- Hey! It's JoJo! I [censored] hate myself.
Why am I so weird? - (React laughs)
- WHAT AM I DOING?! I'm just trying to switch it up
and make it interesting, and it is so weird.
Hey, I'm JoJo, and I'm here to guess my own songs
in one second, so let's see how that goes.
- (React) If you guess it correctly the first time, you get two points.
If you need to hear a little bit more of it,
then you only get one point. But you're only gonna get two clips.
- ♪ Say ♪ - Get Out.
Leave, Get Out. (laughs) (ding)
- (React) How'd you know? - ♪ Saaay ♪
I recognize the run. I can't believe that I got
to sing that song. I didn't like the song
in the beginning. I would've never chosen it
as my first single. I never thought of myself
as a pop star. I was like, "I'm a soul singer."
So, I was like, "They're gonna think
I'm a pop star!" And then, I became a pop star.
And then, I was like, what? What?
Now that I'm older, though, and I've been cheated on
and I've broken up with people and like-- this song
has a different meaning to me. - ♪ But you... ♪
- Mmm!
Say Love. (ding)
♪ But you just say I'm ♪ Ooh, come on. Come on, beat!
- ♪ But you just say I'm perfect ♪ ♪ Say I'm pretty ♪
♪ Say I'm worth it ♪ - (sings along) ♪ But if you really
care for me ♪ - ♪ Say love ♪
- Always looking out a [censored] window.
- ♪ Uhh ♪ - Hey!
♪ Ah, yeah, yeah ♪
Baby, It's You. (ding)
(claps)
Wow! - (React) That's it.
- I could make a living out of this. I just remember being so excited
to be recording my first album. And then, when I rerecorded it
for these remasters that I now, you know, own
and was able to put these on streaming services,
I love these songs even more, I think, now.
- ♪ Hotel ♪ - What the [censored]?!
I think it might be Worst (I Assume).
I think it might be my new song. Is it not?
- (React) What makes you say that? - Because of the vocal fry.
♪ Even though I thought I was right ♪ Like, maybe that?
(buzzer) - (React) It is not Worst (I Assume).
- ♪ Hotel room ♪ ♪ Far away ♪
- Ohhhh! Creature of Habit. (ding)
I was like, "What song is that?!"
- (React chuckles) - Some sleazy hotel room far away.
I think it was harder to identify because I haven't performed this song.
You know, we've all been locked down in pandemic mode.
So, I haven't-- I don't have the same relationship with that song
that I have with songs I've been performing for over 10 years.
♪ (distorted music) ♪ What the?! Yo! Hold on.
♪ (distorted music) ♪ I need more.
- (distorted) ♪ Letting you go ♪ - Ayyy!
At the-- ♪ It's just a little too late ♪
♪ A little too ♪ Yeah. It would be Too Little Too Late
in a chipmunk key. - (React) This song broke
Mariah Carey's record for the largest jump
to a top three spot. I just have to know,
what's it like to know that you will forever hold the title
of having beaten a Mariah Carey record?
- Well, it's one and done. It's never gonna happen again for me.
I'm never gone beat anything Mariah does ever.
So, ah, that's pretty great.
- ♪ (slow down audio) ♪ - "So I know."
Okay, I need more. - ♪ Someone new ♪
♪ Whenever I, ever I do ♪ - Think About You.
(ding) I was so confused for a second.
Is that the acoustic version of Think About You?
- (woman off-screen) Wow. - (React) It's the clip from the video.
- ♪ Whenever I, ever I do ♪ ♪ I'm gonna, I'm gonna think of you ♪
- Fun fact about this video: This is in my--
one of my best friends, like, she's a sister to me,
Zelda, who directed this visual, that's her bedroom.
And we did this all during quarantine, like super lockdown.
That video and the Lonely Hearts video,
we both shot at her house. And she's just--
she's such an amazing visionary. She has just--
she has such a great eye for beauty. - ♪ (sped-up audio) ♪
- Oh, God. I don't know. - (React) You want a little more?
- Yeah. - ♪ We workin' from the sun up
to the sun down ♪ ♪ August to Decem-em-em ♪
- Yeah. - (React) Mm-hmm?
- Uh-huh. ♪ August to December ♪ ♪ (hums) ♪
♪ Running to your window ♪ Is that North Pole?
