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In her first music video, filmed in a courtroom, she wore a hot pink pantsuit and crooned: “Good morning, judge, please give me the floor. I have come to defend a broken heart.”

Many had their eyes closed or a hand on their heart as they swayed and crooned back at Joel.

“The stigma and misconception that people who wear wigs don’t have long and healthy hair. That’s some b—,” she crooned, “because it ain’t nobody business.”

Sanchez crooned the slow opening to one of the band’s most crowd-pleasing songs, “Kill Your Lawn,” speeding his delivery to squeeze the increasingly complicated lyrics into the meter:

"My un-American life," Beyoncé had crooned in the opener in Act I of her "Renaissance" project.