- 5/22/2025
Get ready for a wild throwback to NBC's Hit Me Baby One More Time, the iconic 2005 reality show where one-hit wonders battled it out with their classic hits and jaw-dropping cover songs! From bizarre renditions to unexpected performances, this video dives into the weirdest, most unforgettable covers that had audiences buzzing. Relive the nostalgia, cringe at the oddball moments, and discover why this show was a pop culture gem. Don’t miss the craziest performances that still have us talking! 🎤📺
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00:00Hey, it's Joe from VCamTV Studios, and I'm back with another obscure reality show that you guys just have to see.
00:07And if you know me, you know I love a good cover song.
00:10But it always seems to be by a younger artist covering an artist that inspired them.
00:15It rarely goes the other way.
00:17Now, every so often, you'll get, like, a Rick Ashley covering Post Malone.
00:22You know I say that I am better now, better now
00:25I only say that cause you're not around, not around
00:29Or Toto covering Weezer.
00:31Oh, I'm a man, jeez
00:35I got my hands full
00:37It seems like every artist eventually makes a Beatles cover.
00:41Suddenly
00:45I'm not half the girl I used to be
00:52Old and slumped, you must move your eyes
00:59You'll see the sky with diamonds
01:05But Paul never covers one of their songs.
01:08You won't see him singing one of Ed Sheeran's hits.
01:11And in the summer of 2005, NBC answered my prayers.
01:15They said, hey, remember those acts that had huge hit songs?
01:19What if we made them compete against each other like they were on American Idol?
01:23They can sing their big hit, but then they have to sing something modern.
01:27The show was called Hit Me Baby One More Time.
01:31And each week, five acts would compete in an interactive battle of the bands.
01:35The studio audience would choose a winner.
01:37And between me and you, I think the studio audience got it wrong almost every single week.
01:43This show is a lot like watching a Celebrity Jeopardy or Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.
01:48The acts aren't competing for prize money.
01:51Anything they win goes to a charity.
01:54Though, in some cases, it really does look like they could use the money themselves.
02:00Our host is this Australian guy who looks like the year 2001, if it were a person.
02:07Conquered America in the mid-80s with hard-rocking party anthems and high-voltage sex appeal.
02:14High voltage?
02:15High voltage!
02:18Sex appeal?
02:19It's AC.
02:20It's Loverboy.
02:22Loverboy?
02:23Huh.
02:24I'd mock this intro more, but Loverboy's pretty good.
02:28I've seen him live.
02:29Everybody's working for the weekend.
02:36Everybody wants a new romance.
02:40They're just guys who work for the weekend.
02:43Working for the weekend.
02:46These guys.
02:47Fist-pumping party anthems like Working for the Weekend ensured that Loverboy's seduction
02:51with the pop charts would be long and fulfilling.
02:55Loverboys.
02:57Lover.
02:59Boys.
03:01Boys.
03:03Everyone's watching to see what you will do.
03:09Really?
03:10Boys.
03:12Everyone's looking at you.
03:16Come here, Loverboy.
03:18Hard to call yourself Loverboys when you're wearing dad-rock jackets.
03:22You want a piece of my heart?
03:25You better start hosting.
03:29And this guy looks like Brian Knobbs if he was trying to sell me insurance.
03:33You want to be in the show?
03:36Come on, baby, let's go.
03:39So while Loverboy's vocals aren't as strong as they would have been in the 80s,
03:43they didn't come out here and embarrass themselves.
03:45So that's a win.
03:46And I just love how fake studio crowds are for these ensemble music shows.
03:52You think this girl or this girl knows anything about Loverboy?
03:57This crowd is as fake hype as the one in the New Year's Eve performance that Weezer put on
04:01for Can't Knock the Hustle.
04:04Hasta luego.
04:06Hasta luego.
04:08Hasta luego.
04:10Adios.
04:11Yeah!
04:14Tell me, what was the inspiration behind Working for the Weekend?
04:18It's a working man's song all about partying.
04:20Oh, the song was about partying.
04:24Why else would you work for the weekend?
04:26This is where Hit Me Baby One More Time throws us the first curveball.
04:30The second song that each act has to perform must be a modern hit.
04:34And I'm thinking, well, Loverboy is kind of pop rock from the 80s.
04:39They'll probably do whatever pop rock was current in the last five years.
04:43Somewhere between, like, 99, 2004, 2005.
04:48Like, I don't know, Smash Mouth or Sugar Ray.
04:52Good Charlotte.
04:53We're doing Hero by Enrique Iglesias.
04:56Enrique Iglesias was not the music I was expecting Loverboy to want to cover.
05:01Oh, that could be a huge train wreck.
05:03Hit Me Baby One More Time tried to be diverse with the acts that they chose.
05:07It wasn't just going to be all rock bands.
05:10So we're going to get CeCe Penniston.
05:12Former beauty queen CeCe Penniston was crowned a dance floor diva
05:15when her disqualified single finally booked it into the top five in 1991.
05:20The multi-platinum smash earned CeCe a following of millions,
05:23including former president Bill Clinton.
05:25Yeah, I'm sure it was the music why Bill Clinton invited you to the White House.
05:30Who tapped the church-trained vocalist to perform at his inaugural celebration.
05:34I mean, look at that guy.
05:35He probably loved his early 90s dance pop.
05:38♪♪
05:43♪♪
05:47Is her backup dancer Hyde from that 70s show?
05:50Back when he could just dance all day and not have to worry about life in prison.
05:54♪♪
06:02And CeCe's another act who doesn't embarrass herself.
06:05I think she's pretty on point vocally.
