Watch This 12-Year-Old Singer Pour Her Heart Into Lady Gaga’s ‘Rain on Me’ on ‘America’s Got Talent’

It takes a lot of guts to take on two of the best singers in pop. But 12-year-old Annie Jones seemed undaunted and ready to let it rip on Tuesday night’s (Aug. 25) American’s Got Talent, where she put her own sassy spin on the smash Lady Gaga/Ariana Grande single “Rain on Me,” switching up the arrangement to make it her own.

Opening the track as a slowed-down piano ballad, the confident tween crooned the song’s first verse with a dose of precocious soul, before the tempo picked up and a finger-snapping beat kicked in as Jones worked a stage lit up with glitchy images of a VHS tape on a loop.

With socially-distanced judges Howie Mandel, Sofia Vergara and Heidi Klum looking on — chief adjudicator Simon Cowell was still absent following his recent bike crash — Jones displayed poise and vocal chops well beyond her years.

Klum said she thought Gaga and Grande would probably be very proud of the Australian singer for taking on their difficult song and Vergara praised her for looking “so comfortable” on the big AGT stage.

Gaga and Grande are expected to perform the song themselves at the MTV VMA’s on Sunday (Aug. 30).

A bonus AGT episode will air on Wednesday night (Aug. 26) and the last quarterfinal will air on Sept. 1.

Watch Jones’ performance below.

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