Before you ever had Adele’s “Hello” stuck constantly in your head, you likely had Lionel Richie’s.
Lovely YouTube user BlendTV noted the similarity between the two songs (the name, the phone drama, the extreme catchiness) and cut them together in a hilarious mashup:
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In case you missed it, Adele dropped “Hello” — her first single in three years — on Friday. The Internet promptly had a ball with the video’s use of old-school telephones.
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