Singer re-enacts her 2008 hit song – and tells audience why she stopped singing it – on opening night of her custom-built stadium in German city
Adele made the move from Las Vegas to Munich on Friday, where the singer performed the first of 10 shows at the Adele Arena, a specially designated venue for the singer’s concerts in the German city. The performance was also Adele’s first non-British European concert since 2016, and to mark the occasion, she switched up her setlist to include a song she hadn’t performed in seven years.
For the first time since 2017, Adele performed live “Chasing Pavements,” her second-ever single and a hit song from her 2008 debut album. 19Before the rare performance, Adele explained to the audience why she stopped singing the Grammy-winning song live.
“The reason I don’t sing this song very often – and I won’t sing it again after my stay in Munich – is because the way I say the words in this song when I was 19, I sound like I was 19, and when I sing it now, I still sound like I’m 19, and that bothers me,” Adele said before “Chasing Pavements.”
“But I will do it now because I love you, and again, the Germans have always been very loving to me. But I will not do it unless you do it with me.”
Adele followed “Chasing Pavements” with another rarely played song, “All I Ask,” 25 A song that was only performed once throughout Adele's weekend in Las Vegas.
The singer will return to Sin City after the Munich tour, where her Weekends With Adele residency will end for good in November. After that, Adele said she plans to take a “big break” from music. “I have no plans for new music at all,” Adele said. “I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, even if it's just for a little while.”
