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"content": "\u003cp>These days, according to the parlance of stan armies, you’re either a “main pop girl,” or you’re not. Main pop girl-ism is nebulous, but, like pornography, you know it when you see it. She emerges into the spotlight according to album “eras” (what ancient civilizations once referred to as \u003cem>cycles\u003c/em>). At some point she has, via red carpet outfit or awards performance or interaction with paparazzi, minorly scandalized a nation. “Authenticity” is not a word that appears in her marketing plan. She can often \u003cem>actually dance\u003c/em>. Drag queens impersonate her, and rockists bicker over the number of writers credited to her hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891785']She may or may not actually, by pure album sales or streaming numbers or radio plays, be \u003cem>popular\u003c/em>. The domination of her type peaked in the late 2000s to early 2010s, when the American charts were crowded with muscled, alpha entertainers like Britney, Christina, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Gaga etc. But there isn’t just one main pop girl; rather, it’s an \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/dua-lipa-pop-girl-energy-dazed-interview-1235335755/\">energy\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/charli-xcx-new-album-crash-alone-together-1297016/\">to embody\u003c/a> — fantasy aware it’s serving fantasy, Bush-era raunch. Music is just one part of her celebrity to consume, along with relationships cataloged in the press, her breakdowns and traumas (to which many documentaries are likely dedicated).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jocelyn, the superstar around whom the plot of the contentious \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/1180083160/tv-review-hbo-the-idol-premiere\">new HBO show \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>\u003c/a> swarms, has main pop girl energy. Played by Lily-Rose Depp, the singer is about to release a new single called “World Class Sinner” (the lyrics of which are about being a freak and not much else, and the quality of which wouldn’t earn a spot on Ava Max’s next record) and is still processing her mothers’ death from cancer. We meet her in the middle of a sexy photoshoot, hospital wristband still on her arm. When a compromising photo of Jocelyn leaks and becomes “the number one trending topic on Twitter,” her team leaps into damage control, worried about her suffering from another “psychotic break.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think what Britney and Jocelyn have gone through is really unique, but ultimately universal, you know?” one handler, played by Dan Levy, says. There’s a lot for Jocelyn to prove, from her ability to execute perfect choreography to the illusion of mental stamina (“prioritizing wellness,” one team member calls it). When a shady club-owner played by The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye comes into her life, she seems attracted to his honesty when so few people exercise it with her. “When you’re famous, everyone lies to you,” she tells him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYUKxF0wMc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jocelyn’s suffering and alienation under the weight of her surveilled pop career feels all too familiar. She’s the young woman ensnared in the music industry machine, coached by handlers, every bit of her body lit flatteringly for the camera, her personality and humanity sanded down for the sake of the brand. You’ve seen her in film or television before. Take, for instance, Natalie Portman’s role as Celeste in 2018’s \u003cem>Vox Lux\u003c/em>, which follows the character as a teenager after she pens a proto-viral track following her survival of a school shooting in the early ’00s. Immediately, she’s signed by a team eager to capitalize on her trauma, whisked away to New York City, then Stockholm. Celeste transforms from innocent into self-destructive megastar, battling drug and alcohol abuse, sneering at journalists and riding fame so immense she can’t walk down the street without being accosted by fans dressed in her image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMCYE9hKP68\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressure cooker is similarly distressing for Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the star in 2014’s \u003cem>Beyond the Lights\u003c/em>, a singer in the image of early Rihanna or Ciara (though if she had it her way, she’d be the next Nina Simone.) Groomed for fame by an overbearing momager, Noni’s life is a cycle of producing indecipherable hits, topless photoshoots and a label-orchestrated romance. When she tries to jump off a balcony, she’s stopped by a cop (Nate Parker) and the two fall in love. As her handlers try to contain her image, tainted by her near-suicide, Noni ultimately strips down to her true self, the one who wants to write and perform her own music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rieoWn9BdrQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We see that careful industry transformation in reverse in 2018’s \u003cem>A Star is Born\u003c/em>, as Lady Gaga’s Ally becomes a lip-syncing, orange-haired pop singer, her husband Jackson (Bradley Cooper) disgusted by the artifice that creeps into her performances. It’s never quite clear whether Ally’s transformative choices were her own or that of her new handler, but the film positions the character’s makeover as an affront and a threat to the artistic and romantic bond between her and Jackson. And despite the fact that Ally’s songs, co-written by Gaga, \u003cem>were\u003c/em> bangers (they may have sounded intentionally dated but I won’t tolerate “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01nGbIaT4Wk\">Hair Body Face\u003c/a>” slander), the new Ally was positioned as a veneer over the “real” artist lurking still underneath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSbzyEJ8X9E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s something exhausting about Hollywood’s copy-paste of the bubblegum star as the vessel through which all the industry’s worst impulses can be articulated or satirized. In Jocelyn’s case, her troubles also don’t feel in step with what’s demanded of mainstream music stars in 2023. The extreme, over-sexed artifice championed by her team hasn’t been en vogue these days among the tween audience I imagine her label is trying to court, who’d sooner find themselves in the lived-in songwriting of stars like Olivia Rodrigo, Lizzy McAlpine, SZA, Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_112407']There’s also the issue of what could erupt an artist’s career at Jocelyn’s level; pop stars cancel global tours \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/22/this-should-not-be-normalised-why-musicians-are-cancelling-tours-to-protect-their-mental-health\">to protect\u003c/a> their “mental health” regularly, after all, and many go so far as to make that mission a marketing angle or the central thesis of a new project. \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em> may bill itself as a project “from the gutters of Hollywood,” but have Jocelyn’s Hollywood peers ever been tamer? So removed from the glare of any \u003cem>TMZ \u003c/em>camera crew, you’re more likely to be inundated with pap photos of stars carting $14 Erewhon smoothies to pilates than sloppily stumbling out of a