'I Love You, Paul!': Family Believes Their Mom Is 'Adrienne from Brooklyn' From Viral Beatles Clip [View all]

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“I DON’T CARE what anybody thinks! I’ll love the Beatles forever and I’ll always love them. Even when I’m 105 and an old grandmother I’ll love them,” the girl in the video gushes. She has a thick New York accent, as dense as an overgrown weed patch in an abandoned lot in Flatbush, and her hair is pulled up underneath a black beret.

“And Paul McCartney, if you are listening, Adrienne from Brooklyn loves you with all her heart. I love you, Paul! And please come to the window so I can just see you. I saw you smoking before and I kissed the limousine you walked out of. But I love you and I want you, Paul. And Ringo, you can walk out too, because I like you,” she gushes.

The video of Adrienne was taken by CBS News in 1964, when the Beatles visited the United States for the very first time. Though it has been making the rounds in Beatles fan circles for years, it was prominently featured in Ron Howard’s 2016 documentary Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years, and started making the rounds on TikTok last year. On Friday, Sir Paul McCartney responded: “Hey, Adrienne, it’s Paul. Listen, I saw your video. I’m in Brooklyn now. I finally got here,” he says in the video, advertising a Beatles photo exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. McCartney’s video went viral, with fans speculating in the comments as to what had happened to Adrienne from Brooklyn, hoping she would come across the video.

It’s easy to see why the clip gained so much traction. For anyone who has ever been a fan of any musician at any point in their lives, who has screamed their lungs out to their songs and wept over them on the bathroom floor, Adrienne from Brooklyn’s ardor is symbolic of the fierce and undying love between a teenage girl and their favorite pop star, which is so strong that nothing as quotidian as time or space or distance or the vagaries of the human condition can weaken it. To those looking for a feel-good online story, the prospect of reuniting Adrienne from Brooklyn with her idol seemed irresistible.

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