Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Fallon Sing 'Whip My Hair' as a Neil Young Song

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Bruce Springsteen appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to promote his new, amazing-sounding CD-DVD set, The Promise, a retrospective on his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. But the best moment in the show came when he and Fallon performed "Whip My Hair," a one-month-old song by ten-year-old pop star (and daughter of Will Smith) Willow Smith. The two re-imagined the catchy hit as a mournful, angsty Neil Young song, which was both hilarious and strangely moving:



So you can fully appreciate the makeover Springsteen and Fallon gave "Whip My Hair," here's the original Willow Smith version:



Watch the entire episode at the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon website.

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She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.

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