club at 4 a.m.? Dua Lipa is too busy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1094567222/in-dua-lipas-ever-expanding-world-theres-no-time-limit-and-theres-no-what-ifs\">podcasting\u003c/a>, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t help but think about what on-screen depictions of messy music superstardom would look like if they turned their gaze away from pop girls like Jocelyn. The genres that soapy TV shows like \u003cem>Nashville \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> first mined nearly a decade ago, country and hip-hop respectively, now indisputably produce America’s most popular music stars. Where is the show about the handling of an artist like Morgan Wallen? The country star was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/03/963664999/country-star-morgan-wallen-suspended-by-label-dropped-by-radio-cmt-after-using-s\">suspended by\u003c/a> his record label, pulled from radio rotation and banned from the CMA Awards after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur. And yet it only seemed to make him \u003cem>more\u003c/em> popular — album sales for his 2021 album \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/arts/music/wallen-dangerous-billboard.html\">increased\u003c/a> after the scandal, and his most recent album \u003cem>One Thing at a Time\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/arts/music/morgan-wallen-one-thing-at-a-time-chart.html\">dominated\u003c/a> the charts for 12 straight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we had to hold a contest for who actually embodies “main pop girl” spirit and chaos in the \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>-charting set, Drake might actually be closer to the title than any current popstress. Or even The Weeknd himself, who is positioned as a dorky, rat-tailed scumbag in \u003cem>The Idol \u003c/em>rather than a dark, sexy singer prone to debauchery (as he was, briefly stealing Howard Ratner’s girl, in his \u003cem>Uncut Gems\u003c/em> cameo).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a wealth of stories worth telling about the music industry’s predations and unspoken rules beyond the cliched respectability web in which Jocelyn and her fictional pop girl brethren are often caught. I’m reminded of the hip-hop drama \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>, its episodes grounded in Donald Glover’s experiences with the music industry. That show depicted the way a local scene could become a viral, global export, and the co-option of hip-hop’s stories and aesthetics by white companies and benefactors Earn and Paper Boi mingle with. An early scene in which the two of them visit a Spotify-type company and witness a rapper dancing atop a table for an audience of white start-up office workers, or episodes like the final season’s “Born 2 Die” in which the concept of the “YWA” (“Young White Avatar”) is introduced as a pathway for Paper Boi out of music-making, feel far more cutting than \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s goofy jabs at publicists trying to control a star’s X-rated photo being leaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13909218']Of course, a more holistic on-screen depiction of the music industry’s careful narrative-building around its stars may not be nearly as titillating to someone like Levinson, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082288241/unlocking-the-sensory-overload-of-euphoria#:~:text=Press-,Unlocking%20the%20sensory%20overload%20of%20'Euphoria'%20%3A%20Pop%20Culture%20Happy,violence%2C%20and%20so%20much%20more.\">body of work\u003c/a> thrives on titillation. \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s first episode isn’t about the music industry, so much as it is about carefully maintaining a certain strain of celebrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pop music is the ultimate Trojan Horse,” Tesfaye’s character Tedros tells Jocelyn. “You get people to dance. You get people to sing along.” The issue is that \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s thin conception of what pop music sounds like (not to mention the femininity Jocelyn is selling), wouldn’t actually be as popular in today’s landscape as the show’s world makes it out to be. That a character \u003cem>within\u003c/em> the show has to evoke Britney Spears as Jocelyn’s spiritual counterpart confirms Levinson’s dated ideas about stardom and the pop music that facilitates it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modern pop music \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be a Trojan Horse for transgressive or revolutionary ideas — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786451710/billie-eilish-is-the-class-of-2019s-weird-achiever\">about identity\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068323960/lil-nas-x-pop-revolutionary\">about sex\u003c/a>, about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/26/475629479/close-to-home-a-conversation-about-beyonc-s-lemonade\">real hardship and trauma\u003c/a>. But \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em> is yet another project about a fictional star that swerves past reality in favor of a focus on trappings of a fame that feels chained to a bygone era, one where main pop girls reigned supreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Why+can%27t+Hollywood+get+pop+stardom+right%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There’s also the issue of what could erupt an artist’s career at Jocelyn’s level; pop stars cancel global tours \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/22/this-should-not-be-normalised-why-musicians-are-cancelling-tours-to-protect-their-mental-health\">to protect\u003c/a> their “mental health” regularly, after all, and many go so far as to make that mission a marketing angle or the central thesis of a new project. \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em> may bill itself as a project “from the gutters of Hollywood,” but have Jocelyn’s Hollywood peers ever been tamer? So removed from the glare of any \u003cem>TMZ \u003c/em>camera crew, you’re more likely to be inundated with pap photos of stars carting $14 Erewhon smoothies to pilates than sloppily stumbling out of a club at 4 a.m.? Dua Lipa is too busy \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1094567222/in-dua-lipas-ever-expanding-world-theres-no-time-limit-and-theres-no-what-ifs\">podcasting\u003c/a>, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t help but think about what on-screen depictions of messy music superstardom would look like if they turned their gaze away from pop girls like Jocelyn. The genres that soapy TV shows like \u003cem>Nashville \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> first mined nearly a decade ago, country and hip-hop respectively, now indisputably produce America’s most popular music stars. Where is the show about the handling of an artist like Morgan Wallen? The country star was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/03/963664999/country-star-morgan-wallen-suspended-by-label-dropped-by-radio-cmt-after-using-s\">suspended by\u003c/a> his record label, pulled from radio rotation and banned from the CMA Awards after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur. And yet it only seemed to make him \u003cem>more\u003c/em> popular — album sales for his 2021 album \u003cem>Dangerous\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/arts/music/wallen-dangerous-billboard.html\">increased\u003c/a> after the scandal, and his most recent album \u003cem>One Thing at a Time\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/arts/music/morgan-wallen-one-thing-at-a-time-chart.html\">dominated\u003c/a> the charts for 12 straight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we had to hold a contest for who actually embodies “main pop girl” spirit and chaos in the \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>-charting set, Drake might actually be closer to the title than any current popstress. Or even The Weeknd himself, who is positioned as a dorky, rat-tailed scumbag in \u003cem>The Idol \u003c/em>rather than a dark, sexy singer prone to debauchery (as he was, briefly stealing Howard Ratner’s girl, in his \u003cem>Uncut Gems\u003c/em> cameo).