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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A woman identified in court as Angela said, “We will be able to live again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said, “I am a representation of every woman, boy, child, man that you have ever afflicted with your deplorable, inexplicable acts, and with that I leave you with yourself, Robert Sylvester Kelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman, known in court as Jane Doe 2, described enduring depression and stress related to Kelly’s abuse. She paused in her comments to demand his attention when Kelly whispered to his attorney. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I don’t want to interrupt his conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man identified as Charles, the father of another woman, said in a resigned tone, “So many people love you and they hate us.” He noted that Kelly hadn’t expressed remorse. Charles urged Kelly to confess and to ask for God’s forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kelly’s defense lawyer promises an appeal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Obviously he’s devastated,” Kelly’s lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said outside the courthouse. “Thirty years in prison is like a life sentence for him, but at the same time we knew the government was asking for 25 years. We were prepared for what the judge might impose and we are now prepared to fight this appeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Victims were heard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After the sentencing hearing, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said the case meant the “voices of mostly Black and brown women and children … were heard and believed, and for [them,] justice was finally achieved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decades of allegations\u003c/a> against the multi-platinum singer. In 2008, he stood trial in his hometown of Chicago for child pornography. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/91480976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquitted \u003c/a>of all charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>From there, Kelly continued to live his life of superstardom, performing across the world and selling out venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13848278/making-surviving-r-kelly-a-conversation-with-executive-producer-dream-hampton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> TV docuseries \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>\u003c/a> renewed interest in the sexual abuse allegations against Kelly and gave a sustained push to the activists who had been pushing for Kelly to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled off airwaves and stages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jovante Cunningham, an accuser who had appeared in \u003cem>Surviving R. Kelly\u003c/em>, said after the sentencing, “There wasn’t a day in my life, up until this moment, that I actually believed that the judicial system would come through for Black and brown girls. Thirty years did he do this, and 30 years is what he got.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=R.+Kelly+is+sentenced+to+30+years+in+prison+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Musicians React to Supreme Court Decision on Right to Abortion",
"headTitle": "Musicians React to Supreme Court Decision on Right to Abortion | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>When the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued its decision on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday\u003c/a>, effectively overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that granted the right to abortion, social media predictably exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13912860']Musicians were among those who immediately spoke up, and their reactions were overwhelmingly against the court’s decision. Many took to Twitter and Instagram. Others spoke up from the highly visible stages of Glastonbury \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13915299/stars-use-bet-awards-stage-to-criticize-roe-v-wade-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and the BET Awards\u003c/a>, which became pulpits for people demanding respect for individuals’ freedoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few musicians quickly penned songs in response to the rulings, or rewrote Americana chestnuts—including “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Several stars and music industry groups, including Lizzo and Rage Against the Machine, pledged significant profits from upcoming tours to support abortion-rights advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here is a list of musicians’ reactions and actions:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Lizzo, matched by Live Nation, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lizzo/status/1540473013543391232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged a million dollars\u003c/a> to Planned Parenthood.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rage Against The Machine \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CfNgfa5r4qQ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged nearly half a million dollars\u003c/a> to abortion services in Illinois and Wisconsin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jelousyliv/status/1540767329537196032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dedicated a performance of “F*** You” during their set at Glastonbury\u003c/a> to the five Supreme Court Justices who voted in the Court’s majority:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jelousyliv/status/1540767329537196032\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“All these irrelevant, old motherf******, trying to tell us what to do with our bodies,” Phoebe Bridgers \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/consequence/status/1540419643923390466?s=20&t=Ti-f6UChkf4mWa5QaYAbJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said during her Glastonbury set\u003c/a>, to raucous cheers from the audience.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Latto, the singer behind hit single “Big Energy,” used her acceptance speech at the BET awards \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItnjnSVJw2A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to share a tearful nod to abortion rights\u003c/a>: “It’s giving pro-choice, it’s never giving a man policing my body.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Raveena, who wrote “\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/track/0z6aLSVOKcrq5UuCjzEw5z?si=ca83b5076d7345aa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time Flies\u003c/a>” about an abortion she had in her twenties, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/raveena_aurora/status/1540478721194336258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared\u003c/a> that she’d had an ectopic pregnancy scare the same week as the ruling.