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"content": "\u003cp>It was an art historian’s chance discovery of a lifetime. Over 40 years ago, a museum director in Florence, Italy, found a hidden room whose walls were covered in drawings believed to be the work of Michelangelo and his disciples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the drawings are not signed by the master, art experts say some of the sketches in charcoal and chalk are almost certain to be Michelangelo originals. They could shed light not only on the Renaissance artist’s creative process but also on a mysterious and dangerous period in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The room is located in Florence’s Basilica di San Lorenzo. That was the official church of the Medici family — the famous patrons of the arts who governed Florence, and later Tuscany, for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 1520, the Medicis commissioned Michelangelo to design a family mausoleum. It came to be known as the Medici Chapels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors to the Chapels speak in hushed tones as they admire the nude marble sculptures adorning the tombs of Lorenzo de’ Medici and two other relatives. The naked forms — allegories of four parts of day — project an intense sensation of serenity and philosophical contemplation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But historians believe Michelangelo eventually betrayed his patrons by joining a 1527 revolt that drove the Medicis out of Florence. When the family returned three years later, Michelangelo is thought to have gone into hiding for months — in the secret dwelling below the chapels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hidden room, 23 feet by 6 1/2 feet, was discovered in 1975 by a museum director who spotted a trapdoor below a wardrobe that led to the room. After cleaning the walls, the museum director discovered dozens of doodles and scribbles on the walls. Some of the drawings called to mind known works by the master.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For security reasons, there is no access for the public and researchers need special permission to visit the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to go down a series of very steep steps, and you start seeing all these drawings that are breathtaking,” says Paola d’Agostino, director of the Bargello Museum that oversees the Medici Chapels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the drawings in the hidden room are varied. Some recall Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. One is similar to the artist’s bigger-than-life David sculpture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a drawing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Laocoon-Greek-mythology\">Laocoon\u003c/a>, based on a statue from antiquity depicting a mythological attack on a Trojan priest and his two sons by writhing sea snakes. 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"content": "\u003cp>https://youtu.be/UW_xEqCWrm0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a Nigerian rapper released his own version of Childish Gambino’s hit song and music video “This Is America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s called “This Is Nigeria” and was written and performed by lawyer-turned-musician Falz The Bahd Guy. Like the hugely popular Donald Glover song and video (Gambino is his stage name), the Nigerian version looks at harsh everyday realities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “This Is America,” the issues include gun violence, racism and the distraction of viral entertainment and social media. Falz’s lyrics and visuals touch on some of Nigeria’s major problems: poor electricity supply, drug addiction and government corruption. The video even features veiled Muslim girls to allude to Boko Haram’s abductions of schoolgirls in the northeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falz performs in pidgin English, a blend of English and local languages that is widely spoken in West Africa. The chorus says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Nigeria.\u003cbr>\nNever-ending recession-o\u003cbr>\nWhere looters are killers and stealers are still contesting election-o.\u003cbr>\nPolitician wey steal some billion and billion e no dey go prison-o.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released on May 25, just four days before the 19th anniversary of democracy in the West African nation, the three-minute video has been viewed on YouTube 2.9 million times. The hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/thisisnigeria\">#ThisIsNigeria\u003c/a> has generated tens of thousands of tweets. And the song has captured the attention of the American rapper Diddy, who reposted “This Is Nigeria” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BjSNt8hFLkO/?hl=en&taken-by=diddy\">on his Instagram account\u003c/a>, where it currently has an additional 2.2 million views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falz, whose real name is Folarin Falana, is not new to social commentary. His music often reflects the views of his father, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi_Falana\">Femi Falana\u003c/a>, a popular Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist. Falz’s previous songs “Child of the World,” “Confirm” and “Wehdone Sir” tackle sexual harassment, Internet fraud and the rise of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pulse.ng/bi/lifestyle/these-african-millionaires-pastors-are-living-like-superstars-id7861633.html\">wealthy megachurch pastors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a non-Nigerian, the scenes in the video may be a bit hard to figure out at times. Here’s a guide to some of the references and meanings:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Colonialism [0:10]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-800x338.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-160x68.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-768x324.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-240x101.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-375x158.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-520x220.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The video begins with Falz clutching a boombox to his ear. The radio plays a clip from a speech delivered by his father, Falana, who is criticizing the Nigerian government: “… The medical facilities are poor. We operate a predatory neo-colonial capitalist system.” Falana speaks often on these issues on the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Herders vs. farmers [00:30]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A machete-wielding man, dressed as a herdsman, simulates an attack on a blindfolded man. “Fulani herdsmen still dey slaughter, carry people dey massacre,” Falz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene refers to the country’s simmering conflict between herders, many from the Fulani ethnic group, and farming communities. Since 2011, both sides have been embroiled in clashes \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/12/12/569913821/why-its-now-a-crime-to-let-cattle-graze-freely-in-2-nigerian-states\">that have claimed more than 2,000 lives, \u003c/a>according to Brussels-based think tank the International Crisis Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Money-eating snake [1:09]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834182\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-800x334.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-160x67.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-768x321.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-240x100.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-375x157.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-520x217.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A woman picks up wads of colorful notes on the ground as a snake emerges from a half calabash melon to eat up the money. It’s a reference to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/africa/nigerias-snake-swallows-100000/index.html\">a story from February\u003c/a>: Philomena Chieshe, a sales clerk of Nigeria’s exam board, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, claimed that a snake ate 36 million naira ($100,000) from her office. Falz makes a joke about this story: “Where that Madam Philomena?” he asks, “money vanish for your office, 36 mily, you say na animal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drug addiction [1:10]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the video, Falz shows a young Nigerian disembarking from a bus with a bottle of cough syrup in one hand. Last month, Nigeria’s health ministry banned cough syrup with codeine after a BBC \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43982302\">investigation \u003c/a>revealed the role of the syrup in Nigeria’s addiction epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Corruption [1:17]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Falz makes several references to corruption, calling out politicians who have been accused of stealing from the government. By many accounts, corruption is one of Nigeria’s biggest problems. According to a U.N. report, roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Crime-statistics/Nigeria/Corruption_Nigeria_2017_07_31_web.pdf\">$4.6 billion is spent on bribes\u003c/a> in Nigeria each year. This part of the video struck a chord with Kingsley Moghalu, former deputy governor of Nigeria’s central bank and presidential aspirant, who, after quoting the lyrics, called for a “new kind of leadership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MoghaluKingsley/status/1000430557124317190\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Boko Haram [1:22]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-800x339.