- I can feel my head trying to nod.
- You can't fight the queen, Miley Cyrus.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪ (fireworks)
- (FBE) So today, you are gonna be doing
a Try Not to Sing Challenge. - Ooh, I haven't done
a Try Not to Sing.
- (FBE) So, there is a small twist. - Ah, no.
- (FBE) We know we have a global audience,
but it's almost Fourth of July here in the States,
so all of these songs will have to do with
the United States of America. - So, my birthday.
- (FBE) It's your birthday. - My birthday is July 4,
so happy birthday to me.
- Literally the only one I can think of is
Party in the U.S.A.
- ♪ Born in the U.S.A. ♪ Getting it all out now.
Game on. I'm ready.
- (FBE) For this episode, we actually have a few
veterans in with us here today, so first of all, thank you
so much for coming in and thank you for your service.
- Thank you for your support. That's awesome.
I was in the Army for nine years, since 2008
'til 2017. I was a cook.
Pretty much served the soldiers food,
made the food and made sure they were full.
- I was in the Army for almost four years.
I was an analyst, so I never saw any combat.
I made some really great lifelong friends
and it was a good time.
♪ Don't wanna be an American idiot ♪
- Ah, damn it. I forgot about this song.
- ♪ American idiot Ba na na na na na ♪
(buzzer)
♪ Don't want a nation under new media ♪
- This is a really good song.
- I was obsessed with this song when I was younger.
- Oh, this is actually a lot harder than I thought.
- I can feel my head trying to nod.
- Am I allowed to dance? No?
Well my foot wasn't doing anything.
You have no camera there. (buzzer)
- This is super easy.
♪ All across the alien nation where everything isn't meant ♪
- (FBE) Oh, was that a little head bop?
- Not quite. (buzzer)
- I even wanna hum. This sucks.
♪ (humming) ♪ I can't just stop it.
God, I love them. (buzzer)
- These two fingers specifically are wanting to dance right now.
♪ Enough to argue ♪
- Ah, no. No, I did not tap that finger.
It was out of the camera. It doesn't count.
- (FBE) I mean, you just admitted it.
- No, please. (buzzer)
- This is actually really hard.
- The longer it goes, the worse it gets.
Okay.
- If it went on any longer, I probably would have
started head banging.
- I've seen people do this, but I've never
actually done it and when I watch people,
I'm just like, oh, that's easy. But actually being--
I feel like the pressure's on.
♪ This'll be the day that I die ♪
- God damn it.
♪ This'll be the day that I die ♪
- I can't. How can you not?
(buzzer)
♪ I started singing ♪
- ♪ Bye, Miss American pie ♪ You can't not.
(buzzer)
- ♪ Bye bye, Miss American pie Drove my Chevy to the levee ♪
♪ But the levee was dry ♪ This is the only seven minute
song that I'll sing along to the entire thing.
(buzzer)
♪ Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry ♪
(buzzer)
♪ But the levee was dry Them good old boys ♪
(buzzer)
- This is hard.
- This is actually kind of hard for me.
- It's getting hot in here.
- I wanna move my head.
♪ This'll be the day that I die ♪ - I almost head banged.
- That was hard. I knew all of those lyrics.
- Ah, that's a good song.
- This was one of the first songs I remember downloading
and it took forever because it's such a long song.
♪ This is America Don't catch you slipping ♪
- Oh, this is really good.
♪ Don't catch you slipping now Look what I'm whipping up ♪
♪ Look how I'm geeking out ♪ - You can't not do--
he does it, too. (buzzer)
♪ Look what I'm whipping up Look how I'm geeking out ♪
- I gotta dance with Will.
- Oh my gosh, it feels so weird to be in this.
It's crazy.
- I'm so pretty. (buzzer)
♪ I'm so pretty ♪ - Okay, fine.
♪ I'm so pretty I'm gon' get it ♪
(buzzer)
- Ah, no. I did not.
I did not bop. (buzzer)
♪ Ooh ♪ - I can't.
♪ You go tell somebody Grandma told me ♪
- It's good. (buzzer)
♪ Tell somebody You go tell somebody ♪
- (FBE) Head bopping. - That's not head bopping.
That's a natural movement. (buzzer)
- Oh man. ♪ Get your money, black man ♪
♪ Get your money, black man Get down ♪
- I can't. It's so good.
(buzzer)
- I drank some coffee before this, too.
I'm real fidgety right now.
♪ Get down ♪ - It's hard.
♪ Tell somebody ♪ - God damn.
That song and that video just is crazy amazing.
- I'll never forget when that music video dropped,
'cause one, Will was in it, but then also, this song
just blew up at the time and it was really cool to see
it trending for that long. Everyone was talking about this.
- Oh, come on. Beach Boys?
- The Beach Boys? Oh my God.
