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"content": "\u003cp>Oh, hey, look everybody! It’s the first Monday in May! That can mean only one thing: Celebrities trying to out-fashion each other on the Metropolitan Museum’s red carpet in New York. Except that this year’s Met Gala also happened to fall on \u003ca href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/May-Day-international-observance\">May Day\u003c/a> — a day traditionally dedicated to the workers of the world uniting and pushing back against the powers that be. (Somewhere, in the back of a limo, someone’s assistant was wearing Fruit of the Loom underwear in solidarity.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13912817']Also making the 2023 Met Gala even weirder this year? The damn theme: \u003cem>Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty\u003c/em>. Lagerfeld was a hateful little man who proudly wore his misogyny, fatphobia and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/nov/13/karl-lagerfeld-sparks-outrage-over-migrant-holocaust-comments\">Islamaphobia\u003c/a> on his impeccably tailored sleeve. He also spent 36 years of his life working for Chanel — the fashion house founded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2022/1/3/coco-chanel-fashion-designer-and-nazi-informant#:~:text=Gabrielle%20%E2%80%9CCoco%E2%80%9D%20Chanel%20was%20a,a%20Nazi%20sympathizer%20and%20informer.\">known Nazi sympathizer and secret agent, Coco Chanel\u003c/a>. Oh, and then there was that time in 2013 when \u003ca href=\"https://theweek.com/articles/493757/claudia-schiffers-blackface-photos-defensible\">he put Claudia Schiffer in blackface and an afro\u003c/a>. Hurray!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is everyone feeling super awkward and uncomfortable yet? Like Kim Kardashian in that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmagazine.com/story/kim-kardashian-met-gala-corset-mugler-mr-pearl\">very corseted Thierry Mugler dress\u003c/a> at 2019’s Met Gala? Good. Then let’s take a look at the fashion!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Penélope Cruz and Dua Lipa\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women with pale flawless skin and dark brown hair stand side by side. One is wearing a corseted white dress with black stitching. The other is a wearing a plunging, belted white dress with a transparent white hood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nun and a milkmaid walk into a museum… \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Penélope Cruz arrived in a Chanel take on Elsa from \u003cem>Frozen,\u003c/em> while Dua Lipa donned 1992 Chanel that was giving fancy-ass milkmaid. Cruz is a mom of two and therefore a reminder of that time Lagerfeld told a journalist at \u003cem>Interview \u003c/em>magazine\u003cem>: “\u003c/em>You’re lucky because [your children] are very beautiful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/carine-roitfeld\">It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter\u003c/a>.” He continued: “If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nice!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Salma Hayek\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A striking movie star stands on a red carpet wearing a red, tiered gown and bodice, hand on her hip. Photographers are lined up behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salma Hayek: 10 out of 10, no notes. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The iconic actress provided a rare pop of color to the black and white-centric gala, in a stunning red, tiered, full-length gown and rubber bodice. For some reason — maybe because Hayek survived nightmarish harassment by Harvey Weinstein and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&mtrref=t.co&assetType=opinion&mtrref=theplaylist.net&gwh=58685C1FA7FF98DAD582641F4BB2C2C9&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL\">wrote a powerful essay about it\u003c/a>? — I can’t help but think about that time Karl Lagerfeld said he was “fed up” with the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What shocks me most in all of this,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/karl-lagerfeld-metoo-comments-you-don-t-want-your-pants-pulled-don-t-become-a-model-1102596/\">the designer said\u003c/a>, “are the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally stunning!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cara Delevingne\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with cropped shaggy silver hair stands on a red carpet surrounded by photographers, fanning out a huge white cape from a mini dress. Her legs are covered with black leather sheaths.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cara Delevingne being di(la)vine at the 2023 Met Gala. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cara Delevingne is one of the most in-demand models in the world not just because of her looks, but because of her tough persona and assertive edge. I wonder if she remembers that time in 2018 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/karl-lagerfeld-metoo-comments-you-don-t-want-your-pants-pulled-don-t-become-a-model-1102596/\">Karl Lagerfeld wanted models to stop speaking up for themselves\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read somewhere that now you must ask a model if she is comfortable with posing,” Lagerfeld said. “It’s simply too much; from now on, as a designer, you can’t do anything. It’s unbelievable. If you don’t want your pants pulled about, don’t become a model. Join a nunnery. There’ll always be a place for you in the convent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensational!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cardi B\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a dramatic black gown with white sleeveless collared shirt and black tie underneath, stands on the red carpet, gloved arms outstretched. She is wearing a long, straight, silver wig.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-768x532.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-2048x1419.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-1920x1330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talented rapper and tattooed human, Cardi B. \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rapper arrived in a bell-shaped gown paired with boss-lady collared shirt and black tie. Cardi’s silver wig was a nod to Lagerfeld’s own strange mane, which is super fun when you think about that time the designer said: “I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hope you like Pucci, Cardi!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Janelle Monáe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a stunned facial expression stands wearing an oversized conical black and white suit coat, held up by a wired underskirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle Monáe doing iconic weeble business. \u003ccite>(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janelle Monáe upped the theatricality with an avant-garde, oversized, conical-shaped, black and white coat that she later whipped off to reveal a structured, mesh underskirt. While there is zero evidence to support this theory, I am hoping this illusion of largeness was a nod to the time Karl Lagerfeld said: “The hole in social security, it’s also [because of] all the diseases caught by people who are too fat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cool!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>David Byrne\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928512\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a crisp white suit and casual sneakers stands on a red carpet with a bicycle, smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Byrne and his bicycle. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talking Heads legend David Byrne showed up in a crisp white suit with his bicycle — an excellent accessory, tailor-made to get grease all over your couture as you haul it up the stairs. Something about this striking look was reminiscent of the time Karl Lagerfeld declared: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a26405187/karl-lagerfeld-quotes/\">I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perfection!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lil Nas X\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"A man in silver body paint and crystal-encrusted face mask strikes a pose in front of a white curtain. He is wearing only a loin cloth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-768x536.