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-160x68.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-768x325.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-240x102.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-375x159.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-520x220.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Falz with Boko Haram\u003cbr>(FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Falz is joined by four veiled Muslim schoolgirls, who depict the young women in Nigeria’s northeastern region where the radical group Boko Haram operates. Boko Haram militants came into the limelight in April 2014 when they kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a splinter group of Boko Haram abducted 110 girls from an all-girls boarding school in the town of Dapchi in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls are performing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pulse.ng/gist/pop-culture/shaku-shaku-the-new-street-dance-style-we-should-all-learn-in-2018-id7799976.html\">shaku shaku dance\u003c/a>, a street dance that became popular in Nigeria this year. A similar scene is represented in Glover’s “This Is America”: amid violence and chaos, students perform dances that have gone viral on the Internet. In Glover’s video, critics say the scene illustrates people’s tendency to get distracted by viral entertainment instead of focusing on social issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unethical preachers [1:47]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-800x301.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-160x60.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-768x289.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-240x90.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-375x141.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-520x196.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A young woman in a white garment is surrounded by a small group of people praying for her. In previous songs, Falz has criticized religious figures for money-making schemes. In “This is Nigeria,” Falz gets angrier: “Pastor put his hand in the breast of his member, he is pulling the demon out,” he raps. In April 2017, a Nigerian televangelist named Tim Omotoso was arrested and \u003ca href=\"https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1927417/1case-against-nigerian-sex-pastor-transferred-to-port-elizabeth-high-court/\">charged with trafficking\u003c/a> more than 30 girls and women from various branches of his church, and allegedly sexually exploiting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Erratic electricity [1:51]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Falz worries that there is “no electricity daily o.” Nigerians often complain about this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lazy youth [1:54]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When President Muhammadu Buhari got a chance to speak at a Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on April, he said “a lot of” young Nigerians “sit and do nothing” and expect everything for free, including housing, health care and education. This attracted a backlash on social media, with young Nigerians using the hashtag #LazyNigerianYouth to fire back at the president. Falz’s rap defies the president’s assessment: “people working multiple jobs and dem talk sey we lazy o.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Internet fraud [2:14]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Falz throws a jab at Nigerian fraudsters who try to con people into sending them money via the Internet. Known as Yahoo Boys, some pretend to be beautiful women online and get into romantic relationships in order to con people into sending money; others use malware to control systems and compromise emails. The stereotypical Yahoo Boy drives a fast car and flaunts his wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nigerian pop star has been vocal about his dislike for society’s acceptance of ill-gotten wealth. In the song, he criticizes society for acting like these fraudulent schemes are “so cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police brutality [2:30]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834184\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-800x303.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-160x61.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-768x291.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-240x91.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-375x142.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-520x197.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this scene, officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigerian police, arrest three university students only to free one of them upon receiving a bribe from his wealthy father. Two SARS officers hit and kick one of the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr44/4868/2016/en/\">a report from Amnesty International\u003c/a> in 2016, SARS has been cited for accepting bribes as well as engaging in extortion, torture and degrading treatment of detainees in their custody. In December 2017, using the hashtag #EndSARS on social media, Nigerians \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/anti-sars-campaign-ig-orders-investigation-anti-robbery-squad/\">strongly called for an end to the brutality\u003c/a> meted out by SARS. In response, the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris ordered an investigation of the anti-robbery squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“I mean transmission” [3:00]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13834196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-800x304.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-160x61.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-768x292.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-240x91.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-375x143.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-520x198.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This scene is a parody of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecable.ng/trending-video-mean-transmission-transmissionigp-struggles-read-speech\">popular video\u003c/a> from mid-May in which police chief Idris delivered a speech but ended up saying the word “transmission” over and over, rendering his talk nonsensical.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The reaction …\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Nigerians are critical of the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AbiolaAwosika1/status/1000594961316876290\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many are praising the song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/obyezeks/status/1000414042433998849\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Thereal_TommyB/status/1000131143247826944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the song,” Ezichi Ogbu, a senior at the University of Nigeria, says with a smile. “Everything about Falz’s ‘This is Nigeria’ depicts the ills affecting our society. He is serving as a voice of the people on the street, and he did this so well by creating certain situations on the background that tell the story better and in clear terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a State of the Union address delivered just a few days to Democracy Day,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/profile/eromo-egbejule\">Eromo Egbejule \u003c/a>a Nigerian writer, journalist and West African editor of \u003cem>The Africa Report\u003c/em>. “This is instructive socio-political commentary in a time where only a few bother with socially conscious music. The message has been delivered and right on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural critics like Joey Akan, a music journalist based in Lagos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/28/africa/falz-this-is-nigeria-video-analysis/index.html\">are drawing parallels\u003c/a> between Falz and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until his death in 1997, Kuti also used music to criticize military dictators, corruption and other social problems. But his frankness and acerbic criticism came with consequences: He was arrested on several occasions, jailed and beaten by soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything like that were to happen to Falz, some of his fans say they’ll have his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/segalink/status/1000518855159177222\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Linus Unah is a freelance journalist covering global health, conflict, agriculture and technology in Nigeria. Find him \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/linusunah?lang=en\">\u003cem>@linusunah\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Nigerian+Rapper+Goes+Viral+With+His+Take+On+%27This+Is+America%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Nigeria.\u003cbr>\nNever-ending recession-o\u003cbr>\nWhere looters are killers and stealers are still contesting election-o.\u003cbr>\nPolitician wey steal some billion and billion e no dey go prison-o.