{"id":263754,"date":"2018-12-18T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/lin-manuel-miranda-and-jimmy-fallon-give-pop-songs-a-hilarious-holiday-twist\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T05:50:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:50:23","slug":"lin-manuel-miranda-and-jimmy-fallon-give-pop-songs-a-hilarious-holiday-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/lin-manuel-miranda-and-jimmy-fallon-give-pop-songs-a-hilarious-holiday-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon Give Pop Songs a Hilarious Holiday Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181118\/rs_600x600-181218044215-600-lin-emd-121118.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.758433079434\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.372143634385\">\n<p>You&#8217;ve never heard your favorite pop songs sung like this before.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/lin-manuel_miranda\">Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/strong> gave 2018&#8217;s biggest hits a seasonal twist on Tuesday&#8217;s episode of <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> by changing the tunes&#8217; lyrics to be about the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, they changed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/camila_cabello\">Camila Cabello<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Havana&#8221; to be about a drunk &#8220;Mall Santa,&#8221; and altered <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/shawn_mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;In My Blood&#8221; to &#8220;My Secret Santa Sucks.&#8221; Other fun remixes included changing <strong>Bebe Rexha<\/strong> and <strong>Florida Georgia Line<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Meant to Be&#8221; to be about Elf on the Shelf and <strong>Zedd<\/strong>, <strong>Grey<\/strong> and <strong>Maren Morris<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;The Middle&#8221; to be about a dreidel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baby, why don&#8217;t you just help me spin my dreidel?&#8221; they crooned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They also re-wrote <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ed_sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Perfect&#8221; to be about Christmas cards and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/post_malone\">Post Malone<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Better Now&#8221; to be about getting an ugly sweater from grandma.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To hear how they remixed these songs\u2014as well as hits by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cardi_b\">Cardi B<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ariana_grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/maroon_5\">Maroon 5<\/a><\/strong>\u2014check out the video.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>(E! and NBC are both part of NBCUniversal).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/997553\/lin-manuel-miranda-and-jimmy-fallon-give-pop-songs-a-hilarious-holiday-twist?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! 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