-John Legend!
We love it when you come to the show.
We love it when you're here. You look sharp as always.
-I love being here. -Thanks for being here.
-I like the beard. -You do?
-Yes. -I'm trying to be you.
[ Laughter ] It's taking some time.
It's a little patchy there.
-Welcome to the club. -Thank you, my friend.
I appreciate that. -Yes.
-We got a lot to talk about. -Yeah.
-"Legend." Your new album. -It's out.
-It's out finally.
-It feels good to have it out in the world.
-Talk about "The Voice."
You know what I wanted to talk about?
Because a lot of people ask because we always --
You've been on the show a bunch of times.
They go, "You guys got good chemistry."
-We go way back. -We go way back.
We were actually in a group together.
-Yeah. -In the '90s, an R&B group.
-Yeah. Yeah.
It was a long time ago.
And we were called Color Me Interestedd.
-Yeah, that's right. With two D's on the end.
-With two D's. -Interested-d.
-Interested-d 'cause we're extremely interesting.
-Interestedd. Color Me Interestedd.
-Yes, and we were a very, very sexy R&B group.
-At the time, some people said too sexy.
-Yeah.
We get accused of being too sexy a lot.
-Yeah, we do. -But looking back, I maybe think
the lyrics weren't as sexy as we thought.
-Well, you're not going to believe this,
but I found a clip of... [ Laughter ]
...our first performance. -Uh-oh.
-Yeah. -I'm not --
-Here's John Legend and I in our old group, Color Me Interested.
♪♪
♪ Mm, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Wow, wow, wow ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Girl, come on over here and sit next to me ♪
♪ When we're together, it is pure ecstasy ♪
-♪ Put some tantalizing thing on the TV ♪
-♪ Hey ♪ -♪ It's a little show ♪
♪ I like to call "Jeopardy!" ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I always get all the questions right ♪
-♪ It's the same VHS that I watch every night ♪
-♪ Or "Wheel of Fortune" or whatever you like ♪
-♪ Call me Pat Sajak, and you're my Vanna White ♪
-♪ And that's what keeps me interested, girl ♪
♪ And that's what keeps me interested, girl ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Whoo! -Yeah.
-Yes.
-You know, looking back -- looking back --
[ Laughter ]
It's good to look back, isn't it?
-Yes. -We were definitely sexy, I think.
-Yeah, I mean, but the reviews were
that we weren't sexy enough. -That's true.
They weren't really going there
with our lyrics or stuff like that.
So we had to up our sexy game a little bit.
-You don't have a clip of that, right?
-You talking about the second song we released?
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Roll the clip.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ Ooh, yeah, yeah, wow, yeah ♪
-♪ Say what ♪ -♪ What? ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪
-♪ Arm around my girl and we are getting so close ♪
-Ooh!
-♪ I lean in slowly ♪
♪ Yeah, you know how this goes ♪
-♪ Yeah, lips to her ear and I whisper real low ♪
♪ Is there spinach in my teeth, girl? ♪
♪ Please tell me no ♪
-♪ Get close to me, what food do you see? ♪
-♪ Is that a piece of lettuce or a sesame seed? ♪
-♪ Girl, come on and get close to me ♪
-♪ I said open up your eyes and look at my teeth ♪
-♪ And that's what keeps me interested, girl ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Okay. We're back.
-And here again. -Nice clip, nice clip.
-It made me chilly. It made me chilly. It's so good.
-Yeah, yes. -But yet again, I think
it missed the sexy mark, don't you agree?
-Well, thankfully our label, Nasty Little Freak Records.
-That's correct. Shout-out.
-They gave us one last shot. -They gave us all the budget
in the world to do -- they said, "One more shot for you guys."
-And this time, the sexy was definitely --
-We got to keep people interested-d.
-Interested-d-d-d.
-We have to keep people interested-d.
-We had to unleash the full sexy,
so we might as well watch that one too.
-Let's see it.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
♪ Oh, wow, wow ♪ -♪ Wow ♪
-♪ Ooh, yeah, no, no ♪
-♪ Yeah, yeah, ah, yeah ♪ -♪ Ah, no ♪
♪ Hands down her arms, her legs, and then down her back ♪
-♪ Ooh, ah ♪
♪ I check every nook, every curve, every crack ♪
-Ooh!
♪ There's no one else with your heart and your soul ♪
-♪ So please, girl, be checking for suspicious moles ♪
-♪ Girl, I want to feel you up and down ♪
-♪ I check the color and the shape, make sure they're round ♪
-♪ That mole on your neck is so damn fine ♪
-♪ But I want to make sure that it's benign ♪
-♪ And that's what keeps me interested, girl ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Now look at us now.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We've come a long way.
-My thanks to John Legend.
We're talking to John about his new album, "Legend"!
After the break. Stick around.
-♪ Ain't you interested, girl ♪
♪ That's what keeps me interested, girl ♪
-♪ Wow, wow ♪