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released on May 25, just four days before the 19th anniversary of democracy in the West African nation, the three-minute video has been viewed on YouTube 2.9 million times. The hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/thisisnigeria\">#ThisIsNigeria\u003c/a> has generated tens of thousands of tweets. And the song has captured the attention of the American rapper Diddy, who reposted “This Is Nigeria” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BjSNt8hFLkO/?hl=en&taken-by=diddy\">on his Instagram account\u003c/a>, where it currently has an additional 2.2 million views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Falz, whose real name is Folarin Falana, is not new to social commentary. His music often reflects the views of his father, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femi_Falana\">Femi Falana\u003c/a>, a popular Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist. Falz’s previous songs “Child of the World,” “Confirm” and “Wehdone Sir” tackle sexual harassment, Internet fraud and the rise of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pulse.ng/bi/lifestyle/these-african-millionaires-pastors-are-living-like-superstars-id7861633.html\">wealthy megachurch pastors\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a non-Nigerian, the scenes in the video may be a bit hard to figure out at times. Here’s a guide to some of the references and meanings:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Colonialism [0:10]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-800x338.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-160x68.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-768x324.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-240x101.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-375x158.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-poverty-10s_custom-3756e2a13ca60a4cc4b70bdcb99343bf8d637a38-s800-c85-520x220.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The video begins with Falz clutching a boombox to his ear. The radio plays a clip from a speech delivered by his father, Falana, who is criticizing the Nigerian government: “… The medical facilities are poor. We operate a predatory neo-colonial capitalist system.” Falana speaks often on these issues on the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Herders vs. farmers [00:30]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A machete-wielding man, dressed as a herdsman, simulates an attack on a blindfolded man. “Fulani herdsmen still dey slaughter, carry people dey massacre,” Falz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene refers to the country’s simmering conflict between herders, many from the Fulani ethnic group, and farming communities. Since 2011, both sides have been embroiled in clashes \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/12/12/569913821/why-its-now-a-crime-to-let-cattle-graze-freely-in-2-nigerian-states\">that have claimed more than 2,000 lives, \u003c/a>according to Brussels-based think tank the International Crisis Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Money-eating snake [1:09]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834182\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-800x334.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-160x67.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-768x321.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-240x100.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-375x157.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-money-eating-snake-1m7s_custom-059fde4ebaa8ef0571ebd2a89f65059a3df9970f-s800-c85-520x217.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A woman picks up wads of colorful notes on the ground as a snake emerges from a half calabash melon to eat up the money. It’s a reference to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/africa/nigerias-snake-swallows-100000/index.html\">a story from February\u003c/a>: Philomena Chieshe, a sales clerk of Nigeria’s exam board, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, claimed that a snake ate 36 million naira ($100,000) from her office. Falz makes a joke about this story: “Where that Madam Philomena?” he asks, “money vanish for your office, 36 mily, you say na animal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drug addiction [1:10]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the video, Falz shows a young Nigerian disembarking from a bus with a bottle of cough syrup in one hand. Last month, Nigeria’s health ministry banned cough syrup with codeine after a BBC \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43982302\">investigation \u003c/a>revealed the role of the syrup in Nigeria’s addiction epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Corruption [1:17]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Falz makes several references to corruption, calling out politicians who have been accused of stealing from the government. By many accounts, corruption is one of Nigeria’s biggest problems. According to a U.N. report, roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Crime-statistics/Nigeria/Corruption_Nigeria_2017_07_31_web.pdf\">$4.6 billion is spent on bribes\u003c/a> in Nigeria each year. This part of the video struck a chord with Kingsley Moghalu, former deputy governor of Nigeria’s central bank and presidential aspirant, who, after quoting the lyrics, called for a “new kind of leadership.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch3>Boko Haram [1:22]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-800x339.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-160x68.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-768x325.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-240x102.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-375x159.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-boko-harm-dance-2m_custom-1675c425e804ee20daacd94f820d860ce49188bf-s800-c85-520x220.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Falz with Boko Haram\u003cbr>(FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Falz is joined by four veiled Muslim schoolgirls, who depict the young women in Nigeria’s northeastern region where the radical group Boko Haram operates. Boko Haram militants came into the limelight in April 2014 when they kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a splinter group of Boko Haram abducted 110 girls from an all-girls boarding school in the town of Dapchi in northeastern Nigeria’s Yobe state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls are performing the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pulse.ng/gist/pop-culture/shaku-shaku-the-new-street-dance-style-we-should-all-learn-in-2018-id7799976.html\">shaku shaku dance\u003c/a>, a street dance that became popular in Nigeria this year. A similar scene is represented in Glover’s “This Is America”: amid violence and chaos, students perform dances that have gone viral on the Internet. In Glover’s video, critics say the scene illustrates people’s tendency to get distracted by viral entertainment instead of focusing on social issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Unethical preachers [1:47]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-800x301.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-160x60.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-768x289.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-240x90.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-375x141.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-dishonest-preachers-1m49s_custom-daea7038106e5f8f0118555123911e5985d97e46-s800-c85-520x196.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A young woman in a white garment is surrounded by a small group of people praying for her. In previous songs, Falz has criticized religious figures for money-making schemes. In “This is Nigeria,” Falz gets angrier: “Pastor put his hand in the breast of his member, he is pulling the demon out,” he raps. In April 2017, a Nigerian televangelist named Tim Omotoso was arrested and \u003ca href=\"https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1927417/1case-against-nigerian-sex-pastor-transferred-to-port-elizabeth-high-court/\">charged with trafficking\u003c/a> more than 30 girls and women from various branches of his church, and allegedly sexually exploiting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Erratic electricity [1:51]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Falz worries that there is “no electricity daily o.” Nigerians often complain about this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lazy youth [1:54]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When President Muhammadu Buhari got a chance to speak at a Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on April, he said “a lot of” young Nigerians “sit and do nothing” and expect everything for free, including housing, health care and education. This attracted a backlash on social media, with young Nigerians using the hashtag #LazyNigerianYouth to fire back at the president. Falz’s rap defies the president’s assessment: “people working multiple jobs and dem talk sey we lazy o.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Internet fraud [2:14]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Falz throws a jab at Nigerian fraudsters who try to con people into sending them money via the Internet. Known as Yahoo Boys, some pretend to be beautiful women online and get into romantic relationships in order to con people into sending money; others use malware to control systems and compromise emails. The stereotypical Yahoo Boy drives a fast car and flaunts his wealth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nigerian pop star has been vocal about his dislike for society’s acceptance of ill-gotten wealth. In the song, he criticizes society for acting like these fraudulent schemes are “so cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Police brutality [2:30]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13834184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13834184\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-800x303.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-160x61.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-768x291.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-240x91.