{"id":480004,"date":"2018-12-18T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770499"},"modified":"2018-12-18T07:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:30:24","slug":"watch-lin-manuel-miranda-jimmy-fallon-sing-holiday-versions-of-pop-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-lin-manuel-miranda-jimmy-fallon-sing-holiday-versions-of-pop-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jimmy Fallon Sing Holiday Versions of Pop Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-18-at-1.52.43-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lin-manuel-miranda\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lin-manuel-miranda\" data-tag=\"lin-manuel-miranda\">Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a> joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-fallon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-fallon\" data-tag=\"jimmy-fallon\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> for some holiday cheer as the duo parodied tracks from artists like Migos, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Cardi B with Christmas-themed lyrics. After Miranda appeared onstage and mentioned he had an idea, Fallon asked, \u201cAre you saying that we should sing a medley of popular songs from 2018 but change the lyrics to make them about the holiday season?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fallon and Miranda took to the stage with a few sultry dance moves, switching up the words to Camila Cabello\u2019s \u201cHavana\u201d to be about a drunken mall Santa. They also took on Shawn Mendes\u2019 \u201cMy Blood,\u201d transforming the lyrics to say \u201cmy Secret Santa sucks,\u201d and gave\u00a0Zedd,\u00a0Grey\u00a0and\u00a0Maren Morris\u2019\u00a0\u201cThe Middle\u201d a Hanukkah spin. Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u201cPerfect,\u201d Post Malone\u2019s \u201cBetter Now\u201d and Cardi B\u2019s \u201cI Like It\u201d also became your new holiday classics. Miranda even added a few raps to the latter, spitting, \u201c\u201cNow I like giving\/I like shopping\/I like stuffing all my stockings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the best new lyrics came in the form of Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cNo Tears Left To Cry.\u201d \u201cRight now I\u2019m getting drunk on wine,\u201d the duo sang. \u201cI\u2019m Christmas shopping on Amazon. Oh, what the hell did I buy? I\u2019m sobering up, I\u2019m sobering up.\u201d Been there.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda also sat down with Fallon for a traditional interview during the show. The <em>Mary Poppins Returns<\/em> star announced that\u00a0<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>\u00a0will air a special episode in Puerto Rico on January 15th, during which Miranda will reprise his role in <em>Hamilton<\/em> alongside the play\u2019s touring cast.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cad0NKsjmII?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lin-manuel-miranda-jimmy-fallon-sing-holiday-hits-770499\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Jimmy Fallon for some holiday cheer as the duo parodied tracks from artists like Migos, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Cardi B with Christmas-themed lyrics. After Miranda appeared onstage and mentioned he had an idea, Fallon asked, \u201cAre you saying that we should sing a medley of popular songs from 2018 but [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 13:36:32","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}