Twenty Seven
March 3, 2017 – Singing Challenge ft. Pepper and MJ
"Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel." Tony smiled into the camera and then looked away at the other people in the room. "I have Peter with me today and we actually have no idea what is going on in this episode. I have Pepper here and Peter has his friend, MJ. So, ladies…you want to tell us what this is about?" Tony asked as the camera switched to the two females, who were standing with their arms crossed.
"Well, we're sick of the two of you thinking you know the most about music so Michelle and I devised a true test so you guys will stop fighting all the time about who knows more about music."
"Uh…" Tony trailed off. "It's obviously me…I mean, I have been alive longer…"
Peter scoffed.
MJ smirked.
"We shall see, then huh. So, we have four decades: the 80's, 90's, 00's and from 2010-2016. You have to name the song name and the artist. Two points per song. You ready?"
"Bring it on!" Tony smiled.
"Yeah!" Peter cheered.
Pepper handed them each a whiteboard and a marker.
"Here's the first song." MJ pressed a button on her phone.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Ooh, ooh, oh.
Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby."
Peter immediately started scribbling, while Tony was thinking. He started writing and was having a hard time thinking of the artist.
"Let's see." Pepper said.
Peter turned his over and Tony was shocked to see the correct song.
"Correct, Peter!" Pepper smiled. "It is Don't You (Forget About Me) but you got the artist wrong. It was not by a-ha but by Simple Minds. Tony, you got the song right as well…but not the artist."
"How the hell do you know that song?"
"I know things!" Peter protested.
"But that song specifically…How."
"The Breakfast Club." Peter shrugged.
"You watched The Breakfast Club?" Tony asked incredulously.
"Well, Aunt May made me watch it."
"Of course."
"Bonus points if you get the next lyric right. We will pick this for random songs. This is the first one. Write it down."
Peter started scribbling it down and Tony was struggling.
"Alright. Let's see."
Peter wrote: Tell me your troubles and doubts.
Tony wrote: Don't you forget about me.
"Point goes to Peter." MJ smirked.
"What?!" Tony looked at Peter.
Peter shrugged.
"Okay, next 80's song." MJ said as she pressed a button.
"She was a fast machine she kept her motor clean
She was the best damn woman that I ever seen
She had the sightless eyes telling me no lies."
The music cut off suddenly, stopping Tony's dancing. He knew the song immediately.
ACDC, Shook Me All Night Long.
Peter was scribbling.
His board was revealed, when prompted.
"Wrong, Peter."
"WHAT?" Tony exclaimed.
"What?" Peter asked defensively. Tony looked at his board.
"Queen?!" Tony asked, aghast. "What the hell, Pete?"
"Well, they're like so similar sounding."
Tony made a choking noise.
"No. No. No. No, god, no. I can't believe what I am hearing."
Peter rolled his eyes. "You're so dramatic, Mr. Stark."
"Oh, no. You, mister, are having a rock education." Tony pointed at him.
"Oh, goody." Peter deadpanned.
"Okay, Peter, Tony, you're tied. 3-3. Next song." Pepper announced.
"I don't give a damn about my reputation
You're living in a past generation,
A girl can do you what she wanna do
And that's what I'm gonna do."
Peter immediately scribbled down an answer, Tony mirroring his actions.
They flipped over their boards.
"Great. You both got it. Bad Reputation by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts."
"How do you know Joan Jett?" Tony asked, incredulously.
"She's a feminist icon."
Tony pointed at MJ.
"I blame you."
She smirked.
Tony had a bad feeling about this "game." He thinks he might have been set up.
"Next." Pepper said as she marked the points on her tablet.
"Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality."
Peter started scribbling and Tony raced to keep up with the younger.
"3, 2, 1!" Peter and Tony revealed their boards. "Full points again! Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen."
Tony groaned and Peter beamed, ignoring him.
"Onto the 90's." Tony frowned. He spent most of the 90's drunk and it's a haze. But Peter wasn't even born in the 90's so maybe he would have a harder time with these.
"Oh baby baby
Oh baby baby
Oh baby baby
How was I supposed to know
That something wasn't right here."
Peter wrote even quicker and Tony sighed.
"Wasn't that in 2000?" Tony complained.
"No, it was in 1998." MJ smirked. Tony huffed.
"Fine." He scribbled the song title and artist. The artist he was damn sure.
"Tony, 1 point, Peter, two points."
"What?!" Tony yelped.
"It is not Oops, I Did It Again, it's Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britney Spears."
"Whatever." Tony grumbled as he wiped his board off. "This was before your time anyway." He snarked at Peter.
"She's an icon." Peter snarked back.
"Yeah
You are my fire
The one desire
Believe, when I say
I want it that way."
Peter immediately scribbled down an answer on the whiteboard, Tony sighing audibly.
"Tony?"
"God, these boy bands. They're all the same."
Peter made a choking sound.
Tony turned to Peter.
"I can't even with you right now." Peter put up a hand.
Tony scoffed.
Pepper and MJ rolled their eyes.
"Well, Peter gets full points, and Tony gets one for saying N*Sync. This was I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys."
"It isn't?" Tony rubbed his chin. "This was the one with Justin Timberlake right?"
"No, Backstreet Boys." Peter answered. "AJ, Kevin, Brian, Nick and Howie."
"I don't know any of them." Tony rolled his shoulders. "This next one I will get."
"I wanna take a minute or two, and give much respect due
To the man that's made a difference in my world
And although most men are ho's he flows on the down low
'Cause I never heard about him with another girl
But I don't sweat it because it's just pathetic."
Peter was tapping the marker against his lips in thought and Tony was scratching his head.
"Oh!" Peter said suddenly, the marker moving quickly. Tony sighed.
"Good job, Peter. It is Whatta Man by Salt-N-Pepa, good job. Tony, you wrote a question mark, so obviously not correct."
"Obviously." Tony said sassily.
"No, I don't want your number (no)
I don't want to give you mine and (no)
I don't want to meet you nowhere (no)
Don't want none of your time and."
"Ooh!" Peter said as he wrote across the board quickly, Tony following quickly.
"Okay, let's see. Good, Peter. Full marks and Tony you got it right too. No Scrubs by TLC."
"So the total at the end of 90's era is nine to Tony and eleven to Peter."
"I will destroy you." Tony said.
"I don't think so." Peter stuck his tongue out at him.
"Got every man in here wishin'
Sippin' on Coke and rum (rum)
I'm like, "So what? I'm drunk" (drunk)
It's the freakin' weekend
Baby, I'm about to have me some fun (fun)."
Tony listened but then realized, he didn't really listen to the pop hitlist after 1995. So, Peter was almost guaranteed to win, he sighed. It was a blow to his ego. But he wasn't about to throw a tantrum in front of Peter.
"Good job, Peter. Full marks. Tony, you got half of it with R. Kelly. The title was Ignition (Remix)."
"You ready?
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no."
Peter raced to write the song.
"Good job, Peter, Tony, full marks. It is Crazy in Love by Beyoncé."
"Queen Bey!" Peter cheered, making MJ smile.
"I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas, please
Fold 'em, let 'em, hit me, raise it, baby, stay with me (I love it)
Love game intuition play the cards with Spades to start
And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart."
Peter scribbled on his board and Tony was following behind.
"Great job, Peter. Full marks, Tony it was Lady Gaga's Poker Face not Alejandro."
"Eh."
"That sounds completely different and is in a completely different Lady Gaga era." Peter pointed out.
"Well, I don't really like her."
Peter fake gasped.
"How dare you."
Tony smirked.
"Anyways, next song." Pepper cleared her throat.
"Saturday morning jumped out of bed
And put on my best suit
Got in my car and raced like a jet
All the way to you
Knocked on your door with heart in my hand."
"Okay… 3, 2, 1!" Tony and Peter flipped their boards. "Wow, Peter, one point and Tony zero. It's Rude by Magic! Okay, Michelle, next. Only two left."
"This one is for the boys with the booming system
Top down, AC with the cooling system
When he come up in the club, he be blazin' up
Got stacks on deck like he savin' up."
"Oh, I know!" Peter said, excited. Tony looked at him out of the corner of his eye.
"You listen to rap?"
"Yes." MJ rolls her eyes. "He has a varied music repertoire. Duh."
"Uh huh… Sorry to insult your boyfriend or whatever."
"He's not my boyfriend."
"I'm not her boyfriend." Peter and MJ said at the same time.
"So what's the deal with the two of you?" Tony asked rudely.
"Excuse you, just because you can't be friends with girls without sleeping with them, doesn't mean that all guys are like that." She tossed her hair behind her.
"Anyways! Reveal your boards." They obediently turn over their boards. "Full marks Peter, Tony no points. I don't listen to that garbage is not the answer."
"GARBAGE?" Peter asked aghast.
"Yes, garbage."
"Nicki Minaj is a queen and her Super Bass song is a bop. I can't even believe this." Peter threw up his hands.
"Alright, one more."
"Come on, come on, turn the radio on
It's Friday night and it won't be long
Gotta do my hair, put my make-up on
It's Friday night and it won't be long."
Peter scribbled on his board. Tony stroked his chin in thought. He definitely recognized the beat. Sia maybe?
"Okay, reveal your boards." They flipped them over. "Full points, Peter, Tony half points it is called Cheap Thrills by Sia not Have No Fun. Peter wins!"
"Okay, he cheated!" Tony pointed at Peter.
"Uh, how?" Peter got to his feet too, putting his hands on his hips.
"Be-because!" Tony hesitated.
"Just because you're staying isolated in the 1980's music scene while the rest of the world has moved on!"
"That is so not true!" Tony bit back.
"It so is! You wouldn't know recent music if it bit you on the…"
"Peter!" Pepper admonished.
"What! It's true."
"No, it so isn't."
"Name one One Direction song." Peter crossed his arms.
"Uh…You're Beautiful?"
"Ugh!" He threw up his arms. "Their most popular song, it's What Makes You Beautiful!" He stormed away.
"Well, you wouldn't know good music if it bit you on the…"
"Tony!"
"Behind!" He yelled off camera.
They kept arguing, while MJ and Pepper rolled their eyes.
"Well, see y'all later!" Pepper waved.
MJ flashed a peace sign.
These young kids not knowing Queen or ACDC is sad.
OMG the fight at the end…DEAD.
These songs making me nostalgic. Bout to binge them.
I guessed all of them from the lyrics! Win!
I was surprised that Peter knew as much as he did.
Go Peter!
I stan their father son relationship so much.