed that she didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to put on a show that wasn&&num;8217&semi;t up to her standards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>You can&&num;8217&semi;t buy me&comma; you can&&num;8217&semi;t buy me for nothing&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not going to just do a show because I have to or because people are going to be let down or because we&&num;8217&semi;re going to lose loads of money&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;the show&&num;8217&semi;s not good enough&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>As we previously reported&comma; Adele took to Instagram to break the news and apologized to her fans for postponing her &&num;8220&semi;Weekends With Adele&&num;8221&semi; residency&period; The Vegas residency was set to begin Friday&comma; Jan&period; 21 through mid-April&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>We&&num;8217&semi;ve tried absolutely everything that we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you&comma; but we&&num;8217&semi;ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVD&period; Half my crew&comma; half my team is down with COVID&&num;8211&semi;they still are&&num;8211&semi;and it&&num;8217&semi;s been impossible to finish the show&period; I can&&num;8217&semi;t give you what I have right now&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m gutted&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m gutted&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m sorry it&&num;8217&semi;s so last-minute&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;tv&sol;CY-AYtZAgp-&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><div>&NewLine; <iframe class&equals;"custom-ig-embed" data-src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;tv&sol;CY-AYtZAgp-&sol;embed&sol;captioned" allowtransparency&equals;"true" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" frameborder&equals;"0" height&equals;"640px" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; 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