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Dec 31 2011
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Our Favorites of 2011

In honor of the new year and the world’s impending doom in 2012, we have decided to wrap up 2011 with a reflection on some of our favorite things. Enjoy!

Best New TV Show: “Happy Endings”
Guys, why are all of you not watching this yet? “Happy Endings” is seriously the funniest new comedy that we’ve seen on TV in years, and yet not nearly enough people have gotten on board yet. Make this show your new year’s resolution, because it consistently delivers the most laughs of any sitcom on TV right now. All six of the characters in the friend group are fully developed and managed not to become caricatures while still being insanely quirky. Also: Damon Wayans Jr. of the Wayans family comedy dynasty (also was Coach in the pilot of “New Girl” before “Happy Endings” got picked up for a second season) is in it. You guys! Guaranteed comedy gold! Get on this!

Best Returning TV Show: “Sons of Anarchy”

So, while critics may remain divided on how this season went, we most definitely bought every second of the fourth season of SOA. This show, while being about a criminal biker gang, is actually a character driven drama. And the character development this season was phenomenal. Jax and Tara, played by Charlie Hunnam and Maggie Siff, delivered amazing performances. Their growth as a couple was so believable, and their relationship really deepened and felt so, so real. Additionally, we finally learned more about both Clay and Gemma, and delving into Clay’s psychopathy was absolutely fascinating. Though the club is at its most dysfunctional point in the series, we feel like we know them all a little better. Also the Hamlet-esque plot that was kind of glossed over for a season or two reemerged with a vengeance. FINALLY.

Our Favorite Music Video: “The Lazy Song”

This is our favorite music video for being one of the most entertaining of the year without relying on anything high-concept or special effects. Instead, Bruno Mars and the Poreotics (the monkeys, and Season 5 winners of America’s Best Dance Crew) do a smart and simple dance that perfectly reflects the song. As ABDC Fans, we always appreciate it when we can see past winners being successful, and Poreotics was a perfect choice since they were a crew known for their sense of humor. Basically, we just really love this video, and it makes us want to be best friends with Bruno Mars. He just looks so chill and fun!!

Our Favorite Single of the Year: “Super Bass”

Like everyone else, we spent much of 2011 learning every single word to “Super Bass” and telling people, “somebody please tell him who the eff I is.” Without Nicki, how would we have ever known that was all we were supposed to say? Basically this song was the only thing we listened to in the car. Ever. Also Nicki Minaj single handedly made female rappers cool again. So thanks Nicki, for everything. We are so excited to see what you do in the future! Deuces y’all.

Favorite Viral Video: SNL Writers’ room performs Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”

So Taran Kilam, a new featured performer on SNL, did this video at 4:30 a.m. in the writers’ room the week that Robyn came to perform on the show. He meticulously recreates the “Call Your Girlfriend” video, which you should really watch first to fully appreciate so that you can understand how perfectly he captures the spirit of Robyn’s video… because it’s perfect. In every way. Personal favorite: the guy who refuses to get into it, seen at the end.

Favorite Summer Movie: Bridesmaids

What even needs to be said? These ladies are all comedic geniuses, and we loved the relationship between Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph’s characters–it was great to see a movie centered around a female friendship that was simultaneously the funniest of the year. Also everyone thinks this movie is funny, we know guys and girls alike who both liked it. It was really the perfect summer blockbuster.

Favorite Oscar Contender: Hugo

We’ve already discussed this, but Hugo is a great film for movie lovers young and old. The Oscar race this year is a little lackluster, and we believe that this is the movie that manages to strike the best balance between entertainment, art, and heart. It is quality a quality film and great entertainment! It reminds everyone why we love cinema!

Favorite Movie That Should be an Oscar Contender: 50/50
Why was this not a bigger hit?? Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen were both fantastic (we thought 50/50 had both of their best performances to date). The movie was incredibly touching and we were fully invested in all of the characters. Also Anna Kendrick was in it. For those of you who don’t know, she is secretly the biggest star of the Twilight franchise. Even though she is only in like 5 minutes of the first movie, she soon after became a monster success, and proceeded to be one of our new favorite people to watch. She was so funny in this movie, and her relationship with Joseph Gordon-Levitt was so sweet and believable. Guys, just go see this movie. For real.

