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But instead of a ratty couch that won't nearly pay rent, it's super-intimate letters and recordings that you'd never want anyone to read or hear, like, \u003cem>ever\u003c/em>? \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15402600/madonna\">Madonna\u003c/a> feels your pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Madonna art adviser and friend Darlene Lutz wants to auction off the singer's 1995 breakup letter from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/88479205/tupac-shakur\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a>, a glow-in-the-dark rosary and other assorted jewelry, faxed (!) letters from Rosie O'Donnell and other personal items, including cassettes containing unreleased demos and recordings. 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Miley's rendition was a fist-in-the-air take on what the BBC recently referred to as \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190709-back-to-black-the-millennial-i-will-survive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the millennial 'I Will Survive'\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bM4CnFG74A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was impossible not to notice how far removed this version was from the original. In Amy's hands, \"Back To Black\" was agonizing to the point of being an audible ache. In Miley's, it was merely a defiant singalong. It was a sad reminder that, though she only died eight years ago, the gulf created by Amy Winehouse's absence is still so enormous, it actually feels like she's been gone for much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_17172']Part of the reason for that is just how impossible it is to keep Amy's spirit alive. All of the things that made her such a compelling performer and human were perfectly intangible, and simply cannot be replicated. Still people can't stop trying. Since she died, there have been endless \u003ca href=\"https://www.kathmanduandbeyond.com/amy-winehouse-street-art-trail-camden-london/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murals\u003c/a>, biographies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.becomingamy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tribute acts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/search?q=Amy%20winehouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">merch\u003c/a> items and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/amy-winehouse-foundation-plots-back-to-black-covers-contest-115330/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covers competitions\u003c/a>. None of which have come even vaguely close to capturing the detonative clash of raw sensitivity and streetsmart wise-assery that Amy barreled through life with. Eulogies have a tendency to gloss over people's sharpest, most uncomfortable edges, and pop culture loves to paint stars who died young in only the most tragic of lights. Amy Winehouse is dealing with both in equal measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is not the first legend this has happened to. Eventually, all musicians who die too soon fall prey to the public's desire to mythologize them, but the process reduces them to their most memorable selves; shells devoid of the complexities that made them great in the first place. What we're left with is Jimi Hendrix \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZot7BBzgog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kneeling before a flaming guitar\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://i.pinimg.com/originals/78/bb/ee/78bbee2743df71821fb202bffec83bfe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kurt Cobain in blue flannel\u003c/a>, crying at the side of the stage; \u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2107768_2107767_2107761,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Lennon, naked\u003c/a> and fetal, clinging to Yoko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably, Amy has been reduced to bare essentials at a faster pace than her predecessors, probably thanks in part to the fact that she was a Halloween costume before she even died. The tattoos and the eyeliner and that stack of beehive hair piled onto too frail a body—Amy hid behind these things in life, and they are concealing her in death too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, on what should have been Amy's 31st birthday, a bronze statue in Amy's honor was unveiled in her North London neighborhood of Camden. The likeness was good and the hair flower was real, but, by its very nature, it reduced Amy to her physical signifiers—which in a larger sense, is about the biggest disservice we could do her. One couldn't help but feel that Amy herself—self-deprecating and lacking entirely in airs and graces—might have found the whole thing somewhat preposterous. One of the funniest things about interviews with Amy was her\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Dqa_K6blg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> inability to suffer fools and sycophants\u003c/a>. This statue is a magnet for both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-112755 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Camden's Amy Winehouse statue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-1200x812.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-1920x1299.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camden's Amy Winehouse statue. \u003ccite>(CYRIL VILLEMAIN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironically, our memories of Amy have also been muddied by the Winehouse family themselves, in their repeated attempts to tell their own versions of her story. An exhibition her brother Alex put together, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, featuring a collection of Amy's personal effects, toured the world, appearing at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2015. Her father Mitch released a book titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Amy-My-Daughter-Mitch-Winehouse/dp/006219142X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mitch+winehouse&qid=1562794613&s=gateway&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>My Daughter, Amy\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in 2013. Her mother Janis released another, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Amy-Mothers-Janis-Winehouse/dp/1250078490/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2/139-3618790-3784407?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1250078490&pd_rd_r=e4911bfd-a35a-11e9-95ef-ff89da75d8b9&pd_rd_w=CYaqR&pd_rd_wg=nVyr5&pf_rd_p=a2006322-0bc0-4db9-a08e-d168c18ce6f0&pf_rd_r=SCKFNQ4T8EYMFH2FY0VZ&psc=1&refRID=SCKFNQ4T8EYMFH2FY0VZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Loving Amy, A Mother's Story\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in 2016. The family has even backed the controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/22/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-postponed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Winehouse hologram\u003c/a> currently in production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably, since her passing, the closest anyone has come to bottling and preserving Amy Winehouse's true, multi-faceted self was 2015's \u003cem>Amy\u003c/em>. The film distinguished itself by pulling zero punches, effectively documenting both the majesty of Winehouse at work, and the horrifying consequences of her most self-destructive impulses. It caught her sharp wit and her selfish side; her sensitive core and the caustic walls she put up to try and protect herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2yCIwmNuLE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some scenes also served to show some of the uglier realities of the relationship between Amy and her dad. In one now-infamous moment, Mitch brings a TV crew to Saint Lucia even though his daughter is trying to recover outside of the spotlight. After he chastises her for being rude to two fans who wanted a picture, she says \"I don't want to be made a mug [fool] out of, dad.\" Sound engineer, Shomari Dilon comments in a voiceover: \"She just wanted her dad and he didn't just come by himself. He came with cameras and audio guys.\" After the movie's release, Mitch Winehouse insisted that this depiction of him was \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/01/mitch-winehouse-interview-amy-documentary-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misleading\u003c/a>.\" But it's hard not to recall it every time he makes yet another public appearance to talk about Amy or endorse something related to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheer number of people who have produced tributes to Amy Winehouse in the last eight years speaks volumes about how much she's still missed, and how much money can still be made from her. Probably, Amy would be best served posthumously if the world simply followed the instructions she left us. She told journalists repeatedly throughout her life that she would like everyone to just focus on her songs. In one early MTV UK interview, she said: \"The more people see of me, the more they’ll realize that all I’m good for is making music.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1TQRJWLZ3s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Amy Winehouse died, I had been in the habit of listening to \u003cem>Back to Black\u003c/em> daily. After her death, I abruptly stopped and shelved that record for a full five years. In the immediate aftermath of her loss, listening to the more searing moments of the album—in full knowledge that there would never be a happy ending—was simply too dark. I tried to engage in other ways but they too felt uncomfortably masochistic. (It took me 20 minutes after the \u003cem>Amy\u003c/em> documentary had finished to stop crying long enough to get out of the movie theater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_105661']In the end, for me, the solution to keeping Amy Winehouse's spirit alive was the very simplest one—I just returned to the music with fresh ears, and made a concerted effort to remember how it felt the first time. Going back to the start was the easiest way to erase everything that had happened in between—the substance abuse, the relationship drama, the sanitized, simplified version of her we see so often now. \u003cem>Back To Black\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Frank\u003c/em> are the only things we know for sure represent how Amy Winehouse wanted to be seen by the world, and they are a more realistic reflection of her than any hologram ever could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent\">Try as other people might, the only person who was ever any good at telling Amy's story was Amy herself. Only her albums can do that now. We should let them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If it feels like Amy has been gone for longer, it's because the things she hid behind in life are concealing her in death too. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1663180407,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1275},"headData":{"title":"The Impossible Task of Keeping Amy Winehouse Alive, 8 Years After Her Death - KQED Pop","description":"If it feels like Amy has been gone for longer, it's because the things she hid behind in life are concealing her in death too. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"112753 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112753","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/23/the-impossible-task-of-keeping-amy-winehouse-alive-8-years-after-her-death/","disqusTitle":"The Impossible Task of Keeping Amy Winehouse Alive, 8 Years After Her Death","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/pop/112753/the-impossible-task-of-keeping-amy-winehouse-alive-8-years-after-her-death","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last month, Miley Cyrus took to the stage at England's Glastonbury Festival and belted out a cover of Amy Winehouse's \"Back to Black.\" It felt appropriate given that Cyrus was sharing the stage that day with Mark Ronson—the man who produced the original track for Winehouse, as well as the album that spawned it. Miley's rendition was a fist-in-the-air take on what the BBC recently referred to as \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190709-back-to-black-the-millennial-i-will-survive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the millennial 'I Will Survive'\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_bM4CnFG74A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_bM4CnFG74A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It was impossible not to notice how far removed this version was from the original. In Amy's hands, \"Back To Black\" was agonizing to the point of being an audible ache. In Miley's, it was merely a defiant singalong. It was a sad reminder that, though she only died eight years ago, the gulf created by Amy Winehouse's absence is still so enormous, it actually feels like she's been gone for much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_17172","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Part of the reason for that is just how impossible it is to keep Amy's spirit alive. All of the things that made her such a compelling performer and human were perfectly intangible, and simply cannot be replicated. Still people can't stop trying. Since she died, there have been endless \u003ca href=\"https://www.kathmanduandbeyond.com/amy-winehouse-street-art-trail-camden-london/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murals\u003c/a>, biographies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.becomingamy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tribute acts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/search?q=Amy%20winehouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">merch\u003c/a> items and \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/amy-winehouse-foundation-plots-back-to-black-covers-contest-115330/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">covers competitions\u003c/a>. None of which have come even vaguely close to capturing the detonative clash of raw sensitivity and streetsmart wise-assery that Amy barreled through life with. Eulogies have a tendency to gloss over people's sharpest, most uncomfortable edges, and pop culture loves to paint stars who died young in only the most tragic of lights. Amy Winehouse is dealing with both in equal measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is not the first legend this has happened to. Eventually, all musicians who die too soon fall prey to the public's desire to mythologize them, but the process reduces them to their most memorable selves; shells devoid of the complexities that made them great in the first place. What we're left with is Jimi Hendrix \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZot7BBzgog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kneeling before a flaming guitar\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"https://i.pinimg.com/originals/78/bb/ee/78bbee2743df71821fb202bffec83bfe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kurt Cobain in blue flannel\u003c/a>, crying at the side of the stage; \u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2107768_2107767_2107761,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Lennon, naked\u003c/a> and fetal, clinging to Yoko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably, Amy has been reduced to bare essentials at a faster pace than her predecessors, probably thanks in part to the fact that she was a Halloween costume before she even died. The tattoos and the eyeliner and that stack of beehive hair piled onto too frail a body—Amy hid behind these things in life, and they are concealing her in death too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, on what should have been Amy's 31st birthday, a bronze statue in Amy's honor was unveiled in her North London neighborhood of Camden. The likeness was good and the hair flower was real, but, by its very nature, it reduced Amy to her physical signifiers—which in a larger sense, is about the biggest disservice we could do her. One couldn't help but feel that Amy herself—self-deprecating and lacking entirely in airs and graces—might have found the whole thing somewhat preposterous. One of the funniest things about interviews with Amy was her\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Dqa_K6blg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> inability to suffer fools and sycophants\u003c/a>. This statue is a magnet for both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-112755 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Camden's Amy Winehouse statue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-768x520.