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-2048x1431.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lil Nas X in a typically understated silver ensemble. \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lil Nas X showed up in a subtle silver number that emphasized his, uh, assets. Because of his status as a queer icon, it’s hard not to think about the time Karl Lagerfeld endorsed marriage equality on the runway, then immediately told everyone \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/jan/22/karl-lagerfeld-chanel-gay-marriage\">he was “less keen” on gay couples being allowed to adopt\u003c/a> children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So awesome!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Michaela Coel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful black woman with feline features and cornrows wears a heavily beaded gold gown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A look so perfect, it would have rendered even Karl Lagerfeld speechless. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holy crap. Michaela Coel looked so dazzling, I briefly stopped thinking about what a troll Karl Lagerfeld was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you, Michaela Coel, for allowing me to not think about Karl Lagerfeld for three minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gisele Bündchen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful woman spins on the red carpet wearing a full-length crystal-beaded gown and a full length feather shrug.\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gisele Bündchen wearing about 57,000 birds. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Giselle had a sparkly, swan-inspired moment on the red carpet, spinning her full-length feather cape for awaiting photographers. It was hard to see all those feathers without recalling the time in 2009 when Karl Lagerfeld insisted on \u003ca href=\"http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG4075783/Karl-Lagerfeld-defends-fur-industry-saying-beasts-would-kill-us-if-we-didnt-kill-them.html\">giving his two cents about the use of animal products\u003c/a> in couture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.” He was also careful to note that the dead animals in question were merely “beasts who would kill us if they could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Screw you, fluffy animals!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lizzo and Jared Leto\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A plus-sized Black woman in a full-length black gown covered in strings of white pearls stands on a busy red carpet talking to someone in a giant fluffy cat costume.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Leto, dressed as Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette, chats with Lizzo. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was super into watching Lizzo converse with a human-sized cat until I:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(a) found out that the cat costume was, in fact, inhabited by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865555/thirty-seconds-to-mars-jared-leto-started-a-cult-because-of-course-he-did\">human pretension factory Jared Leto\u003c/a>, and,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(b) remembered that time Karl Lagerfeld said of another plus-sized songstress, Adele: “She’s a little too fat but she has a beautiful face.” Later Lagerfeld implied that his unsolicited comments about her physique actually did Adele a favor. “After that,” he said, “she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Give me strength, Lord.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Doja Cat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing face enhancements that make her look like a cat poses on the red carpet. She's wearing a silver gown with hood that has cat ear embellishments.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doja Cat = Literal cat now. Cool. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Karl Lagerfeld)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One time, offering unsolicited commentary about Lana Del Rey’s appearance, Karl Lagerfeld said: “In her photos, she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How’s this for a construct, Karl? Doja Cat is an actual cat now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mic drop!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ashley Graham\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful white woman wearing a tight fitting pink and black off-the-shoulder gown with embellishments around her ankles, hips and elbows to emphasize her curves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-800x593.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-768x570.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-1536x1139.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-2048x1519.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-1920x1424.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Graham in a stunning pink and black off-the-shoulder gown. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Karl Lagerfeld)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Body positivity leader and plus-sized model Ashley Graham was stunning in a figure-hugging gown with embellishments that served to emphasize her curves. One can’t help but wonder how Karl Lagerfeld would receive this look today, given his 2009 statement that: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/no-one-wants-to-see-curvy-women-karl-lagerfeld-20091012-gskk.html\">No one wants to see curvy women\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get outta here, you!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May next year’s theme be much, much easier to not think about.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Also making the 2023 Met Gala even weirder this year? The damn theme: \u003cem>Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty\u003c/em>. Lagerfeld was a hateful little man who proudly wore his misogyny, fatphobia and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/nov/13/karl-lagerfeld-sparks-outrage-over-migrant-holocaust-comments\">Islamaphobia\u003c/a> on his impeccably tailored sleeve. He also spent 36 years of his life working for Chanel — the fashion house founded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2022/1/3/coco-chanel-fashion-designer-and-nazi-informant#:~:text=Gabrielle%20%E2%80%9CCoco%E2%80%9D%20Chanel%20was%20a,a%20Nazi%20sympathizer%20and%20informer.\">known Nazi sympathizer and secret agent, Coco Chanel\u003c/a>. Oh, and then there was that time in 2013 when \u003ca href=\"https://theweek.com/articles/493757/claudia-schiffers-blackface-photos-defensible\">he put Claudia Schiffer in blackface and an afro\u003c/a>. Hurray!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is everyone feeling super awkward and uncomfortable yet? Like Kim Kardashian in that \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmagazine.com/story/kim-kardashian-met-gala-corset-mugler-mr-pearl\">very corseted Thierry Mugler dress\u003c/a> at 2019’s Met Gala? Good. Then let’s take a look at the fashion!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Penélope Cruz and Dua Lipa\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women with pale flawless skin and dark brown hair stand side by side. One is wearing a corseted white dress with black stitching. The other is a wearing a plunging, belted white dress with a transparent white hood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486910904-scaled-e1682979054617.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nun and a milkmaid walk into a museum… \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Penélope Cruz arrived in a Chanel take on Elsa from \u003cem>Frozen,\u003c/em> while Dua Lipa donned 1992 Chanel that was giving fancy-ass milkmaid. Cruz is a mom of two and therefore a reminder of that time Lagerfeld told a journalist at \u003cem>Interview \u003c/em>magazine\u003cem>: “\u003c/em>You’re lucky because [your children] are very beautiful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/carine-roitfeld\">It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter\u003c/a>.” He continued: “If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nice!