- ♪ To the sun down ♪
That's sound very cool like that. North Pole, off of December Baby!
(ding)
- ♪ We workin' from the sun up to the sun down ♪
♪ August to Decem-em-em ♪
♪ (reversed audio) ♪
- I have no idea. ♪ (reversed audio) ♪
This is up 150%? - (React) This is in reverse.
- This is in reverse. - (React) But in normal speed.
Mm-hmm, but in reverse. - ♪ (hums) ♪
Well, it sounds to me like Think About You.
♪ All my friends ♪ But it's not.
- ♪ The streetlights ♪ - Damn it!
(buzzer) I would never have guessed that.
- ♪ I'm under the city lights ♪ ♪ It's on, it's on tonight ♪
- You got me. - (React) But this is from JoJo, 2004.
- Yeah, first album. So, I just don't think
about City Lights very often. But now I will.
♪ (reversed audio) ♪
One more time. ♪ (reversed audio) ♪
♪ (mimics reversed audio) ♪
♪ (reversed audio) ♪
Good Thing. (ding)
I was like, "Yo, it sounds like a house record."
And then I'm like, "I don't have any"-- and then I'm like,
"Oh, yes, I do have a house record."
- ♪ You give me that good thing ♪ ♪ Can't nobody do it better ♪
- (sings along) ♪ I know you're the real thing, good thing ♪
♪ You give me ♪ - ♪ That good thing ♪
- Cute! - ♪ Nobody can compare ♪
- I actually really wanted to do a whole house album.
♪ (reversed and distorted audio) ♪
A little bit more. - (React) Mm-hmm.
I'll give you a little more. ♪ (reversed and distorted audio) ♪
- It's Worst (I Assume). (ding)
YAY! I just used process of elimination and I'm like,
guys, we gotta talk about my new song!
You said it was the last one. I'm like, "It's gotta be that."
- (React) You outsmarted me. You outsmarted me.
- Mm-mm. - (React) Well, let's watch
a little bit of it. Here we go.
- ♪ I keep assuming ♪ - Ay!
- ♪ You're gonna do shit that might break my heart ♪
- Hey, now! - ♪ So I'll keep up my guard ♪
♪ And I know it's confusing ♪ ♪ How I put you through it ♪
♪ My past and my scars ♪ ♪ Still make it hard ♪
♪ I assume ♪ - Yeah.
- ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Always the worst, I assume ♪
- How many points do I have? - (React) So, you ended
with 12 points. - 12 POINTS! Hoo!
Who gonna check me, boo? Who gonna come for me?
- (React) So, that last song that we played,
it's your new song, Worst (I Assume)
off of your new album, Trying Not to Think About It.
Now, that was just a small clip, but the music video is amazing.
It's shot all in one take. It's phenomenal.
Tell us a little bit about the inspiration
behind the song and video. - Well, thank you
for all those nice things. So, Trying Not to Think About It
is an EP. IO just want to keep trying new things
and doing things I haven't done before.
So, I've always wanted to do a one-shot music video,
but I just-- I was intimidated by it,
because I'm such a perfectionist. And then, I had the audacity
to ask for there to be choreography. And I'm not a dancer.
But I'm actually glad, because it lends itself
to what this project is all about, which is about breaking out of
holding yourself back. It's a true time capsule
of where I was at the end of last year
when I was I really depressed. I had no idea who I was anymore.
I didn't know what I was doing. I figured I would never
fall in love again. That is not true.
None of those things are true.
- (React) If you had to describe your new EP,
Trying Not to Think About It, in just one second,
how would you do it? - (gasps)
(tongue trills) I don't mean it.
I'm being facetious, but I would say sexy depression.
(laughs) Like... Depression is not sexy.
And yet, this EP might make you feel kind of sensual
even while you're in your feels.
Thanks to React for having me. I hope you had fun playing along.
Be sure to check out Trying Not to Think About It.
It's all yours October 1st, streaming on all platforms.
However you wanna ingest it, enjoy it. Do your thing with it.
Whatever you wanna do, that's your business.
But I really recommend you listen to it,
'cause it's very good. Okay, thanks for watching, everyone.
Goodbye! - (React chuckles)