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“The truth is that my heart breaks looking out into this audience, because I see so many people who deserve to have incredible lives, who deserve healthcare that they need,” said Halsey \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/stephxvg/status/1541343623094030337?s=20&t=Ti-f6UChkf4mWa5QaYAbJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at a performance in Arizona on June 26\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Singer-songwriter Reina Del Cid \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/annkpowers/status/1540934353269710849?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a haunting, spare take on “the Star-Spangled Banner\u003c/a>:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BurrdDoh/status/1540793095964483585\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1540382753677627393?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Swift quote-tweeted Michelle Obama\u003c/a>‘s statement on the Supreme Court decision, adding that she was “absolutely terrified” about the ruling.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Janelle Monae took a beat to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/itsKenBarbie/status/1541214582877966336?s=20&t=FExDxryxGBcGIo1XeHsVFg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flip off the Supreme Court\u003c/a> at the BET Awards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/foreverrwinter/status/1541137429398261763?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“F*** the Supreme Court,” said Lorde\u003c/a> during her own Glastonbury set.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MariahCarey/status/1540443554102779904?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mariah Carey reflected\u003c/a> on the decision’s impact on future generations on Twitter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1540411883408220160?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charli XCX encouraged\u003c/a> people across the world to act to protect abortion access.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Pink/status/1540816633039466496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P!nk took to Twitter\u003c/a> to tell her fans that if they didn’t believe in her values, she didn’t want them supporting her.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfMSrAAlliB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amanda Shires opened up\u003c/a> about the decision to talk about her abortion, saying, “I feel like the God that I believe in gave me the brain and the thinking and the knowledge to know what I should be able to do with my body.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/breland/status/1540506460144242693?s=20&t=Ti-f6UChkf4mWa5QaYAbJA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breland emphasized the need\u003c/a> for everyone to speak up for abortion access, and said this was only the beginning of a “hymn of oppression and control.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/breland/status/1540506460144242693\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Brandi Carlile added a note of hope to her protest, according to \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em>, expressing faith in the majority of American people and encouraging her fans to \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/music/concert-reviews/brandi-carlile-greek-theatre-tour-concert-review-1235303657/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let their emotions out\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/blkfootwhtfoot/status/1540446350109810689?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes\u003c/a> tied abortion rights in with police brutality and capitalism, saying: “Anger on top of anger on top of anger. This system has failed us again.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JasonIsbell/status/1540358578548121601?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Twitter, Jason Isbell\u003c/a> suggested gerrymandering shaped the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision, adding, “This is not what the people want.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sadler Vaden, a solo artist who also plays guitar in Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, tweeted in support of bodily autonomy, adding that it was a “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SadlerVaden/status/1540358240332140545?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sad day for our country.\u003c/a>“\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lukas Nelson \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfRtZR3FG-4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quickly penned a heartfelt ballad\u003c/a> about the consequences lack of abortion access will have.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Country artist and Apple Radio host Rissi Palmer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RissiPalmer/status/1540358254189957123?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offered a heartfelt and harrowing account of a miscarriage\u003c/a> to illustrate the variety of pregnancy experiences affected by the SCOTUS ruling.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RissiPalmer/status/1540358254189957123\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Lauren_Jenkins/status/1541177895196008448?s=20&t=OhVii4uiraMv0SDrxFLaHg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lauren Jenkins wondered\u003c/a> where the voices of mainstream country artists were in the moment.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MyMichaelaAnne/status/1540341383223033857?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michaela Anne speculated\u003c/a> about the possible effects of the Jan. 6 hearings on the integrity of the Supreme Court Justices that Donald Trump appointed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Country singer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KaitlinButts/status/1540354397615669252?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaitlin Butts referenced the emotional end\u003c/a> of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GJWxDKyk3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billie Eilish song\u003c/a> to express her feelings about the decision.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In line with decades of pro-choice activism, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PearlJam/status/1540341481973719040?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pearl Jam encouraged fans to support organizations\u003c/a> focused on providing and supporting abortion access.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On stage at Glastonbury, Megan Thee Stallion said her home state of Texas was “really embarrassing me right now” and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1541076372487020544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led the crowd in chanting\u003c/a> “my body, my motherf****** choice”:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1541076372487020544\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The Chicago artist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NnamdisWorld/status/1540400061862932481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NNAMDÏ shared on Twitter\u003c/a> that he was “never surprised but continuously disappointed” and recommended community-driven ways to support abortion access.