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Adele “Totally Gets” Being Accused of Cultural Appropriation for Notting Hill Carnival Outfit: “I Didn’t Read the F***ing Room”

Adele revealed that she “totally gets” why she was accused of “cultural appropriation” after a photo of her wearing a Jamaican-flag bikini and Bantu knots while celebrating at Notting Hill Carnival went viral.

The 33-year-old singer admitted that she “didn’t read the f***ing room” when she posted the photo, but she also said she didn’t take the picture down as she didn’t want to appear to be “acting like it never happened.”

In an interview with Vogue, Adele said: “I could see comments being like, ‘the nerve to not take it down,’ which I totally get. But if I take it down, it’s me acting like it never happened.”

She explained, “I had thought, 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?’”

“I didn’t read the f***ing room. I was wearing a hairstyle that is actually to protect Afro hair. Ruined mine, obviously,” she revealed.

 

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Blogging since 2006, Regan has written for numerous online publications including YoRaps.com, BallerAlert.com and her own online labor of love Honeygrip.com. In 2010, as her alter-ego Honeygrip, Regan was the gossip correspondent for controversial radio personalities Star & Bucwild. Each experience not only thickened her skin but it introduced her to a new passion, the new realm of ‘social media’.

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