{"id":7041,"date":"2012-08-02T03:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2012-08-02T03:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:16:29","slug":"jimmy-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/jimmy-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"JIMMY FALLON"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"JIMMY FALLON<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Blow Your Pants Off\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Warner Bros.]<\/p>\n

When he released his first album, 2002\u2019s\u00a0The Bathroom Wall<\/em>, Jimmy Fallon was a \u00a0Saturday Night Live<\/em> cast member best known for co-hosting the Weekend Update segment and occasionally pulling out his acoustic guitar to parody popular songs. After leaving SNL<\/em>, Fallon took over from Conan O\u2019Brien as the host of Late Night<\/em> and promptly made the show his own\u2014in part thanks to his winning musical comedy efforts. Fallon has developed such an uncanny skill for vocal impressions that his takes on Neil Young and Bob Dylan have been mistaken for the real thing\u2014at least among listeners willing to believe that Young would croon the \u201cFresh Prince of Bel-Air\u201d theme with straight-faced sincerity. \u00a0Fallon\u2019s long-in-coming sophomore effort showcases his\u00a0Late Night<\/em> musical efforts, many of which involve seemingly incongruous ideas colliding in spectacular fashion. Fallon and comic competitor Stephen Colbert join American Idol <\/em>winner\u00a0Taylor Hicks for a celebratory version of Rebecca Black\u2019s so-bad-it\u2019s-awesome \u201cFriday\u201d; Justin Timberlake trades verses with Fallon on the two-and-a-half-minute medley of hip-hop classics \u201cHistory\u00a0of Rap\u201d; and, most improbably, Fallon-as-Young teams with a game\u00a0Bruce Springsteen for a drama-soaked rendition of the Willow Smith novelty hit \u201cWhip My Hair.\u201d By the time Paul McCartney turns up for a version of \u201cYesterday\u201d that sings the praises of breakfast foods (\u201cScrambled Eggs,\u201d playing off McCartney\u2019s oft-cited original title for the Beatles classic), it seems as if there\u2019s nothing that Jimmy Fallon can\u2019t charm rock\u2019s greatest names into doing for a\u00a0good-natured laugh. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n

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JIMMY FALLON Blow Your Pants Off\u00a0 [Warner Bros.] When he released his first album, 2002\u2019s\u00a0The Bathroom Wall, Jimmy Fallon was a \u00a0Saturday Night Live cast member best known for co-hosting the Weekend Update segment and occasionally pulling out his acoustic guitar to parody popular songs. After leaving SNL, Fallon took over from Conan O\u2019Brien as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4474,4473,4300,528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7044,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}