Adele’s smash hit Hello goes viral – but it’s for all the wrong reasons
Song’s used to prank people and make reactions public
HAVE you recently received a message from an ex saying, “Hello. It’s me”?
They’re probably taking part in the #HelloChallenge. Many exes, friends and par- ents have been caught in a prank where people send the lyrics of Adele’s recent smash hit Hello and then put the screengrabs of the hilarious conversations online.
The responses from those being pranked have varied from calling immediately, continuously asking what was going on and some exes suddenly pouring out their feelings and hopes of getting their long-lost lover back.
South Africans are not the only people having fun with Adele’s dramatic single, where she calls her ex-lover and asks if they can meet again.
Celebrities and comedians worldwide have been releasing spoof videos of the song and some of them have gone viral.
Ellen DeGeneres’s spoof video has almost 6 million views and in it she pretends she’s on the phone with Adele, Lionel Ritchie and Drake, who all have phone call-related hit singles.
In it, DeGeneres complains to Adele saying, “You’re talking so slow. Please get to the point… I’m in a rush.”
Comedians and actors from The Hangover, Rob Riggle and Ken Jeong, also had fun with the song by changing the lyrics for Fox NFL.
Jeong sang: “I think I finally get Adele/because loving and losing’s hard as hell.”
Even non-celebrities are making waves with their Hello spoofs.
An 18-year-old from Essex, England, Edd Buckley, took it further and made it seem as though Adele was calling him on an unknown number and is being vague about who she is.
The clip has more than 40 000 likes on Facebook where Edd uploaded it to his own page with a massive 32 000 shares.
There is a bit of an internet phenomenon in himself, creating funny and viral videos that get thousands of shares over the internet.