Favorite Feel-Good Movie: The Muppets

THIS MOVIE MAKES EVERYONE HAPPY. Seriously. EVERYONE. Go see it if you haven’t already. Also, Bret from Flight of the Conchords wrote the magnificent original songs, including “Life’s a Happy Song” and “Man or Muppet,” which is seriously one of the best songs to be featured in a movie in years. We love both the Muppets and Flight of the Conchords, so whoever thought of this collaboration was an absolute genius. Bret for Best Original Song Oscar!

What We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2012: The Hunger Games

We are absolutely obsessed with these books, and cannot wait for the first movie to come out! Jennifer Lawrence was fabulous in Winter’s Bone so we’re confident she can pull off Katniss, and the trailers that we’ve seen look amazing. We will definitely be seeing this at midnight of March 23, and we may or may not be counting down the days.

Thanks for reading us–we are really enjoying writing this so far. Feel free to let us know if you agree or disagree with our choices, and we’ll see you for more in 2012!

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Dec 31 2011
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Music

Nicki and Willow: Explaining “Fireball”

Ok. So, Willow Smith and Nicki Minaj made a song together. It is called Fireball. When we first heard of their collaboration, we were super excited because we LOVE them!!!! Willow Smith is so super fierce for an 11 year old, and Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass was pretty much the biggest song of the year. Sadly, the duet itself was a little underwhelming. We love both of them, but the song itself is just not one of our favorites… the music video on the other hand is actually a lot of fun! And reminds us why we were so excited to see them collaborate in the first place. The video is below, but we have the highlights / favorite moments at the bottom if you need a little convincing to watch the video in full. Or if you just want to skip around while you watch it, the song itself is pretty repetitive. To sum up the lyrics for you briefly: Willow Smith and Nicki Minaj are the fireballs of the party.

Highlights:

  • The Star Wars opening 0.00-0.29 / Nicki Minaj and Willow’s arrival to earth in the form of a fireball… or perhaps as two separate fireballs? Unclear.
  • Willow’s sweet hat / head dress/ Lady Gaga like head piece at 0.57
  • OMG the dancing!!! HOW DO THEY MOVE THEIR FEET THAT FAST??? (1.08)
  • Dance scene in the streets! We are always ok with this! (1.44, but also kind of the whole video)
  • That weird tiger top coat thing that one of the background dancers has on at 2.12, look to the left of Willow, you won’t be disappointed
  • HULA HOOP BREAK DANCING at 2.20
  • The part where Nicki Minaj says that she will put Willow under her wing!!! Willow is like baby Nicki! We hope they form the best mentorship relationship ever and produce more things together in the future! (3.13)
  • From 3.13 on the rest of the music video is pretty repetitive, but hey, everybody likes dancing!
  • Aaaaaaaand finally the very end part where Willow puts her fist up YEAH! (4.54)



Basically, we love both of these ladies and while this particular song is not going to make it onto our iPods any time soon, we hope they work together more in the future!

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Dec 30 2011
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Awards Season: Hugo

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There are some movies that you just know are going to be in the conversation for an Oscar. This year, Hugo… was definitely not one of them. At least not for us.Yes, Hugo was helmed by Martin Scorsese, who does tend to get most of his movies nominated. But still–it was a kids’ movie. Directed by Martin Scorsese. In 3-D. And it’s called Hugo, telling us exactly nothing about what is going to happen in the damn thing.

But then we saw it (after all of the film critics started talking about it.) And by god, Marty (hope he doesn’t mind that we’re calling him Marty) has done it again. Even if it is a kids’ movie, Hugo is honestly one of the flat-out best movies we’ve seen this year. Unlike Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, we were even able to understand and enjoy it.