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Salma Hayek\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928518\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A striking movie star stands on a red carpet wearing a red, tiered gown and bodice, hand on her hip. Photographers are lined up behind her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486926230-scaled-e1682985176606.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salma Hayek: 10 out of 10, no notes. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The iconic actress provided a rare pop of color to the black and white-centric gala, in a stunning red, tiered, full-length gown and rubber bodice. For some reason — maybe because Hayek survived nightmarish harassment by Harvey Weinstein and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&mtrref=t.co&assetType=opinion&mtrref=theplaylist.net&gwh=58685C1FA7FF98DAD582641F4BB2C2C9&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL\">wrote a powerful essay about it\u003c/a>? — I can’t help but think about that time Karl Lagerfeld said he was “fed up” with the #MeToo movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What shocks me most in all of this,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/karl-lagerfeld-metoo-comments-you-don-t-want-your-pants-pulled-don-t-become-a-model-1102596/\">the designer said\u003c/a>, “are the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally stunning!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cara Delevingne\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with cropped shaggy silver hair stands on a red carpet surrounded by photographers, fanning out a huge white cape from a mini dress. Her legs are covered with black leather sheaths.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486932554-scaled-e1682987052540.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cara Delevingne being di(la)vine at the 2023 Met Gala. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cara Delevingne is one of the most in-demand models in the world not just because of her looks, but because of her tough persona and assertive edge. I wonder if she remembers that time in 2018 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/karl-lagerfeld-metoo-comments-you-don-t-want-your-pants-pulled-don-t-become-a-model-1102596/\">Karl Lagerfeld wanted models to stop speaking up for themselves\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read somewhere that now you must ask a model if she is comfortable with posing,” Lagerfeld said. “It’s simply too much; from now on, as a designer, you can’t do anything. It’s unbelievable. If you don’t want your pants pulled about, don’t become a model. Join a nunnery. There’ll always be a place for you in the convent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensational!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cardi B\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a dramatic black gown with white sleeveless collared shirt and black tie underneath, stands on the red carpet, gloved arms outstretched. She is wearing a long, straight, silver wig.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-768x532.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-2048x1419.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486936357-1920x1330.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talented rapper and tattooed human, Cardi B. \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rapper arrived in a bell-shaped gown paired with boss-lady collared shirt and black tie. Cardi’s silver wig was a nod to Lagerfeld’s own strange mane, which is super fun when you think about that time the designer said: “I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hope you like Pucci, Cardi!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Janelle Monáe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing a stunned facial expression stands wearing an oversized conical black and white suit coat, held up by a wired underskirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486933737-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janelle Monáe doing iconic weeble business. \u003ccite>(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Janelle Monáe upped the theatricality with an avant-garde, oversized, conical-shaped, black and white coat that she later whipped off to reveal a structured, mesh underskirt. While there is zero evidence to support this theory, I am hoping this illusion of largeness was a nod to the time Karl Lagerfeld said: “The hole in social security, it’s also [because of] all the diseases caught by people who are too fat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cool!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>David Byrne\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928512\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a crisp white suit and casual sneakers stands on a red carpet with a bicycle, smiling.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486913679-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Byrne and his bicycle. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Talking Heads legend David Byrne showed up in a crisp white suit with his bicycle — an excellent accessory, tailor-made to get grease all over your couture as you haul it up the stairs. Something about this striking look was reminiscent of the time Karl Lagerfeld declared: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/designers/a26405187/karl-lagerfeld-quotes/\">I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perfection!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lil Nas X\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"A man in silver body paint and crystal-encrusted face mask strikes a pose in front of a white curtain. He is wearing only a loin cloth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-768x536.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-2048x1431.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486925234-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lil Nas X in a typically understated silver ensemble. \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lil Nas X showed up in a subtle silver number that emphasized his, uh, assets. Because of his status as a queer icon, it’s hard not to think about the time Karl Lagerfeld endorsed marriage equality on the runway, then immediately told everyone \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/jan/22/karl-lagerfeld-chanel-gay-marriage\">he was “less keen” on gay couples being allowed to adopt\u003c/a> children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So awesome!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Michaela Coel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful black woman with feline features and cornrows wears a heavily beaded gold gown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486916795-scaled-e1682984031541.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A look so perfect, it would have rendered even Karl Lagerfeld speechless. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holy crap. Michaela Coel looked so dazzling, I briefly stopped thinking about what a troll Karl Lagerfeld was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thank you, Michaela Coel, for allowing me to not think about Karl Lagerfeld for three minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gisele Bündchen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful woman spins on the red carpet wearing a full-length crystal-beaded gown and a full length feather shrug.\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486917532-scaled-e1682982093446.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gisele Bündchen wearing about 57,000 birds. \u003ccite>(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Giselle had a sparkly, swan-inspired moment on the red carpet, spinning her full-length feather cape for awaiting photographers. It was hard to see all those feathers without recalling the time in 2009 when Karl Lagerfeld insisted on \u003ca href=\"http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG4075783/Karl-Lagerfeld-defends-fur-industry-saying-beasts-would-kill-us-if-we-didnt-kill-them.html\">giving his two cents about the use of animal products\u003c/a> in couture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.” He was also careful to note that the dead animals in question were merely “beasts who would kill us if they could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Screw you, fluffy animals!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lizzo and Jared Leto\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A plus-sized Black woman in a full-length black gown covered in strings of white pearls stands on a busy red carpet talking to someone in a giant fluffy cat costume.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486928126-scaled-e1682986187433.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Leto, dressed as Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette, chats with Lizzo. \u003ccite>(Mike Coppola/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was super into watching Lizzo converse with a human-sized cat until I:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(a) found out that the cat costume was, in fact, inhabited by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865555/thirty-seconds-to-mars-jared-leto-started-a-cult-because-of-course-he-did\">human pretension factory Jared Leto\u003c/a>, and,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(b) remembered that time Karl Lagerfeld said of another plus-sized songstress, Adele: “She’s a little too fat but she has a beautiful face.” Later Lagerfeld implied that his unsolicited comments about her physique actually did Adele a favor. “After that,” he said, “she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Give me strength, Lord.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Doja Cat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman wearing face enhancements that make her look like a cat poses on the red carpet. She's wearing a silver gown with hood that has cat ear embellishments.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486937845-scaled-e1682989079658.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doja Cat = Literal cat now. Cool. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Karl Lagerfeld)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One time, offering unsolicited commentary about Lana Del Rey’s appearance, Karl Lagerfeld said: “In her photos, she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How’s this for a construct, Karl? Doja Cat is an actual cat now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mic drop!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ashley Graham\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928515\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-800x593.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful white woman wearing a tight fitting pink and black off-the-shoulder gown with embellishments around her ankles, hips and elbows to emphasize her curves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-800x593.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-1020x757.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-768x570.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-1536x1139.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-2048x1519.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/GettyImages-1486923634-1920x1424.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Graham in a stunning pink and black off-the-shoulder gown. \u003ccite>(Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Karl Lagerfeld)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Body positivity leader and plus-sized model Ashley Graham was stunning in a figure-hugging gown with embellishments that served to emphasize her curves. One can’t help but wonder how Karl Lagerfeld would receive this look today, given his 2009 statement that: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/no-one-wants-to-see-curvy-women-karl-lagerfeld-20091012-gskk.html\">No one wants to see curvy women\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get outta here, you!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Everything Everywhere All at Once \u003c/em>didn’t win every award for which it was nominated — it was nominated for 11 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1162147562/academy-awards-2023-the-complete-list-of-winners\">won seven\u003c/a>. But it won big ones, again and again: best picture, best original screenplay, best director, best supporting actor and actress, best actress, and best editing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13911018']For a stretch in the middle of the ceremony, it seemed like \u003cem>All Quiet On The Western Front \u003c/em>might be coming on very strong, but the pendulum swung back. What’s perhaps most surprising is how many films that once seemed like strong contenders for major awards wound up getting completely shut out: \u003cem>Tár, The Banshees of Inisherin\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Fabelmans \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Elvis \u003c/em>all went home empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All the first-time acting nominees led to some emotional moments.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 20 acting nominees across lead and supporting categories, 16 were first-time nominees. Unsurprisingly, they swept all four awards. The awards for supporting actor and supporting actress went to two very, very different “newcomers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M33WRVhh2Fw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1160156811/ke-huy-quan-best-supporting-actor-oscar-everything-everywhere-all-at-once\">Ke Huy Quan\u003c/a> once found himself shut out of Hollywood after a big start as a child actor in movies like \u003cem>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Goonies\u003c/em>. He came roaring back in \u003cem>Everything Everywhere All at Once\u003c/em>, and his speech highlighted the remarkable arc of his career. Jamie Lee Curtis also won for \u003cem>Everything Everywhere All At Once\u003c/em>, but her story could hardly be more different. Born to Oscar-nominated parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, she became a star after \u003cem>Halloween \u003c/em>in 1978, when she was just turning 20 years old. 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"content": "\u003cp>This year’s crop of Oscar nominees for best original song may not have a James Bond theme or a ubiquitous Disney banger, but it’s got range: a viral dance number, a pair of ballads by major pop stars, a welcome surprise and… yes, the obligatory \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/127988436/diane-warren\">Diane Warren\u003c/a> track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has been publishing these lists for a few years now — here’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1083945317/the-2022-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2022\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896127/the-2021-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2021\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/07/803636380/the-2020-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2020\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/23/697103948/the-2019-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2019\u003c/a> — and it’s been a while since a best-original-song field has been this easy to rank. The best are great, as they either feature prominently in the films or reflect directly on the themes therein. The worst either roll vacantly over the closing credits, are by Diane Warren, or both. The middle… eh, we’ll get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. “Applause,” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Tell It Like a Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>, performed by Sofia Carson (Diane Warren, songwriter)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAHorHpPqb4&t=1s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now might be a good time to note a few of the original songs that could have received Oscar nominations in 2023. Remember \u003cem>Turning Red’\u003c/em>s amazing boy-band pastiches? “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQQRjFzB8gY\">Nobody Like U\u003c/a>,” by last year’s best original song winners \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/691274976/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/1045249930/finneas\">Finneas\u003c/a>, didn’t even make \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/feature/2023-oscars-best-original-song-predictions-1235396256/\">the shortlist for the category\u003c/a> this year. Same goes for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduECEfvCng\">On My Way\u003c/a>,” a Jennifer Lopez pop ballad from \u003cem>Marry Me\u003c/em> that was strong enough to make viewers think, “It is plausible that this fictional chart-topper could be a huge hit in real life.