Never meet your heroes. That is unless you’re Adéla and your hero is Nicole Kidman, then go for gold.
With two songs on the Billboard Hot 100 right now, Adéla is having a real moment, and she’s waving the flag for her homeland, Slovakia.
If it all feels unreal, bizarre even, Adéla can be forgiven. Ever since she learned to read and write, her mind has been occupied with the American dream. As a youngster, the Disney Channel was constantly switched on at the family home, Adéla hatched a plan and a timeline.
“I basically wanted to be famous,” she told Jimmy Fallon, when she stopped by NBC’s The Tonight Show for Thursday night’s episode. Her education included watching Fallon’s interviews with Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and others.
Dreams, they sometimes come true. Adéla boasts a top 10 hit with the viral song “Nicole Kidman,” lifting 9-6 on the latest Billboard Hot 100, for a new high. A month ago, when Kidman stopped by The Tonight Show, conversation quickly moved to Adéla and her ode to the Australian actress. “I can’t believe it. She wrote a song called ‘Nicole Kidman,’” the Oscar winner remarked at the time. “She’s so talented.”
Deep breath, Adéla. “That’s too much to even think about,” she explained to Fallon. “She’s my muse.” Kidman, well “she’s doing charity work by mentioning my name all over town. It’s amazing.”
If that was strange, Adéla must’ve felt like she entered Weirdworld when Kidman, Dua Lipa, Pedro Pascal and other a-listers created TikToks to Adéla’s music. “I was like, this is not real. I’m being pranked obviously, I honestly thought it was AI. But it was not,” she recounted in her late-night interview.
Adéla’s mom is, of course, on her side, freaking out just like her daughter. “She also loves Nicole,” the rising pop star admitted. “She was beside herself. She was like ‘I don’t know if people are going crazy of if you’re a genius. But it’s working.’”
Then, Adéla stepped away from the Tonight Show couch and onto the stage for her TV debut performance, a medley of those two hits “Nicole Kidman” and “Ain’t In LA,” both lifted from the album Prima. The rising Slovak star sure made an impression, leading a troupe of dancers for a seductive performance with all the hallmarks of a wild night down at the Moulin Rouge.
Watch the interview and performance below.