Hello, Goodbye Adele

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At Pitchfork this week I had a listicle of hello songs in response to Adele’s hello song. A couple go cut, and I thought they were vaguely amusing…so thought I’d decut them here. So, one more (or two more) brief hellos….
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Beatles, “Hello Goodbye,” 1968


The Beatles – Hello Goodbye [HIGH QUALITY] by Electric_Eye

The Beatles refuse to leave you alone, no matter how much you beg them. This song sounds like the wind-up music for a lurid, smiling, stalker jack-in-the-box.

Lake Street Dive “Hello? Goodbye!” 2011

Boston-based Lake Shore Drive with a jazzy sideways Beatles tribute. Rachael Price belts and scats out the introvert answer record to all those extroverts chasing you down to greet you. “When you say hello I say goodbye.”

8 thoughts on “Hello, Goodbye Adele”

  1. Damn it, I can’t help it. “[T]he introvert answer record to all those extroverts” – gee, I wonder which Noah prefers.

    Sorry.

  2. I like lots of extrovert music! I mean, I love Van Halen; don’t get much more extroverted than Van Halen.

    I really love that Lake Street Dive track…and really don’t much like the Beatles song. But on the longer list…Hello Little Schoolgirl is great, and the Diddy song I really like.

  3. But would you write approvingly “The extrovert answer to all those introverts” – I mean, before I asked you whether you’d write it?

  4. Oh, sure, I can imagine writing that. About fey folk for example or indie pop; I can absolutely see touting extroverts in certain circumstances. No extrovert hate here (my son is a lovely and incredibly charming extrovert; it’s a lovely thing to see.)

  5. Well, you say yes. (I’m hilarious.)

    Anyway, whether I’m right or totally wrong with those rhetorical questions, there is maybe an interesting aesthetic phenomenon here: I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have written that phrase I quoted, but on the other hand I know that your patience with “fey folk and indie pop” (if not with the fans) runs out faster than mine.

  7. Yeah, when they were good (except ZZ Top, whom I don’t really care about even when they were good).

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