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CfMW5C3qaYL/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cat Power shared screenshots\u003c/a> of reactions to the decision and information about a protest on Instagram, adding “We will NOT abandon people who need abortions right now we will do the opposite.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bon Iver’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/blobtower/status/1540358042100944896?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Vernon shared his frustration\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>In a lengthy Instagram caption, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CfMab67rxNw/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack White criticized the two-party system\u003c/a> and Trump’s actions that led to the overturn of Roe v. Wade.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Green Day frontman \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/armstr0ngtyler/status/1540687191919280129?s=20&t=4FKUOWIfitVBkMSM6_QNJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billie Joe Armstron’s spontaneous onstage response to the ruling\u003c/a> was to threaten that he would revoke his American citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/armstr0ngtyler/status/1540687191919280129?s=20&t=4FKUOWIfitVBkMSM6_QNJQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Paramore singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CfMhh7Tptd2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hayley Williams shared sadness and anger\u003c/a> on Instagram, and pointed fans towards the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kristinhersh/status/1540367939160907776?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristen Hersh shared a 2015 video\u003c/a> of her performing “Hysterical Bending,” which she describes as a “song about childbirth”:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuhRFqOZHS4\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HFTRR/status/1540372528928935937?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hurray For The Riff Raff encouraged fans\u003c/a> to share information about abortion access organizations, and linked to the New Orleans Abortion Fund.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maggie Rogers wrote: “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/maggierogers/status/1540355104817270784?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abortion is healthcare\u003c/a>. bodily autonomy is a human right.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The pop duo \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SylvanEsso/status/1540342470273368066?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sylvan Esso tweeted\u003c/a> that “we are full of rage,” adding that the band would “play this festival tonight and go directly to dc to protest.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MAITAmusic/status/1540366230179090432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MAITA was succinct about her frustrations\u003c/a>, tweeting simply: “abort the supreme court.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paulacolemusic/status/1540341228994265091?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paula Cole declared\u003c/a> that the ruling “has officially ratified gender apartheid.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Kathy Valentine, bassist and guitarist from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Kathy_Valentine/status/1540353723175682049?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Go-Go’s posted\u003c/a>: “It breaks my heart to think of all the intelligent, creative, innovative minds and careers of women” limited by the ruling.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Public Enemy’s always outspoken frontman Chuck D called the decision “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/1540365236279996417?s=20&t=DhQDxG39wR-6GYHEcm2viw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">F a s c i s m\u003c/a>.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>While accepting the Best Female R&B/Pop Artist award at the BET Awards, Jazmine Sullivan asked men to stand up for women’s rights. “This is not just a women’s issue,” she said. “This is everybody’s issue.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4g2CHBt3_Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>According to the \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em>, Kendrick Lamar concluded his electrifying Glastonbury performance with an improvised reworking of the song “Savior,” intoning, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/27/kendrick-lamar-at-glastonbury-2022-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Godspeed for women’s rights / They judge you, they judge Christ\u003c/a>.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aliciakeys/status/1540382914550108160?s=20&t=-VEj5WsA9qvmYdDV6GQgXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alicia Keys retweeted former President Obama’s tweet\u003c/a>, adding that the decision “is about more than abortion, it’s about who has power over you.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Puerto Rican superstar \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepShontelBrown/status/1540010611001663489?s=20&t=-VEj5WsA9qvmYdDV6GQgXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bad Bunny retweed Ohio representative Shontel Brown\u003c/a>, who expressed frustration at the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on gun control and abortion rights.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jose272011/status/1541151851047014403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rosalía retweeted an image\u003c/a> of a sign invoking her “Motomami” nickname and reading “fight for your 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"content": "\u003cp>Hi. My name is Aisha, and I’m a Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I’m not like those other Disney Adults out there—I’m a \u003cem>cool \u003c/em>Disney Adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve certainly never\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> thrown a wedding\u003c/a> where I made my guests figure out their own way of getting fed during the reception, because my partner and I chose to spend the thousands of dollars our parents budgeted for catering on guest appearances by Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Could never be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(My partner \u003cem>did \u003c/em>propose to me while we were in Disney World celebrating my 30th birthday. 