Adele has told how she warms up for her Vegas shows by spying on the fans queuing outside.
The singer has a live stream of the people waiting to see her perform beamed directly to her dressing room.
Adele, 34, told her Caesars Palace audience: “At 6.45 when the doors open, there is a live stream of all of you in my dressing room and I am obsessed.
“I watch it from 6.45 right before I stand over there to start.
“I love seeing you come in with your partners and friends.”
Adele’s residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace runs until March.
The venue has previously hosted Celine Dion, Cher, Madonna and Sir Elton John.
It has a capacity of 4,000 people – tiny compared to a stadium – but Adele says the smaller shows have helped to ease her stage fright.
The Someone Like You singer’s fear of big audiences has been well documented, with arena anxiety reportedly one of the main reasons she refused another world tour.
Adele has gone back to therapy to help beat her fears, though.
Speaking on stage, she said: “I always get so emotional. I love making music but there is something about performing live that actually terrifies me and fills me with dread. That is why I am not a big touring artist.
“I did it to prove I could. But this experience of being in a room this size… I think I might be a live artist for the rest of my life.
“I have always put massive pressure on myself that everything has to be perfect, perfect. Obviously this show did have to be f***ing perfect hence me delaying it again. Again, I am sorry.
“If my voice ain’t top notch, that is all right but my soul is top notch, I’ll tell you that. That is what I was trying to say to my therapist.
“And there’s just, like, having human interaction every weekend. Honestly, I am the happiest I have ever, ever, ever been.” Adele, a notorious perfectionist, said she made the “horrible” decision to axe her previous residency because she was not happy with it.
“There was just no soul in it,” she said in an interview.
“The stage set-up wasn’t right. It was very disconnected from me and my band, and it lacked intimacy. It was the worst moment in my career by far.”
Tickets for her latest gigs sold out in minutes, with some on resale sites for as much as £40,000.
Adele, who is said to be worth £200million, also told how she was a natural money-
maker from an early age. She turned her love
of the Spice Girls into a show, which she charged her mum’s friends to watch.
“I was obviously always Ginger,” Adele said. “My mum would love to do dinner parties so I would always capitalise on that and charge them £1. Sometimes I made £10 a night.”
