(audience applauds)
- [Kelly] It's nice to see you again.
I feel like we randomly run into each other.
Was the last time The Voice?
- Yeah, that was the last time we ran into-
- [Kelly] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And it's just, it's so funny,
whenever anybody sings with you,
Kelly just puts them to shame.
You are such a good singer. - [Kelly] No.
Oh my gosh, you're so nice.
(audience applauds)
- [Charlie] I just wanted to-
(audience applauds)
- Is it true that you made most of your new album on TikTok?
- I did.
- [Kelly] How does that happen?
- Well, it was, you know, pandemic times when we were all,
in the very, very beginning, we were all at home.
I'm so used to getting off stage and then going backstage,
I have a little studio set up and I just come up
with ideas right then and there.
But I didn't have any of the audience,
because, obviously I was at home.
- No one had one.
(Kelly laughs)
- No one had any audience.
- Yeah.
- We have an audience right now.
(audience applauds) - Yes, we do.
They are small but mighty, Charlie.
- [Charlie] And you have some virtual friends too.
- [Kelly] We do, all over, we've been all over.
- So me making an album on TikTok,
it wasn't like I was necessarily looking
for pointers or tips on how to make my music.
- Yeah.
- But I just needed to create in front of people.
Whenever I'm in the studio,
I always have five people watching me,
'cause it's like I'm performing.
- It's inspiring, okay.
- [Charlie] It's inspiring.
- Yeah, I like that.
- [Charlie] You know, as a fellow artist.
- Yeah, I don't even mind.
People are just like, "Oh do you like people in the studio?
Do you not?"
I'm like, "I don't care either way."
I feel like I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do regardless.
But yeah.
Sometimes not do well and sometimes do all right.
(Kelly laughs)
- I really feel like you rarely-
- You know what?
You should ask my crew over there.
(Kelly laughs)
It happens.
(Kelly chuckles)
- No, you got this thing down to the science.
- No, I'm telling you, when I mess up,
my favorite thing to do is actually put it on the internet.
There was this one that Weiss was recording.
I don't know what was happening Charlie,
but it was like. (wailing)
(Charlie laughs)
It was literally the most horrid sound
that's ever come from me.
(audience laughs)
And so what I decided to do with that is put it online.
(Kelly laughs)
'Cause I was like, "It's funny."
- But even that mess up,
even that joke of a mess up,
right now, was actually good.
You hit a high B. - [Kelly] No.
You are a very kind person.
(audience laughs) (Charlie singing)
It was like Tarzan. (Charlie sings)
Tarzan. (wailing)
It was like the worst sound that's ever come out of me.
- It was-
(Charlie laughs)
- But maybe you could use it in the background as a beat.
(Kelly wailing)
Like just that,
I feel like we're onto something.
- I could auto-tune.
(Charlie wailing) (Kelly laughs)
I could auto tune it in.
- [Kelly] Exactly.
- Put a whole-
- [Kelly] Make something of it.
Make lemonade.
- I can make beats outta anything.
- Okay, okay, I like that.
Okay, challenge accepted.
And I heard that-
(audience applauds) - That band's amazing.
- My band is amazing, that's my actual band.
Yeah.
- That's a great band.
- We get a couple jobs.
(Kelly laughs)
- [Charlie] You guys are killing it, man.
(Kelly laughs)
I'm not just saying that to be all like,
"Oh, he's so gracious on TV."
Like you guys are really locked in, that's awesome.
(audience applauds)
- [Kelly] They're really talented, thank you.
- [Charlie] Wow.
- Well, wait, speaking of talented people,
you recently worked with Elton John,
and this is maybe my favorite thing ever.
(audience applauds) - Thanks.
- 'Cause you found something out about him.
But I really wanna know how this went down,
tell everyone.
- Well, Elton texted me his address,
when he first expressed that he wanted to work with me,
because-
- Which is amazing.
- Which is great.
He was brutally honest with me.
He said my 2019 music sucked.
And I agree with him. (audience laughs)
(Kelly laughs)
It was not good.
- What?
- He was like, "You are much better."
I shouldn't imitate him. (chuckling)
(audience laughs) (Kelly chuckles)
He just basically said that I can make a lot better music.
And he said that I should just make it myself,
like I always do. (Kelly chuckles)
And I was like, "Wow, you're the first person
that's ever said that to me."
- [Kelly] I love that.
- But I was thinking the exact same thing when he said that.
(Kelly chuckles)
So he texted me his address.
You know how, when you go on Google maps,
and you type in somebody's address,
especially in LA, it's usually like a 45 minute car ride?
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- The car option didn't even come up,
it was walking distance,
he's my neighbor, he's my next door neighbor.
(audience chuckles)
- I love that you just walk down to work with Elton John.