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-1200x812.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218-1920x1299.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/07/GettyImages-455478218.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camden's Amy Winehouse statue. \u003ccite>(CYRIL VILLEMAIN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironically, our memories of Amy have also been muddied by the Winehouse family themselves, in their repeated attempts to tell their own versions of her story. An exhibition her brother Alex put together, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, featuring a collection of Amy's personal effects, toured the world, appearing at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum in 2015. Her father Mitch released a book titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Amy-My-Daughter-Mitch-Winehouse/dp/006219142X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mitch+winehouse&qid=1562794613&s=gateway&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>My Daughter, Amy\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in 2013. Her mother Janis released another, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Loving-Amy-Mothers-Janis-Winehouse/dp/1250078490/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2/139-3618790-3784407?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1250078490&pd_rd_r=e4911bfd-a35a-11e9-95ef-ff89da75d8b9&pd_rd_w=CYaqR&pd_rd_wg=nVyr5&pf_rd_p=a2006322-0bc0-4db9-a08e-d168c18ce6f0&pf_rd_r=SCKFNQ4T8EYMFH2FY0VZ&psc=1&refRID=SCKFNQ4T8EYMFH2FY0VZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Loving Amy, A Mother's Story\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in 2016. The family has even backed the controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/22/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-postponed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Winehouse hologram\u003c/a> currently in production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguably, since her passing, the closest anyone has come to bottling and preserving Amy Winehouse's true, multi-faceted self was 2015's \u003cem>Amy\u003c/em>. The film distinguished itself by pulling zero punches, effectively documenting both the majesty of Winehouse at work, and the horrifying consequences of her most self-destructive impulses. It caught her sharp wit and her selfish side; her sensitive core and the caustic walls she put up to try and protect herself.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_2yCIwmNuLE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_2yCIwmNuLE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Some scenes also served to show some of the uglier realities of the relationship between Amy and her dad. In one now-infamous moment, Mitch brings a TV crew to Saint Lucia even though his daughter is trying to recover outside of the spotlight. After he chastises her for being rude to two fans who wanted a picture, she says \"I don't want to be made a mug [fool] out of, dad.\" Sound engineer, Shomari Dilon comments in a voiceover: \"She just wanted her dad and he didn't just come by himself. He came with cameras and audio guys.\" After the movie's release, Mitch Winehouse insisted that this depiction of him was \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/01/mitch-winehouse-interview-amy-documentary-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misleading\u003c/a>.\" But it's hard not to recall it every time he makes yet another public appearance to talk about Amy or endorse something related to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheer number of people who have produced tributes to Amy Winehouse in the last eight years speaks volumes about how much she's still missed, and how much money can still be made from her. Probably, Amy would be best served posthumously if the world simply followed the instructions she left us. She told journalists repeatedly throughout her life that she would like everyone to just focus on her songs. In one early MTV UK interview, she said: \"The more people see of me, the more they’ll realize that all I’m good for is making music.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/h1TQRJWLZ3s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/h1TQRJWLZ3s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Before Amy Winehouse died, I had been in the habit of listening to \u003cem>Back to Black\u003c/em> daily. After her death, I abruptly stopped and shelved that record for a full five years. In the immediate aftermath of her loss, listening to the more searing moments of the album—in full knowledge that there would never be a happy ending—was simply too dark. I tried to engage in other ways but they too felt uncomfortably masochistic. (It took me 20 minutes after the \u003cem>Amy\u003c/em> documentary had finished to stop crying long enough to get out of the movie theater.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_105661","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the end, for me, the solution to keeping Amy Winehouse's spirit alive was the very simplest one—I just returned to the music with fresh ears, and made a concerted effort to remember how it felt the first time. Going back to the start was the easiest way to erase everything that had happened in between—the substance abuse, the relationship drama, the sanitized, simplified version of her we see so often now. \u003cem>Back To Black\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Frank\u003c/em> are the only things we know for sure represent how Amy Winehouse wanted to be seen by the world, and they are a more realistic reflection of her than any hologram ever could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"background-color: transparent\">Try as other people might, the only person who was ever any good at telling Amy's story was Amy herself. Only her albums can do that now. We should let them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112753/the-impossible-task-of-keeping-amy-winehouse-alive-8-years-after-her-death","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_2937","pop_4"],"tags":["pop_3780","pop_2774","pop_3778","pop_3341","pop_3779","pop_3678","pop_721"],"featImg":"pop_112756","label":"pop"},"pop_112871":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_112871","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"112871","score":null,"sort":[1563475506000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-lion-king-remake-is-more-creative-dead-end-than-circle-of-life","title":"New 'Lion King' Remake is More Creative Dead End Than Circle of Life","publishDate":1563475506,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>The best scene in Disney's incredibly photo-realistic remake of \u003cem>The Lion King \u003c/em>features a computer-generated beetle rolling a ball of computer-generated dung across a computer-generated African landscape. It might sound mundane, but this particular ball of dung is carrying a tuft of fur from the runaway lion Simba, and its eventual discovery will renew hope that the rightful king of the savanna is alive and well. It's a funny, touching reminder that in the circle of life, every little creature and every lump of waste has an important role to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best thing about this scene is that it's completely wordless, and it convinced me that this \u003cem>Lion King \u003c/em>would have been far better as a silent movie, one that treated its newfangled visual style as more than just a digital facelift. But that wouldn't have suited Disney's game plan: to produce an essentially risk-free remake of the 1994 animated film that remains one of its all-time greatest hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TavVZMewpY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>-inspired plot is nearly identical to the original. So are Elton John's memorable songs and Tim Rice's less memorable lyrics, this time sung by a solid voice cast that includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500225189/donald-glover-challenges-stereotypes-about-rappers-in-atlanta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Glover\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/07/591457135/john-oliver-finds-humor-in-the-news-no-one-wants-to-hear-about\">John Oliver \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/19230778/beyonce\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>. (The soundtrack also includes a new Beyoncé song, called \"Spirit.\") The crucial difference is that, instead of the original's gorgeous hand-drawn visuals, the new movie looks and feels like live-action, an illusion achieved through a sophisticated mix of digital imagery and virtual-reality techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result plays like a Hollywood blockbuster disguised as a \u003cem>National Geographic\u003c/em> documentary, or perhaps the world's most expensive safari-themed karaoke video. The movie feels both overwhelmed by its technical virtuosity and shackled by its fidelity to the source material. It begins with a nearly shot-for-shot re-creation of the first film's famous opening sequence: The sun rises over the landscape; the lush, soaring melody of \"Circle of Life\" rings out; and some very persuasive-looking elephants, zebras, giraffes and other critters gather to celebrate the birth of Simba, an adorable little cub destined to succeed his father, Mufasa, as king of the Pride Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As shot by the cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, it's a majestic, if redundant, sequence, a sign that we've seen this all before. Then the familiar plot kicks in, the characters start talking and singing, and your sense of wonderment may turn to confusion. The animals' lips may match their dialogue, but there's next to nothing going on behind the eyes: Who knew photo-realistic lions were this bad at emoting? You can't fault the actors: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/742981841/james-earl-jones-returns-as-mufasa-in-lion-king-remake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Earl Jones\u003c/a>, who voiced Mufasa in the earlier film, reprises that role here with his signature gravity. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/699060631/chiwetel-ejiofors-directing-debut-takes-him-to-malawi-to-capture-the-wind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chiwetel Ejiofor \u003c/a>strikes the right note of menace as Mufasa's brother Scar, who plots to kill both father and son by luring the unsuspecting Simba down into a gorge, placing him directly in the path of a wildebeest stampede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within minutes, Mufasa is dead and a heartbroken Simba is on the run, leaving Scar and his vicious hyena allies to take over the savanna. At this point, the movie shifts abruptly into zany comedy mode, as Simba befriends the amiably loud-mouthed duo of Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog. They're voiced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505245220/billy-eichner-makes-a-career-out-of-love-hating-celebrity-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Eichner \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93092905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Rogen\u003c/a>, and their energetic banter and their performance of that classic slacker anthem \"Hakuna Matata\"—it means \"no worries\"—give the story an undeniable lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laughing at this movie is a lot easier than taking it seriously. Soon the grown-up Simba, now voiced by Donald Glover, is reunited with his childhood friend Nala, played by Beyoncé. But when they launch into \"Can You Feel the Love Tonight,\" not even the actors' lovely voices can bring these lions' dead-eyed come-hither expressions to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civgUOommC8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've never been the biggest fan of the original \u003cem>Lion King,\u003c/em> which beneath its brightly entertaining surface has always struck me as too emotionally calculated by half. But it feels like a triumph of form and content next to this movie, because its story about a fictional animal kingdom feels so vividly and gloriously cartoonish in every detail. The new \u003cem>Lion King \u003c/em>is so realistic-looking that, paradoxically, you can't believe a moment of it. And although it was directed by Jon Favreau, who previously shepherded a wild menagerie in his recent remake of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/14/473808396/an-updated-jungle-book-deftly-juggles-wonders-and-threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Jungle Book\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, it has none of the imagination that made that movie more than just a high-tech retread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney is in the midst of an ongoing campaign to update its beloved animated classics for a new generation, from the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/706884510/dumbo-elephants-never-forget-but-audiences-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Dumbo \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/725858212/aladdin-a-cgi-world-neither-whole-nor-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Aladdin \u003c/em>\u003c/a>to upcoming versions of \u003cem>Mulan \u003c/em>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739950750/disney-cable-channel-defends-casting-black-actress-as-new-little-mermaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em> Some of these remakes have been more inspired than others, but few have felt quite as futile as \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em>. This isn't the circle of life; it's more like a creative dead end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=New+%27Lion+King%27+Remake+Is+More+Creative+Dead+End+Than+Circle+Of+Life&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Disney's 'Lion King' is so realistic-looking that, paradoxically, you can't believe a moment of it. 