A video of Adele abruptly halting a concert has resurfaced, prompting fresh outrage over Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert in Houston, Texas on Friday that left eight people dead.
A TikTok user has shared old footage of Adele singing her hit Rolling In The Deep during her run of shows at Hammersmith Apollo in 2011 when the megastar, 33, noticed someone had fainted in the audience.
Adele immediately stopped singing and sent medics into the crowd to help. The video has been viewed millions of times and beneath the footage comments including: ‘Someone send this to Travis. He gotta learn a thing or two from Adele,’ quickly accumulated.
Resurfaced: A video of Adele, 33, abruptly halting a concert has resurfaced, prompting fresh outrage over Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert in Houston, Texas on Friday that left eight dead
Adele says in the video: ‘Stop, stop, stop — someone’s fainted again. Excuse me, medic, right in the middle.’
Attempting to direct the medical team to the person in need, Adele added: ‘Can you see? Can someone act like they care, please? Someone’s fainted over there.’
She also checked in on the unwell show-goer, shouting from stage: ‘Is anyone coming to you?’
As medics attempted to reach the guest, Adele could be heard asking crowds to move out of their way.
Tragic: Eight fans, including a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were crushed to death at 30-year-old Scott’s Astroworld Festival on Friday night
Old footage: A TikTok user shared old footage of Adele singing her hit Rolling In The Deep during her run of shows at Hammersmith Apollo in 2011
Quick response: Adele immediately stopped singing and sent medics into the crowd to help when she noticed someone had fainted
Once certain the attendee was being tended to, the superstar began her son again, telling the crowd: ‘Thank you. Guys, this is Rolling in the Deep!’
MailOnline has reached out to both representatives for Adele and Travis Scott for comment.
The clip was posted alongside the caption: ‘[She] didn’t carry on until she knew they were safe.’
Beneath the footage, one social media user wrote: ‘Oh wow look how easy it is to stop a concert,’ while another added: ‘This is how you genuinely care for your fans at a show.’
Critical comments: Beneath the footage, one social media user wrote: ‘Oh wow look how easy it is to stop a concert’
Other comments included: ‘She noticed one person. So tell me how he failed to miss so many’, ‘She didn’t even hesitate or think about it. It’s just that easy to stop a concert’ and ‘To the people saying he didn’t know, Adele noticed one person faint so I’m pretty sure he would have noticed eight bodies.’
Eight fans, including a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were crushed to death at the Astroworld Festival on Friday night.
Scott, 30, continued to perform for up to 30 minutes as people were killed and crowds chanted ‘stop the show.’
The show was called off 30 minutes before schedule, but half an hour after a ‘mass casualty event’ had already been declared by the fire department.
Still performing: Scott continued to perform for up to 30 minutes as people were killed and crowds chanted ‘stop the show’
The concert had a crowd of 50,000 people with a surge toward the stage happening at 9:38 pm local time in Houston.
Local firefighters and police called it a ‘mass casualty’ at that time, which took place 32 mins after Travis’ set began.
During the surge, eight fans including a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were crushed to death.
Several concert-goers suffered cardiac arrests and one person, a police officer, was stabbed with a hypodermic needle.
Scott has since pledged to refund all 50,000 attendees who bought tickets to Astroworld. He was set to perform at another festival this Saturday, but sources told Variety that he will no longer appear because he is ‘too distraught to play.’
Crowds: The concert had a crowd of 50,000 people with a surge toward the stage happening at 9:38 pm local time in Houston
On Saturday night, Scott spoke out in the wake of the tragedy, saying on his Instagram Stories: ‘My fans really mean the world to me and I always want to leave them with a positive experience.’
He went on: ‘Anytime I can make out anything that’s going on, ya know, I stop the show and you know, help them get the help they need. I could just never imagine the severity of the situation.’
‘To the ones that was lost last night, we’re working right now to ID the families so we can help assist them through this tough time,’ the rapper shared.
‘I’m honestly just devastated… I could never imagine anything like this just happening.’
Scott said he is working closely with local authorities as they investigate the crowd surge and encouraged anyone with information about the deadly incident to come forward.
‘We’ve been working closely with everyone to just try to get to the bottom of this,’ he said. ‘If you have any information please just contact the local authorities.’
He promised his followers he would continue to keep them informed about the investigation and told them: ‘Every just continue to keep your prayers.’
Speaking out: On Saturday night, Scott spoke out in the wake of the tragedy, saying on his Instagram Stories: ‘My fans really mean the world to me’