Some things aren't meant for everybody.
Adele's Bantu knot hair, the cringe look felt round the world in August 2020, is DEFINITELY one of those things. She faced immediate backlash for appropriating a style used in Black communities to protect a certain texture of hair that the 'Hello' singer does not have.
It turns out she also said 'goodbye' to her healthy natural hair, because that Bantu knot moment wrecked it.
Here's what she told Vogue about the situation:
She Has Regrets
"I totally get why people felt like it was appropriating," Adele told Vogue in her new cover story. "I was wearing a hairstyle that is actually to protect Afro hair. Ruined mine, obviously."
So why did she try it in the first place? Adele went on to explain that her London upbringing was a factor.
"If you don't go dressed to celebrate the Jamaican culture - and in so many ways we're so entwined in that part of London - then it's a little bit like, 'What you coming for, then?'" she says, talking about the Carnival where she sported the hairstyle. "I didn't read the f**king room."
She also added that she kept the pic up for accountability reasons. ("If I take it down, it's me acting like it never happened...")
'I Was the Problem'
Girl's done a lot of thinking about how to take accountability for ALL aspects of her personal life. Love that!
She says she's applied that perspective to how she understands herself, her choices, and her relationships.
"I realized that I was the problem," she explained. "Cause all the other albums are like 'you did this! You did that! F**k you! Why can't you arrive for me?' Then I was like: 'Oh, s**t, I'm the running theme, actually. Maybe it's me!"
Sounds like we're about to get a whole new kind of Adele on this album.
She'll Never Lose Her Roots
Even though she's gone through a lot of changes since '25,' Adele is determined to keep her old self at her core. She's learning and growing, but some things will always be her.
For example, she told Vogue how her son Angelo often tries to correct her south London accent:
"'It's not free, it's three,' he'll say. And I'll be like, 'No, it's free.'"