Especially since Russian isn’t a Romance/Latin based language like Spanish, French, etc. She also had to learn an entirely foreign alphabet as well.

Me tooooo!

“I was born in the Seventies!” is totally going to be my go-to justification.

I’m a historian and I do history docs that run on PBS, and I LOVE Drunk History. Because the number one problem facing history and padagogy is that there isn’t enough sense of fun. History has so much about it that is outrageous and hilarious, and it doesn’t all need to be given the overly reverential Ken Burns…

Haha yes, same tour! (First time I got to see him, though I’ve been very fortunate to catch him about 5 times since then. He’s always incredible.) I think he rode the bicycle around the stage for... “Solsbury Hill”? Whatever it was, that was also impressive in its way, since that stage was not very big, so it was a…

Just a clarification. Spaniards are from Spain. But I agree that there is an oversimplification many times and any of us from a Spanish sepaking country are considered people of color because Spanish is our native language.

Peter Gabriel is the other-worldly gift that keeps on giving.

He looks like the cabinet for a Big game Hunter arcade machine.

I thought “I Would Die 4 U” was an odd choice, though.

Doesn’t it make it worse that they did it in his hometown? He didn’t care for this artist, and considered using artists after their death “demonic,” and then they did it right on his own home turf.

I don’t think that most people in the stands were Minnesotans. Then there’s also the fact that Prince himself didn’t even like JT.

Something that can’t get lost in the discussion of this ho-hum performance is just how bad the wardrobe choices were. Timberlake looks so good in a (regular, non-camo) suit - why would you do this to him?!? Why would you do this to all of us??? The color pallet with the back-up dancers didn’t help anything, either.

Right? It’s amazing to me when anyone has that kind of vocal control just about any time, but with the flu?

Me too! And I think he’s way more likeable than JT.

It was her gig, her stunt and and if JT had come forth like a white knight in shining armor to shield this totally independent in control strong as hell black woman who needed no man even more damage would have been done to the persona that Janet had marketed for 2 decades.

God yes.

Can we all just admit that Prince performed the best and quintessential halftime show and maybe just replay that every year?

Wow, his career is over now. I guessing Christopher Pummer will replace him on Hart to Hart.

So many articles about how white women are awful. This is abusive and unhealthy. Why should I come here to read about how much I am hated? This used to be a great website, I don’t know why but it has become the white women suck website.

I agree. It leaves a lot of us in the position of simply not knowing how to proceed. If anyone else were treating me with thinly veiled verbal insults (often subtle abuse - read the other blogs on the web) and expecting me to beg for inclusion in the conversation (codependency) or issuing blanket blame for things that…