What Adele’s Relationship with Booze Reveals About Our Drinking
To live her highest potential she needs to quit the booze, so why will she start again?
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4 min readOct 11, 2021
Adele hit the news this week because she’s giving up alcohol. Is it strange that this is newsworthy? Perhaps. Does this say more about our obsession with celebrities or alcohol? I’m not sure.
Reading the story I was struck by:
a) how even millionaire hitmakers find 21st Century life hard enough that they drink too much to cope.
b) how normalized excessive drinking is in our culture that someone temporarily quitting counts as a story.
And c) how we all quit drinking for exactly the same reasons.
Hangxiety. The amount creeping up. Blue Mondays.
So why, then, does it still feel controversial to get sober? And why is it assumed Adele will return to booze after a break? Why is drinking the default in our culture when it makes us feel like shit?
