by Steve Byas, The New American:
“Grease is the word”? Woke is the word, is the word that you heard — now — with a new Grease prequel so politically correct that, remarked one observer, “I’d rather watch my own autopsy.”
Set in 1954, the work nonetheless channels 2024, as Fox News reports:
‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ is a new TV show that serves as a prequel to the original hit film that debuted in the 1970s. The show is set to take place four years before the original but with various messages about identity politics. Its stated purpose is to explore “sexual orientation, gender expression and racial identity.”
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The Daily Mail reported Thursday, “Family favorite tunes will be re-sung alongside new musical numbers including one about white supremacy, while the 1950s student population at Rydell High School will be re-filled with a varied mix of LGBT and black high schoolers unseen in the 1978 hit.”
The female led cast reportedly includes “gender nonconforming nonbinary trans actor Ari Notartomaso, who plays Cynthia,” described as “a non-binary tomboy who struggles to fit in alongside her multicultural band mates.”
The new song about White supremacy, ‘In The Club,’ animates rich, White country club members “out of an oil painting to sing about white supremacy.”
“When you’re in the club, we’ve got each other’s backs. As long as you’re not Jewish, Asian, brown or Black, single woman or gay, on the wrong side of they,” the lyric[s] include.
So the Hollywood social engineers certainly have today’s woke activists’ backs, attempting to reinforce through entertainment what the thought police often birth in academia and disseminate via media. As the Daily Mail informs, providing more detail:
The new ‘Pink Ladