Alicia Silverstone Just Resurrected Cher Horowitz for Lip Sync Battle
Cher Horowitz is back. Four years after Iggy Azalea cosplayed as Alicia Silverstone's character in Clueless for her "Fancy" music video, Silverstone's returning the favor. The American Woman actress appears on this week's episode of Lip Sync Battle, and she performs—you guessed it—"Fancy." And not just that: She wears Cher's classic yellow plaid outfit—the one Azalea wears in the "Fancy" video—in the performance. So, essentially, Silverstone is tributing Azalea's tribute to her. Meta!
The fateful homage-within-a-homage will air this Thursday's on Lip Sync Battle, where Silverstone goes head to head with her American Woman co-star, Mena Suvari. According to a press release, the battle immediately follows an episode of American Woman on Paramount Network.
In the preview clip, below, Silverstone walks down a set of makeshift stairs while mouthing the opening to Azalea's "Fancy." Her back-up dancers are all made up as era-appropriate extras from Clueless, too. One dancer even dressed as Cher's best friend, Dionne, in her equally-famous blue plaid skirt suit and straw top hat.
The crowd, of course, eats it all up, as does Lip Sync Battle's co-host, Chrissy Teigen. "Modern-day Cher," she says in the clip. "This is amazing. I had no idea how badly I needed to see that. Again!" (Same.)
Check it out for yourself, below:
We got a sneak peek of Teigen's fangirling last October, when the episode was actually filmed. At the time, the Lip Sync Battle host and Twitter sage tweeted a photo of herself and her daughter, Luna, posing with Silverstone. "How am I supposed to sleep?" she wrote in the caption. "I think I've asked for 2 photos in my entire life. @AliciaSilv and beyonce."
Given how long we've been waiting for this pop cultural milestone to happen, it'd better knock our knee socks off. Based on Teigen's reaction, though, it seems like it'll be everything we hoped for, and then some.
Lip Sync Battle returns this Thursday, June 14 at 10:30 P.M. ET on Paramount Network.
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