If you google "pictures of Adele and Sam Smith," your search query will return with zero results. That's because both of pop music's biggest superstars — who just so happen to be soul singers from the UK [1] — have yet to be photographed together. After doing some digging, I also discovered that Sam and Adele have never attended the same events in public. Strange, I know. At first, I assumed that maybe the two vocal acrobats just hadn't run into each other, but now I know that by some weird coincidence, they never seem to be at the same place at the same time — which begs the question: are Adele and Sam Smith the same person?

As silly as that question might sound, I'm not the only one who has thought of it at some point. Seriously, check the record [2]. I don't know if it's because fans want so desperately to see Sam and Adele together or we're all just dying for a duet between the two. I mean, are we even ready? I don't think we are. Humor me for a bit as I investigate all the ways Sam and Adele could be pulling double duty and playing tag team with our wigs as the same person.

Both sang a James Bond theme song.

It's a distinguished honor to be chosen to sing a James Bond theme song. In 2012, Adele was tapped to do just that. "Skyfall, [3]" a song from the James Bond film of the same name, went on to win a Grammy and best original song at the 2013 Oscars [4].

Not long after, Sam followed up with his own anthem, "Writing's on the Wall," [5] for Spectre, which also won best original song at the Oscars [6] in 2016. It was the second time a James Bond song had ever done so, following Adele's victory. Noticing a trend here?