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From Los Angeles.

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It's a phpre.

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And one and only world famous Perez

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Perez

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Hilton.

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It's THEHP.

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Hi, everybody, welcome to the php

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on Booker. He's Perez and how do you do?

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Kind sir.

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I'm excited for today's show because

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there's a lot of trending news

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to get to and a lot of drama

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as well. Of course,

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we will be talking the Grammys,

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Jennifer Lopez on SNL,

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the Rock, perhaps making

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a big misfire, Wendy

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Williams, Christina Aguilera,

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and more. But first, how are you? How

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you been? How is your weekend?

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It's good, it was long.

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I had that party on Thursday. It

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was a party full of random celebs that

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saw Tiffany Hattish and caught

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up with John Stamos.

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He was there.

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And it's a cool little birthday event.

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Whose birthday name's Ross? All

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right.

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My best friends were in town for that. So

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that was Thursday. Friday, I went to Nobu Malibu.

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Oh, that was packed full of celebrities.

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That was next to that.

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Uh Leanne Rhimes and her husband

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Eddie SI had

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some people over on Saturday. So yeah,

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and it's just been raining in Los Angeles.

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It's just non stop trying to keep water

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off my property.

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I know, I've seen videos.

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They're calling it an atmospheric river. It's

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not like even a hurricane. Like when I lived in the

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South, hurricanes would just kind of breeze through.

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This just won't stop.

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It's like it's the storm that's just sitting

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above Los Angeles and it's pouring.

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It's not raining, it's pouring, but

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hopefully this passes within a couple of days.

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It's it's pretty gnarly.

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I saw a video of the La

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River, which is really not a river

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because it's usually empty.

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It's usually just the big concrete I know.

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Yeah, no, it's flowing down.

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Yeah, it looks like a river. I had a

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pretty eventful weekend, which

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a lot of our Patreon

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supporters wanted me to talk about.

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Yesterday, I uploaded a

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nearly ten minute long

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video.

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Who could watch that?

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I know, and I know, I know, but

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this video did very well on

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Instagram and Twitter and Facebook

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as well. And I think it's because there

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wasn't a lot of attention drawn

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to the Christina Aguilera residency

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before I finally got to see her show.

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I was originally supposed to go a

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while ago, but those were the dates that she canceled

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because she had the flu and

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full disclosure. I said this in my video

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as well, But I feel it's important Christina

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and I had a past. I

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feel like I've moved on from that,

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and so has she. I think I

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don't hate anybody, but if I hated

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Christina Aguilera, I would not go

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to her Vegas residency. Okay, I'm

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not going to waste my time going to see her show.

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I'm a fan. I was really

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excited and I want I wanted

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to love it, but I didn't.

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In fact, I was really disappointed,

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and it reminded me of

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Maroon five in concert. I

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could deal with the fact that it was a late start.

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When she announced the residency, she appeared

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on Kimmel and she said that she'd

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go on at midnight. Christina

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literally went on at eleven fifty

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pm, which actually is not midnight.

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So I'm thankful. But the biggest

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complaint I had about the show

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is it's advertised

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as a Christina Aguilera Las

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Vegas residency. She got on

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that stage at eleven to fifty pm,

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and she literally walked off the stage

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and was done at twelve fifty am

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Wow, one hour sixty

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minutes on the dot.

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Wow.

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I understand wanting to do a tight

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show. I understand that there's a

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pre show, there's all these variety

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acts prior to that. It's like a cabaret.

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But still, if you're advertising

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it as her show, it's not Belle

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Denuit featuring Christina Aguilera,

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it's the Christina Aguilera. You got to do

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at least seventy minutes sixty

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I would have felt cheated, and I

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felt really disappointed. I was thinking

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to myself, am I able to be objective?

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Like? Is it just me? But I posted

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a bunch of clips and people

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aren't sheep who follow me? Okay,

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I can have my own opinion and you can have yours.

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And the overwhelming majority of

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people that looked at the videos that I posted

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from the show were like, wow, so

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low energy and this and that, and like she

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sounded amazing. But

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not once in those few

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sixty minutes did she have

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any audience interaction. She

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didn't say thank you for being here.

