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...Mama and Chris Brown are the new Janet and Michael Jackson—and T-Pain, ironically enough, is the new Tito. The “Lip Gloss” chanteuse and her crazy-legged counterparts find themselves in Mama??s latest video, “Shawty Get Loose,” on a spacecraft that’s strikingly similar to the one depicted in Janet and Michael’s 1995 “Scream.” While “Scream,” the most expensive music video ever produced...
...music video about fingernail polish? Oh yes. Reminiscent of both Lil Mama??s “Lip Gloss” and the salon scenes from “Legally Blonde,” Kid Sister’s first single, “Pro Nails,” provides viewers a lens into the vivid world of manicures. The camera scans colorful walls of bottles filled with nail polish, catching glints of sparkling salmons and auburns. Unknown to most, Kid Sister hails from Chicago and spits her club rhymes for independent label Fool’s Gold...
...there is also a wonderful rapport between the characters. The two daughters-in-law, Maggie and Mae (Olivia A. Benowitz ’09), are comically catty, and Elyssa Jakim ’10 is exquisite in each of Big Mama??s various personas. She overbearingly clings to her husband, nauseatingly caresses her son Brick, and is alternately sweet and severe to her daughters-in-law. All the time, her nasal voice and fluttering motions create the perfect, crumbling image of the Southern plantation mistress...
...days ago as I waited for a shuttle, I decided to call my mom. Perhaps it was my fatigue after a particularly brutal midterm, but as the crowded shuttle bounded closer to the Quad I reverted to my natural Texan drawl, filled with lots of “mama??s” and “ain’ts” and some elongated vowels that could make my English tutor faint...
...answer its call. In a nearby office, student assistants copy press releases for upcoming events, and on the building’s sixth and uppermost floor, professional director David R. Gammons ’92 offers criticism to the undergraduate cast of “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama??s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin?...