{"id":807714,"date":"2020-05-22T05:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1004171"},"modified":"2020-05-22T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:30:37","slug":"jimmy-fallon-billy-idol-the-roots-perform-dancing-with-myself-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/jimmy-fallon-billy-idol-the-roots-perform-dancing-with-myself-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon, Billy Idol, the Roots Perform \u2018Dancing With Myself\u2019 at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-22-at-7.27.51-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-fallon\/\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> and his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\"><em>Tonight Show<\/em><\/a> house band&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-roots\/\">the Roots<\/a> have been experimenting with \u201cat-home remixes\u201d during quarantine, using household objects to remotely perform iconic pop songs on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, they teamed up with Sting for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sting-jimmy-fallon-the-roots-dont-stand-so-close-to-me-remix-coronavirus-981574\/\">socially distanced performance<\/a> of \u201cDon\u2019t Stand So Close to Me,\u201d and now they\u2019re back with a much more uplifting number, \u201cDancing With Myself,\u201d featuring the one and only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billy-idol\/\">Billy Idol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Fallon, the eight members of the Roots and a very enthusiastic Idol, the video of the performance cuts together clips of <em>Tonight Show<\/em> fans dancing while quarantined in their homes, submitted last week to the show. With social distancing still in effect for the immediate future, it\u2019s heartwarming to see people be able to dance together in some capacity, even if we all have to be six feet (or more) apart.<\/p>\n<p>Idol is set to perform at Asbury Park, New Jersey\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sea-here-now-asbury-park-2020-lineup-964484\/\">2020 Sea.Hear.Now Festival<\/a> on September 19th and 20th, along with Pearl Jam, Patti Smith, the Beach Boys, the Avett Brothers, Cage the Elephant, Phoebe Bridgers, Ani DiFranco and more. The event may be canceled or postponed to 2021 due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\" id=\"auto-tag_covid-19\" data-tag=\"covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic, but for now, you can still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seahearnowfestival.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">purchase tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jimmy-fallon-billy-idol-the-roots-dancing-with-myself-1004171\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Fallon and his&nbsp;Tonight Show house band&nbsp;the Roots have been experimenting with \u201cat-home remixes\u201d during quarantine, using household objects to remotely perform iconic pop songs on the show. Last month, they teamed up with Sting for a socially distanced performance of \u201cDon\u2019t Stand So Close to Me,\u201d and now they\u2019re back with a much more [&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-807714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 11:05:43","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\/807714","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=807714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}