Adele breaks her silence amid cultural appropriation scandal
Adele breaks her silence amid cultural appropriation scandal as she pokes fun at the saga by using Jamaican greeting ‘Wah Gwaan’ in new Instagram comment
- On Sunday, the Hello hitmaker, 32, was criticised for wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and styling her hair in bantu knots for an Instagram photo
- The scandal erupted after Adele shared the striking snap, in which she paid homage to the carnival, yet accusations of appropriation were rife
- During Brandy and Monica’s Verzuz Instagram Live broadcast on Monday, Adele took to the comments to pen: ‘Wah Gwaan! Yow gyal, yuh look good enuh’
- In Jamaica ‘Wah Gwaan’ is a greeting meaning ‘What’s up?’ or ‘How are you?’
Adele has broken her silence amid the cultural appropriation scandal she has faced since sharing a post to mark this year’s cancelled Notting Hill Carnival.
On Sunday, the Hello hitmaker, 32, was criticised for wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and styling her hair in bantu knots for an Instagram photo, causing a divisive storm which led to some slamming the move and others lauding the tribute.
During Brandy and Monica’s eagerly anticipated Verzuz Instagram Live broadcast on Monday, Adele took to the comments to pen: ‘Wah Gwaan! Yow gyal, yuh look good enuh’, in an apparent humorous response to the scandal.
Opening up: Adele has broken her silence amid the cultural appropriation scandal she has faced since sharing a post to mark this year’s cancelled Notting Hill Carnival
Row: The chart-topping singer was criticised for wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and styling her hair in bantu knots for an Instagram photo paying tribute to London’s Notting Hill Carnival
The scandal erupted after Adele shared the striking snap, in which she paid homage to the carnival, yet accusations of appropriation were rife.
Despite this, Naomi Campbell, MP David Lammy and endless reams of other fans lent their support to the star, while Piers Morgan echoed the statement and branded the row ‘absolute guff’ on Monday’s Good Morning Britain.
Seemingly unfazed by the news, Adele returned to social media while watching the live stream on Verzuz, a webcast series created by producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. The show was born during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual DJ battle.
After years of feud rumours, former collaborators Monica and Brandy joined for the first time in eight years, with the meet-up breaking records for Verzuz, by reaching 1million concurrent views and peaking at 1.2million.
Chatting away: Seemingly unfazed by the news, Adele returned to social media while watching the live stream on Verzuz, a webcast series created by producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. The show was born during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual DJ battle
The duo, who collaborated on 1998’s iconic hit The Boy Is Mine addressed their tensions, with Monica alleging the beef was a marketing strategy.
Joining in the legion of fan comments, Adele penned: ‘Wah Gwaan! Yow gyal, yuh look good enuh’, in an apparent nod to Caribbean dialect following the controversy over her hairstyle and bikini top.
Fans who spotted Adele’s comment soon swarmed Twitter to praise her response, with users writing: ‘Adele’s energy is everything! Just saw her comment in the Brandy/Monica Versuz… Adele was trying to trigger them again this morning.’
Tickled: Fans who spotted Adele’s comment soon swarmed Twitter to praise her response, with users writing: ‘Adele’s energy is everything! Just saw her comment in the Brandy/Monica Versuz… Adele was trying to trigger them again this morning’
In the picture shared to her Instagram, Adele, posing in the garden of her $9.5million Beverly Hills home, some branded her choice as ‘insensitive’.
While some claimed the singer was profiting off black culture by sporting the style, many others pointed out the star grew up in Tottenham, London and has been surrounded by black culture throughout her life.
Supermodel Naomi , whose mother was born in Jamaica, commented on Adele’s Instagram photo with two love heart emojis and two pictures of the Jamaican flag.
Friends: Supermodel Naomi Campbell, whose mother was born in Jamaica, commented on Adele’s Instagram photo with two love heart emojis and two pictures of the Jamaican flag
Actress Zoe Saldana also commented, telling the singer ‘you look right at home guurrrl!’ While Jamaican musician Popcaan shared a fist emoji and a love heart.
Other fans took to Twitter to point out to Adele’s critics that she was surrounded by Jamaican culture while growing up in Tottenham, and has always been a supporter of the Notting Hill Carnival.
The star was born in Tottenham before moving with her mother Penny Adkins to Brighton at the age of nine.
In 1999, at the age of 11 she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, then to the neighbouring district of West Norwood in south London, which is the subject of her first song Hometown Glory.
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