Here's the Adele/Lionel Richie 'Hello' phone call you've been waiting for
'Helloooooooo.' 'Hellooooooooo?'
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Your support makes all the difference.Yes, this is the internet, so it's only taken a couple for hours for Adele's comeback single 'Hello' to be collided with Lionel Richie's absolutely bloody timeless ballad of the same name.
The pair can be seen on YouTube (below) on the phone together trading their melodically-similar "Helloooooo"s, and the clip is only made better by the fact that Adele is using a flip phone in her music video. A flip phone. Adele has made enough money from her first two albums to build a medium-sized mall out of 64GB iPhones, but here she is, rocking a flip phone.
Adele made light of the similarity between her's and Lionel's track on BBC Radio 1's Breakfast Show this morning, telling Nick Grimshaw: “We’ve definitely got to do something, me and Lionel," and suggesting they hold a competitive “hello-off”.
'Hello' will appear on Adele's upcoming new album 25, which follows on from her previous LPs 19 and 21 and has been described as a "make-up" rather than a break-up album.
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