Adele wasn't expected to sing during her first time hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. The show had R-and-B artist H.E.R. as musical guest, but you figured they might work a vocal in somewhere -- and they did.
Despite explaining at the top of her opening monologue that she wouldn't be singing because her new album's not finished and she was too scared to both host and sing, Adele did what amounted to a hits medley during a sketch that had her playing herself as a contestant on The Bachelor. With interruptions in between, she sang snippets of "Someone Like You," "When We Were Young," "Hello" and "Rolling in the Deep," before finishing with a longer excerpt from "Someone Like You."
Another sketch -- about divorced women encouraging African tourism as a way to get over their bad marriages -- created a stir on social media over what some people felt were racist overtones. Adele, who was paired with Kate McKinnon and Heidi Gardner for the skit, had trouble keeping it together at times, though it didn't seem to be out of concern with the crassness of the dialog.