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It might sound mundane, but this particular ball of dung is carrying a tuft of fur from the runaway lion Simba, and its eventual discovery will renew hope that the rightful king of the savanna is alive and well. It's a funny, touching reminder that in the circle of life, every little creature and every lump of waste has an important role to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best thing about this scene is that it's completely wordless, and it convinced me that this \u003cem>Lion King \u003c/em>would have been far better as a silent movie, one that treated its newfangled visual style as more than just a digital facelift. But that wouldn't have suited Disney's game plan: to produce an essentially risk-free remake of the 1994 animated film that remains one of its all-time greatest hits.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7TavVZMewpY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7TavVZMewpY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003cem>Hamlet\u003c/em>-inspired plot is nearly identical to the original. So are Elton John's memorable songs and Tim Rice's less memorable lyrics, this time sung by a solid voice cast that includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/11/01/500225189/donald-glover-challenges-stereotypes-about-rappers-in-atlanta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Glover\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/07/591457135/john-oliver-finds-humor-in-the-news-no-one-wants-to-hear-about\">John Oliver \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/19230778/beyonce\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>. (The soundtrack also includes a new Beyoncé song, called \"Spirit.\") The crucial difference is that, instead of the original's gorgeous hand-drawn visuals, the new movie looks and feels like live-action, an illusion achieved through a sophisticated mix of digital imagery and virtual-reality techniques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result plays like a Hollywood blockbuster disguised as a \u003cem>National Geographic\u003c/em> documentary, or perhaps the world's most expensive safari-themed karaoke video. The movie feels both overwhelmed by its technical virtuosity and shackled by its fidelity to the source material. It begins with a nearly shot-for-shot re-creation of the first film's famous opening sequence: The sun rises over the landscape; the lush, soaring melody of \"Circle of Life\" rings out; and some very persuasive-looking elephants, zebras, giraffes and other critters gather to celebrate the birth of Simba, an adorable little cub destined to succeed his father, Mufasa, as king of the Pride Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As shot by the cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, it's a majestic, if redundant, sequence, a sign that we've seen this all before. Then the familiar plot kicks in, the characters start talking and singing, and your sense of wonderment may turn to confusion. The animals' lips may match their dialogue, but there's next to nothing going on behind the eyes: Who knew photo-realistic lions were this bad at emoting? You can't fault the actors: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/18/742981841/james-earl-jones-returns-as-mufasa-in-lion-king-remake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Earl Jones\u003c/a>, who voiced Mufasa in the earlier film, reprises that role here with his signature gravity. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/699060631/chiwetel-ejiofors-directing-debut-takes-him-to-malawi-to-capture-the-wind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chiwetel Ejiofor \u003c/a>strikes the right note of menace as Mufasa's brother Scar, who plots to kill both father and son by luring the unsuspecting Simba down into a gorge, placing him directly in the path of a wildebeest stampede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within minutes, Mufasa is dead and a heartbroken Simba is on the run, leaving Scar and his vicious hyena allies to take over the savanna. At this point, the movie shifts abruptly into zany comedy mode, as Simba befriends the amiably loud-mouthed duo of Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog. They're voiced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505245220/billy-eichner-makes-a-career-out-of-love-hating-celebrity-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Eichner \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93092905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Rogen\u003c/a>, and their energetic banter and their performance of that classic slacker anthem \"Hakuna Matata\"—it means \"no worries\"—give the story an undeniable lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laughing at this movie is a lot easier than taking it seriously. Soon the grown-up Simba, now voiced by Donald Glover, is reunited with his childhood friend Nala, played by Beyoncé. But when they launch into \"Can You Feel the Love Tonight,\" not even the actors' lovely voices can bring these lions' dead-eyed come-hither expressions to life.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/civgUOommC8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/civgUOommC8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>I've never been the biggest fan of the original \u003cem>Lion King,\u003c/em> which beneath its brightly entertaining surface has always struck me as too emotionally calculated by half. But it feels like a triumph of form and content next to this movie, because its story about a fictional animal kingdom feels so vividly and gloriously cartoonish in every detail. The new \u003cem>Lion King \u003c/em>is so realistic-looking that, paradoxically, you can't believe a moment of it. And although it was directed by Jon Favreau, who previously shepherded a wild menagerie in his recent remake of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/14/473808396/an-updated-jungle-book-deftly-juggles-wonders-and-threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Jungle Book\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, it has none of the imagination that made that movie more than just a high-tech retread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney is in the midst of an ongoing campaign to update its beloved animated classics for a new generation, from the recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/706884510/dumbo-elephants-never-forget-but-audiences-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Dumbo \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/725858212/aladdin-a-cgi-world-neither-whole-nor-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Aladdin \u003c/em>\u003c/a>to upcoming versions of \u003cem>Mulan \u003c/em>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739950750/disney-cable-channel-defends-casting-black-actress-as-new-little-mermaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em> Some of these remakes have been more inspired than others, but few have felt quite as futile as \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em>. This isn't the circle of life; it's more like a creative dead end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=New+%27Lion+King%27+Remake+Is+More+Creative+Dead+End+Than+Circle+Of+Life&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112871/new-lion-king-remake-is-more-creative-dead-end-than-circle-of-life","authors":["byline_pop_112871"],"categories":["pop_51","pop_4"],"tags":["pop_3341"],"featImg":"pop_112872","label":"pop"},"pop_112846":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_112846","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"112846","score":null,"sort":[1563396802000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-taylor-swift-and-jennifer-hudson-being-annoyingly-earnest-about-cats","title":"Watch Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson Being Annoyingly Earnest About 'Cats'","publishDate":1563396802,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>What do you think of when you think of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, \u003ca href=\"https://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/show/cats/\">\u003cem>Cats\u003c/em>\u003c/a>? Large wigs and fur coats of questionable origin? The overwrought balladry of \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memory\u003c/a>\"? Jazz hands with claws?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For fans of Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson and Jason Derulo, right now \u003cem>Cats\u003c/em> means one thing only: the brand \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5697572/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new movie adaptation\u003c/a> due out later this year, also starring Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Dame Judi Dench and (yes, really) James Corden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, it \u003cem>kind of\u003c/em> did until we saw the serious-to-the-point-of-obnoxious behind-the-scenes clip below. \"Everyone's working really long hours, rehearsing everyday and it's... fun,\" Taylor Swift says in an entirely un-fun way. \"It's just so much fun to play in,\" Rebel Wilson says, sounding the most somber she has ever sounded. Then, after a meditative moment dedicated to the wonders of \"digital fur,\" James Corden utters the immortal words: \"These are people but they're cats and this is kind of blowing my mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you watch this three and half minutes of pretentious pondering, we'll remind you that all of these people are talking about a musical in which they play actual cats named things like Rum Tum Tugger, Jennyanydots and Growltiger. These interviews are so close to parody, if Christopher Guest popped up halfway through, it wouldn't be all that surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/catsmovie/status/1151506845489479683\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> The first trailer has arrived. Make of it what you will...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/universaluk/status/1151960883343581188\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's a movie about actual singing cats, named things like Rum Tum Tugger and Jennyanydots, but the stars of the upcoming musical make it sound like they're solving world hunger.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1563485976,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":261},"headData":{"title":"Watch Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson Being Annoyingly Earnest About 'Cats' | KQED","description":"It's a movie about actual singing cats, named things like Rum Tum Tugger and Jennyanydots, but the stars of the upcoming musical make it sound like they're solving world hunger.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"112846 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112846","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/17/watch-taylor-swift-and-jennifer-hudson-being-annoyingly-earnest-about-cats/","disqusTitle":"Watch Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson Being Annoyingly Earnest About 'Cats'","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/pop/112846/watch-taylor-swift-and-jennifer-hudson-being-annoyingly-earnest-about-cats","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What do you think of when you think of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, \u003ca href=\"https://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/show/cats/\">\u003cem>Cats\u003c/em>\u003c/a>? Large wigs and fur coats of questionable origin? The overwrought balladry of \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memory\u003c/a>\"? Jazz hands with claws?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For fans of Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson and Jason Derulo, right now \u003cem>Cats\u003c/em> means one thing only: the brand \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5697572/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new movie adaptation\u003c/a> due out later this year, also starring Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Dame Judi Dench and (yes, really) James Corden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, it \u003cem>kind of\u003c/em> did until we saw the serious-to-the-point-of-obnoxious behind-the-scenes clip below. \"Everyone's working really long hours, rehearsing everyday and it's... fun,\" Taylor Swift says in an entirely un-fun way. \"It's just so much fun to play in,\" Rebel Wilson says, sounding the most somber she has ever sounded. Then, after a meditative moment dedicated to the wonders of \"digital fur,\" James Corden utters the immortal words: \"These are people but they're cats and this is kind of blowing my mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you watch this three and half minutes of pretentious pondering, we'll remind you that all of these people are talking about a musical in which they play actual cats named things like Rum Tum Tugger, Jennyanydots and Growltiger. These interviews are so close to parody, if Christopher Guest popped up halfway through, it wouldn't be all that surprising.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1151506845489479683"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong> The first trailer has arrived. Make of it what you will...