Not to incite a stan war or anything (HAHA, I WOULD LOVE THAT), but the practice of female singers being asked to comment on their peers (or taking it upon themselves to do so) is endlessly fascinating. (Is it sexist to play women off of each other? It it bitchy for women to take the bait? Is it sexist to think that they're bitchy?) So here are a bunch of clips of divas talking about divas. I gave myself an organizational rule when assembling this: The person speaking in each clip must have been talked about in the preceding clip.
But for real, it was progressive of Hanna-Barbera to allow Judy Jetson to be this promiscuous without facing shaming or derision. Maybe it's regrettable that dudes are all she was into, but whatever. She's a cartoon not a role model!
Also, she seems to have a taste for gay men, which is also kind of progressive.
Mariah Carey was on HSN for eight hours yesterday. She declared her love for what she was selling, Italy, pools, meet and greets and everybody several times over. Here are most of those instances.
My favorite thing about this is how disaffected she sounds throughout, which is typical of her speaking voice, I guess, but not her decidedly affected musical persona. She's serving more vision of blah here.
For the past three years, on the first business day after July 4, I've posted an "I'm not here to make friends" montage (the first attempted to span the history of the phrase, while 2009's and 2010's revisited the year in people saying, "I'm not here to make friends," and variations of it on reality TV). For this year's video, I thought I'd mix it up by presenting OTHER reasons why people declare that they are on reality TV. I think what it mostly boils down to is that they're there to compulsively state why they're there. This "I'm Here/Not Here To..." montage is nothing but a string of declarations of dependence.
You know how contestants on American Idol are always doing that thing where they go for the big finish by singing the title of whatever song they're performing at its end? Of course you do.
Now you know it even better.
This is just from this season, and these are just highlights, by the way. I left a few of the more melismatic (thus slower-moving) examples on the cutting-room desktop. I assume one of these spanning all 10 seasons would have to run for about a half an hour to really convey just how overused the end-on-the-title device is. Whatever. Overuse or not, it always makes me laugh. Worth it!
Probably won't do this every year a la "I'm not here to make friends," but to celebrate (or something) last night's Celebrity Apprentice finale, I cut together even more instances of people saying some variation of "thrown under the bus" than were included in last year's season-specific clip reel (which has gone down, actually). The one above spans all four Celebrity seasons of the show, so get ready for at least four times the annoyance!
I know it's not exactly politically correct to admit to watching this product of Trump, but like I said after the premiere: I couldn't help myself.
I don't believe that Marcia Griffiths' "Electric Boogie" and/or its accompanying dance, the Electric Slide, have been properly mocked in pop culture. While the above montage of many different people found on YouTube performing the fast-singing part of the song (whose lyrics may or may not be, "Jiggle-a-mesa-cara / She's a pumpin' like a matic / She's a movin' like electric / She sure got the boogie!") does not remedy the problem, at least it is a start.
For the past few days, I've been doing pre-holidays visiting at my mom's house. This house is a work-void. Things that normally would take me hours take me days. Hence, the light posting. Please accept this supercut of Mariah Carey saying the word "festive" over 30 times during various recent promo appearances for Merry Christmas II You as the fourfour spin on the televised yule log. Just put this thing on a loop and feel the holidays in your soul and/or nightmares.
Above is the fruit of a few months of work: various instances of people saying something close to, "We're not in Kansas anymore." Despite the fact that no one gets the original line from the The Wizard of Oz completey right ("Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"), it nonetheless evokes that film every time it's said. What's interesting to me about that is that it's at cliche status at this point, yet unlike, say, "catch-22" or the also frequently mangled "You're going to need a bigger boat," the saying hasn't superseded its source, no matter how many times it's been said (as evident in the amount of times Toto and Dorothy are brought up alongside it). It's pretty amazing how tenacious a hold Oz still has on pop culture (I find myself referencing it constantly, and not just in the "Kansas" way).
A full list of the movies and TV shows included in this clip are below. Supercut spoiler alert!
With last week's end of America's Next Top Model Cycle 15, I thought this cut of exit interviews throughout the years was appropriate. Above are some of the more self-aggrandizing examples that being eliminated has produced -- so many of these girls vow to us that we'll see them again and that they'll be as big as Tyra Banks promised. How many of the 50 or so girls above have made good on that promise? The answer, of course, is virtually zero (I guess Fatima has done all right?). I don't know if that makes this video hilarious or so, so sad (but I'm thinking it's the latter).
This cliche is, of course, prevalent on unscripted TV in general (American Idol has a large number of people who voice such this-isn't-the-last-you've-seen-of-me sentiment), but I think it's hilarious how many examples come from ANTM alone. A lot of girls would kill to be saying, "A lot of girls would kill..." upon being eliminated from clown school, apparently.
(All credit goes to reader Mike [aka rustyspigot] for giving me this idea over a year ago. Sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I generally come around.)
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