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-375x142.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-sars-2m37s_custom-b2a66ea4bcd07597624b92de4257df8aaae5a590-s800-c85-520x197.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FalzVEVO via YouTube/Screen grab by NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this scene, officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a unit of the Nigerian police, arrest three university students only to free one of them upon receiving a bribe from his wealthy father. Two SARS officers hit and kick one of the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr44/4868/2016/en/\">a report from Amnesty International\u003c/a> in 2016, SARS has been cited for accepting bribes as well as engaging in extortion, torture and degrading treatment of detainees in their custody. In December 2017, using the hashtag #EndSARS on social media, Nigerians \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/anti-sars-campaign-ig-orders-investigation-anti-robbery-squad/\">strongly called for an end to the brutality\u003c/a> meted out by SARS. In response, the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris ordered an investigation of the anti-robbery squad.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“I mean transmission” [3:00]\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13834196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-800x304.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-160x61.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-768x292.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-240x91.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-375x143.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/tin-transmission-3m_custom-7668288260174f54fd81ba2a0735a8f06fb4fe27-s800-c85-520x198.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This scene is a parody of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecable.ng/trending-video-mean-transmission-transmissionigp-struggles-read-speech\">popular video\u003c/a> from mid-May in which police chief Idris delivered a speech but ended up saying the word “transmission” over and over, rendering his talk nonsensical.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The reaction …\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Nigerians are critical of the video.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“You can be aristocratic without having been born into an aristocratic family.” This is the gospel according to André Leon Talley, who rose from a childhood in segregated Durham, North Carolina, to become a fashion maven with \u003cem>Vogue\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Women’s Wear Daily\u003c/em>, Andy Warhol’s Factory and \u003cem>America’s Next Top Model\u003c/em>. The things that made Talley an outcast in childhood (his race, his larger-than-life stature, his sexuality, his affinity for capes) were what gave him the aura of royalty once he entered the fashion world. You won’t learn many dress tips from the new documentary \u003cem>The Gospel According to André\u003c/em>, or even more than a passing glimpse of him at work, but you will get a lovely taste of Talley’s style philosophy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a mindset that largely sounds familiar, even to those of us who wouldn’t know a Tom Ford from a Henry Ford: Style is about embracing yourself. 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In the church segments, as in elsewhere in the film, you’ll find yourself wishing for just a little more insight into how Talley sees these different factors of his identity — a lot of the movie’s wisdom coasts by on simply noting that there was no one else in the fashion world who looked like him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/KzZkVGCY5rY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Kate Novack has an affinity for New York’s cultural institutions, having produced documentaries on \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and famed restaurant Le Cirque. For her, Talley is a gateway into the luxurious, sometimes outlandish world of Manhattan high fashion — and, it should be noted, a \u003cem>safe\u003c/em> gateway. Talley’s early apprenticeships with Andy Warhol and Diana Vreeland made him a regular at Studio 54 in the late ’70s and ’80s, but he strenuously insists that he never partook in the drugs and casual sex that characterized the scene. (The film implies this was his church upbringing paying off.) While everyone else was riding the hedonism, Talley became a sort of gentle giant cheerleader for industry pillars like Anna Wintour, Valentino and Marc Jacobs, who gush about him on camera; meanwhile, privately, he laments that he put so much effort into his work that he was never able to find happiness in a romantic partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Novack’s choice of footage favors the quirky or odd over the informative. Scenes of Talley at his estate in White Plains, watching construction workers cut down a tree, tell us little about who he is as a person. Ditto when he visits Isabella Rossellini’s pig farms; the point of the sequence is to brag that he can casually hang out with Rossellini, and laugh at her pigs, rather than to reveal anything new about Talley himself. 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For Black Thought, the appeal of a collaborative series featuring a rotating cast of producers is less about hogging the spotlight than delivering stream-of-consciousness flows without the meticulous plotting associated with The Roots’ high-concept approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a bigger reveal behind Black Thought’s album release, and it drove our conversation, which took place in Manhattan in April. By 16, he’d lost both parents and found his life’s calling. It became his saving grace. At 46, he’s beginning to unmask in music and life. 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But this is the era of microfiche as opposed to just being able to Google what had taken place. There have been some books that have come out over the years about the Philly Black Mafia, or an organization called Black Brothers, Inc. And just information that has come out in more recent years about a particular mosque in Philly, Mosque No. 12 in the Philadelphia Islamic community at that time, that has shed a little bit more light on my father and what his sort of dealings were — one side of what his dealings were. But there’s still very much that remains a mystery to me, even to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the harsh reality of losing his mother as a teenager\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing that she was a fighter, I know that she put up as much of a fight as she could. But we lost her. No one had heard from her for about three or four days, which seemed strange. She would go on binges; she would disappear sometimes for 24 hours, maybe 48 hours at a time. 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Requests for comment from the attorneys representing Kesha and Dr. Luke were not immediately returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeal Kesha lost this week was in response to a New York suit filed by Dr. Luke in October 2016, accusing her of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/arts/music/kesha-dr-luke-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defamation\u003c/a> and breach of contract; he asserted that her rape and abuse allegations were rooted in bitter contract renegotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tuesday’s decision, the court ruled that Kesha’s appeal was “palpably insufficient and devoid of merit” and that her counterclaims were in part “speculative, contradicted by her own allegations that she had continued performing under the agreements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Luke first signed the singer in 2005, when she was 18 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kesha’s original suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accused Dr. Luke of sexual assault and battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, civil harassment, unfair business, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Luke denied Kesha’s allegations and countersued the singer for defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2015, the singer (born Kesha Rose Sebert) filed an injunction, asking to be let out of her recording contract with Dr. Luke’s label, Kemosabe, a label imprint owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Four months later, she amended her injunction request, charging that SME was aware of the alleged abuse against her and also knew about other alleged victims of Dr. Luke. She also submitted a motion asking for the New York litigation to be put on pause so that her case in California could continue; Dr. Luke filed an opposing motion, which he was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, Kesha’s injunction to to be released from her Sony contract was denied. Afterwards, fans and fellow artists publicly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/23/467819740/-freekesha-puts-a-legal-battle-in-a-public-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rallied\u003c/a> to her side, including Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson. Dr. Luke had also worked closely with Clarkson, producing such smashes for her as “Since U Been Gone” and “My Life Would Suck Without You.” In an interview with Australian radio station \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiis1065.com.au/entertainment/entertainment-news/kelly-clarkson-slams-dr-luke-after-kesha-rape-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KIIS 1065\u003c/a>, Clarkson asserted\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that she had only worked with him because she had been “literally … \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-kelly-clarkson-dr-luke-demeaning-20160307-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackmailed\u003c/a>” by her label, RCA, another subsidiary of SME.