Weekends With Adele, the Las Vegas residency launched in support of her latest album, 30, is the last music endeavor the musician will be exploring for a while. In a recent interview with ZDF, Adele announced plans to take a “big break” from music when the show concludes in November, during which she will shift her focus toward new projects outside of the album recording space.
“I don’t have any plans for new music, at all,” Adele shared. “I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while.”
Adele released 30 in November 2021, marking her grand comeback after five years. The album was created in the aftermath of the singer’s divorce as she navigated complicated feelings of freedom and failure while simultaneously juggling the responsibilities of motherhood.
“During something like that, that kind of significant thing to happen in life, your mind sort of goes to those places: ‘Why don’t they like me? Why would they write that if they’ve followed me for 10 years?’” Adele told Rolling Stone in 2021, reflecting on her audience responding to news of her divorce with excitement about the prospect of new music. “But in reality, that’s not their responsibility. In reality, their responsibility as a fan is to want a good record and to hope I deliver. So I took it with a pinch of salt, and it was fine.”
Adele decided against touring the album in the wake of the pandemic. Weekends With Adele launched at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in November 2022. The run will conclude later this year after 100 shows. In August, she will perform 10 shows in Germany for her smaller Adele in Munich residency.
Earlier this year, Adele acknowledged the limitations her fans face when their only option to see her live is to catch a flight to Vegas or Munich. “I just don’t think I’m gonna write an album for quite some time, but next time I do, I’ll come to wherever it is you live,” she told one audience in January. And there will be a next time, primarily because the residency allowed her to hit a much needed creative reset.
“This residency, these shows have changed my life,” Adele wrote on social media while announcing the final slate of Weekends With Adele shows. “I desperately needed to fall back in love with performing live again, and I have. I needed to reconnect with my songs and remember what they mean to me, and I have!”
From Rolling Stone US