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She didn't say I'm so happy to be here.

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She didn't say I'm so grateful

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for the twenty plus year career that

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you've all given me like nothing.

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It was like when I saw Adam Levine and he didn't

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fucking speak at all. That was shocking

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to me. I'm glad I went

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and it was cool to see her in such

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an intimate setting and like right in my

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face, and either she did not

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notice that I was there or she purposely ignored

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me, which I'm thankful for. I'm glad

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about that because.

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I did not want to Grammys.

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Also this weekend, very briefly, I went

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to go see Paula Abdul and TLC.

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That was super fun. Nice, all

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right, let's get right to it on

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one of our shows. I

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don't know if i'd say complained, but I

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was surprised that Taylor

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Swift, who was nominated for a

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bunch of Grammys, including Album of

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the Year, was not scheduled

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to perform. Well that

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Taylor Swift is so crafty

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and smart, super savvy,

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and even though she didn't perform,

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she kind of, in my opinion, found

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a way to steal a lot of the thunder

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from the Grammys and make big news

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in connection with the show. But outside of the

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grounds, Taylor Swift, insanely

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prolific genius, announced

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during the telecast that She's releasing

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a new album in just two months

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time. It's called The Tortured

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Poets Department. No,

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boy, why do you say, Oh boy, you think it's gonna suck?

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Please, bitch, it's Taylor Swift. It's gonna be great.

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It was so me me up.

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There not to jump ahead,

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But Miley Cyrus did the same exact

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thing during her performance. How is that any different

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than celebrating yourself during a speech.

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Miley Cyrus won her first Grammy and

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first So.

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Thirteenth thirteen is Taylor Swift's

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lucky number?

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Me?

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Oh god, why are you telling a woman

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or a man?

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Why does it have to be okay?

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Fine, I said, or a man?

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Bitch, let's get to jay Z. That's

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where you started. That's where I'll start.

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Fine. Why are you telling anyone how

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they should react winning an award.

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I'm not telling anyone how they should

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do anything.

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I'm just telling you how it made most

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people feel.

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I don't think you're most people. Well, go online,

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Well I want to hear from you all.

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They're already gonna agree with me. You know how this movie's

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gonna work?

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Oh foh, we'll see and it's fine.

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And by the way, I'm not like hater rating against

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it. I'm just saying it was a little me.

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Me eight hundred seven

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five. I'm super excited for the new

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album and it's only like a year

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and a half since her last. Like I

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always, there's always an inkling

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in the back of my mind. I'm like, and I can

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listen. I love Taylor, but I can say

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the things. Okay, I can put it out there. I can

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acknowledge is it too much?

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Is what?

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Too much?

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Everything Taylor is? Is it too

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much? It's on eleven, but it was also

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on eleven all of twenty twenty three,

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so it's like, what is she supposed to do?

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Take five years off?

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Like adel, I'm happy that the music is

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coming.

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Anyways, I'm so curious to see

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what the album is gonna be thematically

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and sonically. And I'm a huge

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Tailor fan. And congratulations.

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She won her fourth Album of the Year,

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more than any one has ever won.

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The record before was three Albums of the Year.

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Also, speaking of Taylor, before we move on, she

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trademarked Taylor con. I'm

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ready for Taylor Con.

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Didn't you think it's just so somebody

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else doesn't do it?

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Now? Who else could do that nobody could leave

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anybody legally, you can't unless it's a

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different person named Taylor then,

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but you can't use her name or promote whole

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convention about Taylor Swift. Anyways,

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speaking of the Grammys, we've got more to get

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to. I briefly mentioned Miley

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Cyrus, and actually, before we really get

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to Miley Cyrus, I saw on the Patreon

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that some people wanted us to talk fashion.

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I would actually say that Miley Cyrus,

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even though polarizing and

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controversial for some people, her rag

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carpet look was my favorite

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because so fucking memorable.

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To me, it's not always necessarily who quote

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looks the best, but who just

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is the most themselves, the most

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different, the most wow. And I loved

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that safety pin dress. It

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took weeks to make

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that. It was these gold safety pins.