So for Hugo, how we felt and how we should have felt were essentially the same thing. This is a show that you, and literally everyone you know (even randos you don’t know) will enjoy. So go see it. Here are the reasons why:

  1. That kid! Asa Butterfield played the title role, and oh how heartwrenching he is. Hugo has been orphaned, and his uncle has disappeared, leaving Hugo to take over his role in keeping the clocks in the giant train station running. Asa Butterfield does a superb job in such a large role, and his eyes alone show more emotion than many older actors. (Also, he’s been cast as Ender in the Ender’s Game movie adaptation slated for 2013, so we had several reasons to like him.)
  2. This movie, more than anything, is a love letter to the cinema. Martin Scorsese’s joy and wonderment in the art of film is evident throughout, but especially in the sequences dealing with the development of the technology and the films of Georges Melies.
  3. Simply put, the movie is utterly beautiful. Every shot is wonderfully composed, as one expects from Scorsese, but Hugo has a purity both of vision and spirit that Scorsese manages to capture and spread to the audience as well.
  4. The 3-D was tastefully done. While we are usually kind of nauseous at even the thought of another 3-D movie, this one was done well. It was not even really all that noticeable, and we mean this in a good way–it enhanced the movie and drew us in without calling attention to itself. We were even happy to have paid the extra money.
  5. Sacha Baron Cohen and his dog. They were the cutest villains of all time. For serious.
  6. Having not read the book, we truly had no idea where they were going with the plot. Maybe (probably) we are exceptionally bad at predicting things, but it surprised us in a pleasant way and at no point did we say, “Oh, that was sooo obvious.”
  7. The automaton! The automaton. We won’t say any more. But so perfect!


So guys, just go see it! It will make you happy! And it will make us happy if you do.

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Dec 29 2011
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THINGS WE LOVE, TV

Things We Love: “The Wire”

This blog could not be complete without a tribute to the GREATEST TELEVISION SHOW EVER MADE: “The Wire”. This show is just so good, like SO GOOD. And yes, it was cruelly cancelled in 2008, but that does not mean that we can’t still watch it. And re-watch it. And re-watch it again. Every time we do, we pick up on things that we have missed, or we laugh at something that we still think is funny. So everyone, do yourselves a favor, and go watch this show. You won’t regret it.
For all of you who have watched the show, we have ranked all five excellent seasons of “The Wire” below. It was difficult, but we managed.
1. Season 1: aka the Cops vs. Drug Dealers seasonThe first season is what got us (and everyone else) hooked on this show. It is our absolute, all time favorite season for so many reasons:
  • The Bro-mances
    • Bunk and Jimmy
    • Herc and Carver
    • Prez and Lester
  • OMAR. INTRODUCED EPISODE 3.
  • Wallace: he is by far one of the most likable and endearing characters on this show. When he dies I definitely cried a lot. He is one of the reasons that I re-watch the first season as often as I do.
  • Lester Freamon and his transformation from miniature furniture maker to super cop.

2. Season 4: aka the Baltimore School District vs. Insurmountable Odds season

This was a very close second behind season one. We just love it. In short, here are some of the reasons why:

  • The Character Development:
    • Prez finds his path for real this time and becomes a teacher!
    • Michael Lee: Tristan Wilds does an excellent job portraying the middle school character of Michael, who has a lot going on in his life: it is hinted that he was sexually abused by his step father, his mother is a drug addict, he basically takes care of his younger brother, becomes a hit man, and then a stick up artist to financially support him. All of this happens when he is EIGHTH GRADE.
      • Sidenote: we may or may not have even watched part of the CW’s 90210 because Tristan Wilds was cast in it…
  • When Bunny adopts Namond Brice!!! .. it is SO GOOD.
  • The scene where Bunny takes the middle school students out to a nice dinner is so great. It just is.

3. Season 3: aka the Drug Dealer Turf Wars season

This season is intense dude.

  • Marlo. Enough said.
  • Cutty, the former hit man turned community boxing coach is one of my all time favorite characters and provides a hopeful and heart warming story line. FINALLY.
  • Brother Mouzone + Omar = THE MOST EPIC THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED.

4. Season 2: aka The Port season

This is one of the most ill liked seasons of The Wire. But this is the sole reason why we like it so much:

  • Episode 6: Omar testifies against Bird in one of the most epic and awesome scenes EVER.
  • We learned a new word: Stevedore. They are the people that work on the dock.

5. Season 5: aka the Meet the Press Season

This is why it is our least favorite.

