Taylor Swift and the Cast of ‘Cats’ Perform ‘Memory’ With Tiny Instruments (Video)
“Cats” will be released in theaters on Friday, and what better way to celebrate than with a rendition of “Memory” featuring the cast of the movie — and tiny instruments that look like they were found in an alley somewhere?
Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Francesca Hayward, Jason Derulo, and James Corden each sang a verse of the iconic song by Andrew Lloyd Webber on Wednesday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” Oh yeah, and Fallon sang a verse too with complete seriousness and without laughing.
Sadly, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba and Rebel Wilson didn’t seem to have gotten the memo.
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The backing band was, of course, The Roots, led by Questlove, playing some below-average-sized garbage can lids, with Black Thought on the tuna cans, Kamal Gray on the kids version of a Xylophone, Tuba Gooding Jr. playing a coffee can, plus James Boysner on keys, Captain Kirk playing a small acoustic guitar and Mark on upright bass.
Swift tapped away on a milk bottle, as did Derulo, while Hayward played a paint can and Corden shook some nails in a jar. Hudson’s voice was so big she didn’t need to play anything else.
The film has gotten a mostly negative reaction so far based on the strange half-cat, half-human, heavily CGI’d look to the characters, who inexplicably have human faces and hands but are covered in cat fur and also clothes. It currently has a 17% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Look here for a breakdown of who is playing who.
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