- I want you to park that big Mack...
(Zaria laughs)
- (React) Phil, have you seen or heard the song WAP?
- Do we have to do this? - Yeah.
- (React) Today, we're challenging Gen Z to guess the music video
described by our Elders.
- Oh Good, I get to describe it, oh, I like that.
- Oh wow! (laughs)
- Okay, well, we're ready for anything.
- I'm a little nervous. - We don't care.
- (React) Phil is really good at describing these. (laughs)
- Okay, okay! - (React) As we've seen before.
- I have to go to the restroom. (Anthony laughs)
- ♪ Turn up the music ♪ ♪ Turn down the lights ♪
- (Holgie) Sequins, lots of sequins. - Uh... (laughs)
- Lots of energy, high energy! - Um, cool.
- Okay, there's a lady. - Uh-huh.
- A lady that's got a shiny speckled thing on,
with all kinds of sequins.
- Okay. (laughs)
- She's recently won some serious awards.
- Oh man. - What?
- Gorgeous, can move. - What, it's like dollar bills?
- She got energy. - I don't know!
- She got sassy, oh yeah, she's beautiful.
- Oh God!
- ♪ A sentimental ♪ ♪ Man or woman to pump me up ♪
- Man or woman to pump me up?
- Man or woman to pump me up? (laughs)
- Good As Hell? - ♪ Turn down the lights ♪
- Oh, ooh, uh...
- ♪ I got the feeling ♪
- ♪ I'm gonna be alright ♪
- Sequins and shit.
- Is it Lizzo's About Damn Time? - (React) Yes!
- Yeah, got you.
- Uh, oh no, okay!
♪ It's about that time ♪ (buzzer)
Right?
- Turn up the music!
- (React) Close, close, Emma.
- About Damn Time?
- (React) It is About Damn Time! - Is that the name of the song?
- (React) Yes it is! - ♪ It's about damn time ♪
- Ah!
- It's About Damn Time, yeah. (bell rings)
- I think it's funny the setting that it's in,
and she's just going so hard in like, an office building/classroom.
- But she's really got such a presence,
you know what I'm saying?
It's like she's in the middle of a damn elevator.
- I know, look at her with the...
- (Mary) But then it's nothing, and she's, it's like...
- She pulled the robot on us!
- Okay, this is going great. We're doing fantastic.
- So far so good, yes. - Okay.
I thought I was gonna be absolutely hopeless.
- Me too.
- But you know what? - But you never know!
- We got this. - You just never know.
- ♪ A lucky, lucky girl ♪
♪ She got married to ♪ ♪ A boy like you ♪
- Okay, here's a person with a suit, a very nice, expensive silk suit on.
- Oh, it's like a strip show, a fancy strip show,
like a Broadway strip show, the guy's...
- What!? (laughs)
- (Holgie) The guy's the lead.
- Is it a solo artist?
- It seems to be a solo artist.
- Do they have backup dancers right now?
- A lot of backup dancers.
- It's not that, but... - They can crawl across the floor.
They can walk backwards with high heels on.
- Do you know how confused I am right now?
- They're just dancing, they're, they're...
- He's got dangling earrings, looks like an Elton John earring look.
- Is this Harry Styles?
- (React) It is not Harry Styles.
- Taking off the jacket with suspenders,
a variety of suspenders, it's almost as like an S&M.
- Oh, suspenders?
- With almost like an S&M, a bunch of suspenders.
- Sam Smith.
- Unholy. - (React) Unholy, yes!
- Yes!
- They're circling him.
- What, is it Dirty Dancing? - Yeah, and some of those...
- Mommy Don't know? - Daddy's Getting Hot?
- Unholy. - 'Cause he's doing something.
- Through the barber shop, taking...
Something Unholy! - (React) Yes!
- Oh my God, oh my God! Let's go!
- Oh my gosh, good for you! - Woo!
- Gah!
- Oh wow. (React laughs)
- This is way more difficult.
- One thing about this singer, he has an excellent voice.
- Yes.
- He carries through to the vibrato all the way,
where many singers...
- He's classically trained. - ...are not trained.
- ♪ Can you stay up all night ♪
♪ [Censored] me 'til the daylight ♪
- Like an advanced body?