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2016, all of Kesha’s abuse claims in New York were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473416748/pop-star-kesha-loses-court-battle-against-producer-dr-luke\">dismissed\u003c/a> by Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich, who also ruled in Tuesday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2016, \u003cem>Vanity Fair \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/08/kesha-ties-revealed-judge-sony-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> that Kornreich is married to Ed Kornreich, a lawyer and partner in the firm Proskauer Rose, which has represented SME. (Proskauer Rose was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.wnyc.org/story/investigation-harassment-nypr-finds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought in\u003c/a> by member station New York Public Radio to conduct an investigation regarding allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior; the firm \u003ca href=\"https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2018/Apr/24/Proskauer_Report_to_the_NYPR_Board_of_Trustees_April_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released\u003c/a> its findings last month.) In response, Kornreich said that her husband’s specialty within the large firm is health care and that their relationship is \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2016/12/08/judge-blasts-keshas-legal-team-for-trying-to-discredit-her/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">irrelevant\u003c/a> to Kesha’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that 2016 decision, Kornreich \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/06/473284900/judge-dismisses-keshas-hate-crime-claims-against-producer-dr-luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threw out\u003c/a> Kesha’s claims of hate crimes and human rights abuses, ruling that Dr. Luke’s alleged abuses occurred “outside New York and beyond the legal time limit,” adding that “every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2016, Kesha dropped all her charges against the producer in California. 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She also submitted a motion asking for the New York litigation to be put on pause so that her case in California could continue; Dr. Luke filed an opposing motion, which he was granted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, Kesha’s injunction to to be released from her Sony contract was denied. Afterwards, fans and fellow artists publicly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/02/23/467819740/-freekesha-puts-a-legal-battle-in-a-public-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rallied\u003c/a> to her side, including Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson. Dr. Luke had also worked closely with Clarkson, producing such smashes for her as “Since U Been Gone” and “My Life Would Suck Without You.” In an interview with Australian radio station \u003ca href=\"http://www.kiis1065.com.au/entertainment/entertainment-news/kelly-clarkson-slams-dr-luke-after-kesha-rape-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KIIS 1065\u003c/a>, Clarkson asserted\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that she had only worked with him because she had been “literally … \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-kelly-clarkson-dr-luke-demeaning-20160307-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackmailed\u003c/a>” by her label, RCA, another subsidiary of SME.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2016, all of Kesha’s abuse claims in New York were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473416748/pop-star-kesha-loses-court-battle-against-producer-dr-luke\">dismissed\u003c/a> by Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich, who also ruled in Tuesday’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2016, \u003cem>Vanity Fair \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/08/kesha-ties-revealed-judge-sony-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> that Kornreich is married to Ed Kornreich, a lawyer and partner in the firm Proskauer Rose, which has represented SME. 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In response, Kornreich said that her husband’s specialty within the large firm is health care and that their relationship is \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2016/12/08/judge-blasts-keshas-legal-team-for-trying-to-discredit-her/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">irrelevant\u003c/a> to Kesha’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that 2016 decision, Kornreich \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/06/473284900/judge-dismisses-keshas-hate-crime-claims-against-producer-dr-luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threw out\u003c/a> Kesha’s claims of hate crimes and human rights abuses, ruling that Dr. Luke’s alleged abuses occurred “outside New York and beyond the legal time limit,” adding that “every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2016, Kesha dropped all her charges against the producer in California. 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If your racism lasts longer than four hours, please see a doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambien’s manufacturer, Sanofi-Aventis, responded to the news on Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992\">saying via Twitter\u003c/a>, “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listing Ambien’s actual side effects on its website, the company’s \u003ca href=\"http://products.sanofi.us/ambien/ambien.pdf\">warnings and precautions\u003c/a> for Ambien include a section on “Abnormal Thinking and Behavioral Changes” — saying the side effects can include a lack of inhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanofi-Aventis also tells people to stop taking Ambien if they find themselves performing complex behaviors — like making phone calls or driving a car — without being fully awake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can rarely be determined with certainty whether a particular instance of the abnormal behaviors listed above is drug induced, spontaneous in origin, or a result of an underlying psychiatric or physical disorder,” the company says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Barr denied that she was putting the blame on Ambien, saying it was “just an explanation not an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, Barr replied to one critic on Twitter, “Yes, I have had odd ambien experiences on tweeting late at night-like many other ppl do. I BLAME MYSELF OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has since chimed in on Twitter — not exactly defending Barr, but rather complaining about his own treatment. “Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that “ABC does not tolerate comments like those” made by Roseanne Barr,” he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1001848460881035265\">wrote\u003c/a>. “Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not immediately clear what statements Trump might be referencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1001848460881035265\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the \u003cem>Roseanne\u003c/em> show canceled, others who were involved with the project weighed in on the star’s comments — including Sara Gilbert, who had been executive producer on the reboot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert said the remarks are “abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show,” adding that she is disappointed in her longtime friend and colleague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her initial response to that tweet, Barr said, “Wow! unreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Wednesday, she took a softer stance, coming to Gilbert’s defense after one of her followers sent a critical tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, I understand her position and why she said what she said,” Barr said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“AMBIEN SIDE EFFECTS: Peddling bizarre conspiracy theories, voting for white nationalists, doing photo shoots while dressed as Hitler and tanking your career by calling black women apes. If your racism lasts longer than four hours, please see a doctor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ambien’s manufacturer, Sanofi-Aventis, responded to the news on Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992\">saying via Twitter\u003c/a>, “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Listing Ambien’s actual side effects on its website, the company’s \u003ca href=\"http://products.sanofi.us/ambien/ambien.pdf\">warnings and precautions\u003c/a> for Ambien include a section on “Abnormal Thinking and Behavioral Changes” — saying the side effects can include a lack of inhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanofi-Aventis also tells people to stop taking Ambien if they find themselves performing complex behaviors — like making phone calls or driving a car — without being fully awake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can rarely be determined with certainty whether a particular instance of the abnormal behaviors listed above is drug induced, spontaneous in origin, or a result of an underlying psychiatric or physical disorder,” the company says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Barr denied that she was putting the blame on Ambien, saying it was “just an explanation not an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, Barr replied to one critic on Twitter, “Yes, I have had odd ambien experiences on tweeting late at night-like many other ppl do. I BLAME MYSELF OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump has since chimed in on Twitter — not exactly defending Barr, but rather complaining about his own treatment. “Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that “ABC does not tolerate comments like those” made by Roseanne Barr,” he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1001848460881035265\">wrote\u003c/a>. “Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not immediately clear what statements Trump might be referencing.