Testing Dakota Fanning's Music Knowledge

- What's up? - What's up? I'm so excited, I'm nervous though. - Before we start the music, introduce yourself. - Hi, I am Dakota Fanning. - I got a mix of songs for you. - I'm so excited. - I don't know, maybe-- - I wonder if I'm as nervous as Elle, I don't know. I don't think I'm as nervous as Elle. - So here's what we're gonna do. You're gonna do this, and then at some point in the future-- - We'll do it together. - We're gonna do you two head-to-head. - Yes, that's good. - Who would win? Big sister always wins. - She might just get too nervous and like forget. - Just get too excited. - Get too excited and be like, "I don't know." And you're like, "Yeah, you do." And she's like, "Oh yeah, it's that, right?" And you're like, "Yeah." - Here you go. All you gotta do is tell me who the artist is. - This is the Beach Boys. - Yes. - It says, "Little Deuce Coop." - Yes. - My story about Little Deuce Coop is in "War of the Worlds," Tom Cruise sings "Little Deuce Coop" to me. ♪ I'm not braggin', babe, so don't put me down ♪ ♪ 'Cause I got the fastest set of wheels in town ♪ ♪ Something comes up to me ♪ ♪ They don't even try ♪ - What is something that you learned about performing from Tom Cruise? - He's like made it his mission to give every single thing that he has to making movies and making them groundbreaking and exciting and different. I mean, I was lucky I got to work with a lot of people very early on that really taught me that doing a movie is like, you know, there's premieres and things and you get dressed up and I think people get like, think it's a very glamorous experience. The reality of, you know, making a, a TV series or a movie is deeply unglamorous, you know? It's really not glamorous. You know, you're often very cold and having to wear summer clothes or you're like really hot and it's supposed to be winter and like, you know, you go to kind of random locations, like it's just long days, all that stuff. So you have to really, really, really love it to be able to give it your all and yeah, to keep wanting to do it. So I just really love it. - Song number two. - Okay. ♪ Hello Jack ♪ - Yeah. - Hi guys. This is Cherry Bomb. I played Cherie Curry in the movie The Runaways and sang and recorded and performed a lot of the songs. ♪ I'm the boss you've been waiting for ♪ ♪ Hello daddy ♪ ♪ Hello mom ♪ ♪ I'm your cher-cher-cher-cher-cher-cher-cher-cherry bomb ♪ Kristen Stewart played Joan Jett. She's one of my closest friends to this day. Cherie Curry, she had a mic trick. She had the microphone with the long cord and she had a whole trick where she would swing it and wrap it around her leg and catch it in time to like sing this part of the song. So I had to learn how to do that. Had to learn all of these songs. Cherie was there on set a lot. Joan Jett was there a lot. Not, not intimidating. - Yeah, I was gonna say like. - It was one of the most fun experiences. It almost feels like a summer camp that we all had together. - Right of passage music biopic. - Oh, a hundred percent. A hundred percent, yeah. And I didn't know The Runaways before I did the movie and then got to do a real, a deep dive into, into all of them. - Okay, what's next? - Okay. ♪ No ceilings, motherfucker, good morning ♪ ♪ Dick in your mouth while you're yawning ♪ ♪ I'm going in, gotta know why they started me ♪ ♪ Molly, why they started me ♪ ♪ I bring it to your front door like you're out of me ♪ - Wow. - That's Lil Wayne. - Wow. - I'm shaking doing that. - What? - That was crazy. I can't believe I just did that. Only for Trackstar. That is Shoes by Lil Wayne. So in high school, his mixtape came out, No Ceilings. Shoes was on it. It became my favorite thing. It was my party trick that I could do this. And there was a time in high school, it was like we'd been out and like at a party, I was sleeping over at my best friend's house. I was like, I don't feel good. I'm going to bed. Like I kind of had a bad night. And I was like, I have a headache. Like I'm going to bed. Went upstairs and then they started playing this song and there's a story of me like creeping back down the stairs and was like, no, I'm back at the party. - There was like a four year break or a four year period where he was the best rapper. - Yeah, he's the greatest. - And he was out of control. - There's a song where he says something about like the annoying little girl who screams all the time in War of the Worlds. There's like some line, that's me. I can't, I don't know. I don't remember exactly what