♪ So now you're back ♪
♪ From outer space ♪
♪ I just walked in to find you here ♪
♪ With that sad look upon your face ♪
Hi, I'm Gloria Gaynor, and I'm here to play
a game of Song Association with Elle.
I'll be given a word, and I'll have 10 seconds
to sing that word in a song.
Oh my god.
I have seen other episodes of this.
I've seen people do very well,
I've seen people do not so well.
I'd like to be in the upper class.
But before we get started, please be sure
to check out my new album, "Testimony".
It's been nominated for two Grammys.
♪ Me may me ma me mo mi mu ♪
♪ Mi mi ♪
Goodbye.
(timer ticking)
Goodbye, ooh.
I'm so bad with this.
Goodbye.
♪ Never can say goodbye, boy ♪ (bell dings)
♪ I never can say goodbye ♪
Smile.
♪ Smile, though ♪ (bell dings)
♪ Your heart is breaking ♪
♪ Smile even though it's aching ♪
♪ Although a tear may be ever so near ♪
♪ You just smile ♪
Strong.
(timer ticking)
Strong is somewhere in "I Will Survive".
Strong.
Where is it?
♪ I grew strong ♪ (bell dings)
♪ And I learned how to get along ♪
♪ So now you're back ♪
♪ From outer space ♪
♪ I just walked in to find you here ♪
♪ With that sad look upon your face ♪
Yeah.
Morning.
(timer ticking) From "Testimony".
♪ Joy comes in the morning ♪
(bell dings) ♪ If you just be still ♪
♪ Joy comes in the morning ♪
♪ And I promise it will ♪
Yeah.
My favorite song on the new album, "Testimony",
is "Amazing Grace", because it really
kind of capsulizes how I feel about
the whole album, the whole project,
that it all has come from the grace of God,
and his grace has been so prominent
in my life.
Feeling.
(timer ticking)
I can't think of feeling, feeling feeling, feeling.
(timer ticking)
♪ Feelings ♪ (bell dings)
♪ Nothing more than feelings ♪
And that was recorded by so many people,
I can't even, I wanted to record that, but,
never got a chance, oh well.
Top.
(timer ticking) ♪ I'm back on top ♪
(bell dings)
I can't even think of the words
to my own song.
My brain just freezes.
You want a song with freeze?
I could make one up.
(laughs) Okay.
♪ I took so knockdown punches ♪
♪ But I'm still still standing strong ♪
♪ Back in the groove ♪
♪ Got a whole new view ♪
♪ Just lettin' it look like ♪
♪ It was certain the hurtin' would never stop ♪
♪ I'm back on top ♪
The first song that I ever recorded
was called "Honey Bee".
♪ You're my honey bee ♪
♪ Come on and sting me ♪
♪ You're always so busy ♪
♪ Workin' on that honey cone ♪
♪ Chock full o' sugar ♪
♪ Down to the bones ♪
♪ Every time you kiss me boy ♪
♪ It turns me on ♪
Something like that.
♪ You're my honey bee ♪
♪ Come on and sting me ♪
That was commissioned for me from a writing team,
brothers, called Melvin and Mervin Steals,
by Clive Davis.
Clive Davis commissioned them to write that song for me.
The first time I heard my work on radio,
out in public was, I was in a department store
and I really wanted to scream, "That's me,
"that's me, that's me!"
But I was very cool.
It was quite an experience, and I ran home
and told my mother about it.
She said, "That's nice, honey."
Time.
(timer ticking)
♪ Time after time ♪ (bell dings)
♪ I tell myself that I'm ♪
♪ So lucky ♪
♪ To be loving you ♪
♪ Time after time ♪
♪ I hear you say that I'm ♪
♪ So lucky ♪
♪ To be loving you too ♪
Love.
Love, love is in (timer ticking)
every song ever created.
♪ I love you, Porgy ♪ (bell dings)
♪ Don't let him take me ♪
♪ Don't let him handle me ♪
♪ With his hot hands ♪
Give.
(timer ticking)
♪ Give me just a moment ♪
♪ To come up with a song ♪
(laughs)
(buzzing)
Sweet.
(timer ticking)
♪ Sweet Caroline ♪ (bell dings)
♪ Good times never seemed so good ♪
I don't know why that came to mind.
Hand.
(timer ticking)
♪ Put your hand in the hand ♪ (bell dings)
♪ Of the man ♪
♪ Who calmed the waters ♪
♪ Put your hand in the hand ♪
♪ Of the man ♪
♪ Who calmed the seas ♪
I guess that's how that goes,
but you know the song I'm talking about.
Baby.
(timer ticking) Oh yeah.
♪ I love you baby ♪
(bell dings) ♪ And if it's quite all right ♪
♪ I need you baby ♪
♪ To warm the lonely nights ♪
♪ I love you baby ♪
♪ Trust in me when I say ♪
Yeah.
Life.
(timer ticking)
♪ Life is just ♪ (bell dings)
♪ A bowl of cherries ♪
Am I showing my age here?
(laughs)
I keep going back to songs that my mother used to sing.
Bad.
(timer ticking) ♪ Because I'm bad ♪
(bell dings) ♪ I'm bad ♪
♪ You know it ♪
Michael Jackson.
Woman.
(timer ticking) ♪ I am woman ♪
(bell dings) ♪ Hear me roar ♪
♪ With numbers too strong to ignore ♪
Helen Reddy.
- [Producer] You did great.
- [Gloria] Oh, really?
♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪
(percussive music)
- [Crew member] (mumbling)
(laughing) (cheering)