{"id":425437,"date":"2026-04-30T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:12:13","slug":"the-tonight-show-erupts-when-anne-hathaway-sings-blink-182-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425437\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Tonight Show’ Erupts When Anne Hathaway Sings Blink-182 Backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Hathaway has many talents, and it would appear that singing late \u201990s pop-punk songs backwards is one of them. She managed to successfully spit out a Blink-182 song in reverse on Wednesday night, and \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d exploded for it.<\/p>\n

The actress appeared on the NBC late night show as her final stop on the press run for \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d<\/a> and, while there, played a game of \u201cReverse It Challenge\u201d with host Jimmy Fallon. The premise is as follows; one of them first sings the lyric of a song normally, then feeds it through an app. The program will then play the recording backwards, and the other has to try and mimic the result. If successful, when the new recording is played backwards, it will just be the original lyric.<\/p>\n

The results are generally just very funny gibberish, and that was the case for most of the songs Hathaway and Fallon tried to sing. But then came Blink-182\u2019s \u201cAll the Small Things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fallon was in charge of singing the lyric normally, and he opted for \u201cWork sucks, I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listening to it in reverse, Hathaway outright cackled, and needed a moment to collect herself before even attempting the same noises. Fighting through her tear-inducing laughter, the actress gave it a valiant attempt. But it wasn\u2019t just valiant \u2014 it was successful.<\/p>\n

When the duo listened to her recording back, Hathaway sang the lyric nearly perfectly (the word \u201cWork\u201d was a little muddled, but we\u2019ll give her a pass for it).<\/p>\n

At that, Hathaway, Fallon and the audience all erupted into loud cheers and applause, and the host and actor immediately broke out into an air guitar performance of the song while The Roots played it properly.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full game in the video above.<\/p>\n

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