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It was giving me Tina Turner in mad

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Max vibes. And I loved

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the hair as well. Some people

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look a lot of people were like, I love the dress,

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but I hated the hair.

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I love the hair. She looked like she stepped out of nineteen

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eighty four.

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I know. I love the hair because it also

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just it's so Miley like. For some reason,

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she loves the eighties. That Plastic

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Hearts album of hers, she did a very different

9:26

eighties aesthetic that was more like Pat

9:29

Benattar and like super Straight and the

9:31

bangs. This was once again Tina

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Turner mad Max, like that fucking

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wind swept big hair. Loved

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it. My least favorite fashion

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moment, though, was Billie Eilish,

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who didn't even fucking try. Not

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everybody's at fashionista or whatever, but

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she went in like a fucking Barbie

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piece of piece of Barbie movie merch.

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I think she dressed the role. I think she was

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trying to kind of do the Barbie thing.

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You could do the Barbie thing without wearing Barbie

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merch. I also, of course you're

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gonna say I'm just a kiss ass. But I loved Taylor

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because it was a different look from her. She

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often just gives us a more modern look,

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and that felt very old school,

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like with the gloves and the hair, the

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finger waves.

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But you know what was funny about her?

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Every time she won, she's doing like NFL

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players always have their like uh choreographed

10:22

slapping and high fives. Her and Antonov

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were doing a couple of different ones different

10:27

times. I was like, she's total NFL.

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Now it's funny.

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So I would say the highlight

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of the Grammys twenty twenty four for

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me really was Miley Cyrus

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shocking to be reminded by

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her that she had never won a Grammy

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before. But my predictions

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were right, and she got the award

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I said she was going to get. You

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can't say ours, Well, you were.

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You switched it up after I corrected you.

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No, I just had confused the record

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and artists.

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Our prediction were right. I want

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to be in the Academy so badly I feel like

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I should. Anyways, I loved

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her speech with Mariah Carey and

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the Butterfly, and I love

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that it was like it felt like rehearse,

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but also not to rehearse, you know what I mean,

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Like it just felt real, And then her

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performance spectacular. Most

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pop acts could not do that

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because most pop acts are singing

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to track and they couldn't be as

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spontaneous and improvising,

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or even if it wasn't improvised, they just can't

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go off the track.

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She's just that big.

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If you were to compare, like do a Lipa

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and that and I love dou Alipa, You're

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looking at like a season completely

11:42

comfortable in any space artist

11:44

versus. She almost came off like a

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new artist stuff there.

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But also Miley had no track.

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It was all live, right, it's all live. She had

11:52

a band back there and everything. Yeah, you know, well, since

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you brought up Dua like that type of music,

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it's all computers or mostly

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and and her vocals

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are a lot of track. But I don't know what you're trying

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to get at. I fucking loved do Aleipa's performance.

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I thought do A Liipa was as plastic as I

12:09

loved it.

12:09

I just thought that.

12:10

Was the wrong tone to start the grind. I

12:12

would have started with flowers. I think do

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A Liipa's got a lot of talent. I do, but

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you didn't see any of it in that performance. It

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was as plastic as could be.

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Obviously, you're not a do Aleapa

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fan.

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I do like du A Liipa.

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You might like her, but you're not a fan.

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I'm a fan and I know where

12:30

she started from and to see her

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growth. She even did like a full

12:34

on dance breakdown during

12:37

her performance, which she knew.

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I'm just I was hard to death. I just thought it

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was a plastic as could be.

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If you would have started with Miley and like a live

12:45

musician talking to people,

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not at people. That's how I kind of felt that

12:49

performance was. It was just like A could have

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saw that on tour. Choreographed

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Miley was like she even at one point like you all know

12:56

the words to this would come on like she did that. I

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mean that was real to me. I just like the juxtaposition

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between the two or night and Day.

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Well, I loved it. It was also a celebration of

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her success in music. Dua Lipa had so many

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songs that were popular last year.

