“Blinded by the Mic” might just be one of the best games ever played on The Tonight Show, and even the audience participated as they screamed instructions to its two blindfolded participants.
Kate Hudson, who stars as a musician in the 2025 biopic Song Sung Blue, joined Jimmy Fallon for a few rounds of chaos on December 10. And the competition got intense.
Roots vocalist Tariq Trotter explained that the point of the game is to listen to lyrics spoken out loud, identify the song, and find a microphone to sing that song first. The catch is that the microphones are in random places at varying heights … and Hudson and Fallon are blindfolded.
The fact that they can’t see makes the fight for the mics both subdued and extra hilarious, especially when the first song is “Golden,” from KPop Demon Hunters.
Hudson knew it immediately but ended up frozen in place, mumbling words like “golden” and “moment” under her breath. Fallon lurched forward like a toddler and just so happened to run into the shortest microphone stand, winning round one.
“This is so hard!” Hudson cried. “I knew it, and then I didn’t know…By the way, my daughter’s gonna kill me.”
Kate Hudson didn’t want to disappoint daughter Rani after messing up her first song
She may have fumbled the bag on “Golden,” but she was ready for round two.
“Oh god, this is so much fun,” she said as she put her blindfold on. “Can we do this, like, for hours?”
From the moment Trotter said, “Piano man takes a stand,” Hudson was on her way to a mic, soon belting Elton John’s lyrics, “Hold me closer, tiny dancer.”
For the final round, the game paid tribute to Hudson’s Song Sung Blue role as a Neil Diamond tribute artist with “Sweet Caroline.” It was a true tortoise-only race to the sole remaining mic, as the crowd tried to assist, making things even funnier.
In the movie, Hudson plays Claire Sardina, one half of the band Lighting & Thunder. Hugh Jackman plays Mike Sardina, her counterpart. Together, they perform Neil Diamond covers, and the film is based on a 2008 documentary of the same title that chronicled the somewhat tragic love story of the two singers in the 1990s.