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>With the \u003cem>Roseanne\u003c/em> show canceled, others who were involved with the project weighed in on the star’s comments — including Sara Gilbert, who had been executive producer on the reboot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert said the remarks are “abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show,” adding that she is disappointed in her longtime friend and colleague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her initial response to that tweet, Barr said, “Wow! unreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Wednesday, she took a softer stance, coming to Gilbert’s defense after one of her followers sent a critical tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, I understand her position and why she said what she said,” Barr said. She added that she forgives Gilbert, saying, “It just shocked me a bit, but I indeed [f*****] up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to her remark about Jarrett, Barr is also being criticized over her recent attacks on both Chelsea Clinton and billionaire George Soros, who is a prominent donor to Democratic campaigns. On Monday, Barr regurgitated a rumor that Clinton had married a nephew of Soros — a rumor that was popularized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chelsea-clinton-george-soros-nephew/\">actor and Trump supporter Scott Baio\u003c/a> shortly before the 2016 presidential election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton/status/1001418687822385152\">replied\u003c/a> to Barr early Tuesday, “Good morning Roseanne — my given middle name is Victoria. I imagine George Soros’s nephews are lovely people. I’m just not married to one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barr apologized but then followed it up by repeating another conspiracy theory — that Soros and his father worked with Nazis during World War II (a rumor that \u003ca href=\"https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/\">has been debunked\u003c/a> and that Soros \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/389753-soros-responds-to-roseanne-her-comments-are-an-insult-to\">denounced again yesterday\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, Barr also invoked President Trump. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1001761455404797953\">Barr said\u003c/a>, “i feel bad for \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/POTUS\">@POTUS\u003c/a>-he goes thru this every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the cancellation of her rebooted show, reruns of the original program, which ran for much of the 1990s, were pulled by Viacom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Roseanne+Barr+Says+Ambien+Played+Role+In+Racist+Tweet+That+Spiked+Her+Show%27s+Reboot&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tuesday morning, unequivocal proof finally arrived that Humpty Dumpty is the true consciousness of the Internet. Remember what the giant egg told Alice in Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘It means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In Humpty’s looking-glass existence, facts, logic or hierarchies of taste do not adhere. They haven’t been reversed; they’ve just — poof! — vanished. Carroll’s book gives us the Victorian version, but it’s a similar environment that produces fake news, memes fetishizing overweight cats and now … Weezer covering Toto’s “Africa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/E4c7EE8_IX0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is the decision by a long-standing Southern California pop-punk band to faithfully render a hit by an even more long-standing group of ace LA studio musicians the ultimate evidence that life online has destroyed both logic and human intuition?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, some backstory. Weezer, the Los Angeles-based quartet that emerged in the 1990s with bemusingly catchy hits like “Buddy Holly,” is one of a handful of pop-punk bands that, like Woody Wooderson in the movie \u003cem>Dazed and Confused,\u003c/em> keep getting older while a good chunk of their fan base stays the same age — 14. Back in December, one such kid thought it would be funny to suggest on Twitter that the band cover the soft-rock megasmash. Why? The kid herself, named Mary, didn’t know, she told a reporter who \u003ca href=\"https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/pazg3g/meet-the-hero-teen-determined-to-convince-weezer-to-cover-totos-africa\">tracked her down\u003c/a>, though she has probably come up with something by now, in that 14-year-old way rationalization follows impulse. (I know from teen logic — I live with a high school freshman who adores both Weezer and “Africa.”) How did she know the Toto tune? Maybe from the Netflix sci-fi sensation \u003cem>Stranger Things, \u003c/em>which featured it in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theodysseyonline.com/offical-ranking-songs-stranger-things\">scene\u003c/a> redolent of high school sex. Or maybe, as she implied to that reporter, she just knew it. No particular reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, Mary did what teens do — she set up \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/weezerafrica\">a Twitter account\u003c/a> solely devoted to needling Weezer, her favorite band, into covering “Africa.” It was a joke, but also an attempt to make a meme, that ultimate expression of unfixed meaning, a thing people share, well, for no particular reason. Memes are funny. Not \u003cem>that\u003c/em> funny but, you know, share and they become \u003cem>more\u003c/em> funny. Early on in Mary’s campaign, Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson responded to her, and the wheels started turning. Even though she wasn’t that successful at creating a meme — her account has just south of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/weezerafrica\">2,000 followers\u003c/a> — Mary did turn an idle thought into a prime directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some time in the social media spotlight and a fake-out that arrived last week — with Weezer having covered a different \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jr-p0lQZo\">Toto song\u003c/a> — the band has finally taken the bait. It was inevitable, because Weezer’s music is as Humpty Dumpty-ish — as grounded in toppled meanings — as the Internet itself. Band leader Rivers Cuomo has spent a quarter century making idle thoughts into cash money on the pop charts: 1994’s “Undone (The Sweater Song)” is a masterwork, the post-Nirvana answer to the Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus”; and decades of subsequent hits — from “Hash Pipe” to “Beverly Hills” to “Back to the Shack” — have fed the blur of moral and perceptual confusion the band communicates. (Sometimes, as on the fetishizing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g\">El Scorcho\u003c/a>,” the moral compass has been just plain off.) Its videos, starting with the “Buddy Holly” clip in which director Spike Jonze inserted the group into footage from the television rerun fave \u003cem>Happy Days,\u003c/em> were memes before memes existed. People loved Weezer for its profligate cleverness; many hated the band for the same reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toto’s reputation is, in many ways, the opposite of Weezer’s; more accurately, it stands for a different way of thinking about music altogether. Deeply scorned by hipster tastemakers for decades as a vapid cash-making machine, Toto has been redeemed in the Internet age by a new generation unencumbered by strict hierarchies of taste. And “Africa” is its signature — meme-makers slightly older than Mary established \u003ca href=\"http://ibless.therains.downin.africa/\">websites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/africabytotobot?lang=en\">bots\u003c/a> in its honor. Critics (always ready for a hot take) wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/43n95n/how-africa-by-toto-became-the-internets-favorite-song\">belated\u003c/a> appreciations of the song’s good-natured groove. All, however, must acknowledge that the song is at best free-associative, its music not at all evocative of the continent it claims to evoke, its lyrics dreamlike in that way that eating a large meal, perhaps at an Ethiopian restaurant, makes one dream. (Start anywhere: “As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti,” for example, since it’s nearly impossible to see that mountain from that region.) Even those who’ve praised it must admit that “Africa” is deeply nonsensical. It’s \u003cem>another\u003c/em> version of “I Am the Walrus” — but an accidental one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Weezer covering “Africa” at the behest of a young teen makes perfect sense, right? Sure. But what larger story is furthered by this occurrence? What cog in the grand scheme is set right? This is where the phenomenon shows how Humpty Dumpty our Internet-driven thinking has become. It would be an event if an unequivocally