It just occurred to me as I was looking through these photos of Adele at last night’s BRIT Awards – Adele has an excellent bitchface. Usually, we don’t see it. The camera loves her, and most of the professional and candid photos of her are just gorgeous, and she’s making sweet faces. But I swear, on the red carpet for the BRIT Awards, Adele was pissed off at someone or something, and the look on her face is magnificent. Sigh… LOVE.
Anyway, it’s been a year since Adele’s balls-out performance at the 2011 BRIT Awards – she sang “Someone Like You” with only a piano accompaniment, and the performance went viral. Shall we see it again?
Seriously? That still holds up. It will hold up 30 years from now. After that, they should have just given Adele all of the awards. Which is pretty much what happened at last night’s BRIT Awards – Adele took home Album of the Year and Best Female Solo Artist. Unfortunately for all, the producers of the awards decided to cut off Adele mid-speech! Noooo. So Adele flipped ‘em off.
Adele flipped the ‘birdy’ to BRIT Award bosses after being cut off during her acceptance speech tonight. The London singer was collecting her Album of The Year award for ‘21’ at the BRITS when host James Coden ran onstage and interrupted her speech due to time constraints.
Speaking during he press conference after, she said: ”I was cut off during my speech but I wanted to thank the British public for all their support. I was held up with my voice and troubles but the album kept walking without me. I flipped the bird for the suits at the BRITS who cut me off. Sorry if I offended anyone but it was for them, not for the fans.’
The singer’s second album ’21’ beat off competition from the likes of PJ Harvey, Ed Sheeran, Florence And The Machine and Coldplay.
Ed Sheeran won British Male Solo Artist and Best British Breakthrough, while Adele also won the award for Best Female Solo Artist.
Coldplay continued their Brit Awards run as they were named British Group, with frontman Chris Martin thanking fans for their continued love and support.
In the international categories, Foo Fighters won International Group and after little under six months Lana Del Rey held back tears as she collected the International Breakthrough Award.
Rihanna was named International Female Solo Artist for the second year and Bruno Mars took home the honour for International Male Solo Artist.
[From Gigwise]
Lana del Rey’s victory makes everyone else’s awards a little less special. But don’t ask me – I don’t really understand the way music awards work, what the governing bodies are for all of these academies and such. All I know is that my girl won and she flipped the bird. Because she’s ALL CLASS!!! And before you start yelling about Kristen Stewart’s bird-flipping – was Kristen’s acceptance speech cut off? No. Kristen is a rebel without a cause (or a clue). Adele was directing her anger at someone specific, at least.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She’s been in the business for almost 7 years, so why the hype now? I just don’t get it.
helen mirren was in the biz for over 30 before she got hyped. So time isnt the
point.
Only two albums. Her second was superb and brought in all kinds of fans who didn’t really know her.
Don’t mess with Adele, y’all!
I adore her. She is an artist, not a blow-up doll like other “singers”….
I love Lana.
I love her. And she was cut off for Blur who are a bunch of middle class twats who became less interesting when they gave up booze to become part time cheese farmers. Brit music with its finger on the pulse again. Sigh.
I heard from someone earlier today that Blur has been confirmed as the closing act of the Olympic Games… :/
Yes, that’s true, Damon Albarn has been in the running and involved in the closing ceremonies for the olympics for quite some time now. He and Jamie Hewlett were also involved in the olympics ceremonies a couple of years ago.
And if you know anything about Damon Albarn in general, his involvement isn’t much of a surprise. He has done so much more than Blur.
And why the crap did Blur perform a sad mashup of Girls and Boys and Song 2? Weird.
She’s a gorgeus girl, i just don’t understand why she always wears black, all those dresses kinda look the same to me.. and it’s the old rule of ‘go black and you’ll look slimmer’, but she is so gorgeous and she could easily pull off something colorful or shape-enhancing rather than black, sheer black, satin black and black black.