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1151960883343581188"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112846/watch-taylor-swift-and-jennifer-hudson-being-annoyingly-earnest-about-cats","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_51","pop_4"],"tags":["pop_1466","pop_3768","pop_3341","pop_3769","pop_2756","pop_3766","pop_3765","pop_3767","pop_287","pop_279"],"featImg":"pop_112848","label":"pop"},"pop_112841":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_112841","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"112841","score":null,"sort":[1563389726000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-lion-king-had-the-perfect-villain-song-this-time-be-prepared-for-less","title":"'The Lion King' Had The Perfect Villain Song. This Time, 'Be Prepared' For Less","publishDate":1563389726,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>I have seen the new \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510282/pop-culture-happy-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Pop Culture Happy Hour\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is devoting a whole show to it this week, so I won't get into a full review here, but just know that, when it comes to one specific aspect of the new film—the one aspect about which I cared most keenly, most deeply, most intensely—the news is not \u003cem>senSAAYtional\u003c/em>. It's anything but, in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I refer here to \"Be Prepared,\" the very best song on a soundtrack that does not suffer for good songs. It is the villain Scar's anthem—his pitch to the pack of hyenas to help him effect \"the coup of the century.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=35be6f6dee4907efefb09f27cac178ee78af0eabe6602b9c42477690de9361bf9d4f020545135bc6ab396586560f1c1c3471c8db0fafded9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the original version\u003c/a>. Go ahead, click. Treat yourself. Make your day better. Then come back, I'll still be here. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPUe7O3ODHQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hi again. So that was pretty great, right? The animation so expressive, so imaginative, so dynamic, so fluid? And the vocal performance, by noted non-singer Jeremy Irons, remains just as show-stopping as ever, for one very specific reason: It's such a pure expression of the character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irons' Scar was theatrically sly, performatively unctuous, luxuriously fey. He reveled in his haughtiness, his condescending wit, his sneering contempt for those lesser than he. He not only embraced his status as Other, he wore it like a Bob Mackie gown. He was, in other words, not merely villainous, nor anything so mundane as simply evil. No, he was more fun than that: He was \u003cem>wicked\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there's a long cinematic tradition of talk-singing in musical comedies. Rex Harrison and Richard Harris famously barked and yipped their way through \u003cem>My Fair Lady\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Camelot\u003c/em>, respectively. It's an effective technique, and Irons could have contented himself to follow in those footsteps. Instead, he chose to impregnate every verse of \"Be Prepared\" with all the layers of characterization he was bringing to the rest of his performance. You hear it in every lyric—the sly playfulness, the sudden rage, the smug self-satisfaction, the abject delight Scar is taking in his own skullduggery. It's why Irons' \"Be Prepared\" became, and remains, indelible, even iconic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing you gotta know is that there were rumors that the new film had cut \"Be Prepared\" to make room for new (and thus, Oscar-eligible) songs. I, for one,\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=35be6f6dee4907ef53f9e1aaf11e3695ac30f20bb87106bc054f376f44b2db39450ef690859d92dae79861b198682cd2e0ad932d588e758b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> was prepared to storm whatever barricades necessary in protest\u003c/a>, and I was not alone. Turns out, they didn't cut it. It's still in the movie ... sort of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they \u003cem>did \u003c/em>do was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLQ6SRH90s4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut it down\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Waaaay \u003c/em>down. From nine verses to four, from three minutes to just over one. The new orchestration is almost unrecognizable: Scar's backup hyenas no longer join in with that lusty, insistent \"Hummmm / hummmmm / Hummmmm\" you feel in your chest—they instead chant \"Be prepared / Be prepared / Be prepared\" in 4/4 march time; it's what it would sound like if the Boy Scouts imposed martial law. There's a rejiggered spoken-word intro, to more fully engage the new film's hyenas vs. lions subplot, that turns Scar from a sneering despot spitting vitriol at his subjects (\"\u003cem>Thick\u003c/em> as you are, \u003cem>pay attention\u003c/em>!\") to a mere feckless politician attempting to sway a potential ally (\"My vision is clear and wide-ranging / And even encompasses you\"). This utter lack of mustache-twirling is a loss—a big one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=kLQ6SRH90s4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And look, I like Chiwetel Ejiofor. He can play a great bad guy—check him out in Joss Whedon's \u003cem>Serenity \u003c/em>some time, if you haven't. But his Scar is merely, mundanely evil, and his emotional switch just flips from Off to Boiling Rage, while Irons' Scar spent every moment adjusting his dimmer. Musically, non-singer Ejiofor talk-sings his way through the song, only intermittently attempting to hold a note any longer than you'd hold a hot coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the unkindest cut, dear reader? Is that by eliminating all but the very last verse of the original version, the new film's Scar never gets to tell the hyenas—and by extension, us—to \"prepare for senSAAYtional news.\" Sure, maybe he couldn't have put the same English on that legendary line-reading that Irons did (reader, he couldn't have) but it would have been interesting to see him at least try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did this all bum you out? I didn't mean to. The new film does have some things to recommend it, which we'll talk about on the show. But my purpose in giving you a heads up vis-a-vis Scar's anthem was simple: service journalism. Odds are you're gonna see this new \u003cem>Lion King\u003c/em>, so you should go into it clear-eyed. Manage your expectations. Adjust your parameters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay was originally published in the \u003c/em>Pop Culture Happy Hour\u003cem> newsletter, edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Subscribe to NPR newsletters here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27The+Lion+King%27+Had+The+Perfect+Villain+Song.+This+Time%2C+%27Be+Prepared%27+For+Less&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We know it sounds sordid, but there's something missing in the 2019 version of Scar's bad-guy anthem—and it's the very thing that made the mustache-twirling original so iconic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1563389726,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":858},"headData":{"title":"'The Lion King' Had The Perfect Villain Song. 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It's anything but, in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I refer here to \"Be Prepared,\" the very best song on a soundtrack that does not suffer for good songs. It is the villain Scar's anthem—his pitch to the pack of hyenas to help him effect \"the coup of the century.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=35be6f6dee4907efefb09f27cac178ee78af0eabe6602b9c42477690de9361bf9d4f020545135bc6ab396586560f1c1c3471c8db0fafded9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the original version\u003c/a>. Go ahead, click. Treat yourself. Make your day better. Then come back, I'll still be here. ...\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zPUe7O3ODHQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zPUe7O3ODHQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Hi again. So that was pretty great, right? The animation so expressive, so imaginative, so dynamic, so fluid? And the vocal performance, by noted non-singer Jeremy Irons, remains just as show-stopping as ever, for one very specific reason: It's such a pure expression of the character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irons' Scar was theatrically sly, performatively unctuous, luxuriously fey. He reveled in his haughtiness, his condescending wit, his sneering contempt for those lesser than he. He not only embraced his status as Other, he wore it like a Bob Mackie gown. He was, in other words, not merely villainous, nor anything so mundane as simply evil. No, he was more fun than that: He was \u003cem>wicked\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there's a long cinematic tradition of talk-singing in musical comedies. Rex Harrison and Richard Harris famously barked and yipped their way through \u003cem>My Fair Lady\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Camelot\u003c/em>, respectively. It's an effective technique, and Irons could have contented himself to follow in those footsteps. Instead, he chose to impregnate every verse of \"Be Prepared\" with all the layers of characterization he was bringing to the rest of his performance. You hear it in every lyric—the sly playfulness, the sudden rage, the smug self-satisfaction, the abject delight Scar is taking in his own skullduggery. It's why Irons' \"Be Prepared\" became, and remains, indelible, even iconic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing you gotta know is that there were rumors that the new film had cut \"Be Prepared\" to make room for new (and thus, Oscar-eligible) songs. I, for one,\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=35be6f6dee4907ef53f9e1aaf11e3695ac30f20bb87106bc054f376f44b2db39450ef690859d92dae79861b198682cd2e0ad932d588e758b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> was prepared to storm whatever barricades necessary in protest\u003c/a>, and I was not alone. Turns out, they didn't cut it. It's still in the movie ... sort of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they \u003cem>did \u003c/em>do was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLQ6SRH90s4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut it down\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Waaaay \u003c/em>down. From nine verses to four, from three minutes to just over one. The new orchestration is almost unrecognizable: Scar's backup hyenas no longer join in with that lusty, insistent \"Hummmm / hummmmm / Hummmmm\" you feel in your chest—they instead chant \"Be prepared / Be prepared / Be prepared\" in 4/4 march time; it's what it would sound like if the Boy Scouts imposed martial law. There's a rejiggered spoken-word intro, to more fully engage the new film's hyenas vs. lions subplot, that turns Scar from a sneering despot spitting vitriol at his subjects (\"\u003cem>Thick\u003c/em> as you are, \u003cem>pay attention\u003c/em>!\") to a mere feckless politician attempting to sway a potential ally (\"My vision is clear and wide-ranging / And even encompasses you\"). This utter lack of mustache-twirling is a loss—a big one.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kLQ6SRH90s4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kLQ6SRH90s4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And look, I like Chiwetel Ejiofor. He can play a great bad guy—check him out in Joss Whedon's \u003cem>Serenity \u003c/em>some time, if you haven't. But his Scar is merely, mundanely evil, and his emotional switch just flips from Off to Boiling Rage, while Irons' Scar spent every moment adjusting his dimmer. Musically, non-singer Ejiofor talk-sings his way through the song, only intermittently attempting to hold a note any longer than you'd hold a hot coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the unkindest cut, dear reader? Is that by eliminating all but the very last verse of the original version, the new film's Scar never gets to tell the hyenas—and by extension, us—to \"prepare for senSAAYtional news.\" Sure, maybe he couldn't have put the same English on that legendary line-reading that Irons did (reader, he couldn't have) but it would have been interesting to see him at least try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did this all bum you out? I didn't mean to. The new film does have some things to recommend it, which we'll talk about on the show. But my purpose in giving you a heads up vis-a-vis Scar's anthem was simple: service journalism. Odds are you're gonna see this new \u003cem>Lion King\u003c/em>, so you should go into it clear-eyed. Manage your expectations. Adjust your parameters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay was originally published in the \u003c/em>Pop Culture Happy Hour\u003cem> newsletter, edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/newsletters/\">\u003cem>Subscribe to NPR newsletters here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27The+Lion+King%27+Had+The+Perfect+Villain+Song.