06:06♪♪
06:13What was it like performing for the president of the United States?
06:17It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part
06:22for which I am solely and completely responsible.
06:26Oh man, it was such an honor.
06:27You know, I know it's something that not everyone gets asked to do
06:30and it definitely was an honor and a pleasure.
06:32So CeCe made dance music in the early 90s
06:36which makes me think that if this was based in the year 2005,
06:39she's probably gonna pick, I don't know, Destiny's Child or some early Beyoncé.
06:44But no.
06:45I'll be doing There You'll Be by Faith Hill.
06:47A third act is Flock of Seagulls
06:49and I remember seeing this guy on Bands Reunited, another show I will eventually cover,
06:55and he just did not want to perform with the rest of his crew.
06:59My mission is to go and find the original members of the Flock of Seagulls
07:02and ask them if they're willing to reunite for a one-night-only gig in your native England.
07:07How does that sound? Would you be into that?
07:09Um, probably not.
07:11But he seems a little bit more game to perform on this show.
07:15I walk along the avenue.
07:18I never thought I'd meet a girl like you.
07:23Meet a girl like you.
07:25And the crowd is way louder for Flock of Seagulls.
07:32This was when Grand Theft Auto Vice City was giving Iran a second life.
07:44But I can't help but feel a little let down that we're not getting a true Flock of Seagulls experience.
07:58Aurora Borealis!
08:03Instead of having the head of hair, he looks more like Tony Little.
08:08And I think, is he going to sell me a gazelle?
08:11Where did the inspiration for the name of Flock of Seagulls come from?
08:15Originally it came from the book Jonathan Livingston Seagulls.
08:19And then also from a band called The Stranglers doing a song which had the name in it.
08:24I'm like 90% convinced that our host is a robot.
08:29And you can tell that the lead singer of Flock of Seagulls is sick of being asked about his hair.
08:34You were my hair idol. Where's it gone?
08:37It's back here now.
08:38So what song is Flock of Seagulls going to cover?
08:41Well, they're going to cover Mr. Alexa Bliss himself, Ryan Cabrera.
08:45We're going to do a song by Ryan Cabrera called On the Way Down.
08:49A staple of any 2K Girls music collection.
08:52Continuing with our musical diversity, let's get a little rap on this show with Arrested Development.
08:58Arrested Development inspired a multi-platinum following as they lifted hip-hop to higher ground.
09:03And does anything sound more pretentious than how their music is described by our narrator?
09:07Our next band used a little divine inspiration.
09:11One of my favorite creators on YouTube is Todd in the Shadows.
09:14He's got a series called Train Records and another one, One Hit Wonderland.
09:19And I wanted to see how many artists that he's covered popped up on this show.
09:23As of the recording of this video, this will be our second one.
09:28And Arrested Development still performed with the old man in his rocking chair.
09:33And if you watched the Todd in the Shadows episode about Arrested Development,
09:38didn't the woman who was the lead singer hate the main guy who was the rapper?
09:42Is that her? Wait, who's this woman?
09:49She wasn't in the band intro.
09:57But Speech, why do they call you Speech?
10:00Basically, when I started doing hip-hop and rhyming, I felt like Speech was the best name for that
10:05because of the whole just, you know, using the words to capture the audience.
10:09Oh, they call him Speech because he uses his words.
10:14Brilliant. Now I see why they won a Grammy.
10:18We're only a couple acts in and I've already given up trying to pinpoint
10:22what the artist is going to choose for a contemporary song.
10:25It seems like they're just picking them out of a hat at this point.
10:28We're going to do Los Lonely Boys Heaven, so hit that.
10:31Yeah, that's exactly what I would have thought they would have chose.
10:34The next performer grew up in the O.C. and transformed from mole rat to multi-platinum goddess.
10:41Our next act is Tiffany, who seems like she's a little too important to be booked on a show like this.
10:47But here she is.
10:49My honest opinion, in 2005, Tiffany just kind of looked like a hot milf.
10:59And in 2005, must have stumbled upon a Jessica Simpson cloning machine.
11:10If this song doesn't make you go full Joey Gladstone, then you and I can't be friends.
11:23Don't think we're alone now.
11:26I'm doing Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson.
11:28Finally, somebody picks a song that seems like it would fit their style.
11:33You see, kids, if you work hard and write something as catchy as Working for the Weekend,
11:37you too can have your own boat.
11:39I'm gonna ask for you guys to respond in the comments, but does the lead singer sound like Jon Lovitz?
11:44I think we lasted this long because of the songwriting. I guess it went two times platinum, now five.
11:50He's losing his mind.
11:54And I'm reaping all the benefits.
11:57And Loverboy has somehow managed to turn Enrique Iglesias into an 80s rock power ballad.
12:03Would you dance if I asked you to dance?
12:09Would you run and never look back?
12:14With some real Divorced Dad type energy coming out of it.
12:18I can be your hero, baby.
12:24I can kiss away the pain.
12:28Because when I listen to Enrique Iglesias, I think, this needs to sound a little bit more like Bon Jovi.
12:34This woman in the crowd has some real dead eyes going on.
12:40Like she's regretting accepting those free tickets to come see a bunch of old bands play.
12:45Well, that's nice of CeCe. Her and her husband invite the crew over to have a cookout.
12:49Well, CeCe still has it.
12:52And everywhere I am, there you'll be.
12:58There you'll be.
13:02She's just taken the roof off.
13:04Did you mean blown the roof off?
13:06Because taken isn't a thing.
13:08You can mock Flock of Seagull all you want, but they have a home studio.
13:12Do you?
