Testing Dakota Fanning's Music Knowledge

What's up? >> What's up? I'm so excited. I'm nervous though. >> Before we start with the music, introduce yourself.

>> Hi, I am Dakota Fanning. >> I got a mix of songs for you. >> I'm so excited >> that I don't know. Maybe >> I wonder if I'm as nervous as L. I don't know.

I don't think I'm as nervous as L. >> So, here's what we're going to do. You're going to do this and then at some point in the future, >> we'll do two headto head. >> Yes.

>> Who would win? >> Um, >> big sister always wins. >> She might just get too nervous and like forget. >> She's getting too excited. get too excited and be like, "I don't know." And

you're like, "Yeah, you do." And she's like, "Oh, yeah. It's that, right?" And you're like, "Yeah, >> here you go. All you got to do is tell me who the artist is." >> This is the Beach Boys. >> Says Little Deuce Coupe.

>> Yes. >> My story about Little Deuce Coupe is in War of the Worlds. Tom Cruz sings Little Deuce Coupe to me. >> I'm not bragging, babe.

So don't put me down cuz I got the fastest set of wheels in town. something comes up to me, they don't even try. >> What is something that uh you learned about performing from Tom Cruz?

>> He's like made it his mission to give every single thing that he has to making movies and making them groundbreaking and exciting and different. I mean, I was lucky. I got to work with a lot of people very

early on that really taught me that doing a movie is like, you know, there's premieres and things and you get dressed up and I think people get like think it's a very glamorous experience. It's the reality of, you know, making a TV series

or a movie is deeply unglamorous. You know, it's really not glamorous. You know, you're often very cold and having to wear summer clothes or you're like really hot and it's supposed to be winter and like you know, you go to

kind of random like it's long days, all that stuff. So, you have to really, really, really love it to be able to give it your all and yeah, to keep to keep wanting to do it. So, I just really love it.

>> Song number two. Okay. >> Yeah. This is The Runaways. This is Cherry Bomb.

I played Sheree Curry in the movie The Runaways and sang and recorded and performed a lot of the songs. >> I'm the you daddy. Hello. >> Kristen Stewart played Joan Jet.

She's one of my closest friends to this day. Sheree Curry. She had a mic trick where she had the microphone with the the long cord and she had a whole trick where she would swing it and wrap it around

her leg and catch it in time to like sing this part of the song. So I had to learn how to do that. Had to learn all of these songs. Sheree was there on set a lot.

Joan Jet was there a lot. Not not intimidating. >> Yeah, I was going to say like >> it was one of the most fun experiences. It almost feels like a summer camp that we all