It was the biggest music video in the world last year, and it turns out Adele's Hello was inspired by one of the biggest stories at the time.
Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan, who directed the chart topping video, has revealed that Adele insisted on casting a black actor as her love interest.
Speaking to Vulture, Dolan said: "It was her desire that we wouldn't cast a Caucasian male in this, which I thought was great.
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"She called me and said, 'This is what I think we should do,' and if my memory serves me right ... I'm going to be honest, it's tragic not to be able to remember what exact conflict was on the news at that moment, because there are so many incidents of police brutality.
She called me right after one of those incidents of police brutality, and I wish I could remember the name. I wish it wouldn't be as hard to remember because there wouldn't be so many different instances of those incidents. They're disgusting."