13:13And Flock of Seagull's cover of Ryan Cabrera's On the Way Down sounds like the 2004 Franz Ferdinand style.
13:21On the way down, I saw you and you saved me from myself.
13:28But I won't forget the way you loved me.
13:31On the way down, I almost fell right through.
13:37But I held on to you.
13:41So where are Speech and the rest of the group now?
13:44It's not Tennessee.
13:46Take me to another place.
13:48I live in Fayetteville, Georgia.
13:49Tennessee to Georgia isn't that dramatic of a move.
13:53Why'd you build it up like that?
13:54That'd be like a Mainer moving to New Hampshire.
13:57It's not like somebody who went all the way across the country.
14:01Just a strange way to build that up.
14:04One of the things you'll notice about Hit Me Baby One More Time is the rappers kind of cheat the idea of doing a cover song.
14:12How far is heaven?
14:15From the church to liquor store, we search for healing.
14:18Big crowded world filled with lonely humans.
14:20I'm an MC battling with melody and beat.
14:23The way they approach it is more like a sampling of the record.
14:27They add completely new verses, but the hook is the same.
14:32How far is heaven?
14:35And I know that I need to change.
14:39I dug the vibe of what Arrested Development did with Los Lonely Boys' Heaven.
14:43We are living. How far is heaven?
14:48This is the kind of conscious rap that I could have seen them doing in that time period.
14:53And to the shock of no one, Tiffany is still really good at singing.
14:58Probably because she was still making music at that time period.
15:02I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly.
15:06I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.
15:12And the song she chose fit her like a glove.
15:15Make a wish, take a chance, make a change, and break away.
15:23The artist with the most votes will receive a $20,000 donation to their favorite charity.
15:30I wonder how many of the artists who performed tonight were like,
15:34Hey, I could use that $20,000 too.
15:38The winners for night one are Arrested Development, which I didn't see coming.
15:43Flock of Seagulls had the loudest crowd.
15:45I thought CeCe was the best on point vocally.
15:48And Tiffany nailed her song.
15:50But okay, I won't argue with this one. Solid pick.
15:54Episode two begins with another rock band, The Knack.
15:58And I'm kind of rooting for them because that's the kind of music my dad makes.
16:02And you know, it's just a sentimental choice.
16:05And they also helped launch Weird Al's career.
16:07Dumped the new Fab Four by Rolling Stone magazine,
16:09their debut album, Get the Knack, struck gold within 13 days of its release.
16:13The new Fab Four? Wow, well you guys are adding a lot of pressure for them to succeed.
16:18To date, 6 million people have gotten the Knack,
16:20even President George W. Bush, who has my Sharona on his iPod.
16:25I wonder if they've put being on George Bush's playlist in their Twitter biography.
16:31Oh, my little pretty one, my pretty one.
16:34When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
16:37I get the feeling after watching this performance,
16:39this band has done the song so many times that they could do it in their sleep.
16:43Never gonna stop giving up such a dirty mind.
16:46I always get it up on the touch of the younger kind.
16:50He wants the touch of a younger kind,
16:53so that you cut to this younger kind in the crowd.
16:56And it's a good choice for these guys to open up the show.
16:59It really wakes the crowd up.
17:06I bet you've been in your car and you thought,
17:08wouldn't it be cool if a massive hit song was written about me?
17:11And then other people wonder, wait, who's Sharona?
17:14Why do I care about her?
17:21Whatever happened to Sharona?
17:23What happened to your Sharona?
17:26Well, she's one of the most successful real estate agents in Southern California now.
17:31What kind of version are you gonna do for us, Ladson?
17:33We're gonna do Jets' Are You Gonna Be My Girl.
17:36That actually makes sense.
17:37So this is our third entrant on the Todd in the Shadows has covered this guy list.
17:42It's Hataway.
17:55Don't hurt me.
17:58Baby, don't hurt me.
18:00Don't hurt me no more.
18:04And if you've ever wondered how Hataway felt about being mocked on SNL,
18:08this should give you your answer.
18:10It kicked ass. It really gave it a future.
18:12It was great. It was fabulous.
18:14And then he's the second artist this week to pick a song that logically fit his style of music.
18:19Well, we're gonna do a bit of Britney.
18:22Toxic.
18:24Looking forward to that.
18:25Gonna have a great time.
18:26Next up is Tommy Two-Tone to do their hit song 867-5309,
18:31a.k.a. Jenny.
18:33Our next act almost single-handedly took down the phone company with this smash hit.
18:38I'm gonna guess Jenny didn't pick up because you're a peeping Tom.
18:42Get out of here, you nosy little pervert, or I'm gonna slap you, silly.
18:45And this crowd loves themselves some power pop.
18:48Boy, is time cruel.
18:50One minute you're a hip rock star, and now you look like a dentist going on vacation.
19:04There's often times in the show where the crowd doesn't seem to really know the band's biggest hit.
19:10But that's not the case with Tommy Two-Tone.
19:18867-5309.
19:24Wow, what happened for episode two?
19:26Every artist is picking something that logically makes sense.
19:29We're gonna do Small Things by Blink-182.
19:31Our next act is The Motels.
19:33I went into Hit Me Baby one more time expecting it to be somewhat of a car crash,
19:38but honestly, most of the bands and acts were pretty road-tested by this point.
19:43They all knew how to perform in front of a live crowd.
19:47Only the lonely.
19:50Only the lonely.
19:54Things get a little awkward when the host asks Martha about groupies.
19:59We all know about the stories of male rock stars and groupies, but what's the score with you?
20:04Groupies?
20:08Yeah?
