SNL50: The Homecoming Live performance, a three-hour-long occasion celebrating Saturday Night time Reside’s fiftieth anniversary, aired reside from New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on NBC this previous Friday (February 14). There to honor the long-running sketch comedy collection and its contributions to music historical past have been David Byrne and Robyn, Lady Gaga with Andy Samberg, Devo with Fred Armisen, the surviving members of Nirvana with Post Malone, and plenty of extra. Watch choose performances under, and discover a full replay of the live performance at Peacock.
The star-studded SNL50 live performance merged completely different eras of the present’s musical company with beloved skits, unlikely cameos, and generation-spanning collaborations. David Byrne joined Robyn onstage, each in barely outsized gray fits, to carry out her 2010 hit “Dancing on My Personal.” Later, Girl Gaga slid behind a piano to sing a botched model of “Shallow” with Andy Samberg earlier than they referred to as it off and carried out the Lonely Island’s “Dick in a Field” as a substitute. They then segued right into a full-on medley of the SNL trio’s best hits, together with “Lazy Sunday” with Chris Parnell, “I Simply Had Intercourse” with Unhealthy Bunny, “I’m on a Boat” with T-Ache, and “Jack Sparrow” with Eddie Vedder.
SNL50: The Homecoming Live performance additionally featured the B-52’s busting out “Love Shack” with assist from Armisen, Bowen Yang, and Sarah Sherman; the aforementioned Nirvana reunion with Publish Malone on vocals for “Smells Like Teen Spirit”; and Cher singing “If I Might Flip Again Time.”
Different highlights included Devo tapping Armisen for “Uncontrollable Urge,” a Fugees mini-reunion with Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean singing “Killing Me Softly With His Track” and “Misplaced Ones,” Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard performing “Loopy Little Factor Referred to as Love,” and Invoice Murray singing “You’re All I Must Get By” with Maya Rudolph and Cecily Robust, amongst others.
Vedder, Cyrus, Hill, Gaga, Bonnie Raitt, Unhealthy Bunny, Jack White, Snoop Dogg, Backstreet Boys, Mumford & Sons, Brandi Carlile, and Jelly Roll carried out solo songs onstage as nicely. Plus, Arcade Hearth, Byrne, St. Vincent, and the Preservation Corridor Jazz Band performed a medley of “Heroes” and “Wake Up.”
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