- It's a real person inside a robot outfit.
- Oh, okay. - And now there's all these dots,
and there's dancing.
- Okay, their hair's all long, dark and long.
- Dark and long, is it...
- Everybody has long dark hair, and big earrings.
- Oh, I know her!
That beautiful tall girl which always wears a long ponytail.
- Oh, Ariana Grande! Okay, okay!
- ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪
♪ Dah dah dah, dah dah dah ♪ ♪ Dah dah dah ♪
- (Simon) Look, oh gosh.
- Oh, Positions.
- (React) It's not Positions. (buzzer)
- Is it off the album? - (React) Yes.
- 34+35.
- (React) Yes! - Yes!
- Is it the number one, actually? - (React) Yes ma'am.
- Uh, crud.
- ♪ Dah-dah, dah-dah, dah-dah ♪
♪ Dah-dah, dah-dah ♪
- Oh dude, I can't. (buzzer)
- 34+35? - (React) Yes!
- Yay!
- 34+35? - (React) Mm-hmm.
- Is that what she's saying?
- Is that the measurements?
- (React) Yeah, do you...
- What measurements?
- Do we have to do this? - Yeah.
- Oh wait, what does that equal, 69 or something?
- (React) Mm-hmm.
(both laugh)
- Is that measurements 35, 34, 33?
- Yeah, it's her waist size. That's yep, 34 waist, 35 length.
She's a small... - No, no, you can tell me the truth.
- ♪ I have this thing ♪
♪ Where I get older ♪ ♪ But just never wiser ♪
- I think I know who that is, even. - Oh.
- She has a very colorful shirt on, she has lots of fans.
- She's eating eggs that are kinda disgusting.
- Oh, we know this girl. Everyone loves this girl.
- Beyonce? - You can't get tickets.
They're sold out. - Taylor Swift!
- Okay, it's one of her new songs. - Thousands of dollars, 5,000.
- Oh no, oh my God, this is embarrassing.
I don't listen to you, Taylor, I deeply apologize.
We've just never clicked sonically.
- I haven't seen any of her new videos.
- Writes songs about the boyfriends after she gets done with them.
- Uh, weak, weakling. (buzzer)
- I'm like... (laughs) - Coward, a coward.
- Hero's nemesis? (buzzer)
- Oh, is it that vengeance song, Villain?
(buzzer) - (React) It's not Villain.
- Oh, dang, that's the best you got from me.
- Anti-Hero! - (React) Yes ma'am!
It is Anti-Hero! - She got it!
- Anti-Hero! - (React) There you go.
- That's a song?
- Anti-Hero! - (React) Yes!
- Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes!
Woo! That was a lot to pull.
- Do you know how many times
this song has been overplayed on a radio station?
- (Holgie) Has it?
- I'm the problem, it's me, I mean, that's true.
- (Zaria) I know.
- If you think about, yeah, it's way more.
- Mm-hmm.
- It has a lot more heft to it in terms of meaning, you know?
- Than 69, right.
- (React) Than 69. (laughs) - Yeah.
- Now let's not rule out 69 as a valuable possibility, okay?
- I know. (laughs)
- ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, you dealin' with some ♪ ♪ Wet and gushy ♪
- Two girls, they're working together. One used to be a stripper.
- I can think of Demi Lovato, Katy Perry...
- The other one's out there in your face all the time.
They're laying together, snakes all around.
- Are we doing Cardi and Megan? - (React) Yes.
- Oh wow. - Oh wow, damn!
- Two attractive women. - They're girls?
- Scantily dressed, they're talking down a colorful hallway.
- WAP, yep, I got it. - (React) What, yes!
- Yep, yep.
- Okay, now they're in a purple and yellow.
- I want you to park that big Mack truck.
(Zaria laughs)
- ♪ Right in this little garage ♪ ♪ Make me dream, make a stream ♪
- You said hallway and scantily dressed,
and you said two women, so it's either...
- Scantily dressed in a beautiful hallway.
- Yep.
- With animals all around them.
- Yep. - I guess that narrows it down.
- They made a lot of money in clubs being strippers,
and now they're doing like big money.
Now she's making big money in the mainstream, yeah.