Not on camera … for reference, see lots of photos of Aretha Franklin, who wore all colors and looked not flattered by same.
love Adele! Cheers to her for not wearing the industry straightjacket handed out by the daddy-put-me-through 2.5 years of B school types who just don’t get it and never will.
And now it is cool again? Whether it is directed at somebody or not, flipping the bird is so oldschool and lame. It is entertaining sure, but still stupid and pointless. Words and attitude do way more damage than a stupid finger gesture.
No, I agree…it’s not cool. It’s so common, actually. I have more respect for someone, if they’re “snubbed” to have a quick quip about such, or to show derision in some other creative way.
Flipping the bird is such a classless, “go-to” show of derision. The use of such, to me, shows someone isn’t too smart or creative to express their derision in their “own” way. It’s a classless, knee-jerk reaction for one who isn’t too quick-witted.
There are MANY ways to show derision…and I’m just waiting on a celeb to show such, & I will applaud…but not now. Oh, and BTW, I do like Adele. I’m glad she’s on such a good streak…good for her!
I just read Adele’s entire interview for the March issue of Vogue, and in there she says that she’s not good at expressing herself, which is why even now she’s surprised that she could write all those songs in her albums. She said that when she’s not singing, she can’t find words to express her thoughts and feelings, so she would just do it through tears, gestures, and ramblings.
Besides, I doubt she can actually make a statement after the fact that she has walked off stage and her speech was cut off. Nobody would care anymore and people will think she’s just being a whiny little b*tch for criticizing the producers while being interviewed.
I’m not making excuses for her, because I think flipping the bird is really quite crass, but I can understand why she did it. This girl, no matter how successful she becomes, will always be the girl with the dirty mouth and who likes to swear and she most likely will never want to put on a pretense of being educated and sophisticated because that is not her image at all.
I thought that cutting her speech was just so disrespectful to her, though, since she never got to properly say her thanks and the time constraints were not her fault, so for her to be cut off from her speech was really unprofessional in the producers’ side.
Exactly. I resort to flipping the bird when I can’t express myself through words and the second after I did it, I know I lost the argument. It’s so easy to do but says a lot about how you deal with things. To do it on a respected show is just…no.
I love Adele too and I get it in some way (it was rude to cut her off) but that still doesn’t excuse her immature behaviour.
So does that mean if people are talented, they can do bi***faces, show their middle fingers @ various galas etc…??? I just don’t get it…ok she can sing and she can perform – we all know it and accept it but that doesn’t really mean she can behave disgracefully and the exused because her voice is magical….give me a break!!!
Everyone must behave perfectly, at all times…decorum, blandness, never speaking up for themselves…otherwise they should be ostracized and banished…
It’s super fun living in a world where no one has any personality… 🙁
Like everyone else in the UK, she can do whatever she wants on TV. We’re not as sensitive as other countries. “Behave disgracefully”!? which century are you living in?
I love Adele, but whoever does her nails needs to be FIRED! 0_o
Agreed, all I can see are those claws.
She is sooo gorgeous 😀 Compared to Nicki Minaj or some other crazy performance artist she is a breath of fresh air. Her accent is so brilliant too. I cannot believe shes only 23.
Who cares if she pulled the finger? Oooh big deal. It’s hardly that offensive. As long as she isn’t up there with a crucifix on her crouch dancing on a Nun like Gaga or dancing around in a barely there plastic leotard like Katy Perry or Rihanna then I don’t care. She had something to express and she did.
*sigh* Well im gonna listen to Rolling in the Deep again…
I’m sorry but no, it’s not “all class”. This girl appears so classy that I was a little disappointed in what she did. I totally understand why she did it as I would have been as mad as her against the producers but girl, elegance has to be the key all the time, otherwise it’s not at all.
This.
Kaiser, as much as you love her and want to defend her – this is classless, immature behavior when anyone does it. Including Adele. There is no defense – she’s not 8 to act like a petulant child.
And this.
You said it all…
Totally agree.
