Adele has opened up about her delayed Las Vegas residency, telling Elle about the multiple factors that went into the last-minute decision to pull the plug. “There was just no soul in it. The stage setup wasn’t right. It was very disconnected from me and my band, and it lacked intimacy,” she told Emma Carmichael for the magazine. Read the interview, called “The Glorious Age of Adele,” at Elle.

Adele announced the postponement on January 20, one day before Caesar’s Palace’s Colosseum residence took office. She worked with entertainment architecture firm Stufish to update the Las Vegas theater to fit her vision after the company prepared a heavy sequin backdrop for her February performance at the BRIT Awards. Singer Elle said her new stage design was inspired in part by the shape of the fireplace around the fireplace in her London home.

At the end of July, Adele announced that her stay had been delayed from mid-November to the end of March 2023. Earlier this summer, Adele performed for her two-day adventure at London’s Hyde Park, her first public gig since 2017. She released her fourth album, 30, in November of last year, and shortly thereafter announced her original Las Vegas itinerary.