- Why am I forgetting people's names?
I'm like so bad at names.
- (Holgie) Yeah, and they support each other.
- Is it WAP? - (React) It is WAP!
- (both) WAP. - (React) There you go. (laughs)
- WAP, WAP, WAP! - WAP?
- (React) WAP! - WAP, WAP, WAP.
- WAP? - WAP!
- It's WAP? WAP!
- WAP, WAP! (Emma laughs)
- Me and my innocent mind not knowing a thing.
- It's just... - Oh, wah, like walk, okay.
- No, right.
- (React) Yeah. - Yeah. (laughs)
We shouldn't say... - (React) We're gonna stick to WAP.
- What?
- Historically this is strange to me. The snakes and the queen there.
Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt,
and she died by the bite of a snake, supposedly.
An asp, so it all fits in there.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- ♪ Maybe I'm too emotional ♪ - Maybe I'm too emotional.
- Oh, Good 4 U! - (React) Yes!
- Yeah!
- She looks like the girl from those insurance ads,
but it's not her. (Zaria laughs)
- They're in a drug store, talking into the camera.
- Oh, is this Olivia Rodrigo? - (React) It is.
- I've never heard that song before.
- (React) Ooh! - Really?
- (Holgie) This is all new to me. - Really?
- Yeah, and you got it.
- What does she look like?
- A little like Olive Oyl, I don't know.
- A little like Olive Oyl?
- Damn it, girl, Olivia, why did you release like five music videos?
- Now she's looking right into the camera, smiling.
- Ugh, Deja Vu? (buzzer)
- Good 4 U? - (React) Yes ma'am.
It's Good 4 U. - Woo!
- Give me some for that! - You said like two words, I'm like...
- It's the angry one, she's pissed!
Good 4 U? - (React) Good 4 U!
- Good 4 U, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
- ♪ Good for you ♪ ♪ I guess you moved on easily ♪
- Bravo! Oh my God!
- (React) Let's go! - You did amazing!
- If you saw these music videos,
and you described at least just one scene from them,
you would immediately know.
But since I have no idea, I have not seen any of these,
it's so hard.
- You did really good!
I was immediately able to guess the music video.
You said drug store, cheerleader,
and the gloves were really helpful.
- To me, it just sounds like random weird,
just super random things. - Disconnected.
Just totally disconnected. - Totally disconnected.
- ♪ Good enough ♪
- ♪ He say that I'm good enough ♪ ♪ Grabbin' my (trills) ♪
♪ Thinkin' 'bout [censored] ♪ ♪ That I shouldn't have ♪
- Rap.
- Okay, it's rap?
- Lots of hips and lots of attitude.
- (Emma) Oh no. - Now we got...
- She does like make her butt sort of the central figure of some of this.
- (gasps) Oh my God, it's Ice Spice.
- They're up on the balcony. - Okay.
- Of a building, with a fire escape next to them.
- Oh my God, this is PinkPantheress and Ice Spice.
This is That Boy's A Lair pt. 2.
- (React) Yes! - Got it!
(React laughs) Yep!
- Now they're back in the subway.
- If you could see my face right now, it's pure confusion.
- A lot of the hand signs, and one's got the hair,
and one's got...
- ♪ Dah-dah dee-yah ♪ ♪ Dah-dah dee-yah ♪
♪ Sah-dah dee-ah ♪
- (Holgie) He said... - Boy a liar?
Boy's A Liar! - (React) There you go!
- That Boy's A Liar! - (React) Boy's A Liar!
- That Boy's A Liar! - Okay, that actually does make sense.
- I think it's a catchy song.
Again, it's hard to describe it.
- He said fire escape. - (React) Fire escape.
- The fire escape did it, it's weird.
- Your details are immaculate, Phil, thank you.
- Well. - (React) I told you, Phil.
- I like just forget... - What's that, Ice Spice, what's that?
- (React) Ice Spice, that's her name, she's a rapper.
- Oh, Ice Spike? - (React) Red hair, yeah.
- Oh, the one with the red hair is Ice Spike, oh, okay.
- ♪ I gave a second chance ♪ ♪ To Cupid ♪
- She's got a little bowl of gold fishies.
