WEBVTT - There's More To North West's Lion King Performance

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody look great in the Danna, some'me in the spartlight.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know with to Becky, Oh, everyone's going off

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<v Speaker 1>about Northwest. If you live under a rock or have

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<v Speaker 1>a life, Northwest is the child of Kanye and Kim Kardashian.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't worry. I don't have a life either, because I

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<v Speaker 1>know who she is. She's the eldest kid of theirs.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they've got a few anyway. She's made headlines

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<v Speaker 1>this week for being a nepo baby. If you don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what an epo baby is, it's a nepotism baby,

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<v Speaker 1>the child of two famous people, and nepotism. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>looked at happily. If you're an nepo baby, you know

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<v Speaker 1>you have a lot of privilege in life. Things are

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<v Speaker 1>handed to you. You know. I've said before I love

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<v Speaker 1>the Beckhams. A lot of people didn't realize just how

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<v Speaker 1>great the Beckhams were until David Beckham's documentary, and you

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<v Speaker 1>could see I saw it years earlier, how good they

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<v Speaker 1>were as parents. They just, you know, really great parents.

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<v Speaker 1>They made their kids get jobs as soon as they

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<v Speaker 1>were old enough legally too. They made them be waiters

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<v Speaker 1>and stuff like and they had to wait on really

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<v Speaker 1>snawty people. So, you know, people who were in the

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<v Speaker 1>industry that they may one day think that they can

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<v Speaker 1>just step into you know, because if you have a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of money and you're raising children, but you come

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<v Speaker 1>from nothing where you've had to struggle, how do you

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<v Speaker 1>reconcile that, Oh, do we give them everything that we

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<v Speaker 1>never had. No, we make them understand the value of everything.

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<v Speaker 1>Just because you have money, you don't have to show

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<v Speaker 1>that you have money. It's nice to live comfortably, but

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<v Speaker 1>I think, honestly, I've had money and I've not had money,

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<v Speaker 1>and I reckon the secret to happiness as far as

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<v Speaker 1>money goes, is having a roof over your head and

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<v Speaker 1>being able to pay a bill and if something goes wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>having the money I mean, and that's why we're so

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<v Speaker 1>incredibly lucky to live in a country where we have

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<v Speaker 1>medicare you know, we can be taken care of in

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<v Speaker 1>a public system. But to be able to not have

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<v Speaker 1>to worry do I have enough money in my account

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<v Speaker 1>to pay that bill that's just come in. That's happiness.

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<v Speaker 1>I honestly believe you do not need more money than

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<v Speaker 1>that money to go on a holiday, would be lovely,

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<v Speaker 1>but you can save up for that. It's a lovely

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<v Speaker 1>feeling to have to save and to spend your money

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<v Speaker 1>on something that you've worked really hard for. It's lovely

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<v Speaker 1>when you're just given things there's no value. You don't care.

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<v Speaker 1>You will wreck that property. You know, material, nothing doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>matter if it breaks, you haven't worked hard to get it.

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway, back to Northwest. She just did a performance

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<v Speaker 1>that was celebrating the Lion King and its legacy at

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<v Speaker 1>the Hollywood Bowl. Yep, okay great. It was filmed for

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<v Speaker 1>a release on Disney Plus. It features performances by artists

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<v Speaker 1>who worked on various adaptations over the years. And then

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<v Speaker 1>there was this particular performance by north singing, I just

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<v Speaker 1>can't wait to be King. She was surrounded by professional

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<v Speaker 1>Broadway artists. Here's a little listen. Okay, stop that now,

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<v Speaker 1>stop stop stop. We don't need to listen to any

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<v Speaker 1>more of that. It was a pretty mediocre performance, but

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<v Speaker 1>this is something that I'd like to say about. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people are saying, oh, the kids who

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<v Speaker 1>auditioned for that, who really sing, and blah blah blah

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<v Speaker 1>blah blah. Right, this is all I've got to say

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<v Speaker 1>about that. I'm quoting this from TikTok from Guided Inspiration,

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<v Speaker 1>who I just adore. If you don't already follow her,

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<v Speaker 1>she is just amazing. She reads faces and body language.