great band covered an inarguably terrible song; if roundly worshipped punk elders Fugazi covered Jefferson Starship’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time\">We Built This City\u003c/a>,” for example. That would invert taste in a tasteful way. The same thing would be accomplished in reverse if a long-scorned artist — John Mayer, who has always been critic kryptonite — covered a universally worshipped one, like Prince. Oh wait, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ofbohKVBc\">he did\u003c/a>. Such moments keep pop hierarchies in order by logically challenging and refreshing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Weezer covering “Africa”? Here’s a band that music aficionados are confused and divided about covering a song that \u003cem>everyone\u003c/em> is confused and divided about. Despite the hugs it has recently earned from the hive mind, “Africa” remains utterly neutral when it comes to redefining what’s “great” in pop. Unlike other critically reclaimed pop hits, it doesn’t represent a marginalized identity group, or a lost moment in history (“\u003ca href=\"http://www.yachtrock.com/\">yacht rock\u003c/a>” has been back for more than a decade), or even the most explosive moment from the group that made it. (That’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htgr3pvBr-I\">Hold the Line\u003c/a>.” Don’t fight me.) Nor is “Africa” offensive, even as an act of cultural appropriation, since it doesn’t actually appropriate anything African. “Africa” is deeply, essentially, innocuous; designed to be background, it has never faded, nor — before now — ever truly surfaced as important. From the minute it was released, it was always just \u003cem>there\u003c/em>. Therefore, it defies reclamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weezer is in a similar position within pop history’s hierarchies of taste. It doesn’t own the origin story of a genre even the way Nirvana did, or as Green Day does within pop-punk. It hasn’t fed its longevity with the fuel of moral integrity, as Pearl Jam has. Nobody’s nostalgic for Weezer, because Cuomo has never stopped for more than a couple of years. The controversies that do plague the band, mostly about Cuomo’s attitude toward \u003ca href=\"https://themuse.jezebel.com/thank-god-for-girls-tracking-weezer-s-brand-of-nerd-mi-1741003116\">women\u003c/a>, have become dulled by the repetition of venial sins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does the Weezer version tell us anything new about “Africa”? We don’t have a video, so there’s no knowing how Cuomo would deal with the oddly oblique references to Africanness in Toto’s rendering (the percussion parts, provided by guest Lenny Castro, that the synths overwhelm, and certain images in the original video, like a black woman model dressed in conservative American dress and the spear thrown at singer David Paich by a half-seen brown-skinned adversary). Comparing the recordings side by side, they’re very similar. Weezer’s is in a different key, has punchier drums and a bit more guitar, and a weird little keyboard solo midway. Unlike most pop-punk versions of Top 40 hits, however, this isn’t a re-imagining. Cuomo lets the song pass through him rather than making it his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, let’s review. A band many people feel kind of weird about covered a song many people feel kind of weird about, pretty much note for note, and it’s a major Internet event. People like me are even writing think pieces about it. “It’s \u003cem>very\u003c/em> provoking,” as the egg told Alice. Might as well enjoy this tea party, bless the rains and wait for the Weezer/Toto collaboration that will undoubtedly come soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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Even though she wasn’t that successful at creating a meme — her account has just south of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/weezerafrica\">2,000 followers\u003c/a> — Mary did turn an idle thought into a prime directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some time in the social media spotlight and a fake-out that arrived last week — with Weezer having covered a different \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jr-p0lQZo\">Toto song\u003c/a> — the band has finally taken the bait. It was inevitable, because Weezer’s music is as Humpty Dumpty-ish — as grounded in toppled meanings — as the Internet itself. Band leader Rivers Cuomo has spent a quarter century making idle thoughts into cash money on the pop charts: 1994’s “Undone (The Sweater Song)” is a masterwork, the post-Nirvana answer to the Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus”; and decades of subsequent hits — from “Hash Pipe” to “Beverly Hills” to “Back to the Shack” — have fed the blur of moral and perceptual confusion the band communicates. (Sometimes, as on the fetishizing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g\">El Scorcho\u003c/a>,” the moral compass has been just plain off.) Its videos, starting with the “Buddy Holly” clip in which director Spike Jonze inserted the group into footage from the television rerun fave \u003cem>Happy Days,\u003c/em> were memes before memes existed. People loved Weezer for its profligate cleverness; many hated the band for the same reason.\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/FTQbiNvZqaY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FTQbiNvZqaY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Toto’s reputation is, in many ways, the opposite of Weezer’s; more accurately, it stands for a different way of thinking about music altogether. Deeply scorned by hipster tastemakers for decades as a vapid cash-making machine, Toto has been redeemed in the Internet age by a new generation unencumbered by strict hierarchies of taste. And “Africa” is its signature — meme-makers slightly older than Mary established \u003ca href=\"http://ibless.therains.downin.africa/\">websites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/africabytotobot?lang=en\">bots\u003c/a> in its honor. Critics (always ready for a hot take) wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/43n95n/how-africa-by-toto-became-the-internets-favorite-song\">belated\u003c/a> appreciations of the song’s good-natured groove. All, however, must acknowledge that the song is at best free-associative, its music not at all evocative of the continent it claims to evoke, its lyrics dreamlike in that way that eating a large meal, perhaps at an Ethiopian restaurant, makes one dream. (Start anywhere: “As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti,” for example, since it’s nearly impossible to see that mountain from that region.) Even those who’ve praised it must admit that “Africa” is deeply nonsensical. It’s \u003cem>another\u003c/em> version of “I Am the Walrus” — but an accidental one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Weezer covering “Africa” at the behest of a young teen makes perfect sense, right? Sure. But what larger story is furthered by this occurrence? What cog in the grand scheme is set right? This is where the phenomenon shows how Humpty Dumpty our Internet-driven thinking has become. It would be an event if an unequivocally great band covered an inarguably terrible song; if roundly worshipped punk elders Fugazi covered Jefferson Starship’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time\">We Built This City\u003c/a>,” for example. That would invert taste in a tasteful way. The same thing would be accomplished in reverse if a long-scorned artist — John Mayer, who has always been critic kryptonite — covered a universally worshipped one, like Prince. Oh wait, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ofbohKVBc\">he did\u003c/a>. Such moments keep pop hierarchies in order by logically challenging and refreshing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Weezer covering “Africa”? Here’s a band that music aficionados are confused and divided about covering a song that \u003cem>everyone\u003c/em> is confused and divided about. Despite the hugs it has recently earned from the hive mind, “Africa” remains utterly neutral when it comes to redefining what’s “great” in pop. Unlike other critically reclaimed pop hits, it doesn’t represent a marginalized identity group, or a lost moment in history (“\u003ca href=\"http://www.yachtrock.com/\">yacht rock\u003c/a>” has been back for more than a decade), or even the most explosive moment from the group that made it. (That’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htgr3pvBr-I\">Hold the Line\u003c/a>.” Don’t fight me.) Nor is “Africa” offensive, even as an act of cultural appropriation, since it doesn’t actually appropriate anything African. “Africa” is deeply, essentially, innocuous; designed to be background, it has never faded, nor — before now — ever truly surfaced as important. From the minute it was released, it was always just \u003cem>there\u003c/em>. Therefore, it defies reclamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weezer is in a similar position within pop history’s hierarchies of taste. It doesn’t own the origin story of a genre even the way Nirvana did, or as Green Day does within pop-punk. It hasn’t fed its longevity with the fuel of moral integrity, as Pearl Jam has. Nobody’s nostalgic for Weezer, because Cuomo has never stopped for more than a couple of years. 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"content": "\u003cp>A love story between a black Army nurse and a white German POW during World War II? You couldn’t make that story up — and Alexis Clark didn’t. The former editor at \u003cem>Town & Country\u003c/em> is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. I spoke with her about her new book, \u003cem>Enemies in Love\u003c/em>, and what she learned about hidden Army history and the human heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is an edited version of our conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>What was the inspiration for this book, what got you rolling?