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a wealth of stories worth telling about the music industry’s predations and unspoken rules beyond the cliched respectability web in which Jocelyn and her fictional pop girl brethren are often caught. I’m reminded of the hip-hop drama \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em>, its episodes grounded in Donald Glover’s experiences with the music industry. That show depicted the way a local scene could become a viral, global export, and the co-option of hip-hop’s stories and aesthetics by white companies and benefactors Earn and Paper Boi mingle with. An early scene in which the two of them visit a Spotify-type company and witness a rapper dancing atop a table for an audience of white start-up office workers, or episodes like the final season’s “Born 2 Die” in which the concept of the “YWA” (“Young White Avatar”) is introduced as a pathway for Paper Boi out of music-making, feel far more cutting than \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s goofy jabs at publicists trying to control a star’s X-rated photo being leaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Of course, a more holistic on-screen depiction of the music industry’s careful narrative-building around its stars may not be nearly as titillating to someone like Levinson, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082288241/unlocking-the-sensory-overload-of-euphoria#:~:text=Press-,Unlocking%20the%20sensory%20overload%20of%20'Euphoria'%20%3A%20Pop%20Culture%20Happy,violence%2C%20and%20so%20much%20more.\">body of work\u003c/a> thrives on titillation. \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s first episode isn’t about the music industry, so much as it is about carefully maintaining a certain strain of celebrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pop music is the ultimate Trojan Horse,” Tesfaye’s character Tedros tells Jocelyn. “You get people to dance. You get people to sing along.” The issue is that \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em>‘s thin conception of what pop music sounds like (not to mention the femininity Jocelyn is selling), wouldn’t actually be as popular in today’s landscape as the show’s world makes it out to be. That a character \u003cem>within\u003c/em> the show has to evoke Britney Spears as Jocelyn’s spiritual counterpart confirms Levinson’s dated ideas about stardom and the pop music that facilitates it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modern pop music \u003cem>can\u003c/em> be a Trojan Horse for transgressive or revolutionary ideas — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786451710/billie-eilish-is-the-class-of-2019s-weird-achiever\">about identity\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068323960/lil-nas-x-pop-revolutionary\">about sex\u003c/a>, about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/26/475629479/close-to-home-a-conversation-about-beyonc-s-lemonade\">real hardship and trauma\u003c/a>. But \u003cem>The Idol\u003c/em> is yet another project about a fictional star that swerves past reality in favor of a focus on trappings of a fame that feels chained to a bygone era, one where main pop girls reigned supreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Why+can%27t+Hollywood+get+pop+stardom+right%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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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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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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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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]merica has a long history of coming together to grieve after a national tragedy. It was visible in the days after 9/11 when stars and stripes suddenly filled the windows of shopfronts and homes across America. It was overwhelming after the Sandy Hook mass shooting in 2012, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrace.org/2015/12/sandy-hook-shooting-donations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">65,000 teddy bears and 500,000 letters\u003c/a> were sent to Newtown, Connecticut. And the grief that Americans shared after the assassination of President Lincoln was so immense, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://marthahodes.com/book-detail.php?recordID=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still with us in a variety of forms\u003c/a> more than a century and a half later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">Yet, a public display of collective grief for the more than 70,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 remains largely absent. We are willing to make \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/health/coronavirus/howling-for-healthcare-workers-across-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noise for healthcare workers\u003c/a>, put \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/teddy-bear-hunts-hunt-we-are-going-on-a-window-bears/6055934/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teddy bears in windows\u003c/a> for children, and we might even make and distribute face masks. But when it comes to the lives of the thousands we’ve lost, few people are yet ready to look directly into the eye of that particular storm, and deal with all the mourning that will inevitably come with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we as a nation usually do after a tragedy is look straight to the victims of it. When there are high profile mass shootings, for example, we spend days learning the names and life stories of those lost in the tragedy. We get to know the dead through news reports and newspaper profiles and testimonies from friends told to journalists. We take time to think of these people; we look at their faces; we weep for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with COVID-19, we’ve all become suddenly much more interested in statistical analysis. Although it’s worth noting that NBC managed to tell \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/coronavirus-deaths-60-stories-victims-around-country-n1194396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the stories of 60\u003c/a> people killed by COVID-19, and CNN is gathering \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-victims-memories/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obituaries from loved ones\u003c/a> on an ongoing basis, this pandemic has largely been framed in the media by data, not sorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two