--- title: Watch Adele Mosquito Attack, Marriage Live Concert Video description: Adele had a hilarious — and expletive filled — reaction to mosquitoes attacking her during a concert in Brisbane, Australia. canonical: https://time.com/4691799/adele-mosquito-reaction/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-06T18:06:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:37.743Z og:title: Adele Responds to Mosquito Attack in the Most Adele Way og:description: As expected, expletives abound og:url: https://time.com/4691799/adele-mosquito-reaction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e8c97c50758bd96/6988bd18ab6d770ca46ad19a/adele-mosquito-concert-reaction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Adele Live 2017 - Brisbane og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adele Responds to Mosquito Attack in the Most Adele Way twitter:description: As expected, expletives abound twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e8c97c50758bd96/6988bd18ab6d770ca46ad19a/adele-mosquito-concert-reaction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Adele Respond to This Mosquito Attack in the Most Adele Way Ever > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Glenn Hunt/Getty Images) Glenn Hunt—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 6, 2017 6:06 PM UTC From [freaking out over a rogue bat](http://time.com/4573034/adele-bat-video/) to [kissing a dog wearing a shirt with her face on it](http://time.com/4461147/adele-kisses-dog-wearing-adele-shirt-at-concert/), [Adele](http://time.com/4687035/adele-impersonator-feminem/)‘s known for her candid (and often expletive-filled) reactions during her concerts. So it should come as no surprise that during a concert in Brisbane, Australia on Sunday night, the powerhouse singer let loose with a hilarious response after she was attacked by some pesky mosquitoes while she was on stage. Adele uttered a stream of expletives about the bugs before exclaiming, “They’re sucking my blood!” and running around the stage to avoid the pests. As more mosquitoes arrived, the singer couldn’t keep her cool. “They’re everywhere,” she said. “They’re all trying to kill me!” Watch Adele’s candid reaction in Australia below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4691799/adele-mosquito-reaction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4691799/adele-mosquito-reaction/"},"headline":"Watch Adele Respond to This Mosquito Attack in the Most Adele Way Ever","datePublished":"2017-03-06T18:06:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:37.743Z","description":"As expected, expletives abound","url":"https://time.com/4691799/adele-mosquito-reaction/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","entertainment","celebrity","Funny","Culture","Adele"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e8c97c50758bd96/6988bd18ab6d770ca46ad19a/adele-mosquito-concert-reaction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e8c97c50758bd96/6988bd18ab6d770ca46ad19a/adele-mosquito-concert-reaction.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Adele Live 2017 - Brisbane","caption":"Adele Live 2017 - Brisbane","creditText":"Glenn Hunt—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4691799/adele-mosquito-reaction/","name":"Watch Adele Respond to This Mosquito Attack in the Most Adele Way Ever"}}]}] ```