+This+Time%2C+%27Be+Prepared%27+For+Less&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112841/the-lion-king-had-the-perfect-villain-song-this-time-be-prepared-for-less","authors":["byline_pop_112841"],"categories":["pop_51","pop_4"],"tags":["pop_3764","pop_2820","pop_3763"],"featImg":"pop_112842","label":"pop"},"pop_111463":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_111463","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"111463","score":null,"sort":[1563382849000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"before-hustlers-how-pole-dancing-broke-into-the-mainstream","title":"Before 'Hustlers': How Pole Dancing Broke Into the Mainstream","publishDate":1563382849,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>In \u003cem>Crazy Stupid Love\u003c/em>, Ryan Gosling, playing a know-it-all lothario, shares an opinion. \"We won the sex war,\" he says, \"after women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding pop-culture examples of pole dancing being stigmatized is not a struggle. Comedians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqg8-qCXKz8\">Chris Rock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt_s0qeRdkw\">Joe Rogan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://titsandsass.com/category/tina-fey-hates-sex-workers/\">Tina Fey\u003c/a> have indulged in various degrees of stripper shaming, and stereotypes about the rough and ready lives of dancers have long been a staple of cop shows and movies like \u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Powder Blue\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Wrestler\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Traditionally, portrayals of dancers are either women who are drug-addicted, or who obviously have major daddy issues,\" Nicki [not her real name] a San Francisco dancer, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the gulf between representations of pole dancers and reality has narrowed in recent years, thanks in part to the 2008 founding of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.polesports.org/\">International Pole Sports Federation\u003c/a>—an organization set up to standardize rules around competitive pole dancing, and lobby to include pole sports in the Olympics. Its existence has allowed pole dancing the relatively new luxury of being seen as a legitimate skill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That skill is something that Nicki knows firsthand. \"The women I've had the pleasure of working with over the years are all incredible,\" she says. \"This job can make you feel invincible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Ortiz echoes the sentiment. After getting a job on the front desk at fitness center \u003ca href=\"https://sfpoleanddance.com/\">San Francisco Pole and Dance\u003c/a> a year ago, Ortiz, a PhD. student, fell in love with pole dancing. \"It was during a rough time in my life and I saw the effects pole dancing had on women and men of all backgrounds,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz estimates that everyone who tries a class leaves with much more respect for those who dance professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is probably some of the hardest work ever,\" she says, \"and the best teachers are always current or former strippers. Everyone here is funny, kind and encouraging. I do think that the stigma is reducing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-kllxaNAI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still others have mixed feelings about pole dancing going mainstream. Alexis Brooks danced in strip clubs for 13 years, stopping only after the combination of sky-high heels and a slippery tile floor at work caused her to break an ankle. She says that pole dancing on a sporting stage can give people unrealistic expectations: \"People have to realize that nine times out of ten, they aren't going to see that level of pole dancing at the club. We don't have trainers and hours to perfect our moves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is happy, however, to see more variety in popular depictions of pole dancing. \"Traditionally, we're seen as either super glamorous and raking in the dough, or at rock bottom,\" she says. \"The reality is somewhere in between.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardi B's NSFW \"Money\" video, then, might be the closest that mainstream culture has come to accurate commentary on the lives of pole dancers. In it, she honors her own past working in strip clubs—a job she says \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfcNl-o9bI\">saved her\u003c/a> from a \"boyfriend who was beating my ass\"—presenting it as serious work with major financial benefits. \"People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance,\" Cardi \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/01/how-cardi-b-went-from-stripper-to-star\">told \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2017. \"I learned a lot. I would never be ashamed of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUOh09GoQgk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the shift in the public perception of pole dancing has been most visible in music videos. While early on, artists like like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg used pole dancing as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZXc39hT8t4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">means for objectification\u003c/a>, within a decade it was socially acceptable enough for the decidedly non-edgy Enrique Iglesias to include in his video for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJAUuicC0Q\">Dirty Dancer\u003c/a>.\" In 2013, Bruno Mars put pole dancing at the center of a love triangle in the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHDtXqjgEj4\">Gorilla\u003c/a>\" video, and, a year later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk1ZO_980DI\">Ne-Yo\u003c/a> put dancers in mundane, everyday settings as a suggestion that it was something even middle-aged housewives and mousey librarians could enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Rihanna and Beyoncé including poles in their respective videos for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcVomMexkY\">Pour It Up\u003c/a>\" and \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ12_E5R3qc\">Partition\u003c/a>,\" and ideas shifted about just who pole dancing was for. Their reframing of pole dancing, from entertainment for men to empowerment for women, not only opened doors for Cardi B but others—FKA Twigs recently used it to literally elevate her contemporary artistry to new, trippy heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLjqFpBh84&t=111s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reality TV, too, has done a lot to normalize pole dancing. HBO's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_String_Divas\">\u003cem>G String Divas\u003c/em>\u003c/a> started to de-stigmatize the job back in 2000, and today, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD-VzLfHZXQ\">\u003cem>Beyond The Pole\u003c/em>\u003c/a> shows the every day lives of professional dancers in Atlanta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's \u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians \u003c/em>that did the most to take pole dancing mainstream. When 2007's Season 1 first showed a pole in Kris and Bruce's bedroom, it seemed risqué and over-the-top. When then-tweens Kendall and Kylie played on it—prompting Robin Antin to tell Kylie she was a \"future Pussycat Doll\"—it simultaneously caused a mountain of controversy and somehow made a pole at home seem somewhat mundane. By 2014, Kris, Kim and their friends were taking a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gqb7ECJnoA\">pole dancing class\u003c/a> on the show together—a relatively new form of exercise that has since boomed in popularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pinnacle of pole dancing's mainstream acceptance arrives September 13 with the movie \u003cem>Hustlers\u003c/em>, starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu and Cardi B as a group of strip club employees banding together to \"turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.\" The movie, based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2015/12/robin-hood-strippers-scores-c-v-r.html#_ga=2.96829916.2122431926.1556836402-1366781981.1518059390\">\u003cem>New York Magazine\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> about real-life dancers who swindled their richest clients out of thousands of dollars, is something that Nicki, the dancer from San Francisco, looks forward to seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pole dancing really is an art form when it's done well,\" she says. \"It is getting easier to see that dancing isn't just some seedy, taboo thing, as more women in the spotlight are embracing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pauses, thinks about her request for anonymity, and adds: \"When we get to the point where I can use my real name in an article like this, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> will really be something.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Before pole dancing hits the big screen in 'Hustlers,' we ask professionals and amateurs alike their views on the strip club staple going mainstream.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1563384081,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1070},"headData":{"title":"Before 'Hustlers': How Pole Dancing Broke Into the Mainstream | KQED","description":"Before pole dancing hits the big screen in 'Hustlers,' we ask professionals and amateurs alike their views on the strip club staple going mainstream.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"111463 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=111463","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/17/before-hustlers-how-pole-dancing-broke-into-the-mainstream/","disqusTitle":"Before 'Hustlers': How Pole Dancing Broke Into the Mainstream","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/pop/111463/before-hustlers-how-pole-dancing-broke-into-the-mainstream","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In \u003cem>Crazy Stupid Love\u003c/em>, Ryan Gosling, playing a know-it-all lothario, shares an opinion. \"We won the sex war,\" he says, \"after women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding pop-culture examples of pole dancing being stigmatized is not a struggle. Comedians like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqg8-qCXKz8\">Chris Rock\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt_s0qeRdkw\">Joe Rogan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://titsandsass.com/category/tina-fey-hates-sex-workers/\">Tina Fey\u003c/a> have indulged in various degrees of stripper shaming, and stereotypes about the rough and ready lives of dancers have long been a staple of cop shows and movies like \u003cem>I Know Who Killed Me\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Powder Blue\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Wrestler\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Traditionally, portrayals of dancers are either women who are drug-addicted, or who obviously have major daddy issues,\" Nicki [not her real name] a San Francisco dancer, says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the gulf between representations of pole dancers and reality has narrowed in recent years, thanks in part to the 2008 founding of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.polesports.org/\">International Pole Sports Federation\u003c/a>—an organization set up to standardize rules around competitive pole dancing, and lobby to include pole sports in the Olympics. Its existence has allowed pole dancing the relatively new luxury of being seen as a legitimate skill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That skill is something that Nicki knows firsthand. \"The women I've had the pleasure of working with over the years are all incredible,\" she says. \"This job can make you feel invincible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Ortiz echoes the sentiment. After getting a job on the front desk at fitness center \u003ca href=\"https://sfpoleanddance.com/\">San Francisco Pole and Dance\u003c/a> a year ago, Ortiz, a PhD. student, fell in love with pole dancing. \"It was during a rough time in my life and I saw the effects pole dancing had on women and men of all backgrounds,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz estimates that everyone who tries a class leaves with much more respect for those who dance professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is probably some of the hardest work ever,\" she says, \"and the best teachers are always current or former strippers. Everyone here is funny, kind and encouraging. I do think that the stigma is reducing.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lw-kllxaNAI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lw-kllxaNAI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Still others have mixed feelings about pole dancing going mainstream. Alexis Brooks danced in strip clubs for 13 years, stopping only after the combination of sky-high heels and a slippery tile floor at work caused her to break an ankle. She says that pole dancing on a sporting stage can give people unrealistic expectations: \"People have to realize that nine times out of ten, they aren't going to see that level of pole dancing at the club. We don't have trainers and hours to perfect our moves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks is happy, however, to see more variety in popular depictions of pole dancing. \"Traditionally, we're seen as either super glamorous and raking in the dough, or at rock bottom,\" she says. \"The reality is somewhere in between.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardi B's NSFW \"Money\" video, then, might be the closest that mainstream culture has come to accurate commentary on the lives of pole dancers. In it, she honors her own past working in strip clubs—a job she says \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfcNl-o9bI\">saved her\u003c/a> from a \"boyfriend who was beating my ass\"—presenting it as serious work with major financial benefits. \"People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance,\" Cardi \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/01/how-cardi-b-went-from-stripper-to-star\">told \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2017. \"I learned a lot. I would never be ashamed of it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zUOh09GoQgk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zUOh09GoQgk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Indeed, the shift in the public perception of pole dancing has been most visible in music videos. While early on, artists like like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg used pole dancing as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZXc39hT8t4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">means for objectification\u003c/a>, within a decade it was socially acceptable enough for the decidedly non-edgy Enrique Iglesias to include in his video for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJAUuicC0Q\">Dirty Dancer\u003c/a>.\" In 2013, Bruno Mars put pole dancing at the center of a love triangle in the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHDtXqjgEj4\">Gorilla\u003c/a>\" video, and, a year later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk1ZO_980DI\">Ne-Yo\u003c/a> put dancers in mundane, everyday settings as a suggestion that it was something even middle-aged housewives and mousey librarians could enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Rihanna and Beyoncé including poles in their respective videos for \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcVomMexkY\">Pour It Up\u003c/a>\" and \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ12_E5R3qc\">Partition\u003c/a>,\" and ideas shifted about just who pole dancing was for. Their reframing of pole dancing, from entertainment for men to empowerment for women, not only opened doors for Cardi B but others—FKA Twigs recently used it to literally elevate her contemporary artistry to new, trippy heights.