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So this is why this video makes me happy. I for one am not a big Phil Collins fan, so it's not that. It's that these guys approach the song as itself, without any preconceived notions. They make this huge leap past context and surface. And -- https://twitter.com/tprstly/status/1291479883021983745
I wanna add that in so doing they're really forgiving a whole lot of bullshit. It reminds me once of when I sat in on a random showing of American Pie and sat near these two Black kids. I wondered if they were going to see anything in it --
-- because I had been reckoning with myself about how the movie was nothing but white kids. So I felt kind of weird. But then the Shermionator appeared and started bragging, and one kid turned to the other and said, --
"Sherminator! That's my DOG!" and they high-fived. And I was extremely grateful -- they had chosen to find universality in this ridiculous moment. Now -- how much better if they were presented with something in which they saw themselves not just --
in human commonalty but also in more particulars. Of I had a time machine (and energy) I'd go back and cast some Black kids. I'm not sure who I'd replace amongst that crew of young actors whom I loved. But anyway.