20:10Uh, there's a few in the green room backstage.
20:12That's the right answer!
20:14And Martha's gonna cover some Norah Jones.
20:16Now, what cover version are you gonna do for us later?
20:18I'm gonna do Norah Jones, Don't Know Why.
20:22Vanilla Ice is up next.
20:23And this was during that time period where he had a hard time embracing his pop star past,
20:28and anytime he would perform Ice Ice Baby, he felt the need to modernize it.
20:32The blonde MC with shade rose and attitude to burn.
20:35Melted dome, pop's resistance to rock.
20:37It's no big secret that I'm a Vanilla Ice mark, so I would be just as hyped as this crowd.
20:43And it's no secret, Vanilla Ice can put on a show.
20:46And if you don't believe me, just ask his boy Donny Burger.
20:58We're gonna come back and do Destiny's Child Survivor.
21:01Vanilla Ice covering Beyonce?
21:03What is that gonna sound like?
21:05My life's changed since the big success of the band in the 90s.
21:09My life's changed since the big success of the band in that I'm a lot more relaxed
21:14than I ever was before.
21:16Doug Fieger is just a happy rock star,
21:18so I don't think you're gonna see a behind the music about Fnac anytime soon.
21:22Fnac can't kill it with a stick.
21:25And their performance is exactly what I wanted.
21:28One, two, three, take my hand and come with me.
21:30So fine that I really wanna make you mine.
21:37They've turned Jet into something that you would have heard coming out on their 1979 record.
21:48Are you gonna be my girl?
21:50I don't think the general public really know what I look like.
21:53I had a fellow say to me, hey, I thought you were a white guy.
21:59Okay, which one of you thought Hathaway was a white guy?
22:03He is playing into the stereotype.
22:05He's out here golfing every single day.
22:08I still do a lot of sports.
22:09About 20 years ago, I thought golfing was stupid.
22:12Then I tried it.
22:13Then I discovered golf is probably the most difficult of any form of mental control, body control.
22:19But then again, Michael Jordan golfs, so there's even a Michael Jordan golfing figure.
22:24Baby, can't you see?
22:26I'm calling.
22:28A girl like you should wear a warm ring.
22:31The production team must have loved this girl in the front row.
22:34She is constantly being filmed.
22:37And I think it's because she's the only one who knows the word to everybody's song.
22:41There's no escape.
22:43I can't wait.
22:44Hathaway did a pretty cool cover of Britney Spears' Toxic.
22:47Britney Spears' Toxic.
23:02You weren't going to see the lead singer of The Knack get on his knees and slide across the stage.
23:06You're toxic, I'm sleeping with the taste of your poison.
23:11I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're toxic?
23:16Hey, how are things going?
23:18Working for a financial company, writing software for them.
23:21Take a look at some issues that we're having.
23:24Tommy Teutel, your company's IT guy.
23:27Midnight, I come home.
23:30Work sucks, what I know.
23:34All this performance is missing are little people.
23:37You know, like the ones who were on stage with Blink-182 at the MTV Music Awards.
23:42Say it ain't so, I will not go.
23:45Turn the lights off, carry me home.
23:48Say it ain't so, I will not go.
23:51Turn the lights off, carry me home.
23:54Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
23:59Carry me home.
24:01You know how people make that joke that they're going to run off and join the circus?
24:05Well, Martha actually did.
24:07Martha and the Motels actually rock up Nora Jones' sweet, soft piano ballad.
24:13I don't know why I didn't come.
24:16I don't know why I didn't come.
24:19I don't know why I didn't come.
24:22What I like about Hit Me Baby One More Time is a lot of these artists did put a unique
24:28spin on the songs that they ended up covering.
24:30From sold out stages, to seconds from my life, to rolling with Madonna, to wrecking on my
24:35bike.
24:36We call it vibing.
24:37Yeah, we call it vibing with Vanilla Ice.
24:40His live shows, a vibe.
24:42And I've gone to one of these shows and got to fist bump the man.
24:46And yeah, he's more of a host than he is a performer these days.
24:50Sure, he's going to do a couple songs, but then he just brings a big Ninja Turtle out
24:54on stage.
25:07And to call this a cover of Beyonce's Survivor is a bit of a stretch.
25:13After all the acts perform, I feel like the Knack should win.
25:17So naturally the audience chooses Vanilla Ice.
25:20And then the host says that Vanilla Ice won by a mile, which can't have made the other
25:27acts tonight feel very good.
25:29Week three begins with Wang Chung, so you know that the audience is going to have fun
25:34tonight.
25:35Everybody's going to have fun tonight.
25:37Few understood the meaning of this mysterious mantra, but it didn't matter.
25:42I Wang Chung.
25:43Like a good Patriot.
25:48It's pandemonium at the Garden.
25:51Wang Chung mania is running wild.
26:02Liars.
26:07Was Wang Chung in all along?
26:13So what is Wang Chung going to perform for us later in the evening?
26:17Alright, truth be told, this is one of the two things that I remembered many years later
26:24and kind of the thing that I wanted to show everybody and why this video was made.
26:29We decided to do a song by Nelly called Hot in Here.
26:34Our next act is Sophie B. Hawkins, who's going to sing her hit song, Damn I Wish I
26:38Was Your Lover, but I, like Abed, prefer As I Lay Me Down.
26:44I prefer As I Lay Me Down.
26:46Is this studio audience ready to have their very own Sophie B. Hawkins dance?
27:01Sophie B. Hawkins is kind of reminding me of like an elementary school art teacher who
27:07joined her friends on stage to do karaoke, and it's adorable.