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/YkLjqFpBh84'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YkLjqFpBh84'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Reality TV, too, has done a lot to normalize pole dancing. HBO's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_String_Divas\">\u003cem>G String Divas\u003c/em>\u003c/a> started to de-stigmatize the job back in 2000, and today, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD-VzLfHZXQ\">\u003cem>Beyond The Pole\u003c/em>\u003c/a> shows the every day lives of professional dancers in Atlanta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's \u003cem>Keeping Up With The Kardashians \u003c/em>that did the most to take pole dancing mainstream. When 2007's Season 1 first showed a pole in Kris and Bruce's bedroom, it seemed risqué and over-the-top. When then-tweens Kendall and Kylie played on it—prompting Robin Antin to tell Kylie she was a \"future Pussycat Doll\"—it simultaneously caused a mountain of controversy and somehow made a pole at home seem somewhat mundane. By 2014, Kris, Kim and their friends were taking a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gqb7ECJnoA\">pole dancing class\u003c/a> on the show together—a relatively new form of exercise that has since boomed in popularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pinnacle of pole dancing's mainstream acceptance arrives September 13 with the movie \u003cem>Hustlers\u003c/em>, starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu and Cardi B as a group of strip club employees banding together to \"turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.\" The movie, based on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/2015/12/robin-hood-strippers-scores-c-v-r.html#_ga=2.96829916.2122431926.1556836402-1366781981.1518059390\">\u003cem>New York Magazine\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> about real-life dancers who swindled their richest clients out of thousands of dollars, is something that Nicki, the dancer from San Francisco, looks forward to seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pole dancing really is an art form when it's done well,\" she says. \"It is getting easier to see that dancing isn't just some seedy, taboo thing, as more women in the spotlight are embracing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pauses, thinks about her request for anonymity, and adds: \"When we get to the point where I can use my real name in an article like this, \u003cem>that\u003c/em> will really be something.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/111463/before-hustlers-how-pole-dancing-broke-into-the-mainstream","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_51","pop_4"],"tags":["pop_465","pop_3121","pop_3071","pop_3602","pop_3603","pop_3341","pop_3601","pop_213","pop_3649","pop_3650","pop_2822","pop_466"],"featImg":"pop_112783","label":"pop"},"pop_112775":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_112775","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"112775","score":null,"sort":[1563170152000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"meet-the-south-african-uber-driver-who-went-viral-with-his-opera-singing","title":"Meet the South African Uber Driver Who Went Viral With His Opera Singing","publishDate":1563170152,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>When Menzi Mngoma decided to get a job as an Uber driver, it was mostly out of necessity. The 27-year-old has a fiancé, kids and his parents to support, and his life's passion, opera, wasn't paying the bills. But he was also making a bet. \"You need to be well-connected to go overseas,\" he told NPR. Though he's currently based in Durban, South Africa, Mngoma dreams of becoming an international musical sensation; he thought that driving Uber might help him make connections with people who could further his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a year, the bet finally paid off for Mngoma. In late May, he was driving a woman from Johannesburg named Kim Davey while she was in Durban for a business trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From the moment I started chatting to Menzi in the Uber, I just knew he was a kind and special soul,\" Davey says. They got to talking, and Mngoma revealed he is an opera singer. Davey asked him to sing; he complied with several arias. The videos she took of his performance, showcasing his lyric tenor, have since racked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kim.davey.520/videos/pcb.10161658964345332/10161658961710332/?type=3&theater\">hundreds of thousands of views\u003c/a> on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TarcpCpbEN4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how talented is he? Tim Ashley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2019/jul/10/could-your-cab-driver-really-be-the-next-pavarotti?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1qCdyYgTvo0TRDxnbeJlZ3JD3LExOLLp2ga0yGb7Ye0hJKMmZGZorAMhY\">opera critic for the Guardian\u003c/a>, wrote that Mngoma sang \"perfectly decently and with no strain at the top [of the voice].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exposure has rocketed Mngoma to semi-stardom. He has since been \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecr.co.za/shows/east-coast-breakfast/uber-driver-menzi-mngoma-releases-his-first-song/\">interviewed by\u003c/a> radio and TV stations across the country and \u003ca href=\"https://ewn.co.za/2019/05/31/dream-opportunity-for-durban-uber-driver-after-passenger-films-him-singing\">auditioned for the Cape Town Opera\u003c/a>. He has even been invited to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ipopla.com/\">participate in iPop\u003c/a>, an international talent contest in L.A. this December—a step toward his dream of international stardom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mngoma says he always stuck out a little in his hometown of Richards Bay, a seaside community near Durban with a high unemployment and poverty rate (though his family wasn't very poor, he says, they were also far from wealthy). While other boys played soccer, he'd be cooking or cleaning or spending time looking at sheet music and playing DVDs to learn about different musical styles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he's been singing since \"I knew myself\" and turned to opera when he was 14. \"It [made] me feel so unique around my age group,\" he says. \"Most people listened to R&B.\" His friends called him Pavarotti after the famed Italian tenor. It's fitting, then, that Mngoma's favorite aria is one that Pavarotti and many other tenors have recorded from Verdi's \u003cem>La Traviata.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYBgMMWBAf0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first performed it in high school, his music teachers were impressed, he recalls. \"For a very young guy like me in grade 8, [they were] surprised—I can go to every range, I can pronounce the Italian in the way that I did,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mngoma says he's always been a hard worker when it comes to singing, sometimes too much so. He says he failed a term in high school because he was always sneaking away from class to sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's taught himself but also taken lessons. He says he practices about 2 hours a day four times a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After high school, Mngoma moved to Durban in 2011. He sang in choirs and landed some roles in operas. But his various gigs didn't add up to a living. Before he drove an Uber he taught singing at a primary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mngoma still hasn't been able to quit his day job. But he believes his future as a full-time performer might not be too far off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Mngoma put out his first single, \"Feel the Love,\" which he calls \"popera\"—a mix of pop and opera. East Coast Radio arranged for Davey to fly down from Johannesburg \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EastCoastBreakfast/videos/1317155438449422/UzpfSTc1NjEwNTMzMToxMDE2MTg2NzQ2ODc2MDMzMg/\">and surprise Mngoma\u003c/a> in studio. The two, who've become close friends, hugged fiercely. \"His reaction was priceless,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecr.co.za/shows/east-coast-breakfast/uber-driver-menzi-mngoma-releases-his-first-song/\">preview the song here\u003c/a>. And even though it's definitely not opera, Mngoma is just happy to be singing for a worldwide audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Susie Neilson is an intern on NPR's Science Desk. Contact her @susieneilson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\"> NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Video+Of+An+Uber+Driver+In+South+Africa+Singing+Opera+Goes+Viral+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Menzi Mngoma is hoping that the exposure will help him further his dream of becoming an international singing sensation who doesn't have to drive for Uber.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1563170152,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":709},"headData":{"title":"Meet the South African Uber Driver Who Went Viral With His Opera Singing | KQED","description":"Menzi Mngoma is hoping that the exposure will help him further his dream of becoming an international singing sensation who doesn't have to drive for Uber.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"112775 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112775","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/14/meet-the-south-african-uber-driver-who-went-viral-with-his-opera-singing/","disqusTitle":"Meet the South African Uber Driver Who Went Viral With His Opera Singing","nprByline":"Susie Neilson","nprImageAgency":"Kim Davey/Facebook","nprStoryId":"738594345","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=738594345&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/07/13/738594345/video-of-an-uber-driver-in-south-africa-singing-opera-goes-viral?ft=nprml&f=738594345","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:00:19 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:00:19 -0400","path":"/pop/112775/meet-the-south-african-uber-driver-who-went-viral-with-his-opera-singing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Menzi Mngoma decided to get a job as an Uber driver, it was mostly out of necessity. The 27-year-old has a fiancé, kids and his parents to support, and his life's passion, opera, wasn't paying the bills. But he was also making a bet. \"You need to be well-connected to go overseas,\" he told NPR. Though he's currently based in Durban, South Africa, Mngoma dreams of becoming an international musical sensation; he thought that driving Uber might help him make connections with people who could further his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a year, the bet finally paid off for Mngoma. In late May, he was driving a woman from Johannesburg named Kim Davey while she was in Durban for a business trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From the moment I started chatting to Menzi in the Uber, I just knew he was a kind and special soul,\" Davey says. They got to talking, and Mngoma revealed he is an opera singer. Davey asked him to sing; he complied with several arias. The videos she took of his performance, showcasing his lyric tenor, have since racked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/kim.davey.520/videos/pcb.10161658964345332/10161658961710332/?type=3&theater\">hundreds of thousands of views\u003c/a> on Facebook.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/TarcpCpbEN4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TarcpCpbEN4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And how talented is he? Tim Ashley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2019/jul/10/could-your-cab-driver-really-be-the-next-pavarotti?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1qCdyYgTvo0TRDxnbeJlZ3JD3LExOLLp2ga0yGb7Ye0hJKMmZGZorAMhY\">opera critic for the Guardian\u003c/a>, wrote that Mngoma sang \"perfectly decently and with no strain at the top [of the voice].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exposure has rocketed Mngoma to semi-stardom. He has since been \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecr.co.za/shows/east-coast-breakfast/uber-driver-menzi-mngoma-releases-his-first-song/\">interviewed by\u003c/a> radio and TV stations across the country and \u003ca href=\"https://ewn.co.za/2019/05/31/dream-opportunity-for-durban-uber-driver-after-passenger-films-him-singing\">auditioned for the Cape Town Opera\u003c/a>. He has even been invited to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ipopla.com/\">participate in iPop\u003c/a>, an international talent contest in L.A. this December—a step toward his dream of international stardom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mngoma says he always stuck out a little in his hometown of Richards Bay, a seaside community near Durban with a high unemployment and poverty rate (though his family wasn't very poor, he says, they were also far from wealthy). While other boys played soccer, he'd be cooking or cleaning or spending time looking at sheet music and playing DVDs to learn about different musical styles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he's been singing since \"I knew myself\" and turned to opera when he was 14. \"It [made] me feel so unique around my age group,\" he says. \"Most people listened to R&B.\" His friends called him Pavarotti after the famed Italian tenor. It's fitting, then, that Mngoma's favorite aria is one that Pavarotti and many other tenors have recorded from Verdi's \u003cem>La Traviata.