I think it is childish no matter what. I haven’t read all of her interviews or know all that much about her really, but she seemed more mature than that. Surely she could have just stopped her speech and still put out the statement afterwards?
Cutting off the acceptance speech for best album is like truncating the one for the best movie of the year Oscar. It simply is not done as it constitutes the highlight of the evening.
I agree with you to an extent. I think the suits should be partly blamed here, but it’s still unclassy of Adele to give them a finger.
Really now… she’s an adult and anybody up watching the brits should be an adult. Compared to what people have done at the awards in the past giving the finger is nothing.
I agree.
Its a classless move maybe, but its pretty much an accepted practice at awards shows that the winner of the ‘main award’ gets free reign with their speech. She earned her say, and most probably flipped off in the heat of the moment.
Besides, the producers make money off these shows and its the stars who are there that make it for them.
and for Blur to do a 10 minute set which is 10 minutes too long in my opinion
especially since ‘Song 2’ is one of the shortest singles ever at the length of 2 minutes
They did a 5-track set: Girls and Boys, Song 2, Parklife, Tender and This is a Low.
And btw, the last two tracks (which were the best of the set) also got cut off and were aired later. Adele wasn’t the only one cut off.
How did Blur even get the outstanding contribution award?! Kate Bush should have had it before them…
D:<
now I'm really annoyed. I ADORE Kate Bush.
@Sisi, I heard they havn’t given it to Kate because she won’t perform at the show (she doesn’t perform anymore) but her album she released last year is amazing…
@ Truth
they are using the award as leverage?
aaaaaand there goes it’s credibility : )
(not that I think Kate Bush cares about those things)
Are you talking about the Directors Cut or 50 Words For Snow?
I don’t have 50 Words yet, I’m trying to save up some money in general, so my entertainment expenses are down to almost zero for a while. It’s on my b’day wishlist though, so I’ll eventually own it. Can’t wait.
@Sisi, yeah they’re doing that and it sucks ass, I know Kate doesn’t do anything celebrity related or even go on chat shows to promote albums but she would turn up and accept the award if it was given (she did at the Q Awards a few years ago) but to try and force her to sing is pathetic, she deserves it for being one of the greatest artists from the UK ever.
Yeah i have both the albums, “Directors Cut” was good but “50 words for snow” is AMAZING, It’s like a winter version of the 2nd disc of “Aerial” which i thought was amazing too, I’m really into her more laid back serious kind of music she’s doing as she gets older, I wish i was around when she was promoting on tv and stuff (I’m 23) but the few radio interviews she does are always wonderful.
Quite right. Kate Bush is an original.
Alright, I know everyone seems to like her but she’s won alot of awards, you’re really telling me she needs more time to talk. I don’t think so. I think she probably didn’t want to be there anyway and threw a little temper tantrum.
She literally had 30 seconds compared to people that had 5 minutes, she’s won a lot of awards but for many British artists winning album of the year at the Brits is a really great honour, cutting her off has ruinned that memory for her now just like when Kanye interrupted Snow white… I mean Taylor Swift.
Love Adele! And Ed! The video to Lego House is hilarious. Rupert Grint needs an acting-award for that video. It’s very funny.
I think Adele was in the right, It was basically Adele’s night, she had just won the biggest award of the show and they cut her off after like 30 seconds while Bruno Mars and Blur got to ramble on for like 5 minutes.
It’s great that when she was cut off everybody in the Arena started booing.
Money and success can’t buy class. I can understand the idiocy regarding her being cut off. Can’t the network spare a few seconds? But her gesture was really off. The audience would have responded without her one finger salute. She did mention being cut off before flipping the bird.
The thing about Adele is that everyone (editors etc and magazines) love dressing her up and all that, to make her look so classy, but once she opens her mouth to speak, and it appears flip the bird, it all goes to pieces.
As for Lana del Rey’s ‘overnight’ success. I too wish I had a rich father so all my film clips could be placed as a priority on YouTube. When Lana sings it’s like a never ending whinge.
