Monday, March 7, 2022
Help me to understand because I don’t get it. Not that I have to, but why?
That is what links the two things mentioned in the title of this piece – why?
I watched Charlie XCX on SNL and I kept wondering – why?
Why does, what appears to me, to be a 30 something so-so looking woman of probably Italian descent from I’m guessing New Jersey or Queens or Long Island dress up in thigh high white rhinestone platform heels wearing 6 to 8 inch bejeweled nail covers with a white lingerie panty and a top that looks like she ripped down a long curtain from one side of an Empire window? And that’s just the beginning of the bizarreness. She has two guys dressed in white body suits dancing around behind her. Kind of a Janet Jackson rhythm nation style move together punctuated with a few Megan thee Stallion type side hip thrusts. Why?
Where did this all start? I can think back to some of Sia’s weird performances where she’s singing with that huge haystack like wig covering the top half of her face and a few dancers moving bizarrely around like they were trying out for the Woody Allen movie where he pretended they were sperm. Or the series of black women singers on SNL with two black women dancers gyrating around behind them. When did this become a thing? And why?
The music and the singing were nothing much, except when old Charlie held a note at the end of a line, which she did in each of her two performances that night. The second performance she wore black instead of white and had nail covers on, only an inch and a half. The getup was a cross between a bikini and a sexy criss cross strappy cover up with a black kind of kilt bag with fringe on the bottom centered over her crotch that covered up her pubic parts when she did her wide horse stance pelvic thrusts.
Again I ask, why?
Then we get to Ukraine and why?
What’s the point?
Putin is remembering the glory of the Russian Empire or the USSR. He seems to have forgotten the history of how the Ukrainians hated the oppression by Stalin and then the Nazis and then the USSR. That seems to have slipped his mind. Many suspect his mind is slipping.
I watched an older SNL last night and was laughing as usual until they had the feature singer on. I loved seeing the woman who starred in The Gambit. Anya-Taylor Joy. However, the featured singer was difficult to watch. Why do they keep grabbing their own crotch? I am sure the lead singer must have gotten off for as long as he held his crotch. The he had it decorated with flames, His dance group wore some get-up, weird costumes that looked like plastic but when they turned around you could see part of their butts with some strap going up their hind quarters. The last time I saw something to this effect was in Washington DC and their was a Gay pride parade where the guys wore chaps and nothing under neath. I guess I am just getting old.
You guys watch some weird TV. But putting two imponderables together makes my brain hurt. I can answer Kathy’s question as to why the dancers grab their crotch but I too am too old, I guess.