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lYBgMMWBAf0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lYBgMMWBAf0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When he first performed it in high school, his music teachers were impressed, he recalls. \"For a very young guy like me in grade 8, [they were] surprised—I can go to every range, I can pronounce the Italian in the way that I did,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mngoma says he's always been a hard worker when it comes to singing, sometimes too much so. He says he failed a term in high school because he was always sneaking away from class to sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's taught himself but also taken lessons. He says he practices about 2 hours a day four times a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After high school, Mngoma moved to Durban in 2011. He sang in choirs and landed some roles in operas. But his various gigs didn't add up to a living. Before he drove an Uber he taught singing at a primary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mngoma still hasn't been able to quit his day job. But he believes his future as a full-time performer might not be too far off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Mngoma put out his first single, \"Feel the Love,\" which he calls \"popera\"—a mix of pop and opera. East Coast Radio arranged for Davey to fly down from Johannesburg \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EastCoastBreakfast/videos/1317155438449422/UzpfSTc1NjEwNTMzMToxMDE2MTg2NzQ2ODc2MDMzMg/\">and surprise Mngoma\u003c/a> in studio. The two, who've become close friends, hugged fiercely. \"His reaction was priceless,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecr.co.za/shows/east-coast-breakfast/uber-driver-menzi-mngoma-releases-his-first-song/\">preview the song here\u003c/a>. And even though it's definitely not opera, Mngoma is just happy to be singing for a worldwide audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Susie Neilson is an intern on NPR's Science Desk. Contact her @susieneilson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\"> NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Video+Of+An+Uber+Driver+In+South+Africa+Singing+Opera+Goes+Viral+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112775/meet-the-south-african-uber-driver-who-went-viral-with-his-opera-singing","authors":["byline_pop_112775"],"categories":["pop_4","pop_5"],"tags":["pop_3760","pop_909","pop_3759","pop_2801","pop_510"],"featImg":"pop_112776","label":"pop"},"pop_112758":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_112758","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"112758","score":null,"sort":[1562802726000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-tiktoks-explosion-could-mean-for-music","title":"What TikTok's Explosion Could Mean For Music","publishDate":1562802726,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Since it dropped in April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/718208340/lil-nas-x\">Lil Nas X\u003c/a>'s \"Old Town Road\" has been an inescapable hit. The song's massive blow-up is at least partially thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/28/717970491/tiktok-explained\">TikTok\u003c/a>: the social media platform that launches viral stars 15 seconds at a time, and what writer Alyssa Bereznak called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/6/27/18760004/tiktok-old-town-road-memes-music-industry\">future of the music industry\u003c/a>\" in a recent article for \u003cem>The Ringer\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ov5jzm3j8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TikTok, which has hundreds of millions of users and is especially popular among teenagers and young adults, is driven by machine learning and, as Bereznak explained to NPR's Audie Cornish, viral \"challenges,\" often based around music. Using the mobile app, TikTok users watch and post 15-second videos that incorporate and respond to a piece of a song; for instance, in the \"Old Town Road\" challenge, video-makers suddenly appear in cowboy gear the moment the beat kicks in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other up-and-coming artists have also found a foothold in TikTok's format. In videos set to the first 15 seconds of Supa Dupa Humble's song \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UTMTgVooe0\">Steppin\u003c/a>,\" users play along with the repeated opening lyric \"I don't know\" until they arrive at a visual punchline. Blanco Brown's TikTok hit, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN8vY8qkgVs\">The Git Up\u003c/a>,\" is a country trap-song with dance instructions (in the vein of \"Cha Cha Slide\" or \"Macarena\") for lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the users are looking for high drama in a short amount of time,\" Bereznak says. \"You know, you only have 15 seconds to make your video compelling—so that lends itself really well to bubblegum-pop music, and to trap music, which often has really intense mood shifts or beat drops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=05_SZfB1qNg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While TikTok users are crafting their videos to fit the punchy songs spreading on the platform, musicians are also tailoring their songs to suit the format. Supa Dupa Humble, for example, once played Bereznak a piece of his upcoming song featuring an old-school landline tone. \"He himself imagined, 'Oh, this will be great for phone challenges. That's the prop that's gonna show up in these videos,' \" Bereznak says, paraphrasing the artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond motivating artists to write challenge-conducive songs, Bereznak suggests, TikTok marks—and may further influence—a shift towards increasingly short-form music. \"I think the issue here is that the music industry itself is shifting away from stories being told in albums and it's moving to stories being told in songs,\" Bereznak says. \"People care a lot more about singles, because playlist culture is very strong, and people can decide what songs they want to listen to ... so that means the labels are kind of having to focus a little bit less on the overall artistic development of a singer or songwriter, and focus more on these quick-hit singles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Artists are very savvy, and they know that they need to rise above the noise,\" she says. \"And in some cases, that means catering to the latest hot social network.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savvy media strategies aside, Bereznak says TikTok-born musical phenomena can still be celebrated for the fun they inspire. \"It might not be music that touches you deep in your soul, but it definitely evokes a certain type of emotion, and I think that's the most important thing with art,\" she says. \"It's very uplifting, it can be moody at times; it makes you want to move, it makes you want to participate in a movement. If that's not good music, I don't know what is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the full interview at the audio link.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+TikTok%27s+Explosion+Could+Mean+For+Music&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Alyssa Bereznak of 'The Ringer' about how the social media platform TikTok could serve as the future of music sharing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1562802726,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":615},"headData":{"title":"What TikTok's Explosion Could Mean For Music | KQED","description":"NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Alyssa Bereznak of 'The Ringer' about how the social media platform TikTok could serve as the future of music sharing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"112758 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112758","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/10/what-tiktoks-explosion-could-mean-for-music/","disqusTitle":"What TikTok's Explosion Could Mean For Music","nprImageCredit":"AFP","nprByline":"Alexander Asifo","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"738533536","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=738533536&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/10/738533536/what-tiktoks-explosion-could-mean-for-music?ft=nprml&f=738533536","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:54:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:54:48 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:54:48 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2019/07/20190710_atc_what_tiktoks_explosion_could_mean_for_music.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=613820055&d=458&p=2&story=738533536&ft=nprml&f=738533536","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1740481046-ebcaa8.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=613820055&d=458&p=2&story=738533536&ft=nprml&f=738533536","audioTrackLength":459,"path":"/pop/112758/what-tiktoks-explosion-could-mean-for-music","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2019/07/20190710_atc_what_tiktoks_explosion_could_mean_for_music.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=613820055&d=458&p=2&story=738533536&ft=nprml&f=738533536","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Since it dropped in April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/718208340/lil-nas-x\">Lil Nas X\u003c/a>'s \"Old Town Road\" has been an inescapable hit. The song's massive blow-up is at least partially thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/28/717970491/tiktok-explained\">TikTok\u003c/a>: the social media platform that launches viral stars 15 seconds at a time, and what writer Alyssa Bereznak called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/6/27/18760004/tiktok-old-town-road-memes-music-industry\">future of the music industry\u003c/a>\" in a recent article for \u003cem>The Ringer\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/w2Ov5jzm3j8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/w2Ov5jzm3j8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>TikTok, which has hundreds of millions of users and is especially popular among teenagers and young adults, is driven by machine learning and, as Bereznak explained to NPR's Audie Cornish, viral \"challenges,\" often based around music. Using the mobile app, TikTok users watch and post 15-second videos that incorporate and respond to a piece of a song; for instance, in the \"Old Town Road\" challenge, video-makers suddenly appear in cowboy gear the moment the beat kicks in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other up-and-coming artists have also found a foothold in TikTok's format. In videos set to the first 15 seconds of Supa Dupa Humble's song \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UTMTgVooe0\">Steppin\u003c/a>,\" users play along with the repeated opening lyric \"I don't know\" until they arrive at a visual punchline. Blanco Brown's TikTok hit, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN8vY8qkgVs\">The Git Up\u003c/a>,\" is a country trap-song with dance instructions (in the vein of \"Cha Cha Slide\" or \"Macarena\") for lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the users are looking for high drama in a short amount of time,\" Bereznak says. \"You know, you only have 15 seconds to make your video compelling—so that lends itself really well to bubblegum-pop music, and to trap music, which often has really intense mood shifts or beat drops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/05_SZfB1qNg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/05_SZfB1qNg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>While TikTok users are crafting their videos to fit the punchy songs spreading on the platform, musicians are also tailoring their songs to suit the format. Supa Dupa Humble, for example, once played Bereznak a piece of his upcoming song featuring an old-school landline tone. \"He himself imagined, 'Oh, this will be great for phone challenges. That's the prop that's gonna show up in these videos,' \" Bereznak says, paraphrasing the artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond motivating artists to write challenge-conducive songs, Bereznak suggests, TikTok marks—and may further influence—a shift towards increasingly short-form music. \"I think the issue here is that the music industry itself is shifting away from stories being told in albums and it's moving to stories being told in songs,\" Bereznak says. \"People care a lot more about singles, because playlist culture is very strong, and people can decide what songs they want to listen to ... so that means the labels are kind of having to focus a little bit less on the overall artistic development of a singer or songwriter, and focus more on these quick-hit singles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Artists are very savvy, and they know that they need to rise above the noise,\" she says. \"And in some cases, that means catering to the latest hot social network.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savvy media strategies aside, Bereznak says TikTok-born musical phenomena can still be celebrated for the fun they inspire. \"It might not be music that touches you deep in your soul, but it definitely evokes a certain type of emotion, and I think that's the most important thing with art,\" she says. \"It's very uplifting, it can be moody at times; it makes you want to move, it makes you want to participate in a movement. 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To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+TikTok%27s+Explosion+Could+Mean+For+Music&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112758/what-tiktoks-explosion-could-mean-for-music","authors":["byline_pop_112758"],"categories":["pop_4","pop_5"],"tags":["pop_3757","pop_3756","pop_3758","pop_3755"],"featImg":"pop_112764","label":"pop"},"pop_112661":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_112661","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"112661","score":null,"sort":[1562675253000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"justin-bieber-needs-to-say-sorry-again","title":"Justin Bieber Needs To Say Sorry (Again)","publishDate":1562675253,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>In March 2016, I wrote a story for KQED Pop titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/21225/forgiving-justin-bieber\">\"Forgiving Justin Bieber.\"\u003c/a> It was about how little time it took for the pop star to redeem himself in the eyes of the public after a rash of terrible behavior, including but not limited to: monkey abandonment, drag-racing under the influence, defacing hotel room walls, making insensitive statements about Anne Frank, egging a neighbor's house, abusing photographers and urinating into things that he shouldn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that period, Bieber was subjected to a mountain of bad press and public criticism, until he took steps to make things right. He released a (very good) single titled \"Sorry\"; he volunteered for a Comedy Central Roast; he paid damages to the egged neighbor; and he appeared repeatedly on \u003cem>Ellen\u003c/em> until he looked like a normal person again. After TMZ exposed how much money his father was leeching from him, there was enough good will and sympathy for the general public to invite Biebs back into the fold, and his career recovered in no time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MXPCQt1eEA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, however, it would appear that Justin Bieber has forgotten entirely how lucky he was to get a second chance from the public the first time around. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXDTfOHcPE\">vocally grateful\u003c/a> back then, but over time, his behavior has once again become irrational, inconsiderate and self-serving, albeit in a new, less haphazard sort of way. The most bizarre but obvious sign of this was the embarrassing tweet he recently addressed to Tom Cruise, publicly challenging the movie star to a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/justinbieber/status/1137880621848584193?