I like Adele and all but this surprise cry happiness is getting a little too old for me to watched,she wasted her time saying uuum,fanning herself,and all the surprised BS that she do everytime she win n award now before she’ll talk.Another Taylor Swift “OMG i win again shocked face!” in the making.
Adele has ner won a Brit Award besides the Critics choice award when she first came out and that isn’t awarded for the music it’s just who the academy will be big in future. The Birts are like the Grammys in the UK and winning best album is really the greatest honour, of course she’d cry. At least she actually deserves the awards unlike Taylor.
Classless move by Adele. Soon she will lose a lot of weight & shove her tits in our faces. Evidently, some people get a pass & others don’t.
I agree it was class-less. As it is when anyone does it, myself included. However you theorizing about tits and face-shoving is just as class-less. Just sayin.
The only reason I threw in the tit shoving was because Adele threw it out there herself in an interview. Just reflecting it back at her.
Lana and Adele have interesting voices, but after that they are kinda yawn.
Love Adele, love her voice and I love the songs she writes. I wish her a long and successful career as long as she stays off the dope and does not get involved with a dog of a man who is abusive in anyway and then lowers herself by staying with him or making excuses for him. I have no patience for women like that who never love themselves first and foremost. Either one of those two things and I don’t care if she sings like an angel or writes like Hemmingway I am done with her.
M.I.Adele.
Now Kaiser, how is it not ok for M.I.A to flipping the bird but cool when Adele does it? Let’s not be hypocritical here if it’s classless imachure for one it’s classless imachure for the other.
Maybe because unlike M.I.A Adele actually had a reason for doing it and because when adele did it it was after the watershed not when millions of children were watching, Either way is flipping the middle finger that bad? Kids see worse than that every day…
I get what your saying but this is not the first time she flipping the bird, she did it last month pictures below.
http://jjb.yuku.com/reply/11110327/Adele-arriving–London—new-Boyfriend-Jan-11-Flips—Paps#reply-11110327
You can’t say the invading her space because they were far away from her & using a zoom lens.
@Kimlee they ARE invading her space by taking photos of her FULL STOP, If a bunch of guys i didn’t know were following me around taking my pic giving them the finger would be the least of it.
Pluss that wasn’t even on TV or anything, she can’t even swear in her own private time?! …
For me voice or no voice (Joss Stone had a voice too), the current trend of singers are ALL classless. And i have a very difficult time to feel emotionally drawn to their music, songs because of that classless kinda masculine persona they ALL project, Adele included.
I feel drawn to certain singers emotional singing that exude a femine exquisitness which is in par with the class, the feminity they project : Sade, India Arie, En Vogue, Phyllis Hyman, ect…those ladies carried/carry themselves so in par with what their songs. They had this very romantic vibe and sophistication that is long gone. Even someone like Tracy Chapman projects that emotional grace and sensitivity that is pure class. And they express themselves properly, being articulate and feminine.
The current singers (bar maybe the very underrated Corinne Bailey Rae) are pure trash wether they have a voice or not, wether they have beautiful songs or not, wether they are skinny or fat, they exude trashiness and are part of a generation where being bad ass, inarticulte and vulgar is the new IT thing and majorly glamourized.
I love Sade.
She’s my all time favourite right before Phyliss Hyman, Melba Moore and Teena Marie !
I was a little girl when she first came on the scene but i knew she had that class and i wanted to be just like her when growing up.
I didn’t understand english by then but her voice was pure and the way she was singing had a strong emotional impact on me as she strikes me as the embodiment of feminity.
Growing up I emulated her as a teen : tiny waist, high hils, sophisticated clothes, creole earring and a long tresse down my back were the kind of clothes i used to have as a teen and even in highschool. I was making it a point to have a graceful walk, a good poise, to be articulate and sophisticated just like Sade.
It’s really a pitty that this generation don’t have such high class singers to emulate.
word up.