    • Omar dies. NOOOOOOOOOOO!
    • That weird plot with the fake murders…. what?
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Dec 29 2011
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Movies, Oscars

Awards Season: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
This was a movie where we had some personal issues. We at PopJudgment like to think of ourselves as film people, but sometimes we see movies that prove to us that this is simply not the case. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyis one of those movies: the kind of movie where you know that you should feel one way about it, but frankly we felt completely differently. We’ll break those different ways down for you, in case you decide that you’d like to impress someone with how you know you should feel, too. (These are definitely the talking points that we’d stick to.)
How We Know We Should Feel:
This movie is excellent. It does not cater to the average viewer or compromise the understated espionage from the Le Carre novel it’s based on. There are no unnecessary car chases or explosions. Instead, it is an intelligent film featuring an all star cast. Gary Oldman is a fantastic lead as George Smiley, and despite the reserved nature of his character, we are mesmerised and captivated by him the whole time. The suspense is gripping, and you are literally immersed in the film, trying to pick up on subtle clues, figuring it out as Smiley does.

While everybody delivers a great performance, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch were perhaps our personal favorites. Colin Firth, who just last year won an Academy Award for his performance in The King’s Speech, was an unlikely, but well-played antagonist. We was pleasantly surprised to see Benedict Cumberbatch (Atonement), one of our new favorite actors, who perhaps is best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the modern adaptation, Sherlock on the BBC. His was one of the few performances that actually made us cry, and he held his own next to some of Britain’s finest actors. Also noteworthy is Tom Hardy, made famous from his role in Inception. All in all, this is a great movie.

How We Actually Felt (Spoiler alert!):

  • Well, for starters, we had to traipse out to an artsy movie theater to see it.
  • We were the youngest people in the theater. By a couple of decades…
  • There are no unnecessary car chases or explosions.
  • WHY DID THEY HAVE TO MAKE MR. DARCY A RUSSIAN SPY?
  • We felt stupid while we were watching it.
    • All the actors were old/middle aged-ish British men who kind of looked the same.
    • To add to that they had names that kind of sound the same.
    • AND they all had code names that all sound the same (tinker, tailor, etc.). TOO MUCH FOR OUR BRAINS
    • They would show a book, or a table, or a file, or something in a shot and we were supposed to ‘get it.’ And like… connect the dots… instead we were confused
    • Even when they basically announced who the spy was we were still kind of confused…
    • So now we are still confused. AND all of our hopes and dreams of becoming a spy are officially dead. Because our brains are still trying to figure out what the hell happened. We would make horrible spies.

In conclusion, if you think this is a spy movie of the Jason Borne variety, you are sadly mistaken. You probably shouldn’t go. But if you like crossword puzzles, are a member of the AARP, can complete the super hard Sudokus, or have actually read the book, you would be more likely to enjoy this movie. Give it a go.

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Dec 29 2011
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A Travesty: “All I Want For Christmas Is You (SuperFestive!)(Shazam Version)”

December 25 may have passed, but we’re still going to take this opportunity to briefly discuss our thoughts on the best Christmas song of all time… and the most atrocious Christmas duet that’s ever happened. Look, the 12 days of Christmas are technically supposed to start on the 25, so this is really still timely. Plus these music videos really need some discussion.

We love “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” and we have no shame about it. Mariah Carey is a great vocalist, whatever your opinion may be on her life or her outfits. Also we associate it with that little girl singing it at the end of Love, Actually, and if you don’t think that’s the cutest thing that’s ever happened you might not have a soul. Just putting it out there.

But we cannot get behind “All I Want For Christmas Is You (SuperFestive!)(Shazam Version),” aka Mariah Carey’s duet with Justin Bieber. Now, we at PopJudgment are in no way, shape, or form Bieber haters. In fact, one of us might consider herself a Belieber.

This song is so terrible, though. And the music video is even worse. You think that it has found every level that it can be inappropriate on, and then it finds another one.

The original video for “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is super cute. It’s Mariah, in some red snowsuit thing, playing in the snow, looking cute under the Christmas tree, basically doing her thing. So cute! So Christmas-y! Yay, what a great video to put you in the holiday spirit!

 

 

 

And then… Mariah and Bieber decided they needed to do a video for their duet.