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It’s also interesting to witness the ever-morphing hierarchies of fandom within the cultural zeitgeist, and what’s considered cool to obsess over and what’s not. Comic book nerds, for example, once a niche population and the butt of jokes, have more or less swallowed mainstream popular culture as a whole, thanks to the Marvelization of … well, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past week emphasized how not all fandoms are treated equally, thanks to a viral “Am I the Asshole” Reddit post that may or may not be a true story. In case you’re unfamiliar with “AITA,” as it’s called, it’s the judgy gift that keeps on giving, a popular Reddit subhead where users post their personal conundrums and then ask the rest of the world to decide whether they were in the wrong or right. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/theashrb/status/1533466143389892609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This particularly chaotic post\u003c/a> about the couple who chose Mickey and Minnie over feeding their guests sparked the snarkiest wave of derision on the fandom known as “Disney Adults,” understandably. Tweets like “We need to study the\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EJpineapplSLICE/status/1533910536403959809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> minds of Disney adults\u003c/a> like we do serial killers” and “I’ve said it once, I’ll say it now, and I’ll say it 100 more times.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BaileyCarlin/status/1533809376489881600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Disney adults are the absolute worst people\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Way harsh, Tai.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse was the well-intentioned religious studies professor who swooped in to defend my ilk with\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeichlerlevine/status/1533909820453142530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a thread\u003c/a> that basically boiled down to “Don’t pathologize these people; to them this is like religion, except instead of worshipping hypothetical gods, they worship a corporate entity!” Twitter went into overdrive, swarming upon and devouring this professor’s infantilizing thread as if they were the hyenas descending upon Scar. The responses were golden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t actually care if people make fun of Disney Adults. A lot of the jokes are actually pretty funny. It’s a weird, quirky thing to re-watch \u003cem>Lady and the Tramp \u003c/em>every so often once you surpass the age of, say, 12! I own that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883519']On the other hand, I find the\u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/woman-who-cried-while-meeting-goofy-interview-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> intense vitriol\u003c/a>—not the jokes, but the suggestions this is on par with religion or a cult—to be more than a bit confounding. From where I stand, Disney Adults don’t appear to be the kind of fandom that cares much about what others think about us, or the things we like. I don’t see them enacting massive doxing campaigns against anyone who dares say a bad word about \u003cem>Encanto\u003c/em>, like fans of certain pop stars or superhero movies. Maybe it’s because I’m a cool Disney Adult and don’t run in those circles? I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of it seems to stem from an understandable disdain for Disney as a corporate monopoly, and all the negatives that have come from that. (For one: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085130633/disney-response-florida-bill-dont-say-gay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The company’s position as financially beholden to political groups that are actively trying to strip basic human rights\u003c/a>.) I agree with those critics; no one brand should have all this power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger component, though, is probably Disney’s “wholesome” and child-friendly image, which has been meticulously ingrained in the public imagination since the brand’s inception. Despite owning everything under the sun, from \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>to Marvel to the Muppets to Pixar, the Disney brand remains lodged in people’s minds as nothing more than that iconographic image of Tinker Bell tapping Cinderella’s castle with her wand. To say something has been “Disneyfied” is dismissive shorthand for watered-down, chaste, safe, conservative. The company does plenty of things to project this fluffy image (ahem, that very hyped “exclusively gay” moment that turned out to just be\u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/heres-the-exclusively-gay-moment-in-beauty-and-the-beast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a couple seconds\u003c/a> of two guys dancing together), so I get it. I can see how it seems like the equivalent of continuing to enjoy \u003cem>Blue’s Clues \u003c/em>even after you’ve reached 5th grade—to like a product ostensibly targeted at kids is to somehow exist in a state of arrested development and be disconnected from reality, so the thinking goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which I say: All fiction requires the audience to disconnect from reality! That’s the point! Also, have you seen \u003cem>Pinocchio \u003c/em>recently? That entire Pleasure Island sequence is like a PG-rated precursor to \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fritz the Cat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the term “Disney Adult” suggests it’s something of an oxymoron, an incongruous identity—we don’t go around calling people Muppet Grown-Ups or Mature \u003cem>Star Wars \u003c/em>fans, even as these fantastical franchises also appeal to people of all ages. \u003cem>Sigh.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97638']What it all boils down to is this: The Disney products we associate with princesses and talking animal sidekicks and musicals will never be “cool,” even as they’ve become the blueprint for cultural commodification in nearly every corner of western culture for nearly a century. And that’s fine! On the social ladder of pop culture fandom, Disney Adults are the theater kids. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s safe to say \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz \u003c/em>has been an entry point to Judy Garland for many generations. It’s hard to imagine it any other way; encountering the movie as a child could almost be a rite of passage, and Garland’s performance as Dorothy remains indelibly embedded in popular culture more than 80 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_105554']But the powerhouse entertainer born Frances Ethel Gumm famously (and luckily, for us) had so much more to give audiences over the course of her relatively short and tumultuous life. Her musical catalog is stacked with songs she introduced or made her own, and they aren’t all “Over the Rainbow.” (One among them has become \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreWsnhQwzY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a certified Christmas classic\u003c/a>.) In adulthood, she’d garner Oscar nominations and Grammy wins, and shine in performances alongside other contemporary greats, like Fred Astaire and Sammy Davis, Jr. And her artistry, vulnerability, and perseverance under the unforgiving glare of the industry and public eye firmly established her as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190923-why-is-judy-garland-the-ultimate-gay-icon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">queer icon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she died at 47 in 1969 from what was ruled an accidental barbiturate overdose, she’s remained in the public consciousness through biopics (including 2019’s \u003cem>Judy\u003c/em>, which earned Renée Zellweger her second Oscar), movie and TV show \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a38860125/euphoria-season-2-songs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">needle drops\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyff83vrmKY#t=04m06s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drag queens\u003c/a>, and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/judygarland?