Kelsea Ballerini & Arsenio Hall Bring Back "Greatest Hits"

Kelsea Ballerini & Arsenio Hall Bring Back "Greatest Hits"
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YH goes behind the scenes of ABC's "Greatest Hits" with hosts Arsenio Hall and Kelsea Ballerini, who explain the concept of the show and talk about some of the show's epic musical pairings, including the Backstreet Boys and Meghan Trainor! We also chat with performer Gallant about his duet with Seal, plus we catch up with mastermind Ken Ehrlich and find out how LL Cool J and Wiz Khalifa saved the day!
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Greatest hits. Greatest greatest hits, Greatest hits. I'm Oliver Trevena with Young Hollywood. Here with Arsenio Hall, Kelsea Ballerini, Greatest Hits. This is it. So tell us about the show for people that don't know about it.
So it's a six episode series and each episode represents five years from 1980 through 2005. And the biggest artists come in and either sing their hit or have someone collaborate with them or have someone come in and sing it for them. So we have collaborations like Bonnie Raitt and Andrew Day, Megan Trainer and Backstreet Boys, it's amazing.
Yeah pause just for a minute and talk about Backstreet Boys and Megan. We freaked out. I like Nick more than her, but I can't let it out. He loved Nick Carter. He was like, I love the Carter. I'm like, you're a Nick fan are you?
Yes, I'm a Carter fan.
I would have gone Kevin. Kevin, I'd go with when I am choosing a basketball team. Kevin's a good power forward. Okay. I got you. In the music world.
See now we're talking basketball and we lost her.
You lost her.
Well to be honest, you totally lost me as well. I kick the ball. I don't bounce it. I'm here with this man, Gilat and this guy is with Seal tonight. Absolutely. Which is incredible.
Oh yeah, I'm really really honored and humbled. He can sing. He can really sing. Like legitimately sing.
And it's not your first time. We were just saying you were at Coachella.
Yeah, yeah, we performed at Coachella. We did crazy and then we did my song written gold. I couldn't be more honored to to be here with them again tonight.
Amazing. And you're singing crazy tonight. You're singing crazy tonight, yeah. Amazing. Which which I just heard came out the year you were born.
Yeah. Which is crazy. Which is yeah, it's insane. Yeah.
Yeah. 91 was a good year.
This is true. This is true. And the show itself is bringing in, you know, back the hits from the 80s, 90s and and 2000s. Um do you have a greatest personal hit of yours?
I honestly really love Kiss From a Rose. Okay. Um I think that's an incredible song that is its own thing. It's not defined by genre. It's not locked down by time and it's going to live on for many, many, many decades.
I love that. Now you're singing obviously Seal's song. If you were to go karaoke this weekend, what's your go to song? What would you sing?
Oh man. I hate karaoke.
You do? Yeah. Well if you're gonna sing anyone's song. Oh, you have to. If I dragged you there, you'll be singing. You'll have no choice.
Oh man. You know, I would do a Disney song. Why not? Aladdin, A Whole New World. Yeah. Why not? Yeah.
I love that. All right. We'll go this weekend and we'll past. Okay, we're done. Okay. Have you heard the duets that have happened on this show so far?
Yeah, I have a little bit, yeah.
Anyone specific that you're excited about?
Um, well, I mean, I love Andrea Day. Yeah, she was working with Bonnie Raitt, so that's gonna be incredible. Backstreet Boys and Megan Trainer. Oh yeah, that's going to go on. That's gonna go off. It's gonna be fine. Gonna be lots of dancing, I think.
Oh yeah. I think so. In that one. In that one. Excited that you're here. You're you're everywhere right now blowing up, so uh I'm excited to see what the future holds.
Yeah, we'll be doing a show in 20 years and people will be saying Gilat's greatest hits. Oh man. That would be incredible.
How's this going? Because you're new to the hosting world. Yes. This guy isn't. Have you been giving tips?
You know what? We help each other. It's just an energy that you have to have with someone which is what I've learned and luckily like we hit it off and we just kind of goof off the whole time which has been super fun.
You can't fake chemistry. You can't. I've tried it. I've tried it. It doesn't work.
Doesn't work.
Tried it many times. Yeah. No, it wasn't.
Why are you putting that out there? It wasn't. Never.
That was a joke. That was a joke. That didn't happen. You knew her for two days. That was a date. It wasn't. He was there. It was Vegas. It was just weird. It was strange. It was strange. You told me you wouldn't say anything.
This is what it's like on stage.
I bet. The chemistry is amazing.
Chemistry is amazing.
Um and you quickly told me something about last night. Someone pulled out and someone replaced. I want to talk about the pull out. We won't mention that. That's always. Yeah. Yeah. Oh.
We're in a situation where we had an opening on the show because someone got sick. And then Ken comes in and says, LL Cool J and Wiz Khalifa are on their way. You talk about a superhero. Look at that. I'm here with the man behind the greatness, Ken Lick. This is amazing production. Amazing show. Especially for music lovers. It really is a music show. The competition element is minimal if at all but whatever age you are, anywhere between 15 and 55, you're going to know these songs. It's wonderful to see It really is, you know, it's a cliché, but it's this family of music. I'm excited. I'm actually putting my feet in stilettos. They want to move. They want to move. I'm excited. Yeah. Yeah.
This really is a show that just appeals to everyone any age. Just music lovers. I love doing the duets. I love doing these combinations. They're pretty magical and you can see the love that the younger artist has for those artists that came before. There's amazing duets. There's people performing.
If you guys could put two people on a stage. I want Lenny Kravitz playing the guitar licks on Beat It while Jason Derulo does Beat It. There you go. She didn't like my choice. See.
You must have made such a list for Santa as a child as well.
Oh yeah, I have Deliver your presents. I want this. I want freedom, Santa. I want freedom. The coolest thing that happened since we've been here and I was hoping it would happen, but I didn't quite know. Okay. She performed. You did perform.
Yeah, I got to perform.
With someone?
I didn't. I honored three of my favorites. Her all the personalities. Yeah. Yeah. I did Britney Spears, Shania Twain and Maroon 5. And it was my first performance with dancers and like I know we're like a sparkly bodysuit. Oh yeah. And the Shania hat for man. I feel like a woman video. Yeah. So it was like totally new for me.
I used to reenact that video when I was a kid. The man I feel like a woman. It says a lot about me. Probably why I'm single. Let's wrap this up. Let's wrap this up. Let's wrap this up. Greatest Hits. Greatest host. Greatest hits. See there. ABC Thursday nights. Greatest hits. Greatest greatest hits. Greatest hits. We out.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Arsenio Hall
Host of 'Greatest Hits'
- Kelsea Ballerini
Host of 'Greatest Hits' and performer
- Oliver Trevena
Interviewer for Young Hollywood
- Backstreet Boys
Featured artists in a collaboration with Meghan Trainor
- Meghan Trainor
Featured artist in a collaboration with Backstreet Boys
- Nick Carter
Member of Backstreet Boys mentioned by Arsenio Hall
- Gallant
Performer who duets with Seal
- Seal
Artist who duets with Gallant
- Bonnie Raitt
Featured artist in a collaboration with Andra Day
- Andra Day
Featured artist in a collaboration with Bonnie Raitt
- Ken Ehrlich
Mastermind/executive producer of 'Greatest Hits'
- LL Cool J
Saved the day by performing when someone fell sick
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