likely reasons for this. The first is that the danger remains at large, and it’s more comfortable to prioritize facts over feelings right now. Americans are still worrying about their likelihood of contracting the virus, trying to learn the best practices to stay safe, and worrying about their bank balances after catastrophic job losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second is an issue of the sheer, unfathomable numbers involved. COVID-19 has now killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/28/846701304/pandemic-death-toll-in-u-s-now-exceeds-vietnam-wars-u-s-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more Americans than the Vietnam War\u003c/a>—thousands more, in fact—in a tiny fraction of the time. That number is (currently) roughly the equivalent of 24 9/11s. For many people trying to keep their heads above water, their families safe and their friends in check, it’s simply too much loss to contemplate on top of everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the circumstances, when Americans do allow themselves to feel emotional, it is often directed towards healthcare workers. As the very personification of the crisis, doctors, nurses and first responders represent the bravery and tenacity we look for in all American heroes. They give us reasons to feel grateful—for both the work they do, and the relief we feel to not be the ones doing it. And we turn to them because it puts some kind of barrier between us and the true, gruesome nightmare of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America has done this before. In the aftermath of 9/11, we looked to the firefighters in much the same way. Because it was easier to filter our own shock, horror and sadness through the heroes still on the ground, than it was to ponder the thousands of bodies in the rubble that they were tirelessly searching for. (Let’s just hope our healthcare workers are given more support down the line than\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYpDC3SRpM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the firefighters\u003c/a> were.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, the gravity and grief of this strangest of periods will inevitably catch up to us all. Publicly acknowledging it together and gathering in some way—whether that’s in-person when this is all finally over, or virtually, online, sooner than that—is a necessary step on the path to our nation’s recovery. Coming together to feel and acknowledge the loss of so many people isn’t just the right thing to do for the thousands of families who’ve been affected, it’s the right thing to do for a nation in shock and struggling to comprehend the enormity of what’s just happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the inherent dangers of the virus are obviously an impediment to any kind of public gathering, most of us have the means to share an experience remotely. On April 18, Global Citizen demonstrated this with the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One World: Together at Home\u003c/a>\u003c/em> event, curated by Lady Gaga. Virtual performances from the likes of Taylor Swift, the Rolling Stones, Billie Eilish and Stevie Wonder connected 270 million viewers worldwide and helped raise over $127 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, prior national tragedies have proven that we don’t need to physically gather in one location to share a meaningful, healing moment. In 1986, after the nation witnessed the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle live on TV, America grieved together by once again gathering around televisions and giving full attention to the astronauts’ memorial service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day—Feb. 1, 1986—the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/01/us/anger-confusion-and-fear-in-the-nation-s-grief.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003c/a>wrote about the necessity of sharing grief, especially in times of national crisis. 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"content": "\u003cp>For non-football types, the Super Bowl halftime show can be the only life raft in a confusing sea of frowning men wearing shoulder pads and over-long commercial breaks. And, since 1993, when Michael Jackson turned in his game-changing, five-song performance in Pasadena, standards for a successful halftime have been incredibly high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No wonder. Super Bowl \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viewing figures\u003c/a> haven’t fallen under 100 million since 1981, and are more commonly closer to the 150 million mark—and that’s in America alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_20247']When it’s done right, the halftime show can be a source of national pride (as when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5tHgXS-2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U2 tried to heal\u003c/a> the nation after 9/11). It can have an immediate and lasting impact on pop culture (Katy Perry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD1QrIe--_Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Left Shark\u003c/a> will live on as a\u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/super-bowl-xlix-halftime-left-shark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> meme\u003c/a> forever). And it can bring the country together during turbulent times (everyone stopped thinking about 2017’s divisive inauguration the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXwg712zw4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lady Gaga threw herself\u003c/a> off the top of that stadium).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s easy to forget quite how much the pre-Jackson Super Bowl halftime, well, sucked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going all the way back to the beginning, the first three halftime shows (’67-’69) consisted simply of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGj3SFf_VOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marching bands\u003c/a>. In 1970, when the NFL decided to jazz things up \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/06/carol-channing-super-bowl-broadway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for Super Bowl IV\u003c/a> in New Orleans, it saw fit to give America \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGj3SFf_VOk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a surreal reenactment\u003c/a> of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Cannons, on-field “deaths” and Carol Channing singing “When the Saints Go Marching In” were all involved. (All of which makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGRfz5_Cuo8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Eyed Peas’ \u003cem>Tron\u003c/em> musical \u003c/a>in 2011 look perfectly reasonable.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Channing was invited back again two years later, when Ella Fitzgerald and Al Hirt performed a rendition of “Mack the Knife” as part of a single-song “tribute to Louis Armstrong.” And by ’73, Andy Williams had been dragged in to pelt the crowd with two easy listening gems while the Michigan Marching Band did its thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny-1Q6qxn-A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the fact that the flashiest thing about Williams’ performance was his belt, in subsequent years, the decision was made to return to simpler times. For the next 15 years, marching bands performing a grab bag of “themes” dominated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These regimented “salutes” ranged from fairly reasonable celebrations (America’s bicentennial, “the Big Band era,” Hollywood’s 100th Anniversary), to totally random subjects (Duke Ellington, the Caribbean, Motown). And in between, there were moments of abject surreality (“World of Children’s Dreams,” “KaleidoSUPERscope” and “Beat of the Future,” anyone?