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/519967140/jazmine-sullivan\">Jazmine Sullivan\u003c/a>’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYtUDDW1WU\">Stand Up\u003c/a>” (from \u003cem>Till\u003c/em>) was shortlisted, but not nominated, while the Will Ferrell/Ryan Reynolds musical number “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMkJIR9pX1w\">Good Afternoon\u003c/a>” (from \u003cem>Spirited\u003c/em>, also shortlisted-but-not-nominated) would have given the Oscars telecast a welcome bit of bonkers energy, but… here we are. Diane Warren. Again. Some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somewhere along the way, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences went from having a Diane Warren fixation to a Diane Warren \u003cem>problem\u003c/em>. It’s one thing to nominate, say, 1997’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUFasKZcH_c\">How Do I Live\u003c/a>,” which has more or less become a pop standard. But Warren’s boilerplate movie songs have been nominated for eight of the past nine years, and the past six — all from consecutive years! — could have been written by ChatGPT if it had been fed enough Diane Warren songs beforehand. All six of those songs are basically the same: lightly rousing but deliberately paced vehicles dispensing affirmation, with titles like “Stand Up for Something,” “I’ll Fight” and “I’m Standing With You,” heard by virtually no one in the world beyond the people who didn’t feel like getting up to make themselves a snack on Oscar night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13896127']The Academy’s members gave Warren an honorary award last fall, which makes a fair bit of sense, given that she’s never been far from their minds. She received her first Oscar nomination all the way back in 1988, yet she’s never won in 13 (soon to be 14) tries. That honorary award would be much more welcome if it meant that Oscar voters would \u003cem>stop feeling obligated to nominate her\u003c/em>, particularly when the songs she’s written are 1) generic to the point of self-parody; and 2) extremely obscure. This year’s nominee is derived from a movie (\u003cem>Tell It Like a Woman\u003c/em>) that not only isn’t available for screening or streaming by the viewing public, but could also theoretically be entirely made up. Couldn’t you imagine, say, \u003cem>30 Rock\u003c/em>‘s Jenna Maroney appearing in a movie called \u003cem>Tell It Like a Woman\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, “Applause.” Look, it’s possible that Academy voters were deeply moved by the song’s instructions to, you know, stand up and give yourself some respect and whatnot. But… come on. This song is nominated because Diane Warren’s name is on it, and because Diane Warren is a veteran Hollywood songwriter — she lives there and works specifically in the movie industry — and not some pop star tossing out crumbs in the hope of getting an EGOT someday. The song genuinely \u003cem>does not matter\u003c/em>, and that’s true in more ways than one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, there you go. Be sure to watch this space next year, when “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3twMeHY5Ws\">Gonna Be You\u003c/a>” makes\u003cem> 80 for Brady\u003c/em> the Oscar nominee it was destined to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. “Lift Me Up,” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>, performed by Rihanna (Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, songwriters)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx_OexsUI2M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that line a few sentences ago about “some pop star tossing out crumbs in the hope of getting an EGOT someday”? Meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15757248/rihanna\">Rihanna’\u003c/a>s “Lift Me Up,” a ballad that barely merited a shrug when it came out last fall, even though it was 1) from the dizzily anticipated blockbuster \u003cem>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\u003c/em>; and 2) the singer’s first piece of new music in more than six years. Revisiting the song months later, that shrug persists: Rihanna lends it a clear, emotive, luminous vocal, and it’s a more-or-less effective sonic bridge between \u003cem>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\u003c/em> and its bonus scene, but the song could have been dropped onto the closing credits of just about any movie without the words needing to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about the emotional weight of the first \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> movie to appear following the death of Chadwick Boseman. Now take a peek at this song’s lyric sheet: “Lift me up / Hold me down / Keep me close / Safe and sound.” There’s virtually nothing here beyond boilerplate requests for support, all the way down. Swap Rihanna’s name for that of, say, Sofia Carson, and ask yourself: Would “Lift Me Up” have even made the shortlist in this category?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. “Hold My Hand,” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Top Gun: Maverick\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>, performed by Lady Gaga (Lady Gaga and BloodPop, songwriters)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2CIAKVTOrc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Top Gun: Maverick\u003c/em> doesn’t squander many opportunities to recapture the high-flying grandeur of its 1986 predecessor. But it falls a little short in the songs department, even with the passing nod to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/1140355932/kenny-loggins\">Kenny Loggins\u003c/a>’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E\">Danger Zone\u003c/a>” that pops up in the film’s opening moments. The original \u003cem>Top Gun\u003c/em> was packed with hits — including “Danger Zone,” Berlin’s Oscar-winning “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8\">Take My Breath Away\u003c/a>” and Loverboy’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_nvASTXl-Y\">Heaven in Your Eyes\u003c/a>” — but \u003cem>Top Gun: Maverick\u003c/em> largely skimps on the original songs, with just OneRepublic’s forgettable “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNEUkkoUoIA\">I Ain’t Worried\u003c/a>” and Lady Gaga’s power ballad “Hold My Hand” to show for 36 years of buildup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the latter song doesn’t skimp is in the sheer exertion of it all: Lady Gaga gives “Hold My Hand” every ounce of the fists-plunged-heavenward, writhing-atop-a-piano-on-a-lonely-airstrip grandeur it requires, and then some. Lyrically, it doesn’t add up to a whole lot — “I know you’re scared and your pain is imperfect / But don’t you give up on yourself” — but damned if it doesn’t pair effectively with images of planes whooshing ominously and rulebooks getting tossed into trash cans. This is Lady Gaga’s third Oscar nomination in this category alone (she won for “Shallow” in 2019), so she knows her way around a movie moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. “This Is a Life,” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Everything Everywhere All at Once\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>, performed by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski (Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski, songwriters)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzxsTXNmVm0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just based on degree-of-difficulty alone, this one deserves a lofty ranking: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/92313933/son-lux\">Son Lux\u003c/a>’s Ryan Lott (also rightly nominated for best original score) helped synthesize the themes of \u003cem>Everything Everywhere All at Once\u003c/em> — of which there are many — into a singular, graceful song that mirrors the film’s grand, humanistic sweep. “This Is a Life” simply operates on another level from the other closing-credits fare on this list, in part because it fits alongside no movie but this one. It’s a song about “many lives that could have been,” about “the weight of eternity at the speed of light,” and about the impossible knot of outcomes the film has spent two-plus hours endeavoring to untangle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also exquisitely