The singer directs clear words to the crowd and shoots into the crowd herself with a T-shirt cannon.
At a concert in Las Vegas, Adele commented on the recent throwing attacks on musicians and asked her fans not to throw any objects onto the stage.
The British singer is currently in Las Vegas to perform her residency shows Weekends With Adele. Since November 2022 she has been on the stage of the Colosseum in the casino hotel Caesars Palace in the US city in Nevada every weekend. At one of these gigs in early July, she addressed the concert-goers with an important request.
First, Adele asked her audience if they noticed that people “seem to forget the friggin’ show etiquette at the moment” because they’re throwing things at the stars more often now. Next she called out to the crowd: “Don’t you dare throw any stuff at me or I’ll kill you!” (Original quote: “I’ll fucking dare you to throw something at me and I’ll fucking kill you”) and then she followed: “Stop throwing things at the artists!”
Meanwhile, the 35-year-old waved a t-shirt cannon herself and gave away tops to her viewers. The audience responded with applause and laughter.
Increased attacks on artists
With her warning, Adele alludes to the events of the past few weeks. Artists were increasingly attacked by individual concertgoers during their live performances. Rapper Lil Nas X had to interrupt his show at Lollapaloooza because a fan threw a sex toy onto the stage. Previously, Pink was “gifted” with his mother’s ashes by a fan during her performance at the British Summer Time Festival.
The Ava Max concert in June didn’t go quite as smoothly. During her performance in Los Angeles on June 20, the pop singer was slapped in the middle of the stage by a concert-goer. Just two days earlier, Bebe Rexha was injured in the head at a gig at Pier 17 in New York with a cell phone that someone in the audience threw at the stage.