27:16What a romantic lyric.
27:19Well, that's not fair.
27:21She's stripping to get the audience's approval.
27:23Do you think she wears this shirt in public hoping that people will recognize her?
27:27Sophie B. Hawkins chooses to cover Pfeiffer fightings a hundred years.
27:31Our next act out is Cameo, and God, I hope the lead singer is wearing the red cod piece still.
27:39Add this to our Todd in the Shadows subject count list.
27:42This guy is great.
27:44He doesn't care how old he is.
27:46He's going to continue wearing that red cod piece until he dies.
27:50And I can't tell if the crowd is moving organically because they're moved by the music.
28:03Or they're all scared by just how intense this lead singer's eyes are.
28:13Even though I believe our host is some sort of robot,
28:17he is also intrigued by that red cod piece.
28:25Episode 3 must have been the most memorable one of the show,
28:28because the other thing that I always remembered
28:32was that Cameo chose to cover 1985 by Bowling for Soup.
28:37Well, we're going to do a song by a group called Bowling for Soup.
28:40Unless you're a music nerd and you want to correct me and tell me that it's an SR-71 song.
28:44I know.
28:46Howard Jones comes out to perform his hit song, No One is to Blame.
28:50And I'm a little disappointed.
28:52Where's the hair?
28:54But as an act, another old pro.
29:07Does exactly what you'd expect him to.
29:15Or as most of you know it, the song that's sampled in Eminem's stand.
29:19And the last act to perform tonight is Irene Cara,
29:23doing her huge, monstrous hit, Going Bananas.
29:32Oh, it's actually what a feeling.
29:35Dammit, I wanted the monkey song.
29:44And I thought her vocals were a little shaky.
29:53But she still busts out the dance moves.
29:56Irene Cara!
30:01The vocals are all over the place.
30:03But this crowd doesn't care.
30:05In their mind, they're on the set of Flashdance.
30:07What cover version are you going to do for us later?
30:09Anastasia's I'm Outta Love.
30:11And oh god, it's happening.
30:27Am I wrong, or could you see this cover version
30:31being in something like Grown Ups 3?
30:57I ain't kidding, so good.
30:59I wanna take my clothes off.
31:03It's getting hot in here,
31:05so take off all your clothes.
31:10Checking your reflection and telling your best friend,
31:12like girl, I think my butt's getting big.
31:15Week 3 is the night for Batshit Insane covers.
31:18Because now Sophie B. Hawkins is going to give us a big band version
31:22of A Hundred Years.
31:26I'm fifteen for a woman
31:29Gone in between ten and twenty
31:33And I'm just dreaming
31:36Counting the ways to where you are
31:40In her video package, it shows her going around town,
31:43riding her bicycle, painting away.
31:47But it makes no mention if she ever found a lover.
31:50Did she?
31:52Did she?
31:54Oh, thanks for solving that, Wikipedia.
31:57Oh baby, I'd like to thank you
32:02This time for just another moment
32:06Just you and me
32:12Sophie B. Hawkins really wants to win tonight.
32:14She stripped in the first song
32:16and is now kissing fans during the second song.
32:19I really like astrology and metaphysics.
32:21We've got one more Mercury retrograde this year.
32:23I'm trying to find a way to live along with the grain of the universe.
32:27After learning about this guy from Taught in the Shadows,
32:30is anybody shocked that he's into space and science?
32:34He is an alien, right?
32:36I'm gonna be an actress, I'm gonna be a star
32:38She was gonna shake her booty
32:41On a hooded white snake car
32:43Get no SUV
32:46It's now in me
32:48Nothing has been right
32:51With her average life
32:53Bowling for Soup and funk music.
32:56Something that I never thought would go together.
32:59But Cameo is gonna try to make it work.
33:02Oh, there was Springsteen, Madonna
33:06Lazy Boy, Nirvana
33:08There was U2, N.Y.U.2
33:12Music on MTV
33:14I love Bowling for Soup and I've seen them live.
33:17They could never be this funky.
33:19But Sweet Teen in High School
33:22They say you're uncool
33:25So he's been occupied
33:27Since 1985
33:31My mind is blown.
33:33I mean, listen to this guitar solo.
33:36Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
33:39Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
33:43Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
33:47I'm kinda digging that all these artists now have their own home studio.
33:51We learn that Howard Jones has become a Buddhist.
33:54Because, like Buddha once said,
33:56No one is to blame.
33:58It's a philosophy for creating a peaceful world.
34:01That's why I really got into it.
34:03I'd say something snarky about Howard Jones' performance,
34:06but actually, I really dug it.
34:09I will go down with this shit
34:14And I won't put my hands up
34:17And surrender
34:20There will be no white flag above my door
34:26Irene Cara is now an office worker,
34:28and she has her own side performing group.
34:31They call themselves Hot Caramel.
34:33No, not Hot Sunday.
34:35That's Lisa Turtle, Kelly Kapowski, and Jesse Spano.
34:38We're called Hot Caramel.
34:40It's a play on my name. It's Cara.
34:43And they perform like office girls who moonlight at night at karaoke bars
34:47pretending to be Destiny's Child.
34:49I'm out of love
34:51Set me free
34:53And let me out this misery
34:57Show me the way
34:59To get my life again
35:02You can't handle me
35:05Week 3 was wild.
35:07Wang Chung just went for it.
35:09Cameo and Sophie B. Hawkins had some interesting reworks,
35:13and Howard Jones, I thought, sounded the best.
35:16So the studio audience naturally chose Irene Cara.
35:20You should never underestimate the voting bloc
35:23that is women who wish that they were living in fame.
