Tag Archives: Beyonce

03.31.24
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Easter Eggs

This Easter, my brain feels split in two: with one part warbling In your Easter bonnetttt a la Judy in Easter Parade, and the other part researching the Easter eggs in Beyonce’s newest album Cowboy Carter (hello Dolly! hey Willy! Wait, is that a Beach Boys sampling??).

Either way, finding my way through this pop culture landscape has me tired and weary. I don’t know how to feel about anything… and you know it’s hopeless when I waffle back and forth on Sarah Sherman’s latest Weekend Update foray as Central Park’s beloved owl Flaco’s grieving widow (say that five times fast). Here it is for you to ponder as well:

OK it is pretty funny, but also who? Anyway, the Chair will be back next week, Beyonce and Judy still in tow, and new pop culture and politics to consider and reconsider. Or we just give it all up like Lizzo (what is THAT about?). Till then…

02.12.23
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Supersized Sunday

You didn’t think we would compete against Super Bowl Sunday and the post mortem analysis during the subsequent week, did you?

Some of you might be unpacking the game (Note: Who’s playing again?) but many of you will be ragging on or obsessed with the commercials.  Though can anything beat the late Betty White in her 2010 Snickers ad?  I don’t think so. 

That’s why if and when we tune in or unpack, it’ll be only be about the….

HALF-TIME SHOW!!

Yes girl!

Yes, Rihanna’s great.  And surely there will be at least one umbrella to be had on the stadium field.

However, when memorable half-time shows come to mind how can anything ever top the purple one himself  –

PRINCE. 

Dearly beloved…

In 2007, he literally sang Purple Rain in the pouring purple rain and mesmerized an old curmudgeonly football agnostic like myself into literal applause he couldn’t hear at the end of his set.

Springsteen, Gaga, Beyoncé, Bruno Mars – they were all appropriately hot and cool.  But Prince gets the GOAT crown for his musicianship, his performance chops, his songs and his sheer otherworldly Prince-liness.

Have another look before, after or in-between beers/jello shots/wings/chips and ________________.

And Go ___________________________________!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NN3gsSf-Ys