Adele Gets Emotional Over Beating Beyoncé at 2017 Grammys, Says ‘Beyoncé Definitely Should Have Won’
Adele is set to release her highly anticipated fourth studio album in 2021. Fans can expect the singer to open up about the personal experiences she has dealt with over the last few years since her 2015 album 25.
Recently, Adele got candid about her 2017 Grammy win when she beat out Beyoncé for Album of the year. Here’s what happened and what Adele has said about her fellow musician since then.
Adele beat Beyoncé at the 2017 Grammys for Album of the Year
The “Hello” singer won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for 25 in 2017.
At the time, Adele didn’t seem to think she deserved the award. She used much of her time on stage during her acceptance speech to gush about Beyoncé, who was also nominated in the category.
“I can’t possibly accept this award, and I’m very humbled, and I’m very grateful and gracious, but the artist of my life is Beyoncé,” Adele said in her speech. “And this album to me, the Lemonade album, was just so monumental, Beyoncé, so monumental, and so well thought out, and so beautiful and soul-baring, and we all got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see.
“And we appreciate that, and all us artists here f—ing adore you. You are our light, and the way that you make me and my friends feel – the way that you make my black friends feel – is empowering, and you make them stand up for themselves. And I love you, I always have, and I always will.”
Adele now says that the ‘Lemonade’ creator ‘definitely should have won’
In a 2021 interview with Vogue about her upcoming album, Adele teared up when asked about her 2017 Grammys win.
“My personal opinion is that Beyoncé definitely should have won,” Adele declared. “I got overwhelmed with, like, I will have to go and tell her how much her record means to me.”
Adele visited Beyoncé’s dressing room. “I just said to her, like, the way that the Grammys works, and the people who control it at the very, very top – they don’t know what a visual album is. They don’t want to support the way that she’s moving things forward with her releases and the things that she’s talking about.”
When asked why Beyoncé’s Lemonade deserved to win Album of the Year, Adele said, “For my friends who are women of color, it was such a huge acknowledgment for them, of the sort of undermined grief that they go through.
“For her to nail that on the head, and also bring in the entire globe? I was like, this album is my album; she just knows what I’m going through. That album was not written for me. But yet I could still feel like this is the biggest gift.”
The ‘Chasing Pavements’ singer described how Beyoncé influenced her as a child
The “Rolling in the Deep” singer said in the same interview that Beyoncé has had an effect on her since she was very young.
When asked about the role that music played in Adele’s life, particularly during childhood, the singer said, “It was my friend. Music was literally my friend.
“I was an only child. Music was my sibling I never had. That’s why I love Beyoncé so much. She would put out music so regularly, it would be like seeing her. It really felt like that for me. It made me feel a lot of things.”