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occasionally, flagrant advertising would interrupt proceedings—even more so than Pepsi does now. The most egregious example of this was 1977’s “It’s a Small World.” Produced by The Walt Disney Company, the halftime exhibition featured grinning but under-utilized Mouseketeers, a human reproduction of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” ride and, for reasons that remain unclear, green-hooded figures waving white sheets in formations that made… nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K-7je-6Dk0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1987’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXMNbK2e98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hollywood’s 100th Anniversary\u003c/a>” special with George Burns, as well as New Kids On The Block’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTOt6CjYaHc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weird, child-laden\u003c/a> set in 1991 also served as thinly-veiled Disney commercials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13863975']As late as 1989, the Super Bowl halftime show was such a mess, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqusO8PegFI&t=381s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the NFL thought nothing of bringing in Elvis Presto, a magician and Elvis impersonator\u003c/a> who spent his time on the field doing one large-scale card trick for the stadium, then a bunch of smaller illusions while singing “Do You Love Me” by The Contours—instead of, you know, an Elvis song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most noteworthy halftime of that period came in 1988 with a show that answered the question: What happens when you have too many ideas and decide to do all of them at the same time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final result, featuring 88 grand pianos, 44 Rockettes, four dudes on roller skates, an untold number of “dancersizers,” hundreds of cheerleaders, “the biggest big band ever to swing” and—wouldn’t you know it?—Chubby Checker, is the single most entertaining (and unintentionally hilarious) halftime show of all time. Behold its majesty:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrksVDVO6w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last 25 years, the strides made by the Super Bowl halftime show are immense. But we still find reasons to quibble. For every \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLrOSZi2pfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Destiny’s Child reunion\u003c/a>, there is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wL8sAr1Ym0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruno Mars trying\u003c/a> (and failing) to make it work with Red Hot Chili Peppers. For every \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NN3gsSf-Ys&t=105s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prince flawlessly powering through\u003c/a> a thunderstorm, there is an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwkhEqVq4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Levine\u003c/a> assuming that removing his shirt constitutes a grand finale. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content advisory:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem> The videos and language below contain strong language and may be offensive to some.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two days women have overwhelmed social media with a truth often hidden in plain sight: \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One out of every six\u003c/a> women has been subject to an attempted or completed rape during her lifetime. Countless more endure other forms of assault, abuse or harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the recent revelations that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein performed such acts on dozens of women over the past four decades, the phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/the-woman-who-started-me-too-on-why-we-didnt-need-another-quiet-day-2920079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">me too,\u003c/a>” posted as a hashtag or Facebook status, did the usual digital-activism work of intensely personalizing a social and political issue that many could otherwise dismiss as “not my problem.” As some men posted, and some women of color argued, it takes a certain amount of privilege to feel safe enough to make even a two-word disclosure like this one. Questions about race and gender arose that necessarily complicate rapid-fire political discourses. Yet “me too” has approached a certain critical mass; the hashtag had been used 200,000 times as of Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a meme, “me too” does a great job of crystallizing the rage and vulnerability women feel in the face of rape culture. This conversation, however, is hardly new. Artists, activists, writers and musicians have told the stories of violated women across time — particularly since the 1990s, when popular music and feminism powerfully intersected in the pop mainstream and the musical underground. Here’s a list of twenty songs in which women said “me too” — without shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tori Amos, “Me And A Gun” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4KjmFMtiywPXyr6CbLOhY3\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stark, semi-autobiographical monologue, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15182176/tori-amos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amos\u003c/a> wrote to be performed a capella, takes the listener within the mind of a woman being raped – and is based on details of the singer-songwriter’s own assault after a show when she was 21. The emotional centerpiece of her solo debut album \u003cem>Little Earthquakes\u003c/em>, it remains one of pop’s most intimate and forthright accounts of how women experience sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TLC, “His Story” (1992)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3naqVKAWQJyghdX9VzYEJA\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘His Story’ was happening before we were born,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15807876/tlc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TLC\u003c/a> member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas said in a recent interview, addressing this song’s theme of society’s tendency to accept the male viewpoint on sexual assault, even in the most dubious circumstances. A protest song in the guise of a funk jam, TLC’s invective has been somewhat forgotten, perhaps because it was inspired by and mentioned the highly controversial \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/05/209194252/15-years-later-tawana-brawley-has-paid-1-percent-of-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tawana Brawley\u003c/a> case of 1987; its