35:31Catch an encore of tonight's Hit Me Baby one more time on Bravo.
35:35Check your local listings.
35:36And I'm not alone in thinking that Howard Jones sounded the best.
35:39When we open up Week 4,
35:41the host lets us know that the online audience completely disagreed.
35:46But for the first time, America disagreed.
35:50Online voters, I know, online voters at NBC.com
35:54cast their ballots for Howard Jones.
35:56And for Week 4, they advertised the Baja Men.
36:01You don't just promise me the Baja Men
36:04and then not give me the Baja Men.
36:07Who was the substitute?
36:09Was it Billy Vera?
36:11Was it Club Nuvo?
36:13Because they weren't advertised,
36:15so one of them had to fill in for the big shoes of the Baja Men.
36:18It's Week 4, and we're going to have another rock band pump up the crowd.
36:22It's Greg Kin.
36:24And Greg Kin has some bangers.
36:26And was parodied by Weird Al.
36:28He's going to do the breakup song.
36:30The same old song, man, they got it sound.
36:36This woman in the crowd is really feeling the music.
36:39The rock band's got no respect on this show.
36:42They come out, hype up the crowd,
36:45get everyone's energy up,
36:47but they haven't won a single night.
36:49They don't rhyme like that anymore.
36:54They don't rhyme like that anymore.
37:02Every time I break up with somebody, I hit record.
37:05He's like, you better not write about this.
37:07I'm like, oh, I won't.
37:08Did you?
37:09Yes.
37:10They're the same person.
37:12Hit Me Baby One More Time was out
37:14at the same time Green Day was having a resurgence with American Idiot.
37:17So that's who the Greg Kin band is going to cover.
37:20Green Day, Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
37:23Bob Nouveau turned a classic soul ballad
37:25into an inspirational super jam for a new generation.
37:28If you don't know them,
37:30they did a kind of funky cover of Lean On Me.
37:43Which sounds a lot like something you would hear
37:45in a Pitch Perfect movie.
37:47Or in like 10 seconds, I'm going to see a Nickelodeon kid
37:49come up and tell me how to do my part on Earth Day.
37:52Give one can of soup.
37:53One sweater.
37:54One book.
37:55Write one letter.
37:56Plant one tree.
37:57Share one hour.
37:58One smile.
37:59Lots of power.
38:01If every kid did something small,
38:03it'll add up to something big.
38:04That's all.
38:19Actually when we recorded the song and Bill heard it,
38:21he sent us a telegram saying thank you
38:23because we helped him build a wing onto his house
38:26and send his kids to school.
38:27So if I'm reading between the lines,
38:29Bill Withers didn't exactly say he liked the song.
38:32He just said he liked the money.
38:34We're going to do Thank You by Dido featuring Valerie Watson.
38:37Coming up, Lost Tiger Rules.
38:40Their hit song was Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone.
38:43But they're on this show because clearly
38:45you forgot about them when they were gone.
38:49Don't forget me when I'm gone
38:53Or my heart would break
38:56This song is so cheesy, but I kind of love it.
39:01Don't forget me when I'm gone
39:06Or my heart would break
39:10I have loved you for so long
39:15What we're going to do later for you,
39:16we're going to do a song by Vertical Horizon
39:19called Everything You Want.
39:21Act number four is Billy Vera.
39:23Yes, the guy whose hit song came from Family Ties.
39:27Kiss the ground that you walk on, baby
39:31And was also part of Alan's band in Boy Meets World.
39:36What did you think
39:40I would do at this moment
39:44Family Ties made this song a huge hit,
39:47proving that Alex P. Keaton is a hit maker.
39:51When you're standing before me
39:55With tears in your eyes
39:59Trying to tell me that you
40:04Have found you another
40:07The rock guys pump up the crowd,
40:09but I think the piano guys have sounded the best
40:11coming on this show.
40:13And I'd fall down on my knees
40:17Kiss the ground that you walk on, baby
40:22Well, I'm going to do that beautiful ballad
40:24by Ryan Cabrera called True.
40:27Mr. Alexa Bliss is getting all the royalty money.
40:30And the final act of the night is Thelma Houston
40:32with her hit song Don't Leave Me This Way.
40:36Don't leave me this way, no
40:40The rock guys wake up the crowd,
40:42the piano guys have the best overall,
40:44but the divas, they got the best vocals.
40:47And set me free, yeah
40:52So people always give disco crap.
40:54And bad disco is painful.
40:57But when disco is done right, it's awesome.
41:00Thelma Houston is like every single diva
41:02who auditions for American Idol.
41:04They think that they can cover Alicia Keys' Falling.
41:07I keep falling in
41:14In love with you
41:20Can she?
41:21Well, I'm going to do Falling
41:23by the soulful Alicia Keys.
41:25Greg Kent is a real renaissance man.
41:27He had a radio show, he's off writing novels,
41:30just living the life.
41:32Life is pretty good, you know, there is life
41:34after rock and roll.
41:36And he does a very bar band version
41:38of Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
41:40I walk a lonely road
41:42The only one that I have ever known
41:46Don't know where it goes
41:48But it's home to me
41:50And I walk alone
41:52Nothing special, but these are my people.
41:55Sometimes I wish
41:58Someone out there would find me
42:01Till then I walk alone
42:06Oh, never mind, he just kicked it into another gear.
42:09I'm walking down the line
42:12That divides me somewhere in my mind
42:15On the borderline of the edge
42:18And that's where I walk alone
42:21This is awesome!
42:31So what's Club Nouveau been up to?
42:33Well, he's a family man.