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tik Tok\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so in 2022, Judy Garland endures, for a myriad of reasons beyond \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em>. This month marks the centennial of her birth—the perfect occasion for the Garland-curious to finally dive into her work and unpack what made her so special, then and now. Movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021613/star-of-the-month-judy-garland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retrospectives\u003c/a> are \u003ca href=\"https://www.criterionchannel.com/starring-judy-garland-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">happening\u003c/a>, and YouTube has a plethora of clips to comb through; here’s a guide to help jumpstart you on your journey beyond the yellow brick road.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The beginning: little girl, big voice\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Every Sunday \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>(1936)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00aP8m5sBJo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Garland was signed to a contract with MGM Studios in 1935 at the young age of 13, she’d already been in show business for almost her entire life, having worked the vaudeville circuit in an act alongside her two older siblings, performing as the Gumm Sisters. This short film catches her on the precipice of stardom, showcasing her powerful vibrato and effervescent stage presence via a song written specifically for her, “The Americana.” Fun fact: It was designed by the studio as a screen test for the executives to decide whether to keep Garland or her co-star, Deanna Durbin, a classically trained opera singer. Ultimately, Garland would stay on and Durbin would sign with Universal Studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A star is born\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By 1946, a decade into her tenure at MGM, the 24-year-old Garland had made more than 20 films. They feature wonderful performances by her, but also come with asterisks for those who may be new to her work and/or to the rhythms of classic filmmaking in general. Like many musicals of its era, \u003cem>Strike Up the Band\u003c/em> primarily exists to string a bunch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxiACPtyg6o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rousing numbers\u003c/a> together, which may or may not be your bag. And like many performers of her era, Garland’s legacy does include unfortunate instances of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnRkS5eSu6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blackface\u003c/a>, in \u003cem>Everybody Sing\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Babes In Arms.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start with these signature roles from her MGM years instead:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Meet Me In St. Louis\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>(1944)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3EIVwZ60w&t=1s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had many peaks throughout her career, and this is one of them. Garland plays Esther Smith, one of the eldest daughters in a prominent family living in St. Louis at the beginning of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century. Through modern eyes, it’s a movie with very low stakes drama—the primary source of conflict is the family’s displeasure with the news they’ll be uprooted from their hometown to move to New York City, where a new job awaits the father, played by Leon Ames. But to paraphrase \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNFU4q_Buo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liza Minnelli\u003c/a>, Garland’s oldest daughter, it’s all about the feelings conveyed. And here, in one of her early transitions away from child roles, Garland give us all the feelings as an assertive, vivacious young woman determined to stay in St. Louis and catch the eye of the clueless boy next door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Easter Parade \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>(1948)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3aUAiLU0TI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Try to ignore the awkward age gap between Garland and her onscreen love interest Fred Astaire (23 years!) and enjoy their chemistry as a song-and-dance team in their only onscreen pairing. Astaire plays Don Hewes, a vaudeville star whose girlfriend and dance partner Nadine Hale (Ann Miller) breaks the news that she’s leaving him to pursue solo stardom. (This occurs on Easter Sunday, hence the title.) Hoping to make Nadine jealous, he hires chorus girl Hannah Brown (Garland) and vows to turn her into a star. The songs were written by Irving Berlin, and standouts include the silly tramp number “A Couple of Swells” and the torch song “Better Luck Next Time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Summer Stock \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>(1950)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7d0NRewzW4&t=1s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Garland’s life was a shambles and her behavior behind the scenes erratic during production of this movie, her last before she was fired by MGM. Yet that’s imperceptible here, because she’s as plucky and game as ever, playing Jane, a farm owner who allows her sister’s theater troupe to rehearse in her barn. (Why yes, this is quite literally a barnyard musical.) Gene Kelly is her co-star, and Garland holds her own alongside him on the dance floor. And of course, there’s the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYzQ5OPOHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oft-referenced\u003c/a> highlight: That black fedora and tuxedo jacket, and Judy slinking along to the irresistible “Get Happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The drama queen\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Clock \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>(1945)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwA6K_EmAQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was