performed. Lott uses the orchestra at his disposal sparingly, as it slides in at key moments alongside the ideal pairing of singers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/468710961/mitski\">Mitski\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15320822/david-byrne\">David Byrne\u003c/a> — two voices that know their way around the search for meaning and wonder. Each contributes mightily to the song’s (and the film’s) warm, openhearted embrace of a world defined by endless possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. “Naatu Naatu” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>RRR\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>, performed by Kaala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj (M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose, songwriters)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_eEgJhsBMo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>RRR\u003c/em> is an absolute meal of a movie: Three hours of grand, epic spectacle, punctuated by brutal violence and none-too-subtle messaging that combines anti-colonialism with ultranationalism. You might love it, you might not, but let’s see if we can’t gather together in celebration of its greatest moment: A viral dance number called “Naatu Naatu,” in which the film’s impossibly telegenic stars (Ram Charan and N.T. Rama Rao Jr.) dance their hearts out while lip-syncing for their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13925431']Placing “Naatu Naatu” and “Applause” in the same field of nominees is like declaring that \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-defense-of-the-blobfish-why-the-worlds-ugliest-animal-isnt-as-ugly-as-you-think-it-is-6676336/\">the humble, misunderstood blobfish\u003c/a> is visually akin to Ram Charan because they’re both living organisms. Every second of this thing is \u003cem>electric\u003c/em>: a song-and-dance number for which watching qualifies as aerobic exercise, in part because dancing along is essentially involuntary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s honestly a shame that the credits at the top of this ranking can only note performers and songwriters, because a healthy share of the credit also belongs to \u003cem>RRR’\u003c/em>s leads. Their commitment to the bit, and to Prem Rakshith’s impeccably synchronized choreography, makes “Naatu Naatu” one of the season’s biggest Oscar slam dunks. It should win, it almost certainly \u003cem>will\u003c/em> win, and the fact that it’s being performed on the telecast means we \u003cem>all\u003c/em> win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+2023+Oscars%27+best+original+song+nominees%2C+cruelly+ranked&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This year’s crop of Oscar nominees for best original song may not have a James Bond theme or a ubiquitous Disney banger, but it’s got range: a viral dance number, a pair of ballads by major pop stars, a welcome surprise and… yes, the obligatory \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/127988436/diane-warren\">Diane Warren\u003c/a> track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR has been publishing these lists for a few years now — here’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1083945317/the-2022-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2022\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13896127/the-2021-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2021\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/07/803636380/the-2020-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2020\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/23/697103948/the-2019-oscars-best-original-song-nominees-cruelly-ranked\">2019\u003c/a> — and it’s been a while since a best-original-song field has been this easy to rank. The best are great, as they either feature prominently in the films or reflect directly on the themes therein. The worst either roll vacantly over the closing credits, are by Diane Warren, or both. The middle… eh, we’ll get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. “Applause,” \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Tell It Like a Woman\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>, performed by Sofia Carson (Diane Warren, songwriter)\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/VAHorHpPqb4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VAHorHpPqb4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Now might be a good time to note a few of the original songs that could have received Oscar nominations in 2023. Remember \u003cem>Turning Red’\u003c/em>s amazing boy-band pastiches? “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQQRjFzB8gY\">Nobody Like U\u003c/a>,” by last year’s best original song winners \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/691274976/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/1045249930/finneas\">Finneas\u003c/a>, didn’t even make \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/feature/2023-oscars-best-original-song-predictions-1235396256/\">the shortlist for the category\u003c/a> this year. Same goes for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduECEfvCng\">On My Way\u003c/a>,” a Jennifer Lopez pop ballad from \u003cem>Marry Me\u003c/em> that was strong enough to make viewers think, “It is plausible that this fictional chart-topper could be a huge hit in real life.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/519967140/jazmine-sullivan\">Jazmine Sullivan\u003c/a>’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYtUDDW1WU\">Stand Up\u003c/a>” (from \u003cem>Till\u003c/em>) was shortlisted, but not nominated, while the Will Ferrell/Ryan Reynolds musical number “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMkJIR9pX1w\">Good Afternoon\u003c/a>” (from \u003cem>Spirited\u003c/em>, also shortlisted-but-not-nominated) would have given the Oscars telecast a welcome bit of bonkers energy, but… here we are. Diane Warren. Again. Some more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Academy’s members gave Warren an honorary award last fall, which makes a fair bit of sense, given that she’s never been far from their minds. She received her first Oscar nomination all the way back in 1988, yet she’s never won in 13 (soon to be 14) tries. That honorary award would be much more welcome if it meant that Oscar voters would \u003cem>stop feeling obligated to nominate her\u003c/em>, particularly when the songs she’s written are 1) generic to the point of self-parody; and 2) extremely obscure. This year’s nominee is derived from a movie (\u003cem>Tell It Like a Woman\u003c/em>) that not only isn’t available for screening or streaming by the viewing public, but could also theoretically be entirely made up. Couldn’t you imagine, say, \u003cem>30 Rock\u003c/em>‘s Jenna Maroney appearing in a movie called \u003cem>Tell It Like a Woman\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, “Applause.” Look, it’s possible that Academy voters were deeply moved by the song’s instructions to, you know, stand up and give yourself some respect and whatnot. But… come on. This song is nominated because Diane Warren’s name is on it, and because Diane Warren is a veteran Hollywood songwriter — she lives there and works specifically in the movie industry — and not some pop star tossing out crumbs in the hope of getting an EGOT someday. The song genuinely \u003cem>does not matter\u003c/em>, and that’s true in more ways than one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, there you go. 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She dedicated the award to every show that closed, opened, nearly opened or was fortunate to be reborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[aside postid='pop_13021']The Inheritance\u003c/em> by Matthew Lopez was named the best new play, and Charles Fuller’s \u003cem>A Soldier’s Play\u003c/em> won best play revival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez’s two-part, seven-hour epic uses \u003cem>Howards End\u003c/em> as a starting point for a play that looks at gay life in the early 21st century. It also yielded wins for Andrew Burnap as best actor in a play, Stephen Daldry as best director, and Lois Smith as best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Kirdahy, a producer, dedicated the award to his late husband, the playwright Terrence McNally. Lopez, the first Latin writer to win in the category, urged more plays to be produced from the Latin community. “We have so many stories inside us aching to come out. Let us tell you our stories,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic-delayed telecast kicked off with an energetic performance of “You Can’t Stop the Beat” from original Broadway cast members of \u003cem>Hairspray!