 

 

 

 

THINGS THAT GO WRONG IN THIS VIDEO (warning, long list):

  • (SuperFestive!)(Shazam Version) in the title of the song
  • Mariah Carey in a sexy Santa suit
  • Justin Bieber ogling Mariah Carey in a sexy Santa suit
  • Us realizing that Justin Bieber is still 17, and quickly googling to discover that Mariah Carey is in fact 41
  • Justin Bieber’s 35-year-old “friends”
  • Santa Claus is… handing out invitations to Macy’s? Or something? It’s a store, you can just go in. This isn’t freaking Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, let’s move on.
  • Justin Bieber on a platform in the middle of Macy’s
  • The gradual realization that this is less a music video and more a commercial for Macy’s
  • Justin Bieber pushing a shopping cart while he sings about how all he wants for Christmas is you… and everything in the cart
  • The absolutely fucking ridiculous Nintendo DS ad in the middle of the video, where everyone in the store apparently decides they want one of those more than you
  • Mariah swinging a bell around for no apparent reason
  • Is Justin Bieber wearing a diamond stud earring (2:46)?
  • That fucking sleigh they get into in the end, in the middle of Macy’s, that is not going anywhere? They’re just sitting in it?
  • Mimi has bangs all of the sudden in the sleigh? They’re not good.
  • Justin Bieber’s attempts at dancing, throughout, are basically spastic arm movements.
  • Bieber throwing those packages??? Why???
  • Bieber and Mariah touching each other in the end. Yes, the touches are basically innocuous, but oh so gross. SO GROSS THE FLIRTING OUR EYES

So Mariah still sounds great, but Justin is just not up to her level vocally. He’s not. Sorry. It’s uncomfortable to pretend they should be doing a duet together. Also Mariah looks super hot in the video, but why??? For the 17-year-old she’s flirting with?

This video is so problematic on so many levels, but we dearly hope that everyone learned their lessons with this video:

  1. Justin Bieber needs to stick to duets with people his own age, or random rappers.
  2. Mariah Carey’s version of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is already perfection and cannot be improved upon.
  3. If you want a Macy’s commercial, SHOOT A DAMN MACY’S COMMERCIAL. Don’t pretend it’s a music video. Same to you, Nintendo.

We hope that everyone involved with this travesty ended up on the naughty list.

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Dec 26 2011
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Things We Love: Friday Night Lights

Yes, it’s not on the air anymore. Whatever, it’s still the best drama of the last five years so we’re talking about it no matter how you feel. Oh, you don’t care about football so you’ve never bothered with this show? We don’t want to hear about it. Friday Night Lights is so, so much more than football. It’s mostly about people. And relationships. And life, corny as that sounds. Seriously, just give it a shot. The football part is really not the main focus of the show-it’s just what lets the other plot points revolve around it. Regardless of how you feel about football at the beginning, you’ll be a Dillon Panther by the end of watching the series. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.
Our 5 favorite Friday Night Lights Characters:

5. COACH ERIC TAYLOR (KYLE CHANDLER)
Coach Taylor is the center of the show and the father figure for many of the players on his team. He’s a fantastic dad, too–so great that if we didn’t love our own dads so much we’d want him to be ours. Also did we mention that Kyle Chandler won an Emmy for playing Coach? He did. That’s how good Coach Taylor is.
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4. TYRA COLLETTE (ADRIANNE PALICKI)
Tyra has led a rough life and is tough in just about every way possible–but she’s also sarcastic, fiercely loyal, and smart as hell, aka our dream best friend. Adrianne Palicki is super super gorgeous, but Tyra comes off as simultaneously everyone’s dream girl and accessible enough to party with.

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3. MATT SARACEN (ZACH GILFORD)
This nice-guy quarterback is the single most selfless high school student we have ever come across. (Seriously, no one like him went to our high school.) Matt takes care of his grandmother with dementia while his father is in Iraq without any other adult around to help. He works at a fast-food restaurant to help pay the bills and still brings home those Panther victories. Why aren’t we dating him??
2. TAMI TAYLOR (CONNIE BRITTON)
Role model. No joke. Tami Taylor is the best high school guidance counselor (and later principal) ever because she genuinely cares about every single person that she comes across. She is a fantastic wife and mom as well, even when her teenage daughter Julie is trying to pretend that she isn’t the greatest thing that’s ever happened. Tami always knows what’s best, and everyone else eventually comes to see it. As she tells Tim, “It’s part of my job, to make sure that you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.” Tami is seriously the greatest, we are incapable of any sarcasm when it comes to her because it might distort how sincerely we love and adore her.
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1. TIM RIGGINS (TAYLOR KITSCH)
First of all, please look at him. Yes indeed. That’s Tim Riggins. Tim Riggins gets himself in the worst scrapes, frequently because he’s drunk but even more frequently because people just expect him to be doing something terrible. Character flaws abound (like we said, kind of drunk a whole lot of the time) but underneath all of those terrible choices is a genuinely sweet guy who is mostly trying to do the right thing despite some really terrible circumstances. Also, he looks like that. Tim Riggins, everybody.
ImageTEXAS FOREVER. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose! (Always bears repeating.)
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Dec 21 2011
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WATCH THE THRONE/First post!

