Adele fans wondered why the soulful singer uses a flip phone in her latest music video "Hello," according to CNN News.
While watching the sepia-toned story play out, the Grammy award winner belts out an emotional song, noted E! Online. Viewers loved the song and tweeted about the outdated flip phone.
The video's director Xavier Dolan explained why he used the vintage phone as a opposed to a modern touch-screen smartphone, reported USA Today.
“It makes me uncomfortable filming iPhones because I feel like I’m shooting an iPhone commercial." Dolan said. "And the same thing stands for cars: Drive them! Buy them! But on film, they’re distracting to me. They’re elements that you identify to our reality so much that – whether it’s a short film, a film, a music video – they just hurt the piece’s sensibility and reality, and it’s not as romantic. Those things: iPhones, laptops, all those elements, to me, they bring me back to reality: That’s not what you want. You want to get out of your own life; you want to enter someone else’s; you want to travel somewhere; you want to be told a story. I’m realizing maybe I’ve been more distracting than anything else with that flip phone, but it wasn’t intentional!”
Technology experts wonder what would happen if Apple released a modern flip phone, according to CNET.
Watch the British bombshell and "The Wire's" Michael Lee use flip phones in "Hello":
