![]() While the NBA is a global league from a culture standpoint and the NFL is the biggest sport in the United States, Williams’ situation is in a different echelon. It’s a scary-ass situation that if my son calls me and said he’s been pulled over, that I’m not that confident that things are going to go well and that my son is going to return home.” “And you see these videos that continue to come out. “It’s a scary thought right now to think if my son gets pulled over, and you tell your kids if you just, and you just listen to the police that they will be respectful and things will work itself out,” James said. Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, when asked about the state of America, took a similar tact to Williams’ - calling his own family into the discussion. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has handled the spark he created masterfully, but is still ultimately a backup quarterback. She has never been shy on speaking her mind or boycotting tournaments, and Tuesday she took to Facebook to address a matter very personal to her.Īs protests about the treatment of people of color by police officers spread from the NFL all the way down to the middle school level across the country, Williams’ voice is the most powerful. Her entire approach to not just her appearance, but her physical game is a demonstration of blackness that turned the tennis world on its head and completely reshaped how America viewed not just black athletes, but black women in general. Photo by Steve Bardens/Getty ImagesĦ:00 PMFor her whole career, Serena Williams’ excellent existence in tennis has been an exercise in activism. Serena Williams Serena Williams of the United States stands dejected during her ladies’ singles third-round match against Alize Cornet of France on day six of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon on June 28, 2014, in London. I guess he really does come alive in the falltime. But compared to Justin Bieber and Drake, what The Weeknd is doing it for the culture better than the rest. It seems if you’re a Canadian artist these days, there’s only so many darling compliments you can take before you go full bad boy. Maybe after he found himself catching flak for dating a young supermodel, then the center of a Super Bowl ad campaign, it became too much. Maybe when he first emerged in 2011 as the eerie crooner whose tales of sex, drugs and deceit, he never thought it could change him. Of all the apparently deeply personal lyrics on this song, the most poignant seems to be “look what you’ve done,” in the chorus. That’s why he’s driving a superhero-level sports car I’ll never be able to afford that apparently turns kittens into full-blown black panthers. The Weeknd’s old self, and what we did to him as a star in this business, created the new him. There appears to be nothing particularly allegorical about it. We then see the new sleeker, definitively more active Weeknd, who proceeds to violently destroy the physical awards in the dead man’s house with a shining neon cross. The struggle is real, then off comes the mask. On the other, a masked man who eventually binds and suffocates the dreadlocked character. It starts off with a dramatic murder of what is ostensibly the old Abęl Makkonen Tesfaye, dreads and all on one side of the table. ![]() He also brought you The Hills, I Can’t Feel My Face and Tell Your Friends. Director Grant Singer is definitely on one with his latest visual from the XO artist’s arsenal. In it, it’s clear that the old him is definitely behind us.įor a song that’s already dripping with symbolism between the lyrics and the cover art, the video takes things to the next level. ![]() On Wednesday, the Toronto native dropped the first video for the title track of his new album Starboy that features Daft Punk. The Weeknd’s new personality as a mashup between Michael Jackson and Bruce Wayne is only getting started. ![]()
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