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I thought she deserved it. I loved the medley,

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I loved like I loved when they carried her

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up on that structure, like I

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loved it. You're not a gay man, you're not a fan. It's

13:17

all good. Finally, one more performance, then

13:19

we have other things to talk about. Grammys related obviously

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for me, because I love Tracy

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Chapman. Loved her performance, like I

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get like it wasn't even like electric

13:29

or whatever, but it which is so it's it felt

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special because I can't even remember the last time

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Tracy Chapman performed at the Grammys or

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the last time I've even seen her anywhere.

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That was easily, without question, the

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best part of the entire night. I don't think

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anything even compared to specialness

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to feeling, because why, it

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was real and it was good. It wasn't

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this manufactured like snore,

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computer generated garbage that's being

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pushed to people.

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I also loved how Luke Combs

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was looking at Tracy Chapman, like

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I get emotional thinking about it, like he grew

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up listening to that song with his dad

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and then he got that moment and oh it was beautiful.

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All right. You mentioned briefly jay Z he

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accepted. Well, first of all, I don't even know

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if you saw this, because I don't think it was shown

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on the air, But I saw a clip, a

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viral clip of after he

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accepted his honorary

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award. He was drinking booze

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from that Grammy. That was so disrespectful

14:26

in my opinion, why it is,

14:28

but still it's rock and wrong.

14:30

I think that's kind of funny. What's wrong

14:33

with that?

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That rubbed me a little the wrong way?

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It is who cares?

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But on the flip side, and this might surprise

14:39

you, I had no problems with jay

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Z calling out the Grammys. Historically,

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there have been many artists that

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have called out the Grammys

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for being bs, and especially

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rightfully so. A lot of black artists

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feel that in many years

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prior, the whole system not

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honoring and celebrating

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black artists as as they should

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have.

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Yeah, black artists drove the culture. You

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know.

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You can argue that black music is the

15:10

only original American art form and it

15:13

has never really been acknowledged.

15:14

The way that it should be.

15:16

And him saying that, I don't have a

15:18

problem with I just think it's fucking hilarious

15:20

that you go.

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Up on stage and you take a moment.

15:23

That has nothing to do with you to

15:26

criticize them what they did to your wife,

15:28

who, by the way, is the most

15:31

decorated artist in the history

15:33

of Grammy's. Like, we've won a

15:35

lot, we just haven't won enough. Like

15:37

at that point, I'm like, could you give me a

15:39

fucking break. It's like looking a gift horse

15:42

in the mouth. The most decorated

15:44

artist of all time, but you're pissed.

15:46

She didn't win this one award. Yeah, I

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find that comical.

15:50

She literally has almost triple

15:53

the amount of awards that Taylor Swift

15:55

has. Beyonce has what thirty

15:57

two?

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I don't know. I mean, I don't want to compare the tape.

16:00

It's just funny that moment

16:02

had nothing to do with her, and

16:05

you come up and you choose that moment, uh

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to kind of spotlight that.

16:10

And once again I like that.

16:12

That's rock and roll.

16:13

Yeah, that didn't bother me.

16:14

It's supposed to be messie. It's supposed to

16:16

be rock and roll. It's supposed to.

16:18

Be live and real, back

16:20

to my point, and not so fucking manufactured

16:23

and just these cardboard cutout

16:25

artists that we have now that there could be anybody

16:28

up there. I think there was a lot more talent

16:30

before than there is now.

16:32

I was so happy to see Queen

16:34

Celine Dion.

16:36

There told you miraculous recovery.

16:38

I told you that on last week's show.

16:41

She looked pretty good to me.

16:42

Would not say that that's necessarily a recovery.

16:46

She's obviously still afflicted by

16:48

this thing, but she's apparently, you know, treating

16:51

it and managing it and out and about.

16:53

Did you catch when Taylor won

16:55

and just oh stop it, right, stop it, stop

16:57

it?

16:58

What that was?

16:59

After? I saw that? All Right, there's a lot

17:01

of haters out there, Okay.

17:03

What are they hating? About I mean, it was a

17:05

moment.

17:05

There was no diss there was no I don't think.

17:07

It was a dis I just think it was like, you

17:09

have this huge star standing up there

17:11

and she didn't really kind of know what to do.

17:13

It was funny.

17:14

Well, Taylor was in shock, you know.

17:16

She I don't think was expecting to win Album of

17:18

the Year.

