This is exciting.
The three of you have agreed to write a song for "Game
of Games" for our next season.
So I don't know if you've rhymed 'DeGeneres' yet,
if that's easy, if it's hard.
But do you have anything in mind yet?
I have some chords.
Shane, do you have some lyrics or any concepts?
I do.
I mean, I have to tell you--
I am, like, crazy "Game of Games" fan.
It's the only thing that my husband and I and our two kids
can agree on to watch together.
No joke.
I mean, I would say that even if it weren't true--
You watch drag race.
You watched "RuPaul's Drag Race".
Well I can't watch that with--
those kids, they talk too dirty.
But right before we got on here--
because, I mean, you see what Ester and Ryan and I do
on the show, we can't help ourselves.
And sometimes in between takes, we're
kind of just messing around and writing some things.
So I was writing a little out of my [INAUDIBLE] Let's hear it.
I was writing a country thing that was like, (SIGNING)
Put me on the "Game and Games" knockin' boots or make it rain.
I can make it anywhere, even in 'Musical Chairs'.
Finally, going to make a name.
Put me on the "Game of Games".
All right, now.
I like it.
(LAUGHING) I like the (SINGING) put me on the "Game of Games".
Well, you remember that old song--
put me on the cover of the Rolling Stone?'
That's what I was thinking about.
Yeah.
What kind of-- is it supposed to be exciting?
How are we--
Ryan, what do you [INAUDIBLE]?
I mean, no, we wanted to ask some questions, Ellen,
specifically.
So any good songwriter does their research.
We're telling micro stories, so we have to do our research.
So give us some trigger words that you want us to implement.
Obviously we know the show, we're fans of the show.
But tell us something that you want from us.
Well, obviously they fly through the air,
they drop down very far, they get very dirty--
you know what happens to them.
[INAUDIBLE]
I think it could be--
Yep, drop down and get dirty.
I like that.
But basically just describe what happens to the people
and make it--
it should sound horrible, and at the very end
it turns out it's a good thing.
So it could be kind of like--
it could be something like this, if we
go the more pop route, the possibility I
have these chords.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Ooh, good.
And this kind of melody--
(SINGING) I want to fly through the air.
I want to get dirty, dirty, dirty, I don't care.
What to get [INAUDIBLE].
That kind of vibe.
Oh, come on.
We'll do a dance record.
I want to fly, oh yeah.
(SIGNING) [INAUDIBLE]
Oh my God.
All right, listen.
Do you understand I have Pink, who wrote and sings that theme
song for my show, and now I have you
three doing "Game of Games".
I need to keep coming up with games and shows and stuff
so I can have every artist that I admire write songs.
I love the three of you, I love "Songland".
The finale of "Songland" airs June 15 at 10:00 on NBC.
And if you haven't watched it, start from the beginning,
because every single one of the shows,
you're guessing who they're going to pick
and what song is the best.
You have opinions, but they're all good.
Anyway, I love you all, I love "Songland".
Thank you so much.
Thanks for watching.
Listen to one another, and be kind to one another.