big-picture take still resonates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Au Pairs, “Armagh” (1981)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5OqNaCBBU7qK5TeUzREhx1\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexual assault is always political, and sometimes it’s actually a tool of the state. The post-punk band Au Pairs – part of a vibrant feminist scene that arose in Northern England at the turn of the ’80s – made that reality explicit in this song, about female Irish Republican prisoners who were repeatedly strip-searched and reportedly violated as part of the daily routine in the Northern Irish prison of the song’s title. The women of Armagh conducted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theirisharchives.com/articles/view/97/The-Women-Hunger-Strikers-Of-Armagh-Prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“dirty protest”\u003c/a> to call attention to their plight; this song captures its disgust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liz Phair, “F*** and Run” (1993)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4MSdFtD1JPc2W3J13uJPeS\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15402643/liz-phair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phair\u003c/a>‘s album-length rejoinder to carelessly sexist indie rockers, \u003cem>Exile in Guyville\u003c/em>, is one of the finest accounts of all the crap that women put up with within music scenes. This deceptively wry ballad about one-night-stand Johnnies contains a shocking line — “even when I was twelve,” Phair sang, recalling all the times men enjoyed her body and then left her behind — that connects everyday, callous treatment to the larger culture of abuse that women must navigate, starting when they are girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bikini Kill, “Liar” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1aycS7_P-M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early ’90s Riot Grrrl movement brought the realities of rape culture into stark focus within an indie rock community that often presented itself as above “all that.” Kathleen Hanna, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/106311747/bikini-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikini Kill\u003c/a>‘s vocalist and visionary, was the Cassandra who demanded that the men around her acknowledge that they, too, were part of the mass deceit that allows male perpetrators to “deny, deny, deny, deny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fiona Apple, “Sullen Girl” (1996)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6cVxGzo7214XabSXFGasNl\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of sexual assault often, perhaps nearly always, last a lifetime. At 17, in this blunt, introspective, beautiful piano ballad, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15183593/fiona-apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiona Apple\u003c/a> revealed the aftermath of her rape at age 12. “My oblivion,” she called it, resurrecting herself through sheer grit and musicality, and guiding others to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Raincoats, “Off Duty Trip” (1979)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6hsh2tGBNL5WlaQLrD61P7\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rape culture is supported by a criminal justice system that can seem inclined towards preserving male power. (The recent case of Brock Turner, the Stanford student whose sentence was reduced by a judge concerned about its \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/02/the-judge-in-the-infamous-brock-turner-case-finally-explains-his-decision-a-year-later/?utm_term=.afbf2b168bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact on his future\u003c/a>, is illustrative.) Post-punk greats \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/539037321/the-raincoats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Raincoats\u003c/a> refer in this song to a much-publicized rape trial in which a British Army officer received lenient treatment from a judge concerned about his military standing, and contextualizes that outrage within a larger view of women’s objectification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rihanna, “Man Down” (2010)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/454h9zAIuTe1eJyw9iTnj4\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Barbadian queen of international pop has often alluded to sexualized violence in her songs, partly because of her own history, which includes surviving domestic assault by her then-boyfriend, the singer Chris Brown. This song takes on rape directly, and can be heard as a revenge fantasy aimed at the fiercely patriarchal culture of the Caribbean dancehall music it mines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>War On Women, “Say It” (2015)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0eta41JkL9xjzWxiPtuMEQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certain environments where male bonding is prioritized — fraternities, for example, or perhaps summer rock festivals — have proven particularly conducive to men who violate women. This past summer, the Baltimore band War On Women brought this demand to disrupt such enclaves to Warped Tour, and, perhaps predictably,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.popsugar.com/news/How-Women-Warped-Tour-Pushing-Back-Against-Sexual-Harassment-43727311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endured a backlash\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah McLachlan, “Possession” (1993)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/28SynOAuafgfxvPXWFgS7D\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stalking – the relentless invasion of a woman’s space and privacy – is a major aspect of the culture of misogyny. In one of her most resonant and popular songs, Lilith Fair co-founder \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15397450/sarah-mclachlan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah McLachlan\u003c/a> claimed power over a fan who’d stalked her by imagining herself in his position, a chancy move that allowed her some sense of power. Though, she said, the experience had forced her to live with the constant fear that she \u003ca href=\"http://www.addictedtosongwriting.com/sarah-mclachlan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">might be raped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rhiannon Giddens, “At the Purchaser’s Option” (2017)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5RmAtT0VaKttU0Eybo6ZWA\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The #metoo hashtag rivets us because it feels urgent and new. But sexual assault is embedded in American culture, especially within the poison legacy of slavery. Newly minted MacArthur Foundation Genius \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/384980773/rhiannon-giddens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhiannon Giddens\u003c/a> brings listeners right into the bloodied heart of one enslaved woman impregnated by her rapist, whose resilience defied history itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eve, “Love is Blind” (1999)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0H2jfzzREOr9MF95HB7ry6\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of love,” Eve asked in this song dedicated to a friend who’d been killed by her boyfriend, “make you wish he would die?” The cycle