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Will Ferrell lip-synced ‘Drunk in Love’ on Jimmy Fallon. It’s spectacular and horrifying.

Alex Abad-Santos is a senior correspondent who explains what society obsesses over, from Marvel and movies to fitness and skin care. He came to Vox in 2014. Prior to that, he worked at the Atlantic.

One of the cornerstones of Jimmy Fallon's run on the Tonight Show has been the lip-sync battles. Celebrities choose their songs and craft evocative performances to them. Emma StoneJoseph Gordon-Levitt, and John Krasinski have all elevated the art of lip-syncing.

On Sunday night, it was Will Ferrell's and Kevin Hart's turn to take the stage. Ferrell dominated the night, performing a sensuous, grinding take (that none one really asked for) on Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love":

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Seeing a grown man that large move like that and mouth those words hits at a weird emotional space between alarming and hypnotizing. Fallon and Hart reportedly lip-synced some songs too, like "Since U Been Gone":

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But the night belonged to Ferrell, who chose "Let It Go" as his second song:

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And the world was never the same again.