- (React) Today, we've brought in college kids
to react to Billboard's number one top songs
from the past 20 years.
- Aww, yes! - Ooh!
(both laugh)
- Past 20 years? - Past 20 years?
- Not a decade. - (React) 20 plus years.
- 20 years.
- Wow! (laughs) - That's older than me!
That's crazy! - Oh!
- Woah, I wasn't even alive back then!
- You're literally...
(record scratches) Really?
- ♪ I hear ♪ ♪ Is the beating of your heart ♪
- Do you know who this is?
- Is this Cyndi Lauper? (buzzer)
- ♪ 'Cause I can feel you breathe ♪ - This is just not my kind of music,
so I don't necessarily know the artist.
- Is this Kylie Minogue? (buzzer)
- Oh, she's gorgeous. - She is, where did she go?
- It's giving like country a little bit.
- Mm-hmm.
- Is this Miley Cyrus? (buzzer)
(both laugh)
- Katy Perry! (buzzer)
- I'm so upset that I never heard this song a day in my life.
- Taylor Swift! - Taylor Swift.
- It looks like a L'Oreal commercial.
- (laughs) CoverGirl.
- Right, it's always the... - It's always the face.
- 'Cause they have face card, okay?
- She's so lyrical, you know?
- I know, it's like, she's in the desert with a silky white dress.
- She's doing Tai chi. - And she's doing Tai chi.
- I feel like the visuals are very,
like, if I was listening to 2000s songs,
that is what I would expect.
The desert, the sunset, like the light.
- Was this country? Is this considered country?
- Yeah, it's definitely more country,
not pop ballad. - It's like country pop.
- It's like there's a fine line. - Yeah.
- When you're talking about like what's country.
- Country and stuff. - It has that country sound.
- Twang. - (both) Twang!
- It's got that twang. - The twang is there, for sure.
- ♪ Invitation ♪ ♪ You take all of me now ♪
♪ I'm falling even more ♪
- I'm so sorry, don't know you.
Never heard of this song! (laughs)
- I'm nodding my head, but not 'cause I know it.
- ♪ Until you make me move ♪ - ♪ Doo doo ♪
♪ Dah-dah-dah-dah, dah-dah ♪ ♪ Dah-dah, doo ♪
- Oh, they, I like that. - Very soft rock.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Like barely there.
- This is like your vibe, huh?
I feel like Jaxon would make it. (laughs)
- Yeah, like music like this, I associate with early 2000s,
like TV shows, rom coms.
- ♪ Go, go, go ♪
- ♪ Go, go, go ♪ - ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
- ♪ Go shorty ♪ - ♪ It's your birthday ♪
- ♪ We gon' party ♪ ♪ Like it's your birthday ♪
- ♪ We gon' sip Bacardi like it's ♪ - ♪ Your birthday ♪
- I love how he's upside down this whole video. (laughs)
- I've never watched the video after all this time.
- I've never... - I've always just heard it.
- I'm glad that rap made the first little debut on the charts.
- Actually, I do slightly remember this music video,
but I remember it in like 380p on like, early YouTube.
- I love it, I had it on my iPod, you know.
- 100%, yeah, this was like the one on the radio
that you go, with the cars that bop up and down.
- Right, every birthday. - Absolutely.
- And always at the end of the night. - This is, yeah.
This is the classic birthday song. - Birthday song.
- First we got a Nickelback, now we have 50 Cent.
- That's a huge shift.
- That's a switch.
It's a switch up from the last three. - It is.
- (React) Yeah. - It really is.
- Do you think we're gonna get a Ty Dolla $ign next?
- (laughs) That was actually... (Dani laughs)
- (React) So we're gonna play a round of trivia.
Which 2004 hit reached number one on Billboard's Top 100?
Was it A, Yeah! by Usher, was it B, Milkshake by Kelis,
or C, Hey Ya! by OutKast?
- Those are good picks though. - I cannot choose.
- All of those can all go on a playlist.
- Oh my God, this is tough. - Ah.
- (React) Are you ready?
- (laughs) Yes.
- (React) Three, two, one! - Yeah, I am ready.
- (React) (laughs) Yeah, I'm ready. - Yeah, I'm ready.
