Australian Channel Seven had exclusive rights to interview Adele, after she released her new album, “30”, on Friday.
Reporter Matt Doran and a camera crew flew to London for the occasion, but admitted towards the end of the conversation that he had not heard her new album.
In retrospect, Sony canceled the agreement, writes The Guardian.
Overlook Email
The interview was part of an Adele press package that cost the channel one million Australian dollars The Daily Telegraph.
Included in the package were also exclusive rights to show recordings from Oprah Winfrey’s “One Night Only” broadcast.
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Reporter Matt Doran had received the album by e-mail in advance. He himself claims to have overlooked the email.
Doran claimed to the newspaper The Australian that he did not mean to ignore the e-mail, and that it has subsequently become the “most important e-mail I have ever overlooked”.
He states that Adele did not interrupt the interview, but that on the contrary, they talked for a few minutes over the agreed time.
According to Doran, the interview, which Sony refuses to publish, was mainly about her music.
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Storm of complaints
To The Australian, Matt Doran also denies the rumors that he was formally suspended from the TV channel after the mistake.
He told the Australian newspaper that the absence from this weekend’s morning program was due to his time off. During the last broadcast, the host apologized to Adele.
During a tweet where the reporter envisions that the interview will be «pretty special»Users write that the behavior was« shameful ».
Unfiltered
“30” is Adele’s fourth album, and impressed Dagbladet’s reviewer, Torgrim Øyre. He highlights unfiltered “soul searching, self-examination and emotional duvet lifting” as some of the album’s many positive aspects, and rolls a fiver on the dice.
The rest of the world also approves of the 33-year-old’s latest release. Pitchfork gir album 8.2 / 10, and thinks it is «incredibly touching»
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