--- title: Music: Black Simon and Garfunkel Cover Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' description: The duo did bring their black turtleneck canonical: https://time.com/3917929/black-simon-garfunkel-bad-blood/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-11T16:13:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:08:06.910Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Black Simon and Garfunkel Cover Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' og:description: The 'Tonight Show' duo did bring their black turtleneck og:url: https://time.com/3917929/black-simon-garfunkel-bad-blood/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Black Simon and Garfunkel Cover Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' twitter:description: The 'Tonight Show' duo did bring their black turtleneck twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Black Simon and Garfunkel Cover Taylor Swift on _The Tonight Show_ by [Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly Jun 11, 2015 4:13 PM UTC by [Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly Jun 11, 2015 4:13 PM UTC Black Simon and Garfunkel appeared on last night’s _Tonight Show_ for their latest folkie cover of a pop hit. This time the parody duo—aka The Roots’ Questlove and “Captain” Kirk Douglas—brought their black turtleneck comedy to Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” complete with choreographed head turns and a coda of the “lai-la-lai” from the real Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer.” All in an evening’s work for the two members of the Roots, who have performed hits like “[Royals](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/03/13/black-simon-garfunkel-lorde-royals)” and “[Roar](http://www.ew.com/article/2013/09/19/black-simon-and-garfunkel-katy-perry-roar)” since Fallon’s _Late Night_ days. Check out the clip below. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/11/black-simon-garfunkel-bad-blood-tonight-show) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3917929/black-simon-garfunkel-bad-blood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3917929/black-simon-garfunkel-bad-blood/"},"headline":"Watch Black Simon and Garfunkel Cover Taylor Swift on The Tonight Show","datePublished":"2015-06-11T16:13:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:08:06.910Z","description":"The duo did bring their black turtleneck","url":"https://time.com/3917929/black-simon-garfunkel-bad-blood/","keywords":["Television","Music","Taylor Swift","Late Night Television","bad blood"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3917929/black-simon-garfunkel-bad-blood/","name":"Watch Black Simon and Garfunkel Cover Taylor Swift on The Tonight Show"}}]}] ```