- I chose Hey Ya! by OutKast. - Really?
- And my honorable mention was Milkshake.
- Oh!
- Yeah. - Hey Ya! by OutKast.
- (React) Ooh, Hey Ya! by OutKast, and then Yeah! by Usher.
- ♪ Yeah yeah ♪ - Yeah.
- (React) The correct answer is...
Yeah! by Usher! - No!
- Yeah!
(React laughs)
- Really?
- Yeah! - ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ (both laugh)
- ♪ When you left ♪ ♪ I lost a part of me ♪
- Oh!
- Okay, Mariah Carey.
- Mariah Carey!
- Oh!
- ♪ Baby, please ♪ ♪ 'Cause we belong together ♪
- I think we're starting to get into the like, early 2000s R&B era.
- Look at her hair, oh my God.
- She said ooh, ooh!
- Wait, is the... - ♪ Together ♪
- What guy is that?
- Her vocal agility. - ♪ Together ♪
- See, you were wrong for not playing that last chorus.
- (React) Fun fact about this song,
it became a career redefining song for Mariah Carey,
at a point where many critics had considered her career over.
- How many times have people considered her career over?
'Cause that happened recently, too. - (React) (whispers) So many times.
- What the heck? (both laugh)
And she bounces back every time!
- Be like don't play with Mariah. - Yeah, don't.
- ♪ Need no carrying on ♪
- ♪ 'Cause you had a bad day ♪ ♪ You're taking one down ♪
♪ You sing a sad song ♪ ♪ Just to turn it around ♪
- ♪ You say you don't know ♪
- You see, can't really sing, but it's iconic.
- ♪ You work at a smile ♪ - ♪ And you go for a ride ♪
- ♪ You had a bad day ♪
- ♪ The camera don't lie ♪ ♪ You're coming back down ♪
- None of these people look like they're having that bad of a day,
except for him.
- He's struggling. (laughs) - He's struggling.
- (React) Let's play some trivia that has to do with some queens.
- I feel like I might know this one.
- (React) So which queen took the number one spot
on the Billboard's in 2007?
Was it A, Taylor Swift, B, Beyonce, or C, Rihanna?
(clock ticks) (Dani sighs)
- Okay. - Are you ill?
- See, but you said queen. - Yeah.
- And Queen B. - Yeah.
- (React) I mean, I feel like all three of these women are queens.
- But Beyonce is Queen B.
- (React) Are you guys ready?
- (both) Yes.
- (React) Okay, here we go, three, two, one.
- Irreplaceable by Beyonce.
- (React) I love that it's just an umbrella.
Okay, we have Beyonce, and we had Rihanna.
- I honestly feel like Beyonce has that very high chance
of taking the top spot.
- I put RiRi. - I put Rihanna.
- (React) Ooh, you put Rihanna.
- I mean, you said queen. - It's Beyonce, look at her face.
- It's honestly.
- (React) Correct answer was B, Beyonce!
- Woo!
- Beyonce! - No way!
- Beyonce, sweetie? (Jaime screams)
Beyonce!?
(React laughs)
- Why didn't you put it down?
'Cause you did all that like, I was like, you know what?
- No, because I know Beyonce is the Queen B.
- At least one of us will be right. - But then again, I was thinking...
- But then you said it. - Rihanna is like...
- So I was like if you put Beyonce, then I'll put Rihanna,
and one of us will be right.
- ♪ Shawty had them ♪ ♪ Apple Bottom jeans ♪
♪ Boots ♪ - ♪ With the fur ♪
- ♪ With the fur ♪ - ♪ And ♪
- ♪ The whole club ♪ ♪ Was lookin' at her ♪
- ♪ Hey ♪
- ♪ She hit the floor ♪ - ♪ She hit the floor ♪
- ♪ Next thing you know ♪ ♪ Shawty got low, low ♪
- ♪ Low, low, low ♪
- ♪ Them baggy sweat pants ♪ ♪ And the Reeboks with the straps ♪
- ♪ With the straps ♪
(Jaime laughs) - ♪ Big booty a slap, hey ♪
- ♪ She hit the floor ♪ - ♪ She hit the floor ♪
- ♪ Next thing you know ♪ ♪ Shawty got low, low, low, low ♪
- ♪ Low, low, low, low, low ♪ ♪ Low, low ♪
Woo! - Oh, I hit the bar.
