{"id":792122,"date":"2019-01-17T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=780342"},"modified":"2019-01-17T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:04:07","slug":"watch-rita-ora-bring-impassioned-let-you-love-me-to-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-rita-ora-bring-impassioned-let-you-love-me-to-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Rita Ora Bring Impassioned \u2018Let You Love Me\u2019 to \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-17-at-8.43.54-AM-1-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rita-ora\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rita-ora\" data-tag=\"rita-ora\">Rita Ora<\/a> delivered a dazzling rendition of \u201cLet You Love Me\u201d on <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> Tuesday, while she also sat down with Jimmy Fallon to discus her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rita-ora-details-new-album-phoenix-725842\/\">new album <em>Phoenix<\/em><\/a> and play a round of \u201cOne Word Songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ora\u2019s performance of \u201cLet You Love Me\u201d opened with the British pop star moving through the song\u2019s subdued intro with an added bit of gloom. But as Ora finished the first verse, she cut the anguish on her face with a big grin before launching into the joyous \u201cLet You Love Me\u201d hook, while the screens beside her began to flash in brilliant colors and patterns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Prior to her performance, Ora sat down with Fallon for an interview, during which he enlisted her for a round of \u201cOne Word Songs,\u201d a modified version of \u201cName That Tune,\u201d in which each player is tasked with singing a song using one random word.<\/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\/UArEPGoBt74?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 class=\"p1\">The game opened with Fallon singing Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cNo Tears Left to Cry\u201d with the word \u201cweasel,\u201d after which Ora was tasked with conveying the Spice Girls\u2019 \u201cWannabe,\u201d only she didn\u2019t recognize the word she\u2019d been given \u2013 \u201ctuba.\u201d The gaffe led to an impromptu bit in which Fallon scolded Roots tuba player Tuba Gooding, Jr. (real name Damon Bryson) as he walked dejectedly off the stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elsewhere in her interview with Fallon, Ora spoke about why she decided to call her new album <em>Phoenix<\/em> and the time she flummoxed her fans when she performed an entire show dressed as Post Malone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI literally did a concert and they didn\u2019t clap because they were like, \u2018Who is this weird human being on stage?&#8217;\u201d Ora recalled. \u201cI had to talk in the mic and <em>still<\/em> they didn\u2019t believe me! And then I had to sing, and they were like, \u201cOk fine, we believe you.\u2019 I was like, \u2018What kind of hardcore fans are these?&#8217;\u201d<\/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\/gHB_Ljz9PDU?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\/rita-ora-perform-let-you-love-me-fallon-780342\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rita Ora delivered a dazzling rendition of \u201cLet You Love Me\u201d on The Tonight Show Tuesday, while she also sat down with Jimmy Fallon to discus her new album Phoenix and play a round of \u201cOne Word Songs.\u201d Ora\u2019s performance of \u201cLet You Love Me\u201d opened with the British pop star moving through the song\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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:11:01","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}