--- title: Adele Records Ellen's Outgoing Voicemail Message: Video description: Adele's Thursday appearance on Ellen was full of surprises. canonical: https://time.com/4231090/adele-ellen-degeneres-voicemail-greeting/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-19T21:40:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:18.480Z og:title: Watch Adele Record Ellen's Outgoing Voicemail Message og:description: 'I was wondering if after all these years you'd leave a message at the beep' og:url: https://time.com/4231090/adele-ellen-degeneres-voicemail-greeting/ 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: Watch Adele Record Ellen's Outgoing Voicemail Message twitter:description: 'I was wondering if after all these years you'd leave a message at the beep' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Adele Record Ellen's Outgoing Voicemail Message by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 19, 2016 9:40 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 19, 2016 9:40 PM UTC Adele’s Thursday appearance on _Ellen_ was full of surprises, like an [elaborate, hilarious prank](http://time.com/4228864/adele-ellen-degeneres-hilarious-jamba-juice/) on Jamba Juice employees. (Seriously, you should watch it.) After that, Ellen asked the singer for a tiny little favor: if she’d be willing to record Ellen’s outgoing voicemail message. She hands her a written message and Adele recites it. Then, because she’s a [poetic, noble land mermaid](http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/leslieknope-list-mermaid.gif), she sings the message. Obviously, the message is a parody of Adele’s hit “Hello.” “Hello, it’s me. I was wondering if after all these years you’d leave a message at the beep. Hello, can you hear me? I’m in California dreaming about the message that you’ll leave.” They also took a selfie at some point, because obviously: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4231090/adele-ellen-degeneres-voicemail-greeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4231090/adele-ellen-degeneres-voicemail-greeting/"},"headline":"Watch Adele Record Ellen's Outgoing Voicemail Message","datePublished":"2016-02-19T21:40:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:18.480Z","description":"'Hello, it's me / I was wondering if after all these years you'd leave a message at the beep'","url":"https://time.com/4231090/adele-ellen-degeneres-voicemail-greeting/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/4231090/adele-ellen-degeneres-voicemail-greeting/","name":"Watch Adele Record Ellen's Outgoing Voicemail Message"}}]}] ```