extremely rare for a Garland performance not to call upon her to belt at least one tune, but she could sell a straight performance just as well as she could a song. In \u003cem>The Clock\u003c/em>, she plays a woman who meets and falls in love with a soldier, played by Robert Walker, who’s on 48-hour leave in New York City. As directed by Vincente Minnelli, the movie effectively captures the whirlwind romance and tension that grows out of their initial meet-cute in the middle of Penn Station, and Garland imbues the role with a quiet, radiating warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was her second collaboration with Minnelli (following \u003cem>Meet Me in St. Louis\u003c/em>) and by this point they were already romantically involved; they’d marry the same year this movie was released. The director’s admiration of Garland is evident in the way he frames her soft, ethereal close-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Star Is Born \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>(1954)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48JkClgYIs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_105976']Versions of \u003cem>A Star Is Born\u003c/em> have come before and after Garland’s turn, but this remains the definitive iteration, perhaps because it so closely parallels aspects of its star’s life. Here she plays Esther Blodgett, a talented singer-turned movie star whose career and marriage are threatened by the presence of an addiction—except said addiction is not her own, but that of her alcoholic husband, the fading screen idol Norman Maine (James Mason). This is top-tier Garland, a performance steeped in pathos and vulnerability that will shake you to your core; she pours every fiber of her being into this tragic character, whether she’s belting an indelible torch ballad, working up a sweat in a 15-minute showstopping medley, or describing the helpless, lonely feeling of loving someone who’s slowly self-destructing before your eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Judy in retrospect\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Judy at Carnegie Hall \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>(1961)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1C4Pw6rxo&list=PLtpFM3sDaV_gA7QfNrH01Upo1ppGvwUdm&index=2\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This live album has been called “the greatest night in show business history” for a reason. It’s Garland, following a particularly dark period in her life, flourishing in one of the only environments where she ever seemed truly at peace—live, unfiltered, on a stage, with her audience. And the audience \u003cem>adores \u003c/em>her; you can hear it in their effusive laughs whenever she tells a self-deprecating joke and in their rapturous chants for encores. Her voice, more rugged and raw than in her younger years, sounds fabulous, and as she moves through her hits and beloved standards, each one is reimagined in the process. “Over the Rainbow” has never sounded more achingly wistful than it does here; “The Man That Got Away” somehow feels even bigger and more unstoppable than it did in \u003cem>A Star Is Born\u003c/em>. You will listen once, and then, surely, you’ll want to listen again, and again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Judy Sings Lena Sings Judy,” \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>The Judy Garland Show\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>(1963)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtuqejF0Jg8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again,” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Judy Garland Show \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>(1963)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVxX3RtyhQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Judy Garland Show \u003c/em>was short-lived—it was canceled after one season—but there are countless gems to be found streaming online. Two of the best moments find Garland dueting with another powerhouse female vocalist, Lena Horne and then-newcomer Barbra Streisand. In the former, the legends take turns singing each other’s biggest hits, and it’s an utter delight to see how their styles contrast, like Horne’s slinky, exaggerated take on “Meet Me in St. Louis” (“I didn’t know it was a sexy song!” Garland exclaims while bowling over with laughter) and Garland’s hep vibrato over “Honeysuckle Rose.” When they come together in unison for a spirited rendition of Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin’s standard “Love,” the energy is so high it can hardly be contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, of course, there’s the Babs. Mashing up “Get Happy” and “Happy Days Are Here Again,” their voices complement each other beautifully—Streisand’s clean and clear vocals dance lightly over Judy’s more guttural tones for most of the song, but then their bravados meld together in a triumphant climax. It’s been called a passing of the torch, as it were, from one (gay) icon to the next, and everything about it is perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3xNgYt9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Apple Podcasts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://n.pr/3ELR3n6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spotify\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Judy+Garland+at+100%3A+A+starter+guide+beyond+the+Yellow+Brick+Road&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the powerhouse entertainer born Frances Ethel Gumm famously (and luckily, for us) had so much more to give audiences over the course of her relatively short and tumultuous life. Her musical catalog is stacked with songs she introduced or made her own, and they aren’t all “Over the Rainbow.” (One among them has become \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreWsnhQwzY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a certified Christmas classic\u003c/a>.) In adulthood, she’d garner Oscar nominations and Grammy wins, and shine in performances alongside other contemporary greats, like Fred Astaire and Sammy Davis, Jr. And her artistry, vulnerability, and perseverance under the unforgiving glare of the industry and public eye firmly established her as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190923-why-is-judy-garland-the-ultimate-gay-icon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">queer icon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she died at 47 in 1969 from what was ruled an accidental barbiturate overdose, she’s remained in the public consciousness through biopics (including 2019’s \u003cem>Judy\u003c/em>, which earned Renée Zellweger her second Oscar), movie and TV show \u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a38860125/euphoria-season-2-songs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">needle drops\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyff83vrmKY#t=04m06s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drag queens\u003c/a>, and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/judygarland?