- What? (laughs)
- And she looks at magazines,
and she's dancing in the window with three other girls.
- Four ladies, one with blonde hair, and the others with...
- Oh God, I don't know. - Dark hair.
- (Zaria) TWICE? - Straight long hair.
- Is this a group?
- It looks like a group. - Like a girl group?
- A certain genre, K-Pop, I'd say.
- It's like a girl version of BS, you know the one.
- Oh, wait, is it 50 Cents?
- Cupid is so dumb, it says behind them.
- Oh, okay, this is Cupid by FIFTY FIFTY.
- (React) Yes! - Yeah!
- Cupid is so dumb.
- It's the new one that they have. - It's a new one.
- It's the new one, I'm not dumb.
♪ (Zaria hums) ♪
- Cupid? - (React) It is Cupid!
- (Holgie) That's right!
- Cupid? - (React) It is Cupid, my girl!
- Cupid! - Oh!
- (React) Cupid, my girl! - Yeah, okay!
- Cupid!
- Yeah, it's very innocent.
- FIFTY FIFTY is a South Korean girl group.
- Oh, okay.
- Actually from a really small company that debuted,
but TikTok was able to blow up their song.
- Very popular now, popular. - Yeah, they are,
because of this song, really likes... - Popular!
- Every single K-Pop group that comes out in the beginning,
they're profiting off their innocence.
They'll start off literally with a music video of them in school,
and kind of play off that like schoolboy persona.
It's supposed to be obvious.
- Isn't that interesting, that's the whole trajectory.
- It's like for every group.
- ♪ I didn't ask for a free ride ♪
- It's raining, and she's laying on the ground in the rain,
and then rain streaming down her face in other scenes.
- She's waking up, and she's looking,
and it's like, the rain is coming down but they're spikes,
like they're gonna... - Rain?
- Lightning strike, she's laying there,
it looks like she's unconscious. - Is this Rain On Me by Lady Gaga?
- (React) It is! (laughs) - Yeah.
He said rain.
- What, is it Rain On Me? - Now she's with a whole group of...
- (React) It is Rain On Me! - Is it actually!?
- That's it! - Oh my God!
Wait, I didn't think you were gonna do that!
- Wow! - Oh my God!
- Forget the rest, we won!
- Rain, rain, on me.
- (gasps) Oh! ♪ Rain on me ♪
♪ Rain, rain, rain on me ♪ - That's it.
- Ariana Grande's also in this, literally!
- ♪ Rain on me ♪
- Rain On Me. - (React) Rain On Me, ma'am.
- Ooh!
- See, Ariana Grande! Yay!
- Ariana Grande! She's in the mix too!
Rain, and she's pulling this knife out!
♪ (Zaria sings melody) ♪
- What was it called?
- Rain On Me by Lady Gaga.
- Oh, okay. - Featuring Ariana Grande.
Right, is that the one she's... - Feet?
- Yeah, feat, feat, Ariana Grande. (laughs)
- Oh my God!
- My little partner here, I couldn't have done it without her.
- Yay! (laughs) - No way!
- I wanted to do so good, and I didn't!
- (React) I thought we could sing a celebratory song.
- Oh, we're singing.
- (React) Okay, you're gonna have to share this mic.
- Okay, okay. You hold it, babe,
'cause you're probably better at that than me.
- This is our celebratory song. - Alright, alright.
Whatever. - (React) This is a celebratory song.
Here we go, my friends. - Alright.
- ♪ We are the champions ♪ ♪ My friends ♪
- ♪ And we'll keep on fighting ♪
- ♪ 'Til the end ♪
- I thought for a second that we would win!
- ♪ We are the champions ♪ - What?
- ♪ We are the champions ♪
- We can only do what we can do!
You were wonderful, you were wonderful!
- (Nelson) Ha ha!
- ♪ Champions ♪ - Of what, Phil?
- ♪ Of the world ♪
(both laugh)
- (React) Yes we are! - Yay!
- (React) Congratulations! - Yay.
- Thanks for watching this episode.
- What music videos should we guess next?
Let us know in the comments.
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- (both) Bye!
- Bye! - Bye guys!
- Peace out! (Emma laughs)
- Bye! - Bye guys!