‘SNL’ Reinterprets Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ as a Racially Insensitive 1950s Ode to Interracial Romance | Video
A certain Train-penned earworm received a savage attack in one of the first sketches on this week’s Michael Keaton-hosted “SNL” episode. Set in Detroit, Michigan in 1955, the sketch takes place at a suburban home where an interracial couple looks to win over their family’s support for their union.
The actual Train song was inspired by ideas of what Burning Man could be like — its own potentially racially problematic real-life context, but not at all what’s presented in the sketch.
Ego Nwodim and Andrew Dismukes play the couple in a sketch titled “Forbidden Romance,” which opens with the families arguing before Dismukes urges them all to sit down. He explains to his parents, played by Heidi Gardner and Keaton, “Janey and I are in love, and we intend to wed.”
Keaton’s ’50s father responds, “Janey is a lovely girl, but a white man married to a...
The actual Train song was inspired by ideas of what Burning Man could be like — its own potentially racially problematic real-life context, but not at all what’s presented in the sketch.
Ego Nwodim and Andrew Dismukes play the couple in a sketch titled “Forbidden Romance,” which opens with the families arguing before Dismukes urges them all to sit down. He explains to his parents, played by Heidi Gardner and Keaton, “Janey and I are in love, and we intend to wed.”
Keaton’s ’50s father responds, “Janey is a lovely girl, but a white man married to a...
- 21/10/2024
- de Mike Roe
- The Wrap
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