I love Joss Stone 😀 Have all her albums, I think Sade is great too.
I like Adele a lot. I do think that the more interviews she does, and the more awards she accepts, we are seeing her true colors. No, to her credit, she has never tried to hide them, but what initially came off as ‘down to earth’ and ‘real’ is starting to appear bitter and crude.
Sorry, I know I’m in the minority on this one. I’m no prude, but Adele is hardly ‘all class’.
I still love Adele but I see what your saying and I think the weight loss gave her a bit of an audited not say its completely a bad thing because she look more confident in the way she carnies her self, if you look at her in the past on the red carpet and at her now their a big difference.
I could not agree more. Talented and gorgeous, but with every interview she does, she turns me off a little more…and now this.
Two rudes don’t make a right.
The producers were rude in cutting off the “main” award winner’s speech; Adele was rude to flip them the bird.
I’d like an apology from producers for whatever that mess was AFTER they cut off Adele.
It was in the moment and full of emotion. She was surprised, this was her moment. She was probably thinking are you kidding me? Other people did get more time to talk. I can’t believe they cut her off. It’s the middle finger people, big deal, she didn’t flash her boobs or anything.
that performance was just gorgeous.
when you are truly talented you don’t need a meat dress.
Sorry but I think this type of attitude and action is childish and makes her look ungrateful. Keep the speech short and keep the finger in your pocket.
I love it how when some female celebrity or a musician gives the finger, the celebitchy harpies are picking on their bones like they haven’t been fed for a month, but when it’s everybody’s sweetheart Adele, suddenly everybody’s like “she had a reason, it was a moment full of emotion, they were invading their privacy”…. it’s celebitchy all right.
Talent or no talent, giving a finger in public, especially in a damn gala is still classless and Adele shouldn’t get a pass for it just because she has some talent.
As a “street-walkin’ cheetah with a heart full of napalm “, I adore a well placed, “Fuck You!” towards the Establishment.
Love seeing a hint of your wildside, Adele. Just don’t overplay it.
oh please, selective acceptance of the birdy is silly. Kristen flipped off paps, Adele flipped off producers. There’s more mature ways to deal with frustration while in the public eye. At the same time it’s sexist when people make a big deal about unlady-like behavior. It’s not a big deal either way, just don’t try and act like Adele had a “cause” here, geesh. lol
Lainey made an interesting point about most of us giving up a pass on her too. She thinks how she looks matters. If Gisele, the skinniest of all skinny bitches, did something similar we would roast her.
just rude on all accounts but sh*t happens
anywho
what’s up with her face caking lately she looks like a child from tots and tiaras
Oh Adele, I adore you. She is hilarious lol.
Adele is okay, but come on: if Kate Winslet flipped the bird in the exact same situation, there’d be a column about how disrespectful and contrived she was and of course, half the article would be about the state of her face.
Very crass
This is one of the least “offensive” things you’ll see on UK TV. It’s not like in the US, people can say and do whatever they want.
I really don’t think you can compare her to others. You don’t seem to understand her or where she comes from. This is nothing, it is the way she is.
Just because she dresses conservatively and sings beautifully, doesn’t mean she’s classy. She’s just a normal English girl really. I can’t think of anyone in the US from the equivalent background who is famous, doesn’t put on an act and is true to where they come from.
I think that’s the yearly Brit’s tradition. Someone is expected to act rudely yearly. Kanye’s interrupting Taylor at the VMAs is so weak compared to Brits “rudeness”. Rebellion is always welcome and they won’t apologize for it. The ruder, the better. Adele giving a bird is so, so lame and tame compared to the past Brits moments. Now rockstars and popstars are well-behaved, too conscious and are afraid of the internet backlash.
I think I love Adele for it.
Don’t mess with SISTA FIERCE! I love her more ^^
That is a poor show, she is an amazing award winner and deserves a few minutes to give her speech, I would rather listen to her than to Blur – Team Adele!!!!!