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, Bieber said the tweet \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/justin-bieber-puts-own-spin-on-bottle-cap-challenge-nominates-tom-cruise\">was a joke\u003c/a>, but then in a subsequent \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzom4XXnU0e/\">Instagram post\u003c/a> for the #BottleCapChallenge, he can clearly be heard saying \"This could be Tom Cruise's head,\" before kicking the cap off a bottle. The text accompanying the post also nominates Tom Cruise to perform the challenge next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzom4XXnU0e/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's impossible to know for sure what has prompted Bieber's new obsession with Tom Cruise, but lurking in the background of everything he's done for the last two years is Hillsong Church, an organization the singer actively endorses despite its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/104409/how-justin-bieber-and-chris-pratts-favorite-church-is-taking-over-the-world\">long history with homophobia.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bieber and the church steadfastly refuse to publicly acknowledge the various ways in which gay congregation members are treated differently than straight ones, to the degree that Bieber has been caught on camera \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1006333935431778304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1006333935431778304&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffriendlyatheist.patheos.com%2F2018%2F06%2F15%2Fjustin-bieber-was-wrong-to-tell-a-fan-his-church-welcomes-lgbtq-people%2F\">telling one gay fan\u003c/a> that \"any [Hillsong service] would love to have\" her, despite ample \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/bjjvk8/i-joined-the-london-branch-of-justin-biebers-church\">anecdotal evidence\u003c/a> from prior LGBTQ+ members that says the opposite. Though the church has other high-profile members, like Chris Pratt and Kourtney Kardashian, it is Bieber that has raised its profile more than anyone—and he has come under very little scrutiny for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, Bieber went out of his way to derail what should and could have been a valuable discussion about songwriters owning their own music, teenage musicians signing bad contracts and female artists dealing repeatedly with industry bullies, when he hit back at Taylor Swift for making an entirely justifiable statement about the ownership of her songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/30/entertainment/taylor-swift-scooter-braun-songs/index.html\"> Swift expressed sadness\u003c/a> and frustration that Scooter Braun (Bieber's manager) now owned most of her back catalog, despite her own attempts to gain the rights to it, Bieber hit back with a statement intended to publicly shut her down. Though he initially attempted to sound sympathetic—and apologized for a prior incident in which he \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BImWNPuBnXq/?utm_source=ig_embed\">cyber-bullied Swift\u003c/a> alongside Braun and Kanye West—he ultimately accused her of using the incident to \"get sympathy\" and suggested that her decision to publicly talk about the loss of her life's work was unfair to the man who will now profit from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWYdS9Hj5R/?utm_source=ig_embed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Swift incident was a low point, but Bieber has not looked particularly good since 2017, when he abandoned a world tour two weeks early, disappointing tens of thousands of fans and taking his entire road crew off the payroll prematurely, in order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/93845/bored-sick-gay-god-why-did-justin-bieber-cancel-his-tour\">\"rededicate his life to Christ.\"\u003c/a> Now, to make matters even worse, his treatment of touring staff is coming under extra scrutiny after choreographer Emma Portner (who happens to be married to Ellen Page—one of the only celebrities to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/02/223909/ellen-page-calls-out-chris-pratt-anti-lgbtq-church\">call out Hillsong\u003c/a>) stepped forward to accuse Bieber of exploitative working conditions and \"degrad[ing] women.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1145800027631161345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1145800027631161345&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cosmopolitan.com%2Fentertainment%2Fcelebs%2Fa28274084%2Fjustin-bieber-emma-portner-degrading-women-instagram%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a now-expired Instagram story, Portner stated:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I regret working under your name. I gave your universe my naive body, creativity, time, and effort. Twice. For content that you made millions off of. While I made zilch. Natta. Barely anything. Less than minimum wage for the hours I invested. I couldn’t afford to eat. I was sweeping studio floors to be able to practice my craft. The way you degrade women is an abomination.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bieber is, once again, badly in need of an image reset. While not being in the public eye has been serving him well in terms of the level of scrutiny he is under, the fact that he's not distracting us with new music and tours is something that could also work against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason we as a culture forgave Justin Bieber three years ago was that he was a remorseful young man who'd been working non-stop since the age of 13. Not only does Bieber currently seem oblivious to the negative consequences of his actions, he also no longer has the luxury of being \"just a kid.\" As a 25-year-old married man who has been on vacation for a very protracted period (thanks to his net worth of $265 million), and who keeps needlessly placing himself in the spotlight for the worst reasons, he can no longer position himself as a babe in the woods. If there's any hope of pumping the brakes on his sliding reputation and recovering some sort of a likable image, he needs to do something quickly and before it's too late. Saying sorry (again) would be a good start.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The world may have forgiven him for a bunch of bad behavior three years ago, but new missteps are leaving Justin Bieber on shaky ground once more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1562697752,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1076},"headData":{"title":"Justin Bieber Needs To Say Sorry (Again) | KQED","description":"The world may have forgiven him for a bunch of bad behavior three years ago, but new missteps are leaving Justin Bieber on shaky ground once more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"112661 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=112661","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2019/07/09/justin-bieber-needs-to-say-sorry-again/","disqusTitle":"Justin Bieber Needs To Say Sorry (Again)","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/pop/112661/justin-bieber-needs-to-say-sorry-again","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In March 2016, I wrote a story for KQED Pop titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/21225/forgiving-justin-bieber\">\"Forgiving Justin Bieber.\"\u003c/a> It was about how little time it took for the pop star to redeem himself in the eyes of the public after a rash of terrible behavior, including but not limited to: monkey abandonment, drag-racing under the influence, defacing hotel room walls, making insensitive statements about Anne Frank, egging a neighbor's house, abusing photographers and urinating into things that he shouldn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that period, Bieber was subjected to a mountain of bad press and public criticism, until he took steps to make things right. He released a (very good) single titled \"Sorry\"; he volunteered for a Comedy Central Roast; he paid damages to the egged neighbor; and he appeared repeatedly on \u003cem>Ellen\u003c/em> until he looked like a normal person again. After TMZ exposed how much money his father was leeching from him, there was enough good will and sympathy for the general public to invite Biebs back into the fold, and his career recovered in no time.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6MXPCQt1eEA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6MXPCQt1eEA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In recent months, however, it would appear that Justin Bieber has forgotten entirely how lucky he was to get a second chance from the public the first time around. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXDTfOHcPE\">vocally grateful\u003c/a> back then, but over time, his behavior has once again become irrational, inconsiderate and self-serving, albeit in a new, less haphazard sort of way. 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The text accompanying the post also nominates Tom Cruise to perform the challenge next.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"Bzom4XXnU0e"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's impossible to know for sure what has prompted Bieber's new obsession with Tom Cruise, but lurking in the background of everything he's done for the last two years is Hillsong Church, an organization the singer actively endorses despite its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/104409/how-justin-bieber-and-chris-pratts-favorite-church-is-taking-over-the-world\">long history with homophobia.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Bieber and the church steadfastly refuse to publicly acknowledge the various ways in which gay congregation members are treated differently than straight ones, to the degree that Bieber has been caught on camera \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1006333935431778304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1006333935431778304&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffriendlyatheist.patheos.com%2F2018%2F06%2F15%2Fjustin-bieber-was-wrong-to-tell-a-fan-his-church-welcomes-lgbtq-people%2F\">telling one gay fan\u003c/a> that \"any [Hillsong service] would love to have\" her, despite ample \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/bjjvk8/i-joined-the-london-branch-of-justin-biebers-church\">anecdotal evidence\u003c/a> from prior LGBTQ+ members that says the opposite. Though the church has other high-profile members, like Chris Pratt and Kourtney Kardashian, it is Bieber that has raised its profile more than anyone—and he has come under very little scrutiny for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, Bieber went out of his way to derail what should and could have been a valuable discussion about songwriters owning their own music, teenage musicians signing bad contracts and female artists dealing repeatedly with industry bullies, when he hit back at Taylor Swift for making an entirely justifiable statement about the ownership of her songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/30/entertainment/taylor-swift-scooter-braun-songs/index.html\"> Swift expressed sadness\u003c/a> and frustration that Scooter Braun (Bieber's manager) now owned most of her back catalog, despite her own attempts to gain the rights to it, Bieber hit back with a statement intended to publicly shut her down. Though he initially attempted to sound sympathetic—and apologized for a prior incident in which he \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BImWNPuBnXq/?utm_source=ig_embed\">cyber-bullied Swift\u003c/a> alongside Braun and Kanye West—he ultimately accused her of using the incident to \"get sympathy\" and suggested that her decision to publicly talk about the loss of her life's work was unfair to the man who will now profit from it.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BzWYdS9Hj5R"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Swift incident was a low point, but Bieber has not looked particularly good since 2017, when he abandoned a world tour two weeks early, disappointing tens of thousands of fans and taking his entire road crew off the payroll prematurely, in order to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/93845/bored-sick-gay-god-why-did-justin-bieber-cancel-his-tour\">\"rededicate his life to Christ.\"\u003c/a> Now, to make matters even worse, his treatment of touring staff is coming under extra scrutiny after choreographer Emma Portner (who happens to be married to Ellen Page—one of the only celebrities to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/02/223909/ellen-page-calls-out-chris-pratt-anti-lgbtq-church\">call out Hillsong\u003c/a>) stepped forward to accuse Bieber of exploitative working conditions and \"degrad[ing] women.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1145800027631161345"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In a now-expired Instagram story, Portner stated:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I regret working under your name. I gave your universe my naive body, creativity, time, and effort. Twice. For content that you made millions off of. While I made zilch. Natta. Barely anything. Less than minimum wage for the hours I invested. I couldn’t afford to eat. I was sweeping studio floors to be able to practice my craft. The way you degrade women is an abomination.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bieber is, once again, badly in need of an image reset. While not being in the public eye has been serving him well in terms of the level of scrutiny he is under, the fact that he's not distracting us with new music and tours is something that could also work against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason we as a culture forgave Justin Bieber three years ago was that he was a remorseful young man who'd been working non-stop since the age of 13. Not only does Bieber currently seem oblivious to the negative consequences of his actions, he also no longer has the luxury of being \"just a kid.\" As a 25-year-old married man who has been on vacation for a very protracted period (thanks to his net worth of $265 million), and who keeps needlessly placing himself in the spotlight for the worst reasons, he can no longer position himself as a babe in the woods. If there's any hope of pumping the brakes on his sliding reputation and recovering some sort of a likable image, he needs to do something quickly and before it's too late. Saying sorry (again) would be a good start.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/112661/justin-bieber-needs-to-say-sorry-again","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_7","pop_4"],"tags":["pop_3341","pop_605"],"featImg":"pop_112708","label":"pop"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? 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