- Title: Adele explains her Grammy emotions backstage
- Date: 13th February 2017
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 12, 2017) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) ***WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** (SOUNDBITE) SINGER SONGWRITER, ADELE, SAYING: "I was devastated on Christmas Day. I had to go for a walk and just breathe for a while and on Boxing Day which is the 26th for us I said to Simon, my partner, 'I have to do that tribute' and they didn't want a tribut
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES; UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
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British singer Adele, who scooped the song, record and album of the year at the Grammy awards, went backstage after her wins to speak to the press on Sunday (February 12).
She answered questions about creating the album '25', which featured her hugely successful single 'Hello' which topped charts worldwide.
"'Hello' actually started when I was writing it with the lyric 'Hello misery' so I think you can imagine the mood I was in when I was writing that - fucking miserable," she admitted with a laugh. "But it developed and Greg Kurstin who I wrote it with was like 'Hmm, I'm not so sure about that line. Don't know about 'Hello Misery'. That's a bit weird, so he changed it to 'Hello, it's me.'"
The artist, who admitted she never does interviews, went on to say she didn't write as much of '25' as she did '21', saying that was because I had a bad drinking habit on '21' and I couldn't quite get the inspiration this time around" and again the award-winner cackled.
Adele performed a tribute to George Michael, whose death was announced on Christmas day. She sang her own version of 'Fast Love' which she worked on with acclaimed composer Hans Zimmer. She admitted she was "devastated" to have not got the song right the first time after she'd been rehearsing it for a month, as she was such a big fan of Michael's.
"I was devastated on Christmas Day. I had to go for a walk and just breathe for a while and on Boxing Day which is the 26th for us I said to Simon, my partner, 'I have to do that tribute' and they didn't want a tribute at first, his family and camp and stuff like that. They came back and were very specific it was me and I was like 'Great. I've got something in the pipeline. If you want me to do it, I'll do it.' But I found him to be one of the truest icons because when people are that globally known and famous, there tends to be not a fakeness in a bad way but they put on this massive bravado and alter ego to protect themselves and rightly so and I completely understand and appreciate that but for him, it didn't always seem to be solely based on a look or about an assumption and also he was very British. No matter where his career or his love life took him, he always stayed true to Britain and they gave him a hard fucking time a lot of the time. The British press can be - I love you - don't know if I mean that - but they really gave him a hard time."
And explaining why she became so emotional about paying tribute to Beyonce and her album 'Lemonade' during two of her acceptance speeches, Adele said "The Grammys are very traditional but I thought that this year would be the year that they would go with the tide and I am, of course, very very grateful having won it, but I felt the need because I love her and I felt like she was more than worthy and that's pretty much it."
Adele finished her rare public appearance by joking "Bye bye. Count your blessings, you'll never hear from me again." - Copyright Holder: POOL (CAN SELL)
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