Adele stops concert to talk about Aussie Olympic hero

The fame of Australia’s newest sporting sensation knows no bounds. Global megastar Adele has stopped her concert to talk about the “funniest thing ever”.

Adele stopped her concert to do it. Photo: Twitter.

World renowned pop star Adele has stopped her concert in Munich to talk about Australia’s viral breakdancing sensation Raygun.

Rachael Gunn, known as Raygun in breakdancing, has gone viral since her Olympic debut in Paris that featured kangaroo hops and the sprinkler.

It prompted one of the world’s most famous musicians to talk to her fans mid-concert, labelling it “the greatest thing that’s ever happened to the Olympics.”

“It’s all me and my friends have been talking about. And I am not saying anything, but I think it’s the best thing that has happened at the Olympics for the entire time,” Adele told her fans in a video posted on TikTok.

“Did anyone see the breakdancing lady?

“Now I didn’t even know breakdancing was an Olympic sport these days. That is f***ing fantastic. I really really do.

“Aaron my percussionist is pissing himself laughing just thinking about it.

“I can’t work out if it was a joke but either way it has made me very very happy and me and my friends have been shitting ourselves laughing for nearly 24 hours.

“I just wanted to know if you have seen it. If you haven’t seen it please leave the show and google it because it is LOLZ.

“It is so f***ing funny and is my favourite thing that has happened in the Olympics this whole time.”

Adele is one of countless high profile figures to have a snigger at the 36-year-old university lecturer.

However, the viral sensation has also received plenty of support from the likes of Aussie Prime Minister Anthone Albanese and Australian team boss Anna Meares.

The public show of support from her own dance federation was mixed, however.

World DanceSport Federation official, and B-boy head judge MGbility, spoke to reporters on Sunday night and his comments appeared conflicted.

Gunn’s mental health is being closely monitored after the barrage of online abuse following her three dance routines at la Concorde. She received a trio of big fat zeros on the scoreboard and here’s why, according to the head judge.

“I feel personally very sorry,” MGbility said.

B-Girl Raygun. Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Adele is having a good chuckle like everyone else. Photo: Twitter.

“The breaking and hip hop community definitely stands behind her. She was just trying to bring something new, something original and something that represents her country. We stay with her. We have five criteria in the comparative judging system. Just her level was maybe not as high as the other competitors. Again, we’re using a comparative judging system. Her competitors were just better but it doesn’t mean that she did really bad. She did her best.”

Gunn, aka Raygun, did the sprinkler, hooped like a kangaroo, yawned at an opponent – it was nothing if not dripping with Australiana.

“She was representing Australia and Oceania and did her best,” MGbility said. “She won the Oceania qualifier officially. If some people are wondering how she got into the Olympic Games, she qualified from her region. Unfortunately for her, the other b-girls were better. That’s why she didn’t score any votes in her rounds.”

Gunn couldn’t cop a break from the panel. Zero votes for her first routine. Zero for her second. Zero for her third. A million views on the internet, though, and then a million more.

“Breaking is all about originality and bringing something new to the table from your country or region and this is exactly what Raygun was doing,” the Olympics’ head judge said.

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“She got inspired by her surroundings, which in this case, for example, was you know – kangaroo. The animal. For breaking, when you look for innovations or originality, you always search outside of dancing. Martial arts, how the animals move, anything.”

In something of an Eric the Eel moment, Gunn has become headline news everywhere from this masthead to the New York Times. “I don’t think personally that she stole the show because there were so many other beautiful moments,” MGbility “She was trying for originality and doing this to represent her country, her region, and she created some original moves which could be maybe funny or entertaining for others. For us, she basically represented breaking and hiphop by bringing something new to the table. From our perspective, it was nothing really shocking.”

Art or sport? Worthy of the Olympics or not? Canada’s B-boy gold medalist Phil Wizard said, “Yes, coming into it, we see ourselves as a dance, and an art, and a culture. But I think a lot of these things are just labels. We have a very common saying within the world of breaking. “Train like an athlete but think like an artist.”