• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    So basically, a whole lot of unnoticed under currents while he’s yelling at the top of his lungs about drake?

    Yeah, seems totally not petty now.

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      6 months ago

      when you’re co-opting the great american military-consumerist propaganda broadcast, if you want to get your message past the shield’s censors, you gotta do some misdirection and have some faith the people you’re trying to reach will have enough media savvy to know who you are and what to look for. for a lot of us they weren’t unnoticed undercurrents, they were the main event. that he did the song that got him there was just… always going to happen and wasn’t of particular interest

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        6 months ago

        He could literally just say whatever he wanted on a hot mic.

        Stop trying to pretend it was a protest. It wasn’t.

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          6 months ago

          I imagine there was a rehearsal and if he deviated from that they would’ve just muted him. I’m no tv producer but iirc they also have a few seconds delay of wiggle room. Don’t imagine they want another Janet Jackson.

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            6 months ago

            I hate that fucking “wardrobe malfunction” narrative they came up with. I watched that shit live. JT deliberately reached up and pulled her titty out, and she had on a fucking pasty. That was a deliberate move in a choreographed show, and they didn’t even have the balls to just say “opps, guess that didn’t go over well.”

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          6 months ago

          they literally cut the cams, tackled, and jailed the member of his crew with the flags. the wiggle room was tight dude. i get you wanted more, i’m sorry you didn’t get it. but know he got a shocking amount through. that was the most political halftime show i ever seen

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      5 months ago

      Those that didn’t/couldn’t see the symbolism either are ignorant, willfully ignorant, or a racist… Which is you?