17:19

First of all, I'm not dissing Taylor.

17:20

I just thought it was funny that she was just sort

17:23

of left standing up there like, uh,

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what.

17:25

Do I do?

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Well, afterwards, they did share

17:28

a cute hugging moment and an adorable

17:31

photo was taken afterwards

17:33

backstage. Not at the

17:35

Grammys was Jennifer Lopez.

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Instead, she was in New York City

17:40

for Saturday Night Live, and

17:43

a friend of mine texted me saying

17:46

that Jennifer Lopez sounded

17:48

like a dying cat.

17:49

What did you think she sounded like?

17:51

I thought just sounded great. Is she and

17:53

the best vocalist ever? No? But I

17:55

love that she was singing one hundred percent live.

17:58

She was, Yes, she was, and

18:00

she looked amazing obviously, especially that

18:02

one where like her boobs were almost hanging

18:04

out. I've said it before. Selena

18:06

Gomez also isn't the best vocalist,

18:09

Like, not a power singer, not a huge amount

18:11

of range. But I love her music and that's all

18:13

I care about. And I appreciate

18:16

the effort of live singing. So

18:18

many don't do that anymore.

18:21

Don't you have to want to say? Now, you

18:23

don't have to.

18:24

Know you could sing to an insane

18:26

amount of track, like you could sing barely

18:28

live over track. You don't have to sing one hundred

18:30

percent live. So Yeah, it did not bother

18:33

me. I loved it. Also up north

18:35

in Canada, Justin Bieber performed.

18:38

He did I missed that.

18:40

Yeah, for the first time in about

18:42

two years. He performed during

18:44

the NHL All Star weekend.

18:47

Maybe he'll be a part of the super Bowl.

18:48

I mean with Usher, that just seems like

18:51

a layup that should happen.

18:52

Yeah, he's his protege. And

18:55

although I don't know, Justin

18:57

seems like the kind that would not

18:59

want to admit to that, you know what I mean.

19:01

It depends on how much he really cares about

19:03

Usher, because I think Usher, Usher,

19:06

I'm betting, is gonna

19:08

bring some stars out because I

19:10

don't think Usher's going to be the guy that like this

19:12

just has to be all about me. I think Usher's

19:15

going to be about let's make this the coolest,

19:17

most memorable thing, and what

19:19

does that look like?

19:20

And I think him out.

19:21

There with Bieber, the kid that he brought up,

19:23

would be awesome. So I'd like to see

19:25

that be put together.

19:27

Well I would too, but we're talking about

19:29

Justin Bieber, and he cancels tours and he

19:31

has mental health issues, so

19:34

I wouldn't hold my breath. More music related

19:37

news, at a Grammy's pre party,

19:39

recording artist Paris

19:42

Hilton revealed that she's

19:44

going to be releasing her second

19:46

studio album this June,

19:49

executive produced by

19:51

Sea Really, so maybe

19:54

it will be pretty good.

19:55

Stars Are Blind was a great.

19:56

Thing I know. I would have to say honestly, I enjoyed

19:58

her debut album. The problem back

20:00

then was she never promoted that album and

20:03

never performed it live, so

20:05

like, how is that going to do well? I mean, she

20:08

got that one hit like miraculously,

20:10

but never performed it up until recently.

20:12

In YadA YadA YadA. Also wrapping

20:14

up our music coverage for Today,

20:17

a very music heavy show, Demie Levado

20:19

performed at an event for

20:21

the American Heart Association and

20:24

The Stupid New York Post and

20:26

other outlets were criticizing

20:28

her for performing heart

20:30

Attack her song at the American

20:33

Heart Association event.

20:35

That would be the place to do it, if you ask me.

20:38

Duh?

20:39

Is everybody stupid?

20:41

And she explained before the

20:43

song why she was doing this song, so

20:45

she did. Yeah, I know, just

20:48

stupid people, stupid people. Wendy

20:50

Williams is the subject

20:53

of a new Lifetime documentary

20:56

premiering later this month, a

20:59

two part doc and it

21:02

was painful to watch. I think

21:04

it seems to me that her family is

21:07

responsible for the documentary,

21:10

and it seems that she's broke

21:12

and the only reason they're doing the documentary is because

21:14

she needs money.

