Weird Al Mandatory Fun stream The master parody music maker Weird Al Yankovic is back with his new album Mandatory Fun. The album cover is a parody of old soviet style propaganda posters (reminiscent of Shepard Fairey’s OBEY GIANT designs). On Mandatory Fun Weird Al parodies current hits from 2013-2014 from artists such as Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, Iggy Azalea, Lorde and Imagine Dragons, as well as songs imitating the styles of the Pixies, Cat Stevens, Foo Fighters, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Southern Culture on the Skids. In the 90s, rapper Coolio’s hit “Gangsta’s …
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Another interesting midseason sitcom picked up by ABC is Black-Ish. It’s about a suburban upper middle class black family living in a mostly white community. The Johnson family deals with issues of identity, culture, and class. The father character Andre wonders if his family is forgetting their black roots while in the process of quickly assimilating into an affluent lifestyle. Black-Ish is loosely based on the life of writer and producer Kenya Barris. The show is executive produced by the staring actors, …
Completing the trifecta of POC sitcoms coming soon to ABC, we have Cristela staring comedian Cristela Alonzo. This show is about a young Mexican American woman, a 6th year law student who’s stuck living with her family while she’s figuring out her future goals, and dealing with her identity as a Latina and American (navigating between two cultures). Cristela is co-written by Cristela Alonzo and Kevin Hench. The show’s cast includes Terri Hoyos, Roxana Ortega, Carlos Ponce, Andrew Leeds, Sarah Halford, and fellow comedian Gabriel Iglesias. Cristela Trailer …
Released this week as part of a promotion for this coming Sunday’s primer episode of the final 7th season (first half) of Mad Men, AMC reached out to a new digital media marketing and design team Leroy & Clarkson who made a parody of Mad Men in the style of a 70’s Blaxploitation film (ala Dolemite, Shaft, and 2009’s parody Black Dynamite). This parody used as a marketing ploy may be in response to the decline in Internet buzz over Mad …
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