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tik Tok\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so in 2022, Judy Garland endures, for a myriad of reasons beyond \u003cem>The Wizard of Oz\u003c/em>. This month marks the centennial of her birth—the perfect occasion for the Garland-curious to finally dive into her work and unpack what made her so special, then and now. Movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021613/star-of-the-month-judy-garland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retrospectives\u003c/a> are \u003ca href=\"https://www.criterionchannel.com/starring-judy-garland-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">happening\u003c/a>, and YouTube has a plethora of clips to comb through; here’s a guide to help jumpstart you on your journey beyond the yellow brick road.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The beginning: little girl, big voice\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Every Sunday \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>(1936)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"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/00aP8m5sBJo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/00aP8m5sBJo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>By the time Garland was signed to a contract with MGM Studios in 1935 at the young age of 13, she’d already been in show business for almost her entire life, having worked the vaudeville circuit in an act alongside her two older siblings, performing as the Gumm Sisters. This short film catches her on the precipice of stardom, showcasing her powerful vibrato and effervescent stage presence via a song written specifically for her, “The Americana.” Fun fact: It was designed by the studio as a screen test for the executives to decide whether to keep Garland or her co-star, Deanna Durbin, a classically trained opera singer. Ultimately, Garland would stay on and Durbin would sign with Universal Studios.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A star is born\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>By 1946, a decade into her tenure at MGM, the 24-year-old Garland had made more than 20 films. They feature wonderful performances by her, but also come with asterisks for those who may be new to her work and/or to the rhythms of classic filmmaking in general. Like many musicals of its era, \u003cem>Strike Up the Band\u003c/em> primarily exists to string a bunch of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxiACPtyg6o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rousing numbers\u003c/a> together, which may or may not be your bag. And like many performers of her era, Garland’s legacy does include unfortunate instances of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnRkS5eSu6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blackface\u003c/a>, in \u003cem>Everybody Sing\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Babes In Arms.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start with these signature roles from her MGM years instead:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Meet Me In St. Louis\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>(1944)\u003c/strong>\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/OL3EIVwZ60w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OL3EIVwZ60w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>She had many peaks throughout her career, and this is one of them. Garland plays Esther Smith, one of the eldest daughters in a prominent family living in St. Louis at the beginning of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century. Through modern eyes, it’s a movie with very low stakes drama—the primary source of conflict is the family’s displeasure with the news they’ll be uprooted from their hometown to move to New York City, where a new job awaits the father, played by Leon Ames. But to paraphrase \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNFU4q_Buo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liza Minnelli\u003c/a>, Garland’s oldest daughter, it’s all about the feelings conveyed. 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This is top-tier Garland, a performance steeped in pathos and vulnerability that will shake you to your core; she pours every fiber of her being into this tragic character, whether she’s belting an indelible torch ballad, working up a sweat in a 15-minute showstopping medley, or describing the helpless, lonely feeling of loving someone who’s slowly self-destructing before your eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Judy in retrospect\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Judy at Carnegie Hall \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>(1961)\u003c/strong>\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/Jc1C4Pw6rxo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Jc1C4Pw6rxo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>This live album has been called “the greatest night in show business history” for a reason. It’s Garland, following a particularly dark period in her life, flourishing in one of the only environments where she ever seemed truly at peace—live, unfiltered, on a stage, with her audience. And the audience \u003cem>adores \u003c/em>her; you can hear it in their effusive laughs whenever she tells a self-deprecating joke and in their rapturous chants for encores. Her voice, more rugged and raw than in her younger years, sounds fabulous, and as she moves through her hits and beloved standards, each one is reimagined in the process. “Over the Rainbow” has never sounded more achingly wistful than it does here; “The Man That Got Away” somehow feels even bigger and more unstoppable than it did in \u003cem>A Star Is Born\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve been tasked with rebooting\u003cem> Queer as Folk \u003c/em>for the present day, and wish to stick to the general narrative parameters shared by both the original U.K. series and the U.S. series that followed (they ran on Channel 4 and Showtime, respectively, back at the turn of the century), here’s what you will need to bring to the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. A blithe, defiantly melodramatic sensibility (\u003cem>QaF\u003c/em> is a soap, first, last and always) and a cast of …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Queer characters who have explicit sex a tremendous lot, most of whom are …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Noxiously self-involved if not lightly repellent, yet who somehow manage to remain surrounded by a tight circle of mystifyingly supportive friends, all of whom talk in …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Breezy dialogue that tends to lapse into distinctly non-breezy self-righteous speechifying, and/or …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. A fusillade of queer pop-culture references that serve as a series of dog-whistles to reassure queer audiences that they’re represented in the show’s writers room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is to say, both the original U.K. and U.S. series were sexy, sometimes funny, sometimes moving, but