21:15

But how do you lose that kind of money?

21:17

Drugs? Alcohol.

21:19

It's a lot of drugs and a lot of alcohol, isn't it.

21:21

I mean, I mean, unless it's a lot of people on the.

21:23

Tip her ex husband Jesus,

21:26

that sucks.

21:27

And yeah, I don't fucking know, but I

21:30

guess you have to do what you have to do. But I don't

21:32

know if this whole process is good for her

21:34

recovery, good for her image

21:37

or anything.

21:37

I don't know what's left to me it's just the

21:39

memory of a good radio host. I was never

21:42

a fan of the television show. I always thought that sucked.

21:44

But the radio host, she was phenomenal.

21:46

She was just a great speaker and a great presence.

21:49

She's not that anymore, I know.

21:51

Just it sucks to have all of that

21:53

flushed away.

21:54

More scandalous news. Yolanda

21:57

Saldiva, the woman murdered

22:01

Selina Kintaniya, is

22:03

eligible for parole next year.

22:06

Jeez, really, thirty years it's been

22:08

hasn't been thirty years?

22:10

Next year it'll be thirty years. But she's

22:12

also been interviewed by Oxygen

22:15

for this multi part special

22:17

on Oxygen, and that rubbed

22:19

me the wrong way. Like, I hate

22:22

like, we're so obsessed with murder

22:24

and killers? Why?

22:26

Yeah, I hate it.

22:26

I hate it. I hate it. Happier news,

22:29

Kim Kardashian continues

22:31

to spend time with Odell

22:34

Beckham Junior. Congratulations

22:37

to them the Rock in case

22:39

you missed it. Two big news. First,

22:42

he is now part owner. Maybe

22:44

not exactly that, but he's on the board

22:47

and I'm sure he's getting a ton of stock

22:49

options, you know, so that does make him part

22:51

owner. He's part owner of the company,

22:54

the parent company that owns WWE.

22:57

And in addition to that, he was

23:00

this just does not happen with those personalities.

23:03

He also got the ownership

23:05

of the name that The Rock. He now

23:07

owns The Rock and the Trader because

23:10

he lost it for a while, right, he never had

23:12

it. They don't give them that he used it by

23:14

permission. I think now he

23:16

gets it back. And because

23:18

of this role and his affiliation, he

23:21

is going to be in wrestle

23:23

Mania. He's going to be wrestling

23:25

Roman Reigns And you probably

23:28

don't give a shit about wrestling, but a lot of

23:30

people still care about wrestling.

23:31

Oh no, I love it. You know.

23:32

I have a friend that works for the WWE. I always

23:35

get to go to these things.

23:36

We talked about it recently, how they're going to streaming

23:38

for one of their nights, and it's a big deal.

23:40

But a lot of wrestling fans are upset

23:43

at this sudden entrance

23:45

of The Rock back into the wrestling mix

23:48

because for a couple of years now, they've

23:50

been building up this other wrestler, Cody,

23:52

and they were like it was supposed to be his

23:54

moment. He was on track to win

23:57

WrestleMania, but I'm like, hello, it's

23:59

like a fucking soap. You never know how.

24:01

But the thing is Perez.

24:02

I think what you're missing is people want

24:04

to suspend disbelief

24:07

right and they're throwing the rock

24:09

back in where if they would have made it a

24:11

surprise.

24:12

Yeah, but it doesn't work that way.

24:13

I just think that they let too much out of the bag.

24:15

Well no, that's strategic, but it makes

24:17

them more money. If they hype up WrestleMania.

24:20

They're making plenty of money. I mean everything they do is

24:22

sold out. I mean it's not like there's there's empty

24:24

sheets when you go to the WWE.

24:26

To me, that's the only reason they did it. WrestleMania,

24:29

unless I'm wrong, is still the pay per view model,

24:31

so they wanted to sell more pay per view

24:33

WrestleManias. So speaking of

24:36

pay per view or I don't know

24:38

the fucking transition there. But Joe

24:40

Rogan signed an exceptional

24:42

new deal with Spotify worth

24:45

two hundred and fifty million dollars

24:48

And the money is not what makes it exceptional.

