Tag: Appropriation
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S51 E18: Olivia Rodrigo
We gush over Aziz Ansari’s Kash Patel in the Iran Press Briefing Cold Open before exploring Rasta Driver as a case study in white performers adopting Black cultural affect, the deployment of bedroom culture and the collapse of private spaces in My Room, as well as the absurdity of TikTok surveillance and “contentification” in Home…
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S51 E11: Teyana Taylor
We talk about the corporate synergy with NFL on ESPN, linguistics and cultural appropriation in Weekend Update: Marcello Hernández Translates Gen Z Terms, white guilt in turbulent times with Beyond the Headlines, and the strategic deployment of innocence in Toy Commercial.
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S49 E10: Dakota Johnson
In Dakota Johnson’s second crack at hosting SNL, we talk about socioeconomic- and race-based othering in Home Movies, black friends and black-up bands with Justin Timberlake’s musical performance of Sanctified, and the long history of the Dozens in Roast, a film by Please Don’t Destroy.
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