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Adéla comes to Rachel Chinouriri's defense after a fan ripped down promo posters for the British singer-songwriter's upcoming album, I Think I Spoke Too Soon CAROLINE SAFRAN for Rolling Stone; Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage Promotional posters for I Think I Spoke Too Soon, the second studio album from British singer-songwriter Rachel Chinouriri, were plastered around London in the weeks leading up the record’s Oct. 16 release. In a viral post from a since-deleted or suspended X account, an embittered fan tore the ads down to reveal the poster underneath it: promotion for the Adéla single “Ain’t in LA,” which read, “The Baddest Bitches Are in London.”
Returning from a brief social media hiatus, Adéla revived the conversation with an Instagram post defending Chinouriri and encouraging fans to be more respectful of other artists. “Came across this way too late but u guys this is so fucking ass,” she wrote. “Please don’t do this. Don’t take ppl’s posters down. Promotion costs money, Rachel’s posters cost money, they deserve to be up and seen.”
Adéla also added that “it’s alr hard enough to make sure ur art gets out there & is heard… ESPECIALLY as a Black woman.” The fan who proudly recorded and shared a video tearing down the posters from I Think I Spoke Too Soon captioned the post, “That one time I tore down the Rachel Chinouriri poster to take pics w the Adela one but left Tyla’s one up cos she tanked.” Other fans were quick to highlight seemingly recurring threads of anti-Blackness within Adéla’s fast-growing fandom.
Chinouriri addressed the original video shortly after it was uploaded. “Hey so this isn’t okay,” she wrote on X in a direct quote response to the post. “It’s tough enough for black artists in pop to get exposure but ripping down a poster I paid a lot of money and put 10 years of hard work convincing people I’m good enough for this marketing…is just quite mean and makes me pretty sad right now 🙁 … especially because you’re ripping down a poster just to take a picture next to another poster?? atleast try and keep the poster?”
On her private TikTok account, Chinouriri went into more detail and explained why she was confused that the fan tore down her promotional material.