deeply flawed projects. And while they are to be commended for storytelling that was always less concerned with chasing mainstream straight acceptance than the \u003cem>Will and Grace\u003c/em>-s of the world, both told their stories from a narrow and familiar point of view that centered the travails of the young, white, cis gay man with a gym membership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-fFiKGTTY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new \u003cem>Queer as Folk\u003c/em> has broadened the palette, which means it can tell stories and give voice to characters the old series never could or did. Even so, many of the old flaws persist: The characters are selfish and hopelessly enamored of themselves. Dialogue veers from an affronted lecture about intersectionality to a really solid joke about poppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904458']What’s new, besides the series’ matter-of-fact diversity, is how much the show’s creators have clearly thought about depicting its range of characters and situations, and giving them real reasons to meaningfully co-exist within the same social circle. The queer community’s tendency to build and police strict silos based on race, age, body type, gender, income and disability was not something the old homogenous \u003cem>Queer as Folk \u003c/em>series felt they needed to address, and largely didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new \u003cem>Queer as Folk\u003c/em> eagerly embraces the challenge of creating a diverse network of characters not merely for the sake of doing so, but as a means to let them meaningfully interact and delineate themselves, to variously clash and come together until they emerge as fuller, more rounded people in the eyes of the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq2ShKuPD2o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some relationships are simple enough to diagram. Brodie (Devin Way) is a young hot gay man who returns to New Orleans after dropping out of med school, to the dismay of his adoptive parents, played by Ed Begley Jr. and, because the universe is beneficent, Kim Cattrall. Brodie is best friends with Ruthie (Jesse James Keitel), a trans woman who’s married to Shar (CG), a non-binary person who’s pregnant with twins. In the pilot, Brodie selfishly urges Ruthie to join him for a night out, which she does, selfishly. (You perhaps begin to detect a theme, here.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also Noah (Johnny Sibily), Brodie’s ex, who’s hiding the fact that he’s been hooking up with Daddius (Chris Renfro) for reasons that soon become clear. There’s Mingus (Fin Argus), one of Ruthie’s high school students who’s taking their first steps into embracing drag. And there’s Julian (Ryan O’Connell), Brodie’s sardonically nerdy younger brother who was born with cerebral palsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had the series contented itself with this clutch of characters, it could have churned through soapy plot turns—betrayals, breakups, revelations, etc.—in the desultory way the old \u003cem>QaFs\u003c/em> did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13904394']But creator Stephen Dunn introduces a controversial element in the pilot—a mass shooting in a gay club frequented by many of the above characters, not all of whom survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were this event used simply to dramatize the threat faced by the queer community, it might come off as tasteless and a bit ham-fisted, maybe even exploitive. But the series quickly becomes about the reverberations of that traumatic event, and how it causes the various characters to spin out in a number of different ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by involving the violation of a queer public space in the narrative, the series finds a way to neatly incorporate the viewpoints of characters outside of the already-established friend group—club patrons like the drag queen Bussey (Armand Fields) and Marvin (Eric Graise), a guarded, reflexively jaded young man who uses a wheelchair. Both characters play larger roles as the series goes on, much to the benefit of the show as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/nup_196715_00787r_custom-d6546e4c2265434920db531f4a9d8799fe85ce45-800x613.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with tousled hair stands boldly. 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The world around these characters starts to grow more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Ruthie and Shar’s baby shower, Brodie makes a smug speech skewering his fellow attendees’ performative allyship, and Shar cuts him down. The series is saying here that two things can be simultaneously true: Brodie’s got a point … \u003cem>and \u003c/em>he’s a jerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13907908']Mingus, traumatized by the club shooting, impulsively donates all of their drag. Later, when they see Bussey sporting some of it at a bar, they drunkenly demand it back, only to be rightly reprimanded for their preening sense of entitlement. Mingus is both going through something real … \u003cem>and \u003c/em>is a privileged, whiny punk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point Ruthie gets a monologue about how the process of transitioning intersected, in complicated ways, with her feelings of sexual attractiveness, and it’s a quiet, truthful, revelatory moment that Keitel sells the hell out of. But she’s \u003cem>also \u003c/em>using the speech to avoid having to come to terms with the night of the shooting. One fact does not undercut the other; both resonate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the series is only too aware of how easily public tragedies can be mined for private gain. The series’ most stealthily hilarious performance is provided by Benito Skinner, whose social media influencer gloms onto the club shooting and becomes the self-appointed public face of the tragedy; his character’s the source of some of the series’ smartest, most ruthless comedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does take all of these nuances, and others, some time to manifest, and along the way the series’ tone shifts wildly from scene to scene, sometimes even line to line. It’s messy. 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These performers already face tremendous pressure to maintain the quality of a legendary franchise; now, the public can see the extra burden they face in the form of online harassment and insults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/YNB/status/1531760996489961472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is also a unique crystallization of a debate we have been having in the public space over many different issues. Does amping up the racial and ethnic diversity of a storied franchise improve its storytelling or needlessly hobble it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, is diversity an institution’s strength or a weakness?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be honest, this is a question I thought was answered long ago. 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