♪ Across the U.S.A. Then everybody'd be surfing ♪
- They're my favorite. (buzzer)
- No, I love this song! ♪ Ooh ♪
(buzzer)
♪ Like California You see them wearing ♪
- Fine. (buzzer)
♪ Haurachi sandals too A bushy bushy blonde hairdo ♪
- (FBE) Caught a little head bop there.
- I'm stone cold. (buzzer)
♪ Ventura County line ♪ - Dancing with my eyes.
That doesn't count. (buzzer)
- See, the thing is is I'm super white
so I could actually do that dance, too.
- This is kinda hard.
- ♪ (humming) ♪ - (FBE) Is that a hum I heard?
- It was a slight hum, yeah. (buzzer)
- I'm trying not to lose every round and for some reason
I'm like, let's try not to do it, but this is really hard.
♪ Surfing U.S.A. ♪ - I didn't remember
Brian Wilson being so cute.
- It's catchy. I love the Beach Boys.
- You can't see my hands. They're stiff on my thighs.
Like, don't move.
♪ Born down in a dead man's town ♪
- Bruce Springsteen.
- Good song, too.
♪ Took was when I hit the ground ♪
- You just can't. (buzzer)
- My mom was obsessed with him.
♪ Just covering up Born in the U.S.A. ♪
- I was. He's correct.
♪ I was born in the U.S.A. ♪ (buzzer)
♪ Born in the U.S.A. ♪
- I am fighting the urge to tap my feet.
- It just doesn't do it for me and I was born in the U.S.A.
- Thank goodness. That was a tough one.
- It's un-American to not sing along
to the chorus of that song.
- I've heard this song before. I didn't know the lyrics,
so I'm like, it's okay. I can deal with that.
- I feel like you're just saving the best ones for last.
You're gonna lay it on me.
♪ My tummy's turning and I'm feeling kinda homesick ♪
- You can't fight the queen, Miley Cyrus.
- ♪ I'm feeling kinda homesick Too much pressure ♪
♪ And I'm nervous ♪ (buzzer)
- Yeah. Oh, already lost.
I'm just calling myself out. It was my toes.
(buzzer)
♪ And the Jay Z song was on ♪ - ♪ And the Jay Z song was on ♪
This song's too catchy. I'm sorry.
(buzzer)
♪ And the Jay Z song was on ♪
- ♪ So I put my hands up They're playing my song ♪
♪ The butterflies fly away ♪ (buzzer)
- This was playing at a frat party and I swear
every white girl was losing their--
every girl was losing their mind. They're like,
♪ Hands up, they're playing my song ♪
(buzzer)
♪ Jay Z song was on So I put my hands up ♪
♪ They're playing my song The butterflies fly away ♪
(buzzer)
♪ So I put my hands up They're playing my song ♪
- You can't-- Party in the U.S.A.
Come on. (buzzer)
♪ So I put my hands up ♪ - I can't.
♪ Fly away ♪ (buzzer)
♪ I put my hands up They're playing my song ♪
♪ I know I'm gonna be okay ♪ - Well that's not fair.
They're dancing behind the camera.
♪ It's a party in the U.S.A. ♪ - I love her.
This is so good. You definitely threw me
a curve ball. These were good songs.
- It just blew up and everyone knew it
and everyone was playing it, so now I'm just like,
I can't not.
- That was extremely difficult. So hard.
I really didn't expect it to be that hard.
- This is so hard to do no matter what song it is,
but these-- I don't know.
I mean, they were just fun songs.
This is about our country. This is U.S.A.
so you know, you should wanna dance along to it
or sing along to it.
- (FBE) So finally, what does Fourth of July mean to you?
- Fourth of July is my once a year event to feel
like an American. It's really just my excuse
to watch fireworks and eat hot dogs.
- Me growing in a Mexican household,
it was just honestly an excuse to make carne asada
and get drunk.
- Fourth of July honestly, I think is a great time
for people who have pools to throw parties
and hanging out with friends and family and having
a good time and fireworks.
- Fourth of July was when I decided that I wanted
to join the military and every time I would
come home on leave, it was always be
during Fourth of July.
- It's a very emotional sometimes--
because I've had other servicemen who've had
to make the ultimate sacrifice to get that freedom
for all of us, so it's-- and it's also a very fun day.
Whether you're barbecuing, going to the beach, hiking,
doesn't matter. It's meant to have fun.
- The Fourth of July is really important right now
because we need to make sure we celebrate
why we love our country. There's plenty of reasons
why we probably dislike things in our country right now,
but it's so easy to focus on the negative,
so focus on the positive. There's a lot of reasons
why it's great to live in America
and that's what we should focus on,
so happy Fourth of July!
- Thanks for watching this episode of Adults React.
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- Bye, guys.
- Hey everyone, Lauren, producer here at FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this
very American episode of Adults React.
If you wanna check out more of our other content
across all the generations, we have plenty with links
down in the description and all of us here at FBE
wanna wish all the Americans out there a happy Fourth of July.
Bye, everyone.