--- title: Hello by Adele Cover by Alex Boye description: Hello by Adele covered by recording artist Alex Boye who dressed like a Star Wars storm trooper canonical: https://time.com/4149499/alex-boye-adele-hello-cover-star-wars/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-15T18:24:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:50.681Z og:title: This Adele-Star Wars Mashup Is What the Galaxy Needs Right Now og:description: Hello by Adele covered by recording artist Alex Boye who dressed like a Star Wars storm trooper og:url: https://time.com/4149499/alex-boye-adele-hello-cover-star-wars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Adele-Star Wars Mashup Is What the Galaxy Needs Right Now twitter:description: Hello by Adele covered by recording artist Alex Boye who dressed like a Star Wars storm trooper twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Adele-Star Wars Mashup Is What the Galaxy Needs Right Now  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 15, 2015 6:24 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Dec 15, 2015 6:24 PM UTC Recording artist Alex Boye has released an “African tribal cover” of Adele’s latest hit “Hello,” which he performs while dressed like a stormtrooper from _Star Wars._ It is the musician’s way of paying tribute to two of the most popular topics on the Internet: Adele’s new album _25_ and _Star Wars:_ _The Force Awakens,_ the latest film in the popular fantasy franchise, which opens in theaters Dec. 18. As the London-born singer sums up his music, “I take pop songs and Africanize them.” Other hits that he has covered in the past include: [Psy’s “Gangnam Style,”](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/14/watch-romney-dance-gangnam-style-at-a-mormon-singles-conference/) Idina Menzel’s [“Let It Go”](http://time.com/7947/icymi-the-frozen-let-it-go-cover-everyone-is-talking-about/) from the Disney movie _Frozen_, and [“Uptown Funk”](http://time.com/3723447/alex-boye-uptown-funk-clean-cut-mormon/) by Mark Ronson, featuring Bruno Mars. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4149499/alex-boye-adele-hello-cover-star-wars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4149499/alex-boye-adele-hello-cover-star-wars/"},"headline":"This Adele-Star Wars Mashup Is What the Galaxy Needs Right Now","datePublished":"2015-12-15T18:24:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:50.681Z","description":"Two of the hottest topics on the Internet together in one music video","url":"https://time.com/4149499/alex-boye-adele-hello-cover-star-wars/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4149499/alex-boye-adele-hello-cover-star-wars/","name":"This Adele-Star Wars Mashup Is What the Galaxy Needs Right Now"}}]}] ```