Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/03/eva-vs-lizzo.html
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Lizzo? Yes please!
Posted elsewhere, but totally worth re-posting here:
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She’s great, but do we need to cast shade on dead performers who were just paying their mortgages? As far as I know, the Gabor sisters aren’t guilty of any heinous deeds requiring posthumous shaming. Are they?
Maybe not heinous, but someone ought to answer for Green Acres.
Mimi Pond did a great piece about Zsa Zsa’s estate sale:
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Everybody, everybody... wants to be... Lizzo.
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Maybe we can’t all be Lizzo, but we can at least try to be 100% that bitch
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And then there was this classic (again, nothing to do with Eva):
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This is my introduction to Lizzo (adding her to my Spotify), but I tell you…if I could just hang on to that beautiful Zsa Zsa purr also, I’ll be happy.
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Speaking of Zsa Zsa, still one of my favorite YouTube videos…
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Full Version
also this fairytale of eternal economic growth, we’ll be watching you
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Green Acres was a resonant commentary on the urban/rural divide. Wasn’t it?
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That’s Eva. Maybe she borrowed her purr from Zsa Zsa, but they probably each had their own.
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As a kid, watching The Rescuers and The Aristocats, I just thought of the characters she played as elegant and sophisticated with funny cartoony vocal tics. It’s interesting to think that, to my parents, the Gabors were such real-life cartoon characters that it probably felt like stunt casting at the time.
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Well, part of that is how people had an exoticised take at the time on what a Hungarian accent meant.
Especially after the wartime collapse of the European/German film industries made everybody used to a critical mass of fleeing actors and other talented people showing up to Hollywood with “elegant” European accents.
Outside of some exceptions, I’m trying to think how much that happens today? I don’t know if people fetishize accents as deeply as when people like the Gabors were around. Obviously people still have accents, but I don’t know if as many celebrities are as deeply associated with them over their other talents, nowadays. Hmm.
My little conspiracy theory is that Prince is alive and wrote/performed the guitar solo in Lizzo’s “Boys”
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This has been all over the internet this week, and I’ve watched it every damn time I’ve seen it.
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I misread the title as “Lizzo vs The Aristocrats”
But I still wasn’t disappointed.
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