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<v Speaker 1>She's absolutely incredible, not like in a spiritual way, in

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<v Speaker 1>a studied like why like she's educated and all that stuff. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>she had something really good to say, and I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>gonna basically because it's exactly what I think the fact

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<v Speaker 1>that Northwest was the perfect casting for this song. She says,

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<v Speaker 1>consider for a moment that the song is about the entitlement,

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<v Speaker 1>the hoobree and nepotism. It's all right there in the lyrics.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm brushing up on looking down, every buddy, look left, everybody,

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<v Speaker 1>look right, everywhere you look standing in the spotlight. This

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<v Speaker 1>is quite literally the quiet part said out loud. Simba's

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<v Speaker 1>character is headstrong, unprepared, unskilled, and adventurous, experiencing the excitement

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<v Speaker 1>that comes with discovery of birthright privilege. Also, we're used

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<v Speaker 1>to hearing the song sung with the soulful intensity of

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<v Speaker 1>you know, a child who is trying to rescue their

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<v Speaker 1>family from their current circumstances. But this is what the

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<v Speaker 1>song actually should sound like if sung by someone who

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<v Speaker 1>had nothing to lose and truly nothing to gain. We're

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<v Speaker 1>all sasu. He sings a bit in the song. This

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<v Speaker 1>child is getting wildly out of wing. If there was

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<v Speaker 1>a monarchy, we are headed count me out. But what

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<v Speaker 1>remains true is she just can't wait to be king.

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<v Speaker 1>And who do you think is going to be the

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<v Speaker 1>king in about ten years time? That kid? So having

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<v Speaker 1>her do it is quite poignant. Don't you think Simba

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<v Speaker 1>shouldn't have been really able to sing it with any

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<v Speaker 1>kind of confidence? Birthright, privileged people, nepotism people, other people

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<v Speaker 1>working their asses off to get nowhere. That's the world

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<v Speaker 1>we live in. How about a useless fact? Also? I

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<v Speaker 1>watched on the weekend Back to Black, the Amy Winehouse biopic,

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<v Speaker 1>biopic biopic, dreadful, abominable, My god, I shouldn't have watched

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<v Speaker 1>it just before I went to sleep, because I couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>sleep properly without just seeing this incredibly bad performance of

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<v Speaker 1>this incredibly bad life. They've done absolutely nothing to cover

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<v Speaker 1>how amazing she was. Nothing. They didn't show her coming

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<v Speaker 1>from a family full of jazz musicians. They didn't show

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<v Speaker 1>her going to music school, acting school. They did show

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<v Speaker 1>a bit of her writing music, but they just showed

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<v Speaker 1>her falling in love with a complete loser and ruining

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<v Speaker 1>her life and not caring enough about anything but him

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<v Speaker 1>enough to lose her life just oh far out. It

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<v Speaker 1>was just so incredibly heartbreaking, heartbreaking that that happened to

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<v Speaker 1>such a talent and she was her own worst enemy.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the saddest part is when you get in your

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<v Speaker 1>own way, and women do it. How do we get

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<v Speaker 1>that involved, that in love with someone another human that

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<v Speaker 1>everything else in our life falls to the wayside. And

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<v Speaker 1>despite that, she went on to win Grammys and become

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<v Speaker 1>one of the world's biggest I mean because of him.

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<v Speaker 1>She wrote some amazing music, but she would have anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>the fact that she started using because of him. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>watch it if you will watch it at your own peril,

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I say. Or just go and listen to

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<v Speaker 1>her music and read some really great biographies about her

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<v Speaker 1>and you know how good she really was. Okay to

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<v Speaker 1>give the cold shoulder. The first recorded use of this

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<v Speaker 1>phrase dates back to the early eighteen hundreds. It refers

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<v Speaker 1>to an old custom of giving an unwelcome guest a

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<v Speaker 1>cold piece of meat from the shoulder of mutton, pork

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<v Speaker 1>or beef chop, as opposed to a welcome guest receiving

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<v Speaker 1>a warm serving. This was a polite way to communicate.

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<v Speaker 1>You may leave now. I don't know if that's true.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe it is. Who are we to know? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>at the end of the day, who are we to know?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean we I guess we could know. I like

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<v Speaker 1>this the next one. I'm going to give you an

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<v Speaker 1>out of extra because why not to butter someone up?

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<v Speaker 1>Sounds sexual to me? Is it? Maybe? Here we go.

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<v Speaker 1>This was a customary religious act in ancient India. The

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<v Speaker 1>vout would throw butter butter balls at the statues of

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<v Speaker 1>their gods to seek favor and forgiveness. Is it true?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Who knows at the end of the day, Well,

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<v Speaker 1>the people do people? That's it? Anyway, He's wonderful. Today

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be the day that they're gonna throw a

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<v Speaker 1>vaccine And by now you should have somehow allowed us

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<v Speaker 1>and gotta do you better put it in