--- title: Megan Thee Stallion, Jimmy Fallon Welcome Hot Girl Fall description: Megan Thee Stallion and late night host Jimmy Fallon make a case for Hot Girl Fall in a music video that features pumpkin rides and plaid. canonical: https://time.com/5684826/hot-girl-fall/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-24T15:23:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:24.644Z og:title: Megan Thee Stallion, Jimmy Fallon Welcome Hot Girl Fall and Nothing Is Cooling Off og:description: Meet your new fall anthem og:url: https://time.com/5684826/hot-girl-fall/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ef855aec4dcfe18/698a035cb21a9c12af5026a0/megan-thee-stallion-jimmy-fallon-hot-girl-fall.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 7 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Megan Thee Stallion, Jimmy Fallon Welcome Hot Girl Fall and Nothing Is Cooling Off twitter:description: Meet your new fall anthem twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ef855aec4dcfe18/698a035cb21a9c12af5026a0/megan-thee-stallion-jimmy-fallon-hot-girl-fall.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # It's the Season to Get Lit on a Hayride as Megan Thee Stallion and Jimmy Fallon Usher in Autumn With Hot Girl Fall > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 24, 2019 3:23 PM UTC  THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 1124 -- Pictured: (l-r) Host Jimmy Fallon and Megan Thee Stallion during "Hot Girl Fall" on September 23, 2019 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 1124 -- Pictured: (l-r) Host Jimmy Fallon and Megan Thee Stallion during "Hot Girl Fall" on September 23, 2019 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 24, 2019 3:23 PM UTC While [“Hot Girl Summer”](https://time.com/5632924/hot-girl-summer-meme-explained/) was the ubiquitous phrase of the summer, don’t think for a minute that since autumn is here, the hot girl movement is cooling down. Quite the contrary, in fact — at least according to rapper [Megan Thee Stallion](https://time.com/5648188/lizzo-megan-thee-stallion-hot-girl-summer-video/), the creator of Hot Girl Summer, and [Jimmy Fallon](https://time.com/5675674/kim-kardashian-on-jimmy-fallon/), who made the hilarious case for “Hot Girl Fall” during Megan’s appearance on the late night show on Monday, the first official day of fall. In the clip, Megan and Fallon drop bars about how to have the best Hot Girl Fall, including getting “lit as hell on the hayride” and “getting cozy with a pumpkin–ss beer.” “Ladies, listen up,” Megan raps at the beginning of the song. “We had our hot girl summer and whoo did we kill it. But now it’s getting a little chilly outside. Well, I’m here to tell you that the weather may be getting cooler, but we’re just heating up.” The track, a spoof on the wildly popular Hot Girl Summer movement and the eponymous song it inspired, provided the perfect soundtrack for Megan and Fallon to enjoy lots of fun fall activities, like sporting matching orange velour sweatsuits, eating turkey, and wearing matching vests with [Megan’s dog, 4o](https://www.instagram.com/p/B1H4DRfBb57/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed&utm%5Fcampaign=dlfix)e. 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