#and I'll admit I really like fatboy slim's debut album

[exalteranima]

I'm just gonna say it: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim have a lot to answer for. Two white guys making a fun quirky disco Evita off the backs of thousands of brown people killed and tortured by a brutal dictatorial regime is not a good look.

Basing your fun quirky disco Evita around whitewashing a dictator's spoiled opportunistic wife with delusions of grandeur (her "keeping up with the Joneses" schtick murdered an entire construction crew, look up the Manila Film Center) by giving her a sympathetic Cinderella backstory is not a good look.

Adapting said fun quirky disco Evita to Broadway just as said dictator's power-hungry family had successfully brainwashed and gaslit the very same people they oppressed decades later is 😬😬😬

#david byrne #fatboy slim #here lies love #imelda marcos #theater #musicals #I never got into the talking heads so I don't have any sentimental attachment to byrne's musical legacy #and I'll admit I really like fatboy slim's debut album #but honestly FUCK THEM