- Is that Lucky by Britney Spears?
Holy (beep) I can't
believe I remembered that.
Oh, sorry.
What's up? My name is Jessie Reyez,
and I'm here at Seventeen
to play the lyric challenge.
(upbeat music)
Aw man, my expectations
are low, to be honest.
I'm very much a mumble
singer when I'm in the whip.
So we'll see what happens.
(slow note increasing
then decreasing in pitch)
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♪ What a girl wants, what a girl needs, ♪
♪ whatever keeps me happy sets you free. ♪
That's nice. What a far
fetched idea for a partner.
(laughs)
♪ The sing in single, worried
'bout a ring on my finger. ♪
Shout out Lizzo. She's sick.
Lizzo's dope for the most,
like, the sickest reasons man.
Her energy on stage, her
freedom, her self expression,
her body positivity, her self confidence,
her, like, anthems for self
love are very much needed
in today's society that
is overwhelmed by this
commercialized idea of
what feminine beauty
is supposed to be.
So I respect it, I rate it,
I appreciate it, I love it.
(buzzer)
♪ Just can't get enough guy ♪
♪ (Mumbled singing) ♪
I know I got most of it. So next.
That's my girl. She's lit man.
Mad talented, mad dope, mad chill, like,
it's not even just her,
it's her and her whole team.
Her brother's mad cool, mad talented.
And when you meet her family,
it's not hard to see why they're dope.
♪ Everything you own
in a box to the left. ♪
Beyonce.
My favorite Beyonce song
is Dangerously in Love.
Because I love that way.
I don't know how to love healthy.
I don't know how to love in a healthy way.
I tend to jump head first into love.
And when you do that, you
risk breaking your neck.
Which is probably why I have
so many heartbreak songs.
Also there's memories attached to it.
I remember being like fourteen years old,
or fifteen years old and
singing it for my first love.
He was like "you sing?"
I was like "yeah I do",
he said "oh random".
We were sitting outside my crib
and it was like eight pm
on a Friday. Summertime.
And I sang.
And I was scared to sing
back then in front of people
so I had to like shut my
eyes while I would sing.
I shut my eyes and then I
opened them and he was like--
(laughs)
So cute.
(clock ticking)
(buzzer)
♪ But I couldn't stay away,
I couldn't fight it. ♪
♪ I had hoped you'd see my face ♪
♪ And that you'd be reminded that for me ♪
♪ Nevermind I'll-- ♪
Ooh, such a good song.
♪ I'm falling-- ♪
Oh, that's Gaga and uh...
What's his name?
Uh, Brad? Brad...well? What
the hell's his name again?
Bradley Cooper! Yeah.
(laughs)
Yeah.
That song is so beautiful and so special
'cause the structure is so abstract.
Like if you read those
lyrics and you listen to it,
the structure's so-- not even so abstract,
but just against the grain
of what is pop right now.
Like it's not verse,
chorus, verse, chorus.
It's almost like verse, and
then this weird musical space
and then verse and then the
chorus and then a bridge
and then a chorus, which
is just-- it's different.
And it's a pop song so it's cool.
♪ But it was all pretend. ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, since you've been gone. ♪
Um... American Idol... Kelly Clarkson.
Kelly Clarkson!
♪ I'm still, I'm still
Jenny from the block. ♪
♪ Used to have a little
now I have a lot. ♪
(Ding)
It was so sick to see J.Lo
and Shakira at the Superbowl.
And snap. And Bad Bunny was there.
And Balvin was there.
It was also (mumbles)
It was the dopest thing.
Dope for any kid that's
at home watching it
that's a creative kid
or that's a musical kid.
And watching the screen like
it's something so far removed
because institutions aren't
made to help creatives.
They're just not made for it.
If you wanna be a lawyer
or a doctor or something
then it's made because
then you go to college,
you get that piece of paper,
and you follow a blueprint.
When you're a creative kid,
it's not like society caters to you.
We're all flying blind.
Everybody who enters this
industry's flying blind
in that regard, so when there's
people on this main stage,
on this giant platform,
who look like you and you're a minority
or who sound like you or
have the same roots as you,
and they're making their dream a reality,
it means the world because
it humanizes something
that's so far removed from reality.
I remember being small
and watching Grammys
and watching award shows
and the small apartment
that we used to live on,
and no cable so it would be like static-y
and watching Celia Cruz on a main stage
and being like holy she
has brown skin like me.
She's got the same roots as me.
And like making it happen.
And made the dream not so far fetched.
To see someone like me
on that kind of stage.
So it's lit. I see Jenny as a Latina.
As a creative, and as a Latina.
♪ You're gonna hear me roar ♪
(ding)
Roar by Katy Perry.
My niece is gonna be cheesed
when she watches this
'cause we sing that song together.
She's gonna be like "what the hell tia?"
(crickets)
Nothin'.
(buzzer)
Nothin'.
Is that Lucky by Britney Spears?
Holy (beep) I can't
believe I remembered that.
Oh, sorry.
Holy I can't believe I remembered that.
That's Lucky?
♪ She's so lucky, she's a star ♪
♪ Cry, cry, cry lonely heart thinkin ♪
♪ If there's nothin
missin in my life then ♪
(ding)
Yeah. That song is lit.
Bald-headed Britney.
My type of chick.
Forever. Forever. What?
That was I don't give a, Britney.
I'm not entirely sure how I did.
I think I did better than I anticipated.
My album's out. My debut album.
Called, Before Love Came to Kill Us.
Hope y'all are rockin' with it.
Thank you guys for watching. Bye.
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Deuces.