that is, but I remember going to school and my friend being like, I think there's a, like Lil Wayne has a lyric about you in one of his songs. - Wheezy if you're watching. - Wheezy if you're watching, I still love you. It's all good. - Okay, this next song is the exact opposite. So this is Judy Sills. "Jesus Was a Crossmaker." - Amazing song. - Unbelievable song. I don't have a story for this song other than I just love this song. I don't think I discovered it until kind of recently and I was like, whoa. I love it. - Same. - It's the opposite of shoes, though. - The yin and the yang. ♪ If it ain't the weather ♪ - This is Hilary Duff. This is "Weather for Tennis," yeah? Hilary and her husband, Matt, have become really good friends of mine and of Elle's, and we met them through taking tennis lessons together. - Is Matt good at tennis? - We were all beginners. We were all beginners at tennis. Matt is a great person on the court. Like, he's really funny to play with, but they're the best. Like, Matt and Hilary are the greatest. But "Weather for Tennis," I'm like, well, I mean, you obviously are, you think about me when you sing "Weather for Tennis." Like, we met, like, playing tennis. Like, obviously, like, so it's my favorite song. - Were you a big Hilary Duff fan as a kid? - Oh, my god. I remember when I met her for the first time as a kid. Yeah, she was, like, the coolest. And Lizzie McGuire, I loved Lizzie McGuire. And so being her friend is so fun, and she's the greatest and is really killing it. So I'm so proud of her. - Here's a good one. ♪ That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia ♪ - Yeah, this is Reba. "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia." So I'm from Georgia originally. Both Elle and I were born in Georgia. So this song is, like, feels like my family to me, my mom, my grandmother. Yeah, it just feels deeply Southern, and I love Reba so much. Reba was a voice of one of the animals in the live-action version of "Charlotte's Web" that I was in. CMT did, like, a huge event for Reba around that time, and I was there and presented, just 'cause we were technically in that movie together. And so I got to see all of these people performing her songs. ♪ Now there's one on every corner ♪ ♪ In the back of every bar ♪ ♪ You can get one in your briefcase ♪ ♪ On a plane or in your car ♪ ♪ So tell me why ♪ And yeah, this just is, like, my family, Southern. - Okay. - So this is a song from "Man on Fire," the end of "Man on Fire," "Una Palabra." Carlos-- - Varela. - So this is the song that sort of plays at the end of "Man on Fire," which to me is, like, still one of the saddest scenes of any movie I've ever been in. And something about when this song comes on in Denzel, and, like, he's just, like, given his life for my life. Like, it's just so, like, it's so, I could cry. If I listened to the whole thing, I would probably start crying right now. - What'd you learn from Denzel? - Oh, God, I mean, he's just the best actor. And then I got to work with him again as an adult. We did "The Equalizer 3" together, which was really fun to get to work with him again. He's one of those people that you just hope you'll get to work with once. So working with him twice is, like, unbelievable. - Last song. ♪ Nobody should know where John called home ♪ - So this is Jimmy Dean, "Big Bad John." This is my grandfather. This is my grandfather, who, he passed away a couple of years ago. He sang this song so much growing up, and could really do the low voice, and he sounded, like, just like it. So when I hear this song, I think of him. And he really, he is Big John in this song. He would give up anything for his girls, so yeah, I know. We miss him, and we love him. But yeah, that song reminds me of him. - What's the latest? - I have a movie that's coming out in September. It's called "The Sun Never Sets." It's directed by Joe Swanberg. It's called "The Sun Never Sets" because we shot it in Alaska at a time where the sun truly does never set. - You also recently filmed a movie with your sister. - I did, not that long ago. - So, okay, whenever that's coming out, then that's when we'll do-- - Then that's when we'll do the combo. Yeah, "The Nightingale." March 19th, 2027. - So good to see you. - Great job, you crushed it. - Thank you, this was so fun. - Everyone, I mean, a story for your song, come on. - I'm so glad, I'm so glad. - I'm sweating. ♪ No ceilings, motherfucker, good morning ♪ ♪ Dick in your mouth, why you yawning ♪ ♪ I'm going in, girl, why they starting me ♪