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was really interested in the military after I found out that I was a distant relative of Colonel Charles Young. He was the highest ranking African-American in the army until his death in 1922. So I just started delving into African-Americans who served in the military. And I discovered a book called \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/G-I-Nightingales-Nurse-Corps-World/dp/0813190797\">G.I. Nightingales\u003c/a>, and it was about World War II nurses. There was a very brief chapter about black women who served in the Army Nurse Corps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when I first learned about Elinor Powell, and a little sentence that said she met and later married a German prisoner of war in Arizona. I was like, “Wait a minute. I need to unpack this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Who was Elinor Powell, and where did she come from?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elinor Elizabeth Powell was from a prominent African-American family from Milton, Mass — a progressive suburb outside of Boston. Her family was one of the few black families to settle there. Her father had served in the Great War. So basically, when she joined the Army, she was going in her father’s footsteps serving her country. There weren’t really any stories of egregious racism in Milton — Elinor was largely shielded from that. She had white friends, and went to white schools, and had a great childhood. So she thought she was doing her patriotic duty enlisting to serve in the war\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>What happened when she was assigned to an intake base in Arizona?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was at Fort Huachuca, about an hour and a half outside Tucson. And it was her first encounter with Jim Crow. The military at the time was entirely segregated, and Arizona functioned under Jim Crow. So this was her first experience seeing “Whites Only” and “Colored” signs. It was this great irony — she is serving her country, fighting a war against fascism and racism — and here she was on the receiving end by her own country! She realized that she couldn’t even get served at certain restaurants; she would be wearing her military uniform and they wouldn’t serve her. Or in some instances, they would tell her, “Well, we’ll bring you the food around back…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>She must have been outraged. Did other black soldiers feel the same way?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was doing my research, I would read various letters that black soldiers wrote to the NAACP, complaining that here they are serving their military and they’re in train stations and they see German POWs use the dining rooms with American guards. But \u003cem>they\u003c/em> didn’t have access. And that was also a shock to the Germans, because in most of their cases, they hadn’t traveled to the United States and they did not encounter African-Americans at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>So how did Elinor and her future husband, Frederick Albert, meet?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met at a prisoner of war camp in Florence, Arizona. The closest city was Phoenix, which is about an hour and a half away. Frederick was a great cook and a baker, and so his assignment was to work in the mess hall. So when the nurses entered for their meal, he spotted Eleanor and he said it was like he was under a spell. He walked right up to her and said, “You should know my name. I’m the man who’s going to marry you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Whoa! Just like that?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes! And he wasn’t the only one — she felt it, too. The attraction became stronger and stronger. Eventually they had a relationship. Then the war ended, and it was obvious Frederick was going to be shipped back to Europe at some point; he couldn’t stay at Camp Florence forever\u003cem>.\u003c/em> But Frederick and Elinor had a plan. They decided that they should conceive a child, because that was going to be the easiest and quickest way for Frederick to be able to return to the United States, because he would have to support a child. And that’s exactly what happened. So before he was deported, they conceived a child. And then he returned to Germany, and she returned home to Milton, pregnant and unmarried\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>I’m sure that was hugely popular with her family!\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, her father had died a few years before that, but her mother was very proper and she was not happy at all! She thought Elinor was being conned — that Frederick just wanted sex or a green card. But eventually he got permission to return, and they planned a small wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Was that the beginning of their Happily Ever After?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not exactly. When Frederick moved to the United States to marry Elinor and then start a family together, they struggled. They moved to Boston. They tried to find apartments, find work. As a mixed couple, no one wanted to live next to them; it was hard to get a lease. It was hard for him to find employment because he was German. (Remember, this was right after the war.) And Elinor knew that he was from a wealthy family, and she feared that he would regret his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>So at some point, the whole family went to Germany, because they thought that would be easier?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. Frederick’s father had done well after the war, and Frederick was positioned to take over his father’s engineering firm. And that’s what they did\u003cem>. \u003c/em>But it was not easy on Elinor.People were pointing, taunting her when she was walking down the street. She remembers that a man dropped his groceries when he saw her and the fruit just rolled down the lane. He couldn’t believe it! She said she felt like an animal in a zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>How did she fare with his family? After all, she was black and American, and this was a country where a lot of people believed in Hitler’s Master Race theory….\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His mother was very unkind. She didn’t speak fluent English, and she showed her displeasure by screaming at Elinor in German often. Frederick would watch his mother berate his wife, but he didn’t do anything\u003cem>.\u003c/em> He was not an aggressive man. He knew Elinor was very unhappy; they realized Germany wasn’t going to work. So they returned to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They started off in Morton, a suburb of Philadelphia. And they couldn’t enroll their son in the school that’s in their neighborhood \u003cem>— \u003c/em>the principal suggested the colored school nearby. So Eleanor pitched a fit and approached the NAACP. At the time, she had to go ahead and put her son in school. But I did see a newspaper clip, and eventually they desegregated the school that they wanted her son to originally attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Did the family stay in Morton?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family moved a lot, trying to find a place that would accept them. Finally they find a community called Village Creek, in South Norwalk, Conn. Frederick got a job at Pepperidge Farms, the baking company. And it literally was a neighborhood that said it’s a prejudice-free zone. So mixed couples, Jewish couples, artists, gays, you name it — they were welcome there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s where they settled\u003cem>. \u003c/em>The only thing that was difficult is that Eleanor and Frederick really didn’t bring up race with their children. So the boys had identity problems. Their older child had to undergo a lot of hardship because of their decision to be together, despite the fact that society was against them\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>What did you learn from researching and writing this book?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I learned that black women served this country during World War II. And I learned about their struggles to be even \u003cem>admitted\u003c/em> into the Army Nurse Corps. With that came a strict quota, even though there were nursing shortages. 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NPR has not independently confirmed the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those journalists who says Freeman made sexual comments and stared at her intently was CNN entertainment reporter Chloe Melas, one of the authors \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/entertainment/morgan-freeman-accusations/index.html\">of the report on Freeman’s conduct\u003c/a> that CNN published Thursday. She said it was her experience with Freeman that drove her to find out whether he had harassed other women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melas was six months’ pregnant when she met Freeman, 80, to interview him about the release of his movie \u003cem>Going In Style\u003c/em> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right when I walked into the room, he began making sexually suggestive comments to me,” she said in an interview with HLN. “As an entertainment reporter for over a decade, it was unlike anything I truly have ever experienced. One of those comments was caught on tape. 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