I love that you didn't know you lived near each other,
and you were like, "Yeah, let's get together."
- Unbelievable.
- I don't know when we'll find the time.
Like it's-
- And his house is so amazing.
- I feel like he has crazy cool art, right?
I was like, "What kind of neighborhood do I live in?"
(audience laughs)
- No, but does he have, is his art just,
I feel like his house is,
it's gotta be colorful and awesome.
- It's exactly, it's almost as colorful
as this show's background here.
- Okay, I like color as well.
It makes me happy.
- It's a lot of Gucci, it's a lot of,
if you walk in it's like,
bam, two real Picassos, just on either side of-
- Oh my gosh.
- It's exactly as you'd imagine Elton John's house to be.
- Oh my gosh, Picassos, yeah,
that's totally hanging on my wall too.
(audience laughs) - Yeah, me too.
(Kelly chuckles)
- Okay, okay, so this is our Super Bowl show,
and you're in a Super Bowl commercial.
Are you excited about that?
That's amazing.
- Am I excited about that?
- [Kelly] Exactly, yes, yes.
- Of course I'm excited about that.
- And it's Megan Thee Stallion, there's people in it.
Just explain to everybody what it is.
It's animated?
- So it's animated.
Frito-Lay is doing this new flamin' hot campaign.
And they asked if I wanted to be a part of it.
And then they were like,
"By the way, there's also a Super Bowl commercial involved.
So if you'd consider being in it."
And I'm like, "Who am I, Beyonce?
Of course I'm doing this."
(audience laughs) (Kelly laughs)
So I was a little nervous,
I had never done voiceover work before,
and they told me all you have to do is beatbox.
And we're gonna animate you as the beatboxing fox.
And all I did was take a microphone and go. (beatboxing)
And then there was another animal
that layered the. (beatboxing)
It's the song Push It by Salt-N-Pepa.
(Kelly chimes)
- I was like. (Kelly chiming)
- Yeah. (beatboxing)
- Yeah, yeah.
- And you'll see-
- You're really good at that.
- Thank you. (audience applauds)
- Yeah, wow.
- Thank you, I'm very talented.
(audience laughs)
- [Kelly] You have so many talents.
- Yeah.
(Kelly laughs)
But you gotta watch the commercial,
it's really funny seeing me as a little fox.
And what, Megan Thee stallion is the-
- [Kelly] Oh God, she's great.
- Unbelievable.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
A Texan, just saying.
(Kelly laughs)
We grow 'em good.
(Charlie laughs)
- That's true.
- [Kelly] Let's look at this teaser for the commercial,
I wanna see.
(background whooshes)
(Charlie beatboxes)
(suspenseful music)
(door creaks)
(creature growls)
(background whooshes)
(audience applauds) (Kelly laughs)
You're a good actor.
- Thank you.
- So how long have you been beatboxing?
Did you do that since you were a kid?
- Yeah, I originally heard a record called Rock The House
by The Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff.
- Yeah.
- Look at you, you know it.
I didn't think you were gonna. - I do.
I was a fan, yes, yes
- And I just was so obsessed with it.
In the record they go. (beatboxing)
I'm like, "I have to learn."
At 14, I was like,
"I have to learn how to do that
because I'll be the coolest kid in school."
(audience chuckles)
- Yeah.
- And then I suddenly learned how to do it,
and I didn't get my wishes
of being the coolest kid in school.
(Kelly laughs)
But I learned how to make beats just from, with my mouth.
And then that transferred into me making beats
on the keyboard.
- That's cool. - And then on the NPC.
So it all kind of started with like.
And the first song I learned how to do
was Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg.
- Yeah, Snoop, yeah.
- It's a song I know.
It goes. - And Pharrell, yeah.
(Charlie beatboxing)
- You do the humming at the same time.
(Charlie beatboxing)
(audience applauds) - I know.
- That's so cool.
- I'm very impressive.
- I am. (laughing)
- I'm incredibly impressive.
- Spread the word.
(Kelly laughs)
No, it is really cool though.
Because thinking now as a writer,
it's like a totally different place to start from.
If you're like,
"I just wanna write something different,
maybe not come from something emotionally
that's happening to me right now."
That's kind of cool,
to be able to start with something random like that.
- It's like a feasible product that you can hold.
Like if you, for some reason at the time
were making Beautiful Disaster,
and wanted it to be six times faster,
and you want it,
instead of it being. (singing)
If you want, you could be. (beatboxing)
- Now we're in the club. - Just change the key.
(Charlie beatboxes)
- Now I'm twerking.
Just kidding.
(Audience laughs) (Kelly laughs)
- Yeah.
- I'm never twerking, I'm just kidding.
(Audience laughs) (Kelly laughs)
- Oh, boy.
Texas. - That'd be a different show.
I am a lot- (audio drowns out)