of domestic violence included rape, and the rap royal included it as part of this cry for justice, which ends in a scenario of revenge. “Love is Blind” is a swaggering achievement that stands against hip-hop’s longstanding practice of \u003ca href=\"http://uproxx.com/webculture/50-absurd-rape-lyrics/\">making light\u003c/a> of sexual assault and harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Otep, “Fillthee” (2001)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0AWMwRNXNc0bX2sPLWrxX7\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmospheres in which violence can be mounted against women are often aggressively male. Extreme heavy metal is, notoriously, a dude’s paradise; Otep Shamaya is one of the few women who has found stardom within it. From the start of her career, as in this song confronting the shame a rape victim feels, she has demanded that her peers acknowledge the ways in which they quash the feminine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amy Grant, “Ask Me” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5rLGbtNvUB8nqyUNTRC5n9\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All too often, women have been taught to blame themselves for their own victimization. Sometimes religion has enforced this self-condemnation. Amy Grant, one of contemporary Christian music’s superstars, turns this shame around by telling the story of a sexually abused child in poignant detail before celebrating the girl’s redemption as a grown woman. Grant puts mercy before patriarchal judgment in her version of being born again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gillian Welch, “Caleb Meyer” (1998)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/170BlLwmzfaW7hlKCl24sb\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murder ballad is a Euro-American traditional song form that forms one of the foundations of folk music. Through its many tales of lone male wolves strangling women or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvXteZkByE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing them into rivers\u003c/a>, it also normalizes misogyny. In this satisfying twist on the usual story, by Americana’s master storyteller \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15237439/gillian-welch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gillian Welch\u003c/a> and her partner David Rawlings, the titular character is a rapist who becomes a casualty of his own criminal act when his victim – a determined survivor – grabs a broken bottle and ends both the crime and his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angel Haze, “Cleaning Out My Closet” (2012)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olBOFLqEREI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way that men have erased women’s accounts of their own realities is by treating misogyny as a joke. The Detroit rapper Angel Haze battles one of the masters of that despicable art, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15404635/eminem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eminem\u003c/a>, in this truth-baring session. The Eminem song that shares this title is uncharacteristically (and barely) tender, qualified by a final rhyme about almost shooting his ex-wife Kim. Haze’s is much deeper, detailing childhood trauma enacted by multiple abusers and ending with her listing its devastating effects on her psyche. The truth is not a punchline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Thief, “Coma” (2017)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0cMGrVR6OQoNZwgmtQ0jWC\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crucial task of helping women recover from violence often falls to other women. In this gently redemptive song about recovery from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/467816510/big-thief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Thief\u003c/a> — a response to Big Thief’s “Watering,” which details an assault, possibly of the same woman — the band’s singer-guitarist and main songwriter Adrianne Lenker becomes that nurturing companion, helping a survivor understand that both her inner and outer world have forever changed with what she’s endured, but that she can still see light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kira Isabella, “Quarterback” (2014)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5aIPwyYKzd3RyPvhwloeoZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peer pressure and alcohol are two potent forces that both feed rape culture and, sometimes, protect its perpetrators. Canadian country artist Kira Isabella and her songwriting team (including Saving Jane’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/martilynndodson?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marti Dodson\u003c/a>) capture that reality in the tale of a “no name girl from the freshman class” violated by the big man on campus and, in a tragic contemporary twist, by whatever witness chose to post images of the act on the Internet. Penn State and Steubenville are the backdrop for this all-too-familiar tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Petrol Girls, “Touch Me Again” (2016)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/21oFKSwN0SnBYC4bFtDZEI\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about the really not-very-difficult idea that you shouldn’t f*** people if they don’t want to have sex with you, and you shouldn’t touch people if they don’t want to be touched,” said Ren Aldridge, vocalist and leader of this raucously righteous London-based hardcore band, introducing this song at a recent show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lady Gaga, “Til It Happens To You” (2015)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0bCCGLHflR08UVA6oJJc8I\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If today’s rejuvenated mainstream consciousness about sexual assault has an anthem it is this ballad, co-written by pop’s Mother Monster alongside Diane Warren, the mother of many other massive hits. Featured in \u003cem>The Hunting Ground\u003c/em>, a 2015 documentary about rape on college campuses, it’s a giant power ballad whose ultimate message is that only those who’ve survived sexual violence can understand it. Tragically, the past few days have indicated that most women are in that position; songs like this one resonate all too widely. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Songs+That+Say+%27Me+Too%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Content advisory:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem> The videos and language below contain strong language and may be offensive to some.