--- --- # Jimmy Fallon and Amy Adams Had an Absolutely Magical Sing-Off by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 11, 2016 3:59 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 11, 2016 3:59 PM UTC In her new movie [_Arrival_](http://time.com/4475748/arrival-movie-review-denis-villeneuve/?iid=sr-link1), Amy Adams plays a communication specialist translating messages from possible alien lifeforms, so it was only fitting that when she stopped by _The Tonight Show_ on Thursday she had to try to interpret a mysterious transmission. Jimmy Fallon challenged Adams to a round of his game the Whisper Challenge. [Adams](http://time.com/4565975/amy-adams-arrival/?iid=sr-link8) was asked to put on headphones blasting music while Fallon sang a song. Her job was to figure out what song lyrics he was singing by reading his lips. As Fallon sang the words to Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger”, Adams guessed, “Something… for fashion?” Fallon proved to be just as awful at the game. When Adams sang the Bangles’ “Walk like an Egyptian”, Fallon guessed: “Rolling like a chick machine?” Hopefully [Adams’s character](http://time.com/4454459/arrival-movie-trailer-amy-adams/?iid=sr-link2) in _Arrival_is ideally more skillful when it comes to interpreting muddled communications. Watch the full clip above. Watch Jimmy Fallon and Amy Adams Whisper Song Video, Arrival ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4567916/jimmy-fallon-and-amy-adams-had-an-absolutely-magical-sing-off/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4567916/jimmy-fallon-and-amy-adams-had-an-absolutely-magical-sing-off/"},"headline":"Jimmy Fallon and Amy Adams Had an Absolutely Magical Sing-Off","datePublished":"2016-11-11T15:59:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:37.998Z","description":"The Tonight Show’s Whisper Challenge has never been more magical","url":"https://time.com/4567916/jimmy-fallon-and-amy-adams-had-an-absolutely-magical-sing-off/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","amy adams"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4567916/jimmy-fallon-and-amy-adams-had-an-absolutely-magical-sing-off/","name":"Jimmy Fallon and Amy Adams Had an Absolutely Magical Sing-Off"}}]}] ```