Solange has been an artist of considerable renown and relevance for far longer than 2016, but this was the year that it should’ve become obvious enough that even the Family Guy creative team might have taken notice.įrom the gag, though, it’s pretty clear that they haven’t. The album caps a year of notable activism from the younger Knowles sister, ranging from honoring victims of police killings Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in song, to going on a Twitter spree decrying the white audience members who berated and degraded her and her family at a Kraftwerk show in New Orleans. Solange Drops New Album, ‘A Seat at the Table’: Listen A stunning achievement for an artist of any last name, A Seat at the Table is both intensely personal and topical, raising important questions about race, identity and history, and inserting itself right into the center of the 2016 cultural discussion. 30), two days before the episode’s airing. Largely, that’s because that list up top leaves off what should be its most recent entry: the release of Solange’s gorgeous, unsettling, and absolutely masterful A Seat at the Table album, last Friday (Sept. But Family Guy‘s thoughtless “LOL little sister from famous family acting nuts in an elevator” joke is just as guilty of bad taste as bad timing, and indeed, it premieres at just about the worst, most insensitive moment possible for such a poorly considered, unfunny one-off. Timeliness has never exactly been the raison d’être for Family Guy or creator Seth MacFarlane, of course, and in most cases, it’d be pointless to fault a show built on a foundation of Joyce DeWitt and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo references for not keeping up with the news cycles. Watch ‘Family Guy’ Spoof Infamous Jay Z & Solange Elevator Fight That entree leads clumsily into a cutaway with Peter on the elevator with Jay, Bey and Solange as the latter begins slapping and kicking her brother-in-law, with Griffin offering “Hey, don’t kick him, muddy shoes, he’s got a white suit on!”-type color commentary. “You’ve seen what happens when people hold in their aggression for too long - don’t forget, I was in that elevator with Jay Z,” show patriarch Peter Griffin informs wife Lois. That lengthy list tips to why it was so jarring to see Family Guy flash all the way back to the infamous elevator fight incident from two-and-a-half years ago - when Solange Knowles appeared to attack Jay Z in a Manhattan elevator in silent surveillance footage posted by TMZ - for a throwaway gag on Sunday (Oct.
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