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# Fans Are Using Adele's Music to Ease Pain of Not Getting Tickets to Her Tour

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## Danielle Zhu / Entertainment Weekly


Dec 17, 2015 5:11 PM UTC

![Adele at the 85th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 24, 2013.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99f05454bbbcab06/698875dbf887dc4c85e93ca0/adele3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

Adele at the 85th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 24, 2013.

Adele at the 85th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 24, 2013. Dan MacMedan—WireImage/Getty Images

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## Danielle Zhu / Entertainment Weekly


Dec 17, 2015 5:11 PM UTC

Tickets for Adele’s [North American tour](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/14/adele-north-american-tour) went on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, and the high demand left many buyers waiting in line, experiencing technical difficulties, and checking StubHub, where some resales are already going for [thousands of dollars](https://twitter.com/jessgood/status/677516846287949824).

But fans were quick to use Adele’s music as a way to ease the pain of not getting passes to the hottest tour of 2016\. “Hello” puns abound, here are the best Adele-style jokes made about sobbing into the Ticketmaster queue.

> [](https://twitter.com/realisticsay/status/677513844755795968)

> [](https://twitter.com/kelseytam/status/677515080448221184)

> [](https://twitter.com/sammyrhodes/status/677516074879963136)


> [](https://twitter.com/Kramer%5FKatie/status/677517957241679872)

> [](https://twitter.com/AlyssaMGoodman/status/677509516859154432)

> [](https://twitter.com/nikiwats23/status/677517759534772225)


> [](https://twitter.com/danieltaroy/status/677509354162151424)

_This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/17/adele-tour-tickets-twitter-reactions) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)

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