Adele One Night Only

Good evening, everyone. I'm Oprah Winfrey.

Welcome to a spectacular night here at

the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.

Tonight you have a front-row seat

to a very special one-night- only concert with Adele.

She's singing all the songs I know you want to hear,

and new songs we've all been waiting six years for.

And throughout the night,

you'll see my conversation with Adele was so much fun.

She's as real, as down to earth as we all believe she is.

But right now it is my great delight to introduce

the 15-time Grammy-winning icon, Adele!

-Hello. Okay. -Hello. Okay. Hi.

-This is so good. -Oh. Yes.

-Hello. -Hi.

No. Hi. We can't even

-say hello anymore. -Hi. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't really say hello anymore. That's why.

-You don't? -Not really.

'Cause it's like a joke.

Okay, well, hi, Adele.

-Hiya. -Hiya.

Welcome to my rose garden.

It's lovely, it's beautiful. -Well,

thank you for coming to join me here.

It feels very British.

Does it? Yes.

Well, actually because yes,

-and because my tea house is here. -Yes.

Everybody, we just met.

-Mm-hmm. -And the concert tonight is a celebration

of your biggest hits and the debut of the new songs

-from 30. -Yes.

-And you start with "Hello." -Yes. Well, I think

I'm always going to have to start with "Hello."

I think it'd be weird if it was, like, halfway through a set.

- -You know? So yeah, I'm starting with it.

Okay, so that music video has been viewed nearly

-3 billion times. -3 billion?

-3 billion times! -Oh, I didn't know that.

-Billion, that's insane. -Yeah.

That song means so much to people all around the world.

It does, yeah.

So, what does it represent to you?

Well, the show is the first time that I'll, you know,

that I'm singing it from where I am now.

-Yes. -Which I think is great.

Um, the song to me was the beginning of me

trying to find myself and I haven't figured out yet

what it was that I had to do for that.

But when I wrote it, it was a real ode to, like,

little me, older me.

Like, all of these things, like, you know, so,

it's just a song about, like,

I'm still here.

You know, sort of like, "Hi, I'm still here. I still exist,

like, you know, in every aspect of my life."

Well, it feels like that on 30,

you have literally opened up your soul in a way that

even though we have heard your pain before,

it feels like pain was almost like a muse for you for this.

I read something you said-- you said,

"I was singing things I didn't even realize

-I was feeling or thinking." -Mm-hmm.

So, is that how the music comes to you?

-Is that a part of your process? -Yeah.

Is the music as catharsis?

Yeah, it definitely channels from somewhere else.

You know, when I'm singing and when I'm writing, like...

And I was kind of aware of that on the other albums,

but this one, you know, a lot more

I-I felt it because everything was happening in real time.

I was writing my album, you know, while I was

-going through everything. -Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

But I don't think as a person I have what my singing has.

-What do you mean? -I just think there's-there's

something I'm pulling from somewhere else.

I don't, I don't have some-- you know, something else

from underneath. I don't know what it is.

It's coming up through me but it's not...

I don't know how I access it. It's wild 'cause

I don't think I'm that deep in real life.

-So it's... -But then you listen to the music

-and you think deep, right? -Yeah. Yeah,

you know, or I'll just be like,

"I am making progress," or like, just...

It's-it's a revelation to me, the songs.

Well, I read something that you said--

you said, "I'm not shy or embarrassed

to be falling apart."

That's one of the reasons why you feel people are so connected

to your music and I wondered, what gives you...

the-the freedom actually and the courage to be able to

fall apart and expose yourself in a world and a culture now

-that is a "gotcha" culture... -Yeah, absolutely.

...that if you make the wrong move, you say the wrong thing...

-Yeah. -...somebody's got some, you know, wisecrack about it.

I think the reason I'm so brave to do it, you know,

in my career so far was because, again, music helped me

in any situations and I would like to do,

you know, the same for people

that feel so alone when they're feeling something.

Mm-hmm.

To be reminded that they're not alone.

And in terms of now, you know, there were moments

when I was writing the record or

I would listen back to something and be like,

"That might be a bit too private.

"That might be a bit too, you know,

too about myself and stuff to put out,"

but nothing is as scary as what I've been through

over the last two, three years behind closed doors.

So I'm not frightened about...

about what people may or might not do now, you know.

Hi, guys.

-How posh is this? -

Also, get you, Lizzo.

You think you can outshine me, babes?

I love that, I love that poncho coat.

Oh, yeah. Nice.

Um, hi, everyone.

Thank you so much for coming tonight.

Welcome to "One Night Only" with me.

Although most of you I know, and you have

too many nights with me, really.