By Steven McIntosh, BBC News | An Adele fan has thanked the star for “standing up for me” after she paused a concert on Saturday when she saw a security guard telling him to sit down. The singer was playing as part of her Las Vegas residency but stopped while performing Water Under the Bridge.
The male audience member was singing along enthusiastically when another fan sitting behind him and a security guard told him he was blocking the view.
Adele spotted that and paused the song, telling the guard to “leave him alone”.
The fan used a selfie stick to record the interaction, which he later posted on TikTok.
The video opened with him standing up and singing along to I Drink Wine before a woman told him: “Look behind you, everybody’s upset.”
‘What’s going on with him?’
The fan then sat down, but when the song concluded, Adele told the crowd: “You can stand up.”
Other audience members also began to stand, but the fan, excited to have apparently been referenced by Adele, started screaming and jumping up and down as the singer began Water Under The Bridge.
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Read the rest of the interaction here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66645137
[Thanks to Alex Teitz for contributing this article! http://www.femmusic.com]
[Editor’s note: I have very mixed feelings about this. While I love to stand and dance and sing along at a concert, I don’t do so in front of someone who is sitting (party pooper!) So, in this case, where the majority of the audience was sitting to watch the show, I’m thinking the young man was sort of rude in continuing to stand. Maybe he thought, if he stood, the rest of the audience would eventually do so, too. On the other hand, a sitting audience is more likely to fall asleep!]
Photo: Adele
Adele Defends Fan Who Was Told to Sit Down at Las Vegas Concert