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past two days women have overwhelmed social media with a truth often hidden in plain sight: \u003ca href=\"https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One out of every six\u003c/a> women has been subject to an attempted or completed rape during her lifetime. Countless more endure other forms of assault, abuse or harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the recent revelations that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein performed such acts on dozens of women over the past four decades, the phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bustle.com/p/the-woman-who-started-me-too-on-why-we-didnt-need-another-quiet-day-2920079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">me too,\u003c/a>” posted as a hashtag or Facebook status, did the usual digital-activism work of intensely personalizing a social and political issue that many could otherwise dismiss as “not my problem.” As some men posted, and some women of color argued, it takes a certain amount of privilege to feel safe enough to make even a two-word disclosure like this one. Questions about race and gender arose that necessarily complicate rapid-fire political discourses. Yet “me too” has approached a certain critical mass; the hashtag had been used 200,000 times as of Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a meme, “me too” does a great job of crystallizing the rage and vulnerability women feel in the face of rape culture. This conversation, however, is hardly new. Artists, activists, writers and musicians have told the stories of violated women across time — particularly since the 1990s, when popular music and feminism powerfully intersected in the pop mainstream and the musical underground. Here’s a list of twenty songs in which women said “me too” — without shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tori Amos, “Me And A Gun” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4KjmFMtiywPXyr6CbLOhY3\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This stark, semi-autobiographical monologue, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15182176/tori-amos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amos\u003c/a> wrote to be performed a capella, takes the listener within the mind of a woman being raped – and is based on details of the singer-songwriter’s own assault after a show when she was 21. The emotional centerpiece of her solo debut album \u003cem>Little Earthquakes\u003c/em>, it remains one of pop’s most intimate and forthright accounts of how women experience sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TLC, “His Story” (1992)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3naqVKAWQJyghdX9VzYEJA\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘His Story’ was happening before we were born,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15807876/tlc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TLC\u003c/a> member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas said in a recent interview, addressing this song’s theme of society’s tendency to accept the male viewpoint on sexual assault, even in the most dubious circumstances. A protest song in the guise of a funk jam, TLC’s invective has been somewhat forgotten, perhaps because it was inspired by and mentioned the highly controversial \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/05/209194252/15-years-later-tawana-brawley-has-paid-1-percent-of-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tawana Brawley\u003c/a> case of 1987; its big-picture take still resonates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Au Pairs, “Armagh” (1981)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5OqNaCBBU7qK5TeUzREhx1\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexual assault is always political, and sometimes it’s actually a tool of the state. The post-punk band Au Pairs – part of a vibrant feminist scene that arose in Northern England at the turn of the ’80s – made that reality explicit in this song, about female Irish Republican prisoners who were repeatedly strip-searched and reportedly violated as part of the daily routine in the Northern Irish prison of the song’s title. The women of Armagh conducted a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theirisharchives.com/articles/view/97/The-Women-Hunger-Strikers-Of-Armagh-Prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“dirty protest”\u003c/a> to call attention to their plight; this song captures its disgust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Liz Phair, “F*** and Run” (1993)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4MSdFtD1JPc2W3J13uJPeS\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15402643/liz-phair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phair\u003c/a>‘s album-length rejoinder to carelessly sexist indie rockers, \u003cem>Exile in Guyville\u003c/em>, is one of the finest accounts of all the crap that women put up with within music scenes. This deceptively wry ballad about one-night-stand Johnnies contains a shocking line — “even when I was twelve,” Phair sang, recalling all the times men enjoyed her body and then left her behind — that connects everyday, callous treatment to the larger culture of abuse that women must navigate, starting when they are girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bikini Kill, “Liar” (1991)\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/i1aycS7_P-M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i1aycS7_P-M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The early ’90s Riot Grrrl movement brought the realities of rape culture into stark focus within an indie rock community that often presented itself as above “all that.” Kathleen Hanna, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/106311747/bikini-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bikini Kill\u003c/a>‘s vocalist and visionary, was the Cassandra who demanded that the men around her acknowledge that they, too, were part of the mass deceit that allows male perpetrators to “deny, deny, deny, deny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fiona Apple, “Sullen Girl” (1996)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6cVxGzo7214XabSXFGasNl\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects of sexual assault often, perhaps nearly always, last a lifetime. 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Extreme heavy metal is, notoriously, a dude’s paradise; Otep Shamaya is one of the few women who has found stardom within it. From the start of her career, as in this song confronting the shame a rape victim feels, she has demanded that her peers acknowledge the ways in which they quash the feminine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amy Grant, “Ask Me” (1991)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5rLGbtNvUB8nqyUNTRC5n9\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All too often, women have been taught to blame themselves for their own victimization. Sometimes religion has enforced this self-condemnation. Amy Grant, one of contemporary Christian music’s superstars, turns this shame around by telling the story of a sexually abused child in poignant detail before celebrating the girl’s redemption as a grown woman. 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In this gently redemptive song about recovery from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/467816510/big-thief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Thief\u003c/a> — a response to Big Thief’s “Watering,” which details an assault, possibly of the same woman — the band’s singer-guitarist and main songwriter Adrianne Lenker becomes that nurturing companion, helping a survivor understand that both her inner and outer world have forever changed with what she’s endured, but that she can still see light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kira Isabella, “Quarterback” (2014)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5aIPwyYKzd3RyPvhwloeoZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peer pressure and alcohol are two potent forces that both feed rape culture and, sometimes, protect its perpetrators. 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