https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10TsHGcHHM
The other day Walk the Moon was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. After they were done performing on the NBC late night show, they asked them to do a cover of their choice.
They pop group chose to Adele’s Someone Like You and made it their own. They started out harmonizing the first verse perfectly and then they added in some instruments to make the melancholy song less sad.
It is a much different take than the original, but it is just as beautiful. It doesn’t reach into your core and rip out your heart, but it helps you remember a past relationship fondly instead of with heartbreak.
I remember when my friend heard the Dixie Chick’s cover of Landslide, he said it takes 3 singers harmonizing to equal the power of Stevie Nicks’ voice. That is kind of how I felt about Walk the Moon doing Adele because she has one of the most powerful voices ever to grace our ears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGtUvvkjdUY
Weezer recently released the Teal album full of covers and yesterday they performed one of those songs on The Tonight Show. Not, like they normally do but with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots and classroom instruments. Wait, there is more, they got their ’80s on from head to toe.
That means the song of choice was a-ha’s Take On Me, so of course, they added in the comic book effect. Which makes this performance like even more totally rad.
BTW is it just me or does Rivers Cuomo look like Corey Feldman circa License to Drive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoH7HeAVg5E
Jimmy Fallon and the Ragdoll Girls were back on The Tonight Show yesterday and they decided to sing Buddy Holly. Which was perfect timing because Weezer was on the NBC late night show. Therefore, the band joined in and sang their first hit in the style of the barbershop quartet.
You know, the same way singing Africa gave them, the Teal album full of covers. Maybe this will give us the Straw album filled with their songs being done like this. How swell would that be?
Henry Winkler was a guest on The Tonight Show yesterday and he made quite the entrance. Do you know how The Roots play a song for the guest as they walk over to Jimmy Fallon? Well, for the actor they played Hava Nagila. As soon as he heard the tune, he recreated The Fonz dance he did on Happy Days to it for everyone to enjoy.
He might not have done that dance since the ’70s, but he still has the moves at 73. What is even more amazing is that he did not even break a sweat. Which is why he will always be cool like The Fonz. Or I should say The Fonz is more like Henry Winkler than the opposite way around. Which is why we love him so much. That and he is the nicest guy in Hollywood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDDZ3R3o8hM
Late night, literally, went to the dogs, and squirrels and chickens yesterday. That is because three of the talk shows did bits with those animals.
Jimmy Kimmel Live did a commercial advertising AirBuds aka pot for dogs. They found viral videos of dogs doing funny things and mashed them all together for the ad. I don’t have to smoke some marijuana to laugh uncontrollably to that.
Over on Conan, O’Brien opended up his studio to the fat squirrels who are not being taken care of at the national parks because of the shutdown. This bit is so stupid that is absolutely brilliant. That is why I love this TBS host, he is not afraid to make a schmuck of himself.
Finally, Jimmy Fallon and Backstreet Boys dressed up as chickens and clucked their through Everybody on The Tonight Show. What can you say that? How about it, I Want It That Way from now on!
Now, that you have watched all this videos, which one made you howl at the moon?
