♪ -Musical genre challenge ♪ -All right, now here's how it works, okay?

We're gonna take turns hitting this button here, which activates the Random Genre Generator. Or Random Genre Generator.

[ Laughter ] It will land on one random song title and one random musical genre. Whoever's turn it is has to sing that song in that style.

-Okay. -All right? I will start us off. Here we go. You ready? One, two, three.

"Shape of You." Ska. [ Laughter ] I kind of know -- I know "Shape of You."

I know a little ska. How fast is ska? ♪♪ [ Cheers and applause ] ♪♪

♪ I'm in love with the shape of you ♪ ♪ Push and pull like a magnet too ♪

♪ My heart is falling too ♪ ♪ I'm in love with your body ♪ ♪ Oh, I, oh, I, oh, I, oh, I ♪

♪ I'm in love with your body ♪ ♪ Oh, I, oh, I, oh, I, oh, I ♪

♪ I'm in love with your body ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] That was a little -- I don't know what I was doing there.

All right. I'll let you go ahead. Ariana, it's your turn. Go ahead.

-Okay. -All right. It is "Humble." -Goth rock. Like, goth rock -- like 2003 Evanescence goth rock?

-Yeah. What does that sound like, yeah? -Like, Hot Topic shopping goth?

[ Laughter ] -Wait, how does that sound? Yeah. ♪ -Oh ♪ ♪ Right stroke put Lil Baby in a spiral ♪

♪ Soprano C, we like to keep it on a high note ♪ ♪ It's levels to it ♪

♪ You and I know, bitch,
sit down ♪ ♪ Be humble ♪ ♪ Sit down ♪

♪ Be humble ♪ ♪ Oh, sit down ♪ ♪ Be humble ♪ ♪ Sit down ♪

♪ Be humble ♪ ♪ Oh, sit down ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] -What?! Stop it.

♪ -Sit down ♪ -Wow. Wow! That's exactly what it was.
All right.

I don't know why,
but I'm going again. Okay. Here we go. That was fantastic.

[ Laughter ] "Yeah," the Usher song. "Yeah." Yeah. Boop boop.
In a country jam?

[ Laughter ] ♪♪ ♪ I was up in the club
with my homies trying to ♪

No. Stop, stop. Can we do like --
[ Laughter ] You know what? Maybe like a --
[ Cheers and applause ]

Can we do like a Johnny Cash -- I feel like a Johnny Cash, like
a slower, more recent,

like a later Johnny Cash. Like a Rick Rubin/Johnny Cash,
like "Hurt." Like really slow.

♪♪ Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah. All right, yeah. Yeah, okay.
Here we go.

♪♪ ♪ I was up in the club
with my homies ♪ [ Cheers and applause ]

♪ Trying to get a little V.I.P. ♪ ♪ Keep it down on the low key ♪

♪ And I'm like, yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ [ Cheers and applause ]

That's the best I could do. That's the best I can do. Sorry. All right.
-That was so good. Okay.

-Ariana, take us home. -"God's Plan."
[Cheers and applause] -"God's Plan."
-'90s diva.

-'90s diva.
So, like, poppy. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-"God's Plan," Drake. '90s diva. ♪♪ -[Vocalizes] [Cheers and applause]

♪ I hold back sometimes ♪ ♪ I don't, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ I feel good sometimes ♪

♪ I don't, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ I finessed down Weston Road ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, oh, oh ♪

♪ Might go down a G.O.D. ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ God's plan, yeah ♪

♪ God's plan ♪ ♪ God's plan, yay ♪ ♪ God's plan ♪

[Cheers and applause] -Come on! That is it for
the Musical Genre Challenge. Ariana Grande!
-Jimmy Fallon!

-Come on! [Cheers and applause] Yes! We're talking to Ariana
after the break.

Stick around. [Both vocalizing] [Cheers and applause] ♪ -Ooh ♪

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