EPICNESS.

In honor of Jay-Z and Kanye West ending their epic Watch the Throne tour, we are dedicating our very first post to our favorite rappers/showmen. So here is the story of how we came to write this post:

March 2011: Cried tears of joy at the announcement that these BFFs were doing an entire album together.

August 2011: Watch the Throne was released. Cried again. (Especially that one song New Day about their sons!!!!! SO SWEET)

October 2011: Miraculously managed to purchase tickets to the Watch the Throne tour. Told everyone we’d ever met that we were going. Some reacted with disinterest. We are no longer friends with them.

December 2011: Actually attended the Watch the Throne concert. Continued telling literally everyone that we’d ever met that we went.

We’re aware that there are people out there who said the album was a disappointment. Basically we don’t give a shit what they think, they’re clearly just jealous of Kanye and Jay-Z’s skills. And fortunately for everyone, they don’t give a shit either. Their tour just ended, and at the last stop, they performed Ni**as in Paris eleven times. When we saw it they only performed it like 5 times, which felt like a lot then, but was evidently just a warmup.

So yes, we did get to go to a Watch the Throne concert. Would you like for us to tell you about it? We would be really happy to talk about it some more.

THE CUBES / LITERAL IMAGERY: So there were these giant rising platforms that had videos playing on each side of them. One was for Jay-Z to stand on, and one was for Kanye to stand on. Having seen Kanye perform at Austin City Limits Music Festival, we were expecting a repeat of the Greek/Roman/Mythological/Pretentious Imagery. But, like LIGHTNING Kanye never does the same thing twice! (We don’t actually know that much about lightning.)

  • H.A.M. – For those of you who don’t know yet, H.A.M. stands for Hard as a Motherfucker. Urban dictionary that shit if you are still confused. To let us know just how hard they were going, Jay-Z and Kanye had videos of a rottweiler and then a great white shark playing. Unclear which of them was the rottweiler and which was the shark. Or maybe we were the rottweiler? Whatevs. It was H.A.M.
  • Welcome to the Jungle – During this song, they were back on the stage and the cubes had receded, but that does not mean there was no video. NO SIR. There was video. Of some sweet jungle scenes going on in the background. CUE SAFARI CHEETAH HUNTING A GAZELLE VIDEO.


THE KANYE: At this point we are fairly certain that Kanye is treating performances as therapy that he gets paid for instead of paying. Seriously, he was like working through some heavy shit out there. Especially the section where he performed Runaway, Heartless and Stronger. “Don’t listen to me cause baby I’m an asshole!” We love you anyway, Yeezy.

THE SKIRT: Kanye had a sweet leather skirt on over his jeans but UNDER his baggy t-shirt. We weren’t really sure what was happening with that situation, but we liked it.

THE JAY-Z: Throughout the concert, he performed many of his big hits like Hard Knock Life, Empire State of Mind, Big Pimpin, U Don’t Know, Dirt off Your Shoulder and 99 Problems. Unlike Kanye, Jay-Z was not working through anything heavy at all and had a gigantic grin on throughout the majority of the concert.

THE DUETS: SO GOOD. We maybe cried during “New Day?” Maybe. Jay-Z asked us to cheer for all of the dads that didn’t leave their kids and it was really sweet okay? Seriously though, their chemistry together was absolutely insane and led to probably the most energized crowd that either of us has ever seen.

Basically, as we already knew, Jay-Z and Kanye put on a kick-ass show and are seriously the best rappers around right now. We’re pretty sure they don’t need to watch that throne too much–it is definitely secure.

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