Adele has acknowledged that in reaction to her contentious Notting Hill Carnival post, she "didn't read the f***ing room."

Last summer, while on vacation in the Caribbean, the "Hello" singer sparked a sensation on social media by posting a photo on Instagram with her hair in bantu knots and wearing a Jamaican flag bikini.

Adele is responding to the outrage she got for cultural appropriation over an Instagram photo she uploaded in August 2020. In a recent interview with British Vogue, the 33-year-old singer discussed the backlash she received after tweeting a photo of herself during Notting Hill Carnival wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and Bantu knots.

Many people correctly called Adele out in the comments for sporting the haircut favored in Africa, but fans were even more surprised when the singer refused to remove the image.

"I could read comments like, 'The nerve not to take it down,' which I completely understand," she told the newspaper. "But if I take it down, it's just me like it never happened. That is exactly what happened. I completely see why many felt that was inappropriate."

"If you don't go dressed to celebrate the Jamaican culture — because in so many ways we're so interwoven in that area of London — then it's a little bit like, 'What you come for, then?'" Adele said in the interview. She went on to say, "I didn't even bother reading the f*cking room. I was wearing a hairdo designed to protect Afro hair. Mine was definitely ruined."

Adele is just one of many celebrities who have made the mistake of stealing Black culture, but we hope that now that she knows and acknowledges why it was disrespectful and damaging, she will choose to do better.