Ellen Gets In on Adele-Lionel Richie's 'Hello' Mash-Up
As Adele's "Hello" continues to gain millions of hits online when she recently released her single from her unreleased album titled "25," a lot of artists including Lionel Richie has reacted since Richie also had a song with the same title. Last Wednesday, TV host Ellen DeGeneres pokes fun at the mash-up and shows off her own version on her show "Ellen."
The video was debuted on Wednesday on DeGeneres' show "Ellen" and was later posted on the show's website. The hilarious video featured the 57-year-old host using an old-school cordless phone. The phone rang, and, of course, DeGeneres answered saying "Hello" and on the other line was Adele in her original song singing "Hello, it's me."
The video continued as Adele's song played where she sang to the lyrics "'I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet." However, the comedienne host poked fun and answered while sitting on a sofa, "Did you say you're eating beets?"
DeGeneres had the audience in her show cracking up as she continued to insist that Adele's connection was poor and she couldn't understand what the 27-year-old singer was saying. "Let's wrap... I'm in a hurry. You're talking so slowly," DeGeneres continued.
After a few short moments, the host was, however, tired of Adele's slow singing and then received another call from Drake singing his latest single "Bling," then the video concluded with the last singer Richie singing a line from his "Hello" single back in 1984.
Meanwhile, the mash-up video circulating online with Adele and Richie both singing their familiar tunes of their individual hits with the same title had Richie previously also reacting and even making a joke about it on Instagram, where he posted a split photo of himself and Adele and wrote the caption, "HELLO @adele is it me you're looking for..."
Just recently, Richie in his interview with DuJour magazine revealed that he and Adele have no tensions regarding their hits with the same title. "I was so amazed, everyone said, 'Lionel, Adele is doing your song 'Hello,'' and I said, 'No she's not,' and all of a sudden I heard 'Hello,'" he explained to the magazine.
Richie continued saying how Adele didn't cover his "Hello" song but only the title. "But it's Adele. Even though she didn't cover the song but the word 'Hello,'" he told DuJour magazine. "Automatically everyone called me on the phone and said she used 'Hello,' and I said, 'Well, I kind of own Hello, haha. But not to the point where it's any kind of problem. I'll loan 'Hello' to Adele," he said.
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