\u003c/em> Jennifer Holliday also took the stage to deliver an unforgettable rendition of “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going” from the musical \u003cem>Dreamgirls\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The singers performed for a masked and appreciative audience at a packed Winter Garden Theatre. Host Audra McDonald got a standing ovation when she took the stage. “You can’t stop the beat. The heart of New York City!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Moulin Rouge! The Musical\u003c/em> won for scenic design, costume, lighting, sound design, orchestrations and a featured acting Tony for Broadway favorite Danny Burstein. Sonya Tayeh won for choreography on her Broadway debut, and Alex Timbers won the trophy for best direction of a musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_110904']In a surprise to no one, Aaron Tveit won the award for best leading actor in a musical for \u003cem>Moulin Rouge! The Musical\u003c/em>. That’s because he was the only person nominated in the category. He thanked a long list of people, including his parents, brother, agents, manager and the cast and crew. “We are so privileged to get to do this,” he said, tearing up. “Because what we do changes peoples’ lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burstein, who won for featured actor in a musical and had not won six previous times, thanked the Broadway community for supporting him after the death last year of his wife, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/rebecca-luker-danny-burstein-laura-benanti-a29cc8a28beea8eaf46b08850853b8b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Luker.\u003c/a> “You were there for us, whether you just sent a note or sent your love, sent your prayers—sent bagels—it meant the world to us, and it’s something I’ll never forget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Alan Grier won featured actor in a play for his role in \u003cem>A Soldier’s Play\u003c/em>, which dissects entrenched Black-white racism as well as internal divisions in the Black military community during World War II. “To my other nominees: Tough bananas, I won,” he said. On stage, the director Kenny Leon recited the names Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, killed by police. “We will never, ever forget you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Warren won the Tony for best leading actress in a musical for her electric turn as Tina Turner in \u003cem>Tina—The Tina Turner Musical\u003c/em>. Warren was considered the front-runner for the award thanks to becoming a one-woman fireball of energy and exhilaration. She dedicated the win to three family members she lost while playing Turner—and thanked Turner herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary-Louise Parker won her second best lead actress Tony Award, winning for playing a Yale professor who treasures great literature but has made no room in her life for someone to share that love with in \u003cem>The Sound Inside\u003c/em>. She thanked her dog, whom she was walking in the rain when she bumped into Mandy Greenfield from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, who told her about the play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burnap made his Broadway debut in \u003cem>The Inheritance\u003c/em>. He thanked his mom, and the University of Rhode Island and joked that he felt grateful because “I got to act for seven hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_11682765']The sobering musical \u003cem>Jagged Little Pill\u003c/em>, which plumbs Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album to tell a story of an American family spiraling out of control, came into the night with a leading 15 Tony nominations. It won for best book, and Lauren Patten won the award for best featured actress in a musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> cleaned up with five technical awards: scenic design of a play, costumes, lighting, sound design and score. No one from the production was on hand to accept any of the awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Broadway’s royalty—Norm Lewis, Kelli O’Hara and Brian Stokes Mitchell—mourned the list of those who have died, which included icons like McNally, Harold Prince and Larry Kramer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Slave Play\u003c/em>, Jeremy O. Harris’ ground-breaking, bracing work that mixes race, sex, taboo desires and class, earned a dozen nominations, making it the most nominated play in Tony history. But it won nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday’s show was expanded from its typical three hours to four, with McDonald handing out Tonys for the first two hours and Leslie Odom Jr. hosting a \u003cem>Broadway’s Back!\u003c/em> celebration for the second half with performances from the three top musicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The live special also included David Byrne and the cast of \u003cem>American Utopia\u003c/em> playing “Burning Down the House” to a standing and clapping crowd. Byrne told them they might not remember how to dance after so long but they were welcome to try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13903496']John Legend and the cast of \u003cem>Ain’t Too Proud\u003c/em> performed “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” and Josh Groban and Odom Jr. sang “Beautiful City” from \u003cem>Godspell\u003c/em>, dedicating it to educators. And Ben Platt and Anika Noni Rose sang “Move On” from \u003cem>Sunday in the Park with George.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This season’s nominations were pulled from just 18 eligible plays and musicals from the 2019-2020 season, a fraction of the 34 shows the previous season. During most years, there are 26 competitive categories. This year there are 25 with several depleted ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Tony Awards ceremony was held in 2019. The virus forced Broadway theaters to abruptly close on March 12, 2020, knocking out all shows and scrambling the spring season. 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In the 1960s, Tharp and her company of dancers performed in parks and malls, and on subway platforms and rooftops. “If it was kind of level, it was fair territory,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tharp went on to choreograph for Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Joffrey Ballet, the Royal Ballet, the New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre. She’s also collaborated with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/923258756/david-byrne-and-spike-lee-conjure-up-a-joyous-vision-of-american-utopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Byrne \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15827020/billy-joel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billy Joel\u003c/a> on Broadway shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tharp is known for mixing ballet with other styles of dance: “I had always felt that one dancer should be able to dance across the line,” she says. “That is to say: When I started working in New York, you were either modern dancer, or you were a ballet dancer. I thought that was ridiculous, because I could be both a ballet dancer and a modern dancer, so shouldn’t everybody else be able to do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tharp is the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/twyla-tharp-documentary/16724/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Twyla Moves,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> a new documentary by the PBS series, American Masters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYpeHbCEyCM\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On starting to dance as a small child\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started with music training both in piano and violin and percussion, and the dancing came after the fact. But on the other hand, my mother was a concert pianist and as a very tiny baby, I was going to her classes. And so I was always wiggling and then I could crawl and then I could sort of hop. So I’ve always been dancing to music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what made her early choreography different from others \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the first thing was to eliminate the idea of steps or styles—it was to get to fundamentals of movement. And we were looking for very common, [ordinary] shared modes of movement. By ordinary, I mean not extremely sophisticated in training folks might have, and then how could that be extended and become more challenging for us who had had the advantage of that kind of training. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was beginning, I wanted to go back to the very mechanics: You either start on the right side or the left side. You either coordinate in opposition to the forward moving leg or parallel to the forward moving legs. You’re either moving forwards or you’re moving backwards or laterally, side-to-side. All of these kinds of, really, engineering questions are [a] kind of launch point, because I didn’t want to take anything for granted. I wanted to feel as though my fundamentals were sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On performing dance without music \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music is much more comfortable for the general public than movement. I often say: Take one phrase of movement and put on happy music, [and] the audience thinks it’s a happy dance. Put on sad music and they’ll think it’s a sad dance, and the movement is exactly the same. So I wanted to try to see what the emotional resonance of movement was. What excited people? What was provocative? What would they register? Not all of those, but many visual questions were asked. And that wouldn’t have been possible with music, because music is so overpowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why she wanted to start an all-women dance company in 1966 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we knew there was a bias in the world of art across the board, whether it was music, painting, sculpture, literature [or] dance. And we wanted to fortify ourselves in such a way that we could put forth what we thought was our strongest suit. And our strongest suit was a lot of technique and a lot of incredible ensemble work, but also strong individual voices. … We all had singular qualities, and that was clearer if we were all women, than had a man been in the group, we would have been the women [and] he would … have been the man, and that would have become the distinctive, defining characteristic rather than the individual qualities of each human being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On wanting dancers with different body types in her company [aside postid='arts_13887871']\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to be inclusive, you need to have differentiation. So by having [different dancers who are] tall, short, classically trained, [without] classic training, [a] great athlete—all of these various qualities would redefine and give a three-dimensional quality to the work that obviously is lacking if there is a body type that is featured throughout the ensemble. One understands that need [for] fungibility in professional companies because if one dancer goes out, they want to be able to put another one in as directly and efficiently as possible and hopefully in the same costume. It’s all the bottom line, right? To me, that was not what dancing was about and it still isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On choreographing men who didn’t want to be taught by a woman \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a very strong jumper. And I jumped higher, longer, than most of the men. So it was like, “OK, guys, let’s go.” That’s how I’ve basically always been able to work with men: through strength and by a kind of challenge. … But, you know, men can be very arrogant—we all can. … If they were given the opportunity to work around that bias, many of them would, and gratefully. I mean, you’ll see some male dancers in \u003cem>Deuce Coupe\u003c/em> … were doing kind of extraordinary things. 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The film, which captures a live performance of Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway show, was directed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/12/14/570761380/31-years-later-spike-lees-got-a-fresh-take-on-shes-gotta-have-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spike Lee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Spike might not be the first person you’d expect to click with Byrne, a guy I don’t exactly picture yelling courtside at a Knicks game. Yet Lee is terrific at filming live performances, and his swooping, shrewdly observant camera meshes perfectly with Byrne’s layered and rousing sense of musical theater. This is one show you can dance to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>American Utopia\u003c/em> starts with Byrne, barefoot in a silver-gray suit, holding a model of the brain and pondering different ideas of connection. He’s gradually joined by his equally barefoot co-stars, also uniformed in silver-gray suits, who sing, dance and play hand-held instruments as they perform nearly 20 Byrne songs, from his Talking Heads classics to his more recent solo work. Thanks to wireless technology, everyone moves around the stage in seemingly total freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Byrne’s work has long been obsessed with the many ways of being imprisoned—in oneself, in an addiction to things, in a meaningless life—and equally attuned to different forms of escape. \u003cem>American Utopia\u003c/em> features a series of songs that ask questions about the meaning of home. The answers range from the welcoming good spirits of “Everybody’s Coming to My House” to the rowdier energies found in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15321830/talking-heads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Talking Heads\u003c/a>‘ party song “Burning Down the House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg4hcgtjDPc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the show isn’t actually about burning anything down. It’s about conjuring an image of an American utopia. You’ll be relieved to hear that Byrne is not hectoring. Yes, he gives a little speech about the need to vote—but he doesn’t say who for. And yes, Byrne points out that many of his cast members are immigrants, as is he—a naturalized American born in Scotland. Yet his vision of utopia is not any kind of political program. It’s the show itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Byrne, utopia is about embracing difference. It’s about men and women from a diversity of races and cultures coming together to create something new, alive and beautiful that helps people connect. While Byrne starts alone on the stage, by the grand finale, he and his co-stars are marching through the aisles singing the cheery song “Road to Nowhere.” Everybody’s together on-screen—even the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, the show echoes Byrne’s own artistic transformation. Back in his early, post-punk days, he was almost a parody of the nerdy, angst-riddled white guy. With his on-stage tics and spasms, he seemed a bit like \u003cem>Psycho\u003c/em>‘s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91947125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norman Bates,\u003c/a> if Norman hadn’t turned into his dead mother but instead gone to art school. What liberated him seems to have been his encounter with Black music, both American funk and the complex rhythms of Brazil. Byrne’s persona became sunnier and more communal, as you could see in Jonathan Demme’s great 1984 concert film \u003cem>Stop Making Sense\u003c/em>, where Byrne and his fellow Talking Heads exude sheer collective joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the skeptic in me feels obliged to note one limitation of the show’s communitarian notion of utopia. Byrne writes and sings lead on all the songs—he’s obviously the star. Everybody else plays second fiddle, and while they clearly enjoy performing, I suspect being a backup is not how \u003cem>they\u003c/em> view utopia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet if Byrne doesn’t always rise above stardom’s privilege, he is attuned to other ways he’s privileged. He realizes that the show’s upbeat vibe could easily turn into feelgood kitsch that feels disconnected from present-day reality. 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