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Adele just performed two humongous shows in the UK.

It was your usual gorgeous gowns and stunning vocals, but then I came across a bunch of photos of her with a T-shirt cannon.

She's obsessed.

She has a whole history with them.

It's actually become somewhat of a tradition for her to bust a cannon out and launch some merch into the crowd.

She's been doing it for a while...

...and has become a real T-shirt gun connoisseur.

Soooo, it was nice to see her bring it back at her recent UK shows.

Adele brought out MULTIPLE T-shirt guns for a pretty long T-shirt launching interlude.

Clips of Adele's T-shirt cannon excitement are going viral on TikTok:

And also Twitter:

There was actually a really cute moment when she launched a shirt at a little girl:

Basically, this was the type of content I needed as I ease myself out of a long weekend.

I also need to add "get whacked in the head by Adele launching a T-shirt at me" to my bucket list.

So yeah, you learn something new every day.

Adele's just another T-shirt cannon loving gal <3

And really, who can blame her? That's goals, babes!

You can watch the full T-shirt cannon ordeal here. It's very funny:

Ciao!

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