42:35But what's more important than family to him?
42:37Domino's.
42:38I love music, but Domino's is what I want to do now.
42:41I want to start a professional Domino's label.
42:43I'm like the Michael Jordan of Domino's.
42:45Tease one corner, wonder why
42:49I got out of bed at all
42:51Wondering clouds out my window
42:55And I can't see at all
42:57Comment below if you only hear this song
43:00Even if I could, it'd all be great
43:03Watch your venture on my wall
43:06It reminds me that it's not so bad
43:09It's not so bad
43:18He's everything you are
43:20He's everything you'll be
43:23He's everything inside of you
43:26That you wish you could be
43:28He says all the right things
43:31At exactly the right time
43:34But he means nothing to you
43:36And you don't know why
43:38Man, post-rock stardom does not sound that fancy.
43:41You got Billy Vera doing voiceover work, which kind of fits him.
43:45I do voiceovers for money.
43:48But hurry, this loaded monster chicken will soon fly the coop.
43:52And Thelma Houston just makes her own clothes.
43:54And I have a small line of clothes that I sell on my website.
43:57That's from my era. Ain't nothing but going back to the 70s.
44:00I wonder if Thelma Houston now has an Etsy shop.
44:04Nothing too noteworthy about Billy or Thelma's cover versions.
44:08I keep on falling
44:11Yeah
44:17In love
44:21With you
44:23I've waited all my life
44:26To cross this line
44:29To the only thing that's true
44:33So I hope
44:36It's time to try
44:39Anything to be with you
44:43It's a nice performance.
44:45Was it memorable?
44:47No. Memorable is when you go actually see Ryan Cabrera.
44:50And when he performs the song, his string breaks.
44:54And then he tries to go to his backup guitar.
44:56And he doesn't even have batteries for that.
44:59And at the end of the night, I think...
45:02I want Greg Kin to win.
45:04I thought Thelma was the best vocally.
45:06It's Thelma Houston!
45:10And our final week opens up with the host coming out and saying
45:13we actually disagree with last week's winner.
45:15But America, for the second straight week, you didn't agree. Oh no.
45:20The online audience thought that Glass Tiger was the best.
45:24That's right. All of Canada must have hopped on the website and voted.
45:28In the early 80s, Juice Newton threw a musical card on the table
45:32and drew a chart-topping hand with the infectious country pop smashes
45:35Angel of the Morning and Queen of Hearts.
45:37We're going to get our first country act.
45:39It's Juice Newton.
45:41Playin' with a queen of hearts
45:44Knowin' evil is smart
45:47Joker ain't the only fool
45:49Who'd do anything for you
45:52And to nobody's shock, the country band is tight musicianship-wise.
45:57Layin' in a bed of lies
46:00Thinkin' my life was a ride
46:02That's what I had to do
46:05To keep me away from you
46:08What's Juice Newton going to do later in the show?
46:10We are going to do a version of an Ashley Simpson song called Pieces of Me.
46:15You want to see me cover Ashley Simpson?
46:18Our next act is Anna Motion.
46:20And if you don't think 80s WWF, we probably can't be friends.
46:32You are an obsession
46:34Yeah, my obsession
46:36Oh, do you want me to be
46:38To make you sleep with me?
46:40I had to look up if Anna Motion were a husband and wife
46:44because that's what they kind of remind me of
46:47and that this is some lounge act that they do together to entertain their house guests.
46:51I will have you
46:53Yes, I will have you
46:55I will find a way
46:57And I will have you
46:59And wow, the instrumental must have been burned way too hard into my brain
47:03because I never paid attention to the lyrics.
47:06And these are some corny lyrics.
47:08Oh, do you want me to be
47:10To make you sleep with me?
47:13I'll feed you, I'll drink you, but I'll take a long night
47:16Of circumstance
47:18In your naked dreams
47:20We're going to do Days Go By by Dirty Vegas.
47:23Days Go By by Dirty Vegas?
47:25I haven't really thought about that song in a long time.
47:28Our next act is Shannon, who had the hit song Let the Music Play, a.k.a. S.O.S.
47:34Let the music play
47:36He won't get away
47:38This groove you can't ignore
47:40He won't be here anymore
47:42And I would actually recommend Jordan Sparks' cover of it.
47:45Let the music play
47:47He won't get away
47:49This groove you can't ignore
47:51He won't be here anymore
47:54Shannon's voice is pretty shot, but she goes for it with the dance moves.
48:01And I would say she's probably one of the liveliest performers that we've had hit the stage.
48:05I'm gonna do Foolish by Ashanti.
48:07Our next act is P.M. Dawn,
48:09and I just kind of want to share with you this mashup I made on Rave DJ,
48:13where I mixed them up with Daffy Duck.
48:16But you're daft, you with his pride, and you're dead
48:19You with his pride, and you're dead
48:21That's how you know you're in love
48:26That's how you feel when you're in love
48:34I like to say what's up to God
48:36I like to say what's up to God
48:39I didn't realize this was a religious song.
48:41How come they can't have backup dancers?
48:43You're gonna make this one guy do all the work?
48:54Well, it's good to see the Wheel of Random Song is back for the final show.
48:58We're gonna do Blurry, Puddle of Mud.
49:01P.M. Dawn covering Puddle of Mud was not something I was expecting.
49:05It was blonde ambition that helped this 80s new wave band find the top of the charts.
49:10What was this scream?
49:12Our last act for the night is Missing Persons,
49:15and besides the motels, it's the only other act that I had to go on Wikipedia to look up.
49:20The show sold them like they were some sort of can't-miss band,
49:23but they only had two years of chart success,
49:25and the highest ranking of their two songs both hit number 42 on the Billboard chart,
49:30and they were off the same album.
49:32Do you hear me?
49:35Do you care?
49:39Do you hear me?
49:42Do you care?
49:45But I actually had heard their music before, being a Beavis and Butthead fan.
49:49Do you care?
49:51Do I care?
49:53No.
49:54They're gonna come back later and do a Kylie Minogue song.
49:57Now a little later on you're gonna be doing Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head, is that right?
50:01Yes, thank you.
50:03I have three little dogs that sleep under the covers with me.
50:06It gets a little crowded.
50:08I have some fish, and I have an iguana.
50:11That's Bob.
50:12Wait a minute.
50:13Did she have any kids?
50:14She did, but apparently they're not as important as the iguana or the dogs.
50:19Oh, it seems like I can finally rest my head on something real.
50:27And I like the way it feels.
50:30The crowd, like myself, enjoys the music of Ashley Simpson.
50:34Oh, it seems you know me better than I ever knew myself.
50:42I love how you can tell the pieces, pieces, pieces of me.
50:50And a motion comes out next and proves, yeah, I guess it is possible to make early 2K dance music sound like Vegas lounge pop.
51:01Days when I couldn't live my life without you.
51:08Thanks, nobody, and still I think of you.
51:16Days when I couldn't live my life without you.
51:21And Shannon does a solid enough cover of Foolish.
51:24Baby, I don't know why you want to do me wrong.
51:29See, when I'm home, I'm all alone, and you're always gone.
51:34When I grow up, I want to be just like P.M. Dawn.
51:38They spend their time playing old video games, chilling with the fam, and listening to records.
51:44Prince B and I, our hobby is listening to records.
51:47We've been collecting records for 20-something years now.
51:51I like old games, like the 80s, stuck in that world.
51:55And to my complete shock, doing a Casey and JoJo-like cover of classic butt rock works.
52:04I could be your spirit, imagine where you are.
52:09Oceans in between us.
52:14I really like the way they do the hook in this song.
52:17Feels like something you would hear on a movie soundtrack.
52:20Take it all away, take it all away, take it all away, take it all away.
52:26There's something in my veins, there's something in my veins.
52:32Bribing the audience with roses, bold strategy.
52:35Let's see if that pays off.
52:37Missing Persons does a sort of Rob Zombie, spooky interpretation of Kylie Minogue.
52:43Get you out of my head.
52:45Boy, your love is all I think about.
52:49I can't get you out of my head.
52:52Boy, it's more than I dare to think about.
52:56And I dug how a lot of these artists have stayed true to themselves,
52:59and done what they felt like when it came to reinterpreting a modern hit.
53:03La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
53:11Out of all the acts that performed tonight, I wouldn't be upset if Animotion won.
53:17But truthfully, this feels like PM Dawn's night.
53:20The votes have been tallied, and it's the closest vote we've ever had.
53:25And it was. PM Dawn wins.
53:27It's PM Dawn!
53:32And since there wasn't a week six, you had to go online to find out that the popular vote went to Juice Newton.
53:39Now, those were the five episodes that ran in the summer of 2005 on NBC.
53:44It didn't do the best ratings, but I kind of always remembered the show for some outrageous performances.
53:50They should bring it back.
53:51Before they brought Hit Me Baby One More Time to America, they had to try it out in the UK.
53:56They had some different acts, more European-centric.
53:59This love has taken its toll on me.
54:04She said goodbye too many times before.
54:09You had Sabrina.
54:12Boys, boys, boys, I'm looking for a new time.
54:16Boys, boys, boys, get ready for my love.
54:20For some reason, Jordan Knight was there?
54:23Baby, I just don't get it.
54:25Do you enjoy being hurt?
54:28I know you smell the perfume.
54:30The makeup on your shirt.
54:34And they got Belinda Carlisle, probably because she lives in the UK.
54:39So you could see her doing a Coldplay cover.
54:42Nobody said it was easy.
54:47I had such a shambles to find.
54:53Nobody said it was easy.
54:58Now, there was crossover.
55:00Of course, you did get both Hathaway and Tiffany on each version.
55:06And then when we got Thelma Huston as our disco diva, they got Gloria Gaynor.
55:14Now, when this show came out, you had acts from the very late 70s to probably the earliest parts of the 90s compete.
55:22So what if you did this show 18 years later?
55:25Do you get acts from the mid-90s to maybe 2014, 2015?
55:31Who do you get?
55:33Corbin Bleu?
55:34Bowling for Soup?
55:36Do you get Good Charlotte?
55:38Do you get Ashley Tisdale?
55:40Danity Kane?
55:41What about Jordan Sparks?
55:44I mean, if you're going to go full American Idol, Ruben Stoddard, Blake Lewis.
55:48They had sort of low, low charting hits.
55:51What are they up to?
55:53Do you get Foster the People?
55:55What about Walk the Moon?
55:58What about Juicy J?
55:59Ying Yang Twins?
56:00Trick Daddy?
56:02Trina?
56:03Mark McGrath always seems game for stuff like this.
56:06Let me hear who you would pick down in the comments.
56:09And maybe what song they should cover.
56:11It could be something like when T-Pain was on Yahoo Music and did Gavin DeGraw's I Don't Wanna Be.
56:16I don't wanna be.
56:20Anyway, if you like this, I talk about a bunch of other reality shows, music-related stuff.
56:26I talk about old music videos in some of these videos.
56:30And come on, help me with the algorithm, guys.
56:33I can't pay for all this junk by myself.
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