Adele's latest photo hasn't gone down too well with her fans. Photo / Supplied
Adele's latest photo hasn't gone down too well with her fans. Photo / Supplied
Singing superstar Adele has sparked a social media backlash with her latest near-unrecognisable Instagram post.
The photo shows the star as fans have never seen her before: clad in a Jamaican flag bikini top, a feathered embellishment on her shoulders and with her hair curled into tight knots.
"Happy whatwould be Notting Hill Carnival my beloved London," she captioned the pic, a nod to London's huge annual carnival led by members of the British West Indian community, which has been cancelled this year.
But the 32-year-old star's choice of attire — and especially a Bantu knot hairstyle usually worn by women of African descent — has copped a roasting online, amid accusations of cultural appropriation.
The Carnival-ready snap is the latest headline-making social media post from Adele, who hasn't released an album since 2015's 25.
The star has undergone a dramatic transformation since splitting from husband Simon Konecki last year, reportedly sticking to a calorie-controlled diet of "green juice and 1000 calories-a-day" to achieve her slimmed-down figure.
If 2020 couldn't get anymore bizarre, Adele is giving us Bantu knots and cultural appropriation that nobody asked for.
This officially marks all of the top white women in pop as problematic.
