{"id":480043,"date":"2018-12-19T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=771006"},"modified":"2018-12-19T06:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T13:55:47","slug":"watch-ariana-grande-perform-brassy-imagine-with-the-roots-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-ariana-grande-perform-brassy-imagine-with-the-roots-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ariana Grande Perform Brassy \u2018Imagine\u2019 With the Roots on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-5.14.21-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ariana-grande\/\">Ariana Grande<\/a> delivered the debut TV performance of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-imagine-new-song-hear-769145\/\">new single \u201cImagine\u201d<\/a> with assistance from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-roots\">the Roots<\/a> on Tuesday\u2019s <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>.<\/p>\n<p>Draped in a red Christmas sweater, Grande gave her sultry ballad a brassy reworking as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-roots\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-roots\" data-tag=\"the-roots\">the Roots<\/a> helped transform the single into a bluesy rave-up. Grande also wowed the <em>Tonight Show<\/em> crowd by impeccably replicating the whistle tones that the singer unleashes on the studio version in a live setting.<\/p>\n<p>Grande <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArianaGrande\/status\/1075200193589665792\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> after the performance, \u201clove u @jimmyfallon @FallonTonight every time is always the best time of my life miss u already and thank u so so much. also, i love u sm @theroots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the episode, Grande lent some star power to an unexpected <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> reunion between Fallon, Horatio Sanz, Tracy Morgan and Chris Kattan, with the former cast members performing \u201cI Wish It Was a Christmas Today,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=StQJSjQjhlg\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">an <em>SNL<\/em> holiday\u00a0staple from the early 2000s<\/a>.<\/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\/j-81pyMUx0U?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\/ariana-grande-imagine-roots-fallon-771006\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande delivered the debut TV performance of her new single \u201cImagine\u201d with assistance from the Roots on Tuesday\u2019s The Tonight Show. Draped in a red Christmas sweater, Grande gave her sultry ballad a brassy reworking as the Roots helped transform the single into a bluesy rave-up. Grande also wowed the Tonight Show crowd by [&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-480043","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 14:26:15","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\/480043","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=480043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}