Bill Murray sings the love theme from Jaws; Miley Cyrus makes us shut up
The sketch in the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special that caused food to shoot out of our nose: Bill Murray as lounge singer Nick Ocean singing the love theme from Jaws. (Remember his theme from Star Wars?) Here he is, introduced by Maya Rudolph’s spot-on Beyonce.
The musical number that made us shut up and listen: Miley Cyrus singing Paul Simon’s 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover. In the lower register, none of that screeching every pop singer now resorts to. Her country style really works for the song. When she tires of being an easy target, that singer must be taken seriously.
In other music news, here’s an astute analysis of Madonna’s increasingly desperate attempts to get attention: Madonna Kisses Drake. It was recommended by our friend who has just realized his “mother” is fallible.
It’s like having your aunt kiss you at the graduation party. You know, the creepy old one who wears too much makeup and winks at you when you’re in the kitchen… The one who’s unmarried and seems to want to sleep with no one so much as YOU!
I get it Madonna. There’s ageism in the music business. But you can’t complain about it if you don’t ACT your age. You’re acting like a twenty year old. With all these publicity stunts, getting the brain dead press to fawn over you, because you give them access.
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April 14th, 2015 at 07:00
Performances like this remind us that although Maya may not have ended up a singer herself, she still inherited some of the musical genes from her great mother.
April 14th, 2015 at 10:32
Dr. Feelgood: Look up Celeste Legaspi’s Tagalog version of “Loving You”. It’s nuts!
April 14th, 2015 at 12:15
Okay, that took quite a bit of googling because I didn’t know they translated it to Irog Ko. But I love the Tagalog translation and it sounds more bastos hearing it that way. LOL. And Celeste’s shrieks sound more like somebody with some special equipment suddenly found her G spot, lmao! The song is really disturbing in that it could be as much about a mother’s love (hear Minnie sing “Maya, Maya…” towards the end) as much as it could be about playing with clitoris the right way.
My favorite Minnie song remains this one, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe3yPvY8Z10 That horn and string arrangement is just so classy and sublime. It was also filmed a couple months before she died.
April 15th, 2015 at 00:00
Enjoyed watching the 40th anniversary of SNL. That particular skit with Maya Rudolph cracked me up so hard. Sooo funny!
JAAAAWWWWS!!! Bill Murray still has it. I only see him in Wes Anderson films lately.
The only thing that threw me off is the Californians sketch. It was like scratching a chalk board ulk!
In other news, Lola Madge naman. Kina-career pag promote ng latest album.