24:50

What makes it exceptional is he is

24:53

now partners with Spotify

24:56

and not just an employee. And with

24:58

this partnership, they've given him

25:00

permission since they're going to be participating financially,

25:03

to post his podcast everywhere,

25:05

not just on Spotify, So

25:07

it'll be on Apple Podcast, it'll be on

25:09

YouTube, It'll be everywhere. So in

25:12

theory, that should help his podcast grow

25:14

even more. And one last

25:17

story quickly before we get

25:19

to that doing something a little different

25:21

today. Can't shout out everybody,

25:23

but we are so grateful and blessed

25:26

that a lot of people have signed up

25:28

for the podcast over the last week,

25:31

including Lilia

25:33

Yang, Lisa Laurenti,

25:37

Adrianne Hall, and

25:39

Valerie Munnos.

25:41

And to clarify, they've signed up for the Patreon

25:43

this what did I say podcast brain

25:45

fart.

25:46

Yes, Megan Markle's ears

25:48

are perking up because NBC

25:51

has just ordered a pilot

25:53

for a suit's spin off centered

25:57

or based in Los Angeles. So

26:00

it would not shock me if she returns to acting,

26:02

at least in a limited capacity. Maybe she's

26:04

like a recurring and not a regular. All

26:07

right, let's take a call or two. I know Bethany

26:09

Frankel's controversial, but I actually

26:12

get.

26:12

Funny and her makeup tips are really

26:14

good.

26:15

But has she lost it? She's

26:17

posted on TikTok fifteen

26:19

times today.

26:20

Did you catch any of that?

26:21

Yeah, I didn't. Well, I don't know if I'm following

26:24

her, but you know, good

26:26

for her. That's what you're supposed to do on TikTok

26:29

No. Seriously, TikTok it's all about volume

26:32

because not every video is gonna go viral

26:34

or land, and it's like gambling. The more you

26:36

create, the more you play, the more odds

26:38

you have of going viral. And that's what she wants to do.

26:41

It's strategic.

26:42

Hey guys, it's Patty from Colorado. I'm

26:44

behind on your guys's episode,

26:46

so I'm gonna talk about Madonna. But

26:48

I have a question. She's coming to Denver

26:50

in March, and I'm like super scared that

26:53

she's not gonna be on time. And

26:56

in Denver, you have to

26:58

be done with your show by midnight otherwise

27:00

they'll turn off the lights and like it's over,

27:03

like to just go. So I'm wondering, like

27:05

if she has gone to places

27:08

where they're like super strict about timing.

27:10

Yes, and there have been there at

27:12

least one moment where she had to cut some

27:14

songs. Yea, so that is a possibility.

27:16

Yes, here's Madonna with six

27:18

songs.

27:19

I mean, it's a long show, so she still

27:21

does the long show, but I

27:23

would want to see the full show.

27:25

Chrez Booker Claire from Detroit.

27:27

Sorry, I don't have a Patreon yet. Just a

27:29

peasant whatever. But you know, with

27:31

a Kylie Jenner, a lot of people hate her

27:34

surgery because she's been years.

27:36

Years, years lying and denying

27:39

it and say, oh, you know, my body.

27:41

Just changed because in my period.

27:43

That's why I got these big hips.

27:45

D She lied about the lips for years before

27:47

finally coming clean. I think we're over the

27:49

lying from someone who has such a big influence,

27:52

you know, for like women in their bodies, and she

27:55

just lies and says, oh, bitch, I just woke up like

27:57

this. Anyways, that's just my two cents.

27:59

We start her call on the Patreon

28:01

show, and we realize that she doesn't have Patreon,

28:04

so we're shouting her out.

28:05

She can get double love here.

28:07

Yeah, I would just say I understand

28:10

that, but you shouldn't be talking

28:13

shit about her appearance on social

28:15

media. That's my whole point. Okay,

28:17

all right, all right, well, thank you all.

28:19

We appreciate you. Have a wonderful week,

28:22

and hopefully we'll see some of You Thursday, Patreon

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dot com slash Perez Hilton

28:27

Excellent take care guys,