- I gotta, how does that feel? How does that feel?
It feels good, huh?
- That feels crazy.
- That was like, you just got like an adrenaline rush.
- That feels crazy. - You're like woah!
- (React) How does this song make us feel when it comes on?
- Like you gotta shake some ass!
- Yes! (both laugh)
- ♪ Boom, gotta get that ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪
♪ Gotta get that ♪ ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪
- (gasps) Black Eyed Peas!
- Okay, so everyone just likes twerking music now.
- ♪ Gotta get that ♪ - ♪ Boom, boom, boom ♪
- The braided earphones was the craziest styling
I've ever seen in my entire life.
- That is so true!
- ♪ I got that rock 'n' roll ♪
- This is so trippy.
- I know, their music videos banged.
- I feel like around that time, it's like Party Rock Anthem,
Black Eyed Peas. - Yeah.
- Like, this is... Apple Bottom Jeans.
- It's a certain vibe, mm-hmm.
- It's like a house vibe, you know? - Yeah, yeah.
- They were the only ones to make Auto-Tune eat like that.
- (React) So, we're gonna play a quick game called
Which Came First?
So, which came first?
Adele's Rolling in the Deep, or Ke$ha's TiK ToK?
(both gasp)
(clock ticks)
- Wow, what came first?
- (React) Are we ready? - Yeah.
- (React) Three, two, one!
- Ke$ha! - Ke$ha!
- (React) And you are correct, it is Ke$ha.
- Yay, okay! - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- (React) It was TiK ToK! (laughs)
- Like tick-tock on the clock, like she had to come first,
for the time reason. - 'Cause the party just don't stop.
- It don't stop. - Yeah.
- And then we can cry about Rolling in the Deep.
Like, you don't come from... - That's what I'm thinking!
- You don't come from like ♪ Rolling in the deep ♪
to tick, you know? - In to TiK ToK, yeah, that's weird.
- Right, nuh-uh.
- ♪ But you didn't have to ♪ ♪ Cut me off ♪
- ♪ Make out like it never happened ♪ ♪ And that we were nothing ♪
- ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm ♪ ♪ Need your love ♪
- ♪ You treat me like a stranger ♪ ♪ And that feels so rough ♪
- ♪ Didn't have to stoop so low ♪
- I love this music video. - I remember watching this.
- I thought it was so cool! - I thought it was so artistic.
- Yeah. (Jaime laughs)
- Oh my God, when they came out, it was iconic.
Like, it was so different and new.
- ♪ Somebody that I used to know ♪
♪ Boom Boom, bom bom ♪ - I've never seen that video.
- You've never? That is an iconic music video.
- I have never seen that video.
- ♪ Da-bum, ba-dum, ba-da-do-da ♪
(Jaime gasps) - Oh!
- I should've known, because this came out when I was in middle school!
- That's a DeLorean?
They had a DeLorean for this music video!?
- ♪ This is [censored] awesome ♪
- I remember as a kid, I was like he did not say that word!
- I wanted that car!
- ♪ I'm like what up ♪ ♪ I got a big [censored] ♪
(both laugh)
- If you have to say it, you probably don't. (laughs)
- ♪ Damn, that's a cold-ass honkey ♪
- Yeah!
- That horn in the back.
- ♪ 'Cept my gator shoes ♪ ♪ Those are green ♪
♪ Draped in a leopard mink ♪ ♪ Girl standin' next to me ♪
♪ Probably should've washed this ♪ ♪ Smells like R. Kelly's sheets ♪
- Ugh! - Ooh.
- ♪ Piss ♪
- Piss. - Like urine!
I didn't catch that as a child. - I did not either!
- He came out, and everybody was like oh my God, Eminem,
he's like Eminem, and nobody, everybody was like no,
but that's what they immediately went to in their brain.
Like that was, at the time, yeah, the only two.
- (React) We're gonna play a game called
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other!
- Wow! - Okay.
- (React) Alright, one of these did not make number one
at the end of their year.
A, we have Happy by Pharrell Williams.
- Oh. (Jaime gasps)
- (React) B, Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson,
featuring Bruno Mars,
or C, Sorry, by Justin Bieber.
(clock ticks)
- One of them did not reach number one.
- Okay, I think I know this one.
There's no way this reached number one.
- Ooh, I'm gonna get this one wrong,
or I'm gonna get it right, I don't know. (laughs)
- (React) Alright, which one didn't make it to number one?
Three, two, one! (bell rings)
- Sorry.
- Happy.
- What'd you put? I put Sorry.
- (React) Happy?
You picked Sorry. - Sorry was definitely number one.
- (React) Correct answer is C, Sorry!
- Okay!
- I was about to be ill! - Oh!
- I was like there's no way Bruno didn't,
no way my boy Bruno... - No way Bruno!
(both laugh)
- Really? - Wow!
- So you got it right! - Thank you!
- That's crazy! - Thank you!
- ♪ And she likes everyone ♪
- Oh, not the interpretive dance. Ugh.
- Oh my gosh. I'm a fan.
- I was obsessed with these little contemporary dancers.
- Dude, I love them!
- This is when I stopped listening to any popular music.
- They're amazing. - They're amazing.
Like, they made the song for me.
- ♪ The way you look that much ♪
- His whole branding was like being seen as like a child,
and then now he's getting to the part where he doesn't
want to be seen as a kid any more,
so he's like let's be more serious with these music videos.
- Mm-hmm.
- ♪ You should go ♪ ♪ And love yourself ♪
It's an iconic song, but I really don't like it.
- Wow.
- ♪ I'm in love ♪ ♪ With the shape of you ♪
- (gasps) Ed Sheeran! - Ed Sheeran, okay.
- Oh, it's Ed Sheeran!
- Dude, this little Gremlin. (laughs)
- Now it makes sense, but like, I totally forgot about him.
- Wow! - Ugh, ugh, ugh!
(laughs)
Ew!
- Aww, look at how silly he is. He's like it's okay, like...
- Ew, I'm gonna take off my headphones.
I hate this song so much.
- The internet loves to joke on my poor little ginger king,
but I love him!
- I can sing it, so you still hear it.
- ♪ I'm in love with your body ♪
(React laughs) - Ugh.
- ♪ I don't wanna die ♪ ♪ For them to miss me ♪
- (both) Drake!
(Jaime gasps) - Okay, well.
- Drake!
- I keep forgetting that's what he looks like.
(Anthony laughs)
- ♪ God's plan ♪ ♪ God's plan ♪
- I forgot about, aww.
Her genuine reaction.
- ♪ I feel good, sometimes I don't ♪ - ♪ God's plan ♪
- I never listened to Drake.
- (laughs) Hey, yah! - His dancing.
- His little dancing kills me. - His dancing. (laughs)
- He's like ugh.
(both laugh)
- But all these memories are coming now,
like oh, Drake was a thing in this year,
oh, he had that whole thing...
- I still don't, I'm still not getting this.
- It was just all these memories, like yeah.
It doesn't seem like that long ago. - Maybe trauma block! (laughs)
- (React) We're gonna play a little mini lyric battle game.
I'm gonna give you three lines from the song,
and you're just gonna take a guess
at what you think it is.
The first line, baby's got a habit,
diamond rings and Fendi sports bras.
(clock ticks)
- It's so hard not hearing it in the rhythm, in the tune.
- (React) Second clue. Can't nobody tell me nothing.
- (both) Oh! (Jaime laughs)
- Those lyrics sound so familiar.
- Oh shoot.
- What year is this again? - (laughs) Okay, never mind.
- (React) This is 2019. - Okay, okay.
Then I got it. - Never mind, I got it.
- Yeah, one more, need the last one.
- (React) Ready?
Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse.
(Zaria smacks lips)
Are we ready?
- (both) Yes. - (React) Three, two, one!
- Old Town Road. - Old Town Road.
- Lil Nas X. - (React) There you go!
It was Old Town Road by Lil Nas X.
- Let's go! - Yes.
- (React) Yeah! It's Old Town Road!
- Did you get it?
- Yeah. - Yes!
- ♪ Bees in the trap ♪ ♪ B-bees in the trap ♪
(React laughs) (buzzer)
- (React) It is Lil Nas X with Old Town Road.
(Dani laughs) - Don't you remember?
- No. (laughs)
- ♪ I can't see clearly ♪ ♪ When you're gone ♪
- ♪ I said ooh ♪ ♪ I'm blinded by the light ♪
- This music video was such a, I loved. (laughs)
- Oh my God, I love, I haven't even seen this music video!
- ♪ Ooh, I'm ♪ I don't know the rest.
- Can we all agree that he's actually so beautiful?
- ♪ I trust ♪ - ♪ Hey ♪
- Ha! (laughs) - Hey!
- ♪ Bum, bum, ba-da-da-bum-bum ♪
- We love a good synth!
- ♪ Ba-da-da-bum-bum ♪ ♪ Ba-da-dah dah ♪
♪ Dah-dah-dah-dah ♪
- Ooh. (laughs)
- (React) Wanna take a guess at 2021?
- I think it's Olivia Rodrigo, Driver's License.
- Hold on! Was homegirl not Olivia?
Was she not 2020... Oh, maybe she's '21?
- Was she not?
- But I think it's going to be.
- It has to be her or Ariana Grande,
but I think it's gonna be Ariana Grande.
- Really? - (React) Okay.
- Who was popping while we were sick?
- (React) (laughs) While we were... - Dua!
- Dua, oh my God! - Dua!
- ♪ If you're feeling like you ♪ ♪ Need a little bit of company ♪
♪ You met me at the perfect time ♪
- Dula pip!
- I told you! - (gasps) It's Dua!
- Dua Dua!
- Wow, she was number one!
- Who is this? - Dua Lipa.
- I don't like her.
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Come on!
- I want her!
- I hate her dancing!
- Only a Leo would be able to come back from a meme
not being able to dance,
and giving you choreo the next comeback.
- This music video's a vibe though, I will flat out say it.
This looks great.
- (React) Alright, we're at the end of our episode.
2022, where do you think we're going?
This was just last year.
- What happened last year?
- I feel like Taylor Swift is coming back.
I mean, it's gotta be Taylor Swift.
- Nah. (buzzer)
- Maybe Harry, 'cause he got album.
- Was Lizzo last year? - (React) Lizzo was last year.
- Lizzo was last year.
- It's gonna be ♪ I can buy myself flowers ♪
(laughs)
- This just happened, and it's just gone from my head.
- Yeah, it's too long ago. (laughs)
I don't remember.
- ♪ Sometimes all I think about ♪ ♪ Is you ♪
♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
- Glass Animals?
No.
- This was number one? ♪ June ♪
(Jaime laughs)
- ♪ Late nights in the middle of June ♪
- No, like...
♪ All I think about is you ♪ - Yeah!
- Wait, wait, why did this come back?
The only reason I know this song came back was to...
- Was it because of TikTok? It's because of TikTok!
- (Dani) No!
- Yeah, I don't feel like this should be...
I feel like it's a decent song.
I don't think it's number one worthy at all.
- (React) We're gonna wrap this up real quick.
What was your favorite song that you heard today?
If you remember, I know we went through a lot.
- Ooh. - Oh.
- (React) There's so many, we went through so many.
- Oh, there's so many! - So many.
Mimi. - (React) Mimi?
- Mariah, come on now, got me like rolling in my sheets,
crying up and down. - Ooh.
- My favorite, Somebody I Used To Know.
Too good. - That's pretty good.
- (React) That song's really good.
- Yeah, and I think all the new songs.
I loved all of them.
- I don't remember anything that we just listened to! (laughs)
- Yeah, I feel like we listened to five songs in total,
but it was for real, like 22. - Yeah!
- (React) Where do you think 2023, at the end of this year,
who do you think is gonna be on top?
- I think Toxic Gossip Train is gonna take the top. (laughs)
- No! If, that's impossible.
- Imagine!
- Thanks for watching this episode.
- What song was your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.
- Bye! - Bye guys!
- ♪ You sing a sad song ♪ ♪ Just to turn it around ♪
(laughs) Just...
- I think we do need to talk after this.