Adele wants concertgoers to look at her with their own eyes instead of through a camera lens.
A video posted by a fan on Twitter shows the 28-year-old British singer singling out a woman at a concert, asking her: “Could you stop filming me with that video camera? Because I’m really here in real life, you can enjoy it in real life rather than through your camera.”
Adele added: “This isn’t a DVD, this is a real show.” She said she’d really like those in the crowd to enjoy it “because there’s lots of people outside that couldn’t come in.” She then rolled her eyes and turned around.
ABC News reports the video was taken Sunday night at Adele’s show in Verona, Italy.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Adele has a point. It is easy to spend so much effort recording an event that you miss out on the experience of actually being at the event.
There is a financial motive for Adele asking the fan to stop recording the show. This video will probably show up in part on YouTube or Facebook. It may cost the performer some sales. At one time I bought concert videos but nowadays those things can be watched for free. While YouTube saves me money it also deprives the artist of the revenue they would have got from me buying a concert video.
adele is full of herself, me thinks!
As usual ADELE has forgotten where she came from! So I say fuck her!