Is There A Lionel Richie/Adele Collaboration In The Works?

Ever since Adele dropped her monster hit single ‘Hello’, Lionel Richie’s classic song from the 80s with the same name has received a lot more attention, something that works just fine with the legendary singer.

As is the case with most things on the Internet, as soon as Adele’s song ‘Hello’ came out, people noted the comparisons between her song and Lionel’s, even creating a video, that made it look as if the two were interacting in their respective music videos…

In a recent interview with E! News, Lionel talked about the song’s sudden resurgence,

“Someone said to me, ‘Lionel, Adele did ‘Hello” and I said, ‘Retirement. I am done’…Then, all of a sudden I realized this is not ‘Hello.’ She just used ‘Hello.”

He says there are absolutely no hard feelings towards Adele for using the same song title,

“You have no idea how many people called me on the phone and said, ‘Are you going to let her get away with that? She stole ‘Hello!” Then I said I don’t own ‘Hello.’ I own the melody,” he clarified to E! News. “But, what it did was it blew everything to the ceiling. The conversation came up. If you say Adele and you say Lionel or Lionel and Adele…that’s the best pairing you could have!”

So will there be a possible future collaboration in the works?

“We are going to be doing something together—that’s already almost in the works…I can almost say that we are talking, but right now she has a mission….”Her mission is [to] get her record out and go on tour, so until she finishes that cycle, that won’t happen just yet. She is committed to that.”

YES PLEASE!!!

All quotes taken from THIS E! News article.