{"id":973985,"date":"2019-12-11T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=925212"},"modified":"2019-12-11T06:51:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:51:02","slug":"charlie-puth-impersonates-doobie-brothers-in-musical-genre-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/charlie-puth-impersonates-doobie-brothers-in-musical-genre-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Puth Impersonates Doobie Brothers in \u2018Musical Genre Challenge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-11-at-8.42.06-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/charlie-puth\/\">Charlie Puth<\/a> took part in Jimmy Fallon\u2019s semi-frequent \u201cMusical Genre Challenge\u201d Tuesday night on&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em>, in which musicians have to improvise a random combination of a song and a genre it doesn\u2019t belong to.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lot of fun and very silly, considering that Fallon also has to participate in the challenge. But it\u2019s also a good excuse to showcase the full range of an artist\u2019s talents \u2014 and with Puth it was no different.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night host started off with a Nineties R&amp;B slow-jam version of \u201cThe Cha Cha Slide,\u201d followed by an EDM version of \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Be (500 Miles)\u201d by The Proclaimers.<\/p>\n<p>Puth began with a \u201cBroadway\u201d version of Lizzo\u2019s \u201cTruth Hurts,\u201d which mostly sounded like Puth doing a straight cover of the song. (Puth writes piano-based pop songs, after all.) But things really got interesting when he was asked to do a version of his hit single \u201cWe Don\u2019t Talk Anymore\u201d as sung by The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/doobie-brothers\/\">Doobie Brothers<\/a>. Cue one of the best \u2014 and most unexpected \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/michael-mcdonald\/\">Michael McDonald<\/a> impersonations in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>Puth has a third studio album on the way, and has released three singles from it so far: \u201cI Warned Myself,\u201d \u201cMother\u201d and \u201cCheating on You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charlie-puth-doobie-brothers-tonight-show-925212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Puth took part in Jimmy Fallon\u2019s semi-frequent \u201cMusical Genre Challenge\u201d Tuesday night on&nbsp;The Tonight Show, in which musicians have to improvise a random combination of a song and a genre it doesn\u2019t belong to. It\u2019s a lot of fun and very silly, considering that Fallon also has to participate in the challenge. But it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 16:07:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}