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Watch Kelly Clarkson cover “Banana Boat (Day-O)” as Beetlejuice
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Watch Kelly Clarkson cover “Banana Boat (Day-O)” as Beetlejuice

Well, this Kellyoke cover just hit our millennium.

Kelly Clarkson transformed for an extra app on Thursdaypeel-ling performance of Harry Belafonte’s “Banana Boat (Day-O).” The host – dressed in the character’s signature striped suit with waxy green hair and slime-covered teeth – opened the Halloween episode of her talk show resting in a grave before slowly rising from the ground as she sang along to the 1956 song.

And it turns out Clarkson wasn’t the only one devoted to this piece. Her house band, Y’all, also dressed up as several characters from both ’88s Beetle juice and this year’s sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceincluding Adam Maitland, ghost detective Wolf Jackson, Bob, a deceased football player, and Lydia Deetz.

Kelly Clarkson as Beetlejuice on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’.

The Kelly Clarkson Show


The group even paid tribute to the “Banana Boat (Day-O)” scene from the original film during their performance, with the band similarly possessed by a collection of mischievous spirits that made them all jerkily dance to the song at the same time.

Clarkson also did her best to evoke Michael Keaton’s breathy Beetlejuice tone as she spoke, turning to bandmate Jessi Collins, who was dressed as Lydia, and asking, “Hey, do you come here often?”

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After the performance, Clarkson welcomed and confirmed viewers to the show Beetle juice theme expanded to much more than just their opening song. “It’s showtime,” she began. “Happy Halloween. Welcome to The Kelly Clarkson Show. And today, if you couldn’t guess, it’s all about us Beetle juice. Don’t mention it.”

‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ pays tribute to ‘Beetlejuice’ on Halloween.

The Kelly Clarkson Show


Clarkson added that the show completely converted the entire stage into the model city from the Maitlands’ attic, complete with an expansive graveyard, a sandworm, the corridor to the afterlife offices, Bob’s office, and even a copy had the “Handbook for the Recently Deceased” at the ready.

Clarkson is one of, appropriately, three talk show hosts who decided to dress up as the bio-exorcist on television this year for Halloween. Al Roker and Mark Consuelos similarly wore the character’s striped suit Today And Live with Kelly and Markrespectively.

Speak with Entertainment weekly earlier this summer, Catherine O’Hara described the making of the supernatural scene in the beloved Tim Burton classic. “There was a man, a crew member, sitting under each of our place settings under the table wearing a shrimp glove, sitting on the shrimp cocktail platter until the moment they were going to attack our faces,” she explained. “They would get a signal, and because we’re human, there would be a little delay or a signal would be skipped. So you never quite knew when it would happen, even if it was So pleasure. It made it really scary.

She continued, “I think we worked on it for a few days, all day. And we all added movements. We had a choreographer, but we all had to add our stupid moves. When you record, you can sort of tell, but you can’t tell… The idea was great and the song is so great, but the way it was put together, I had no idea it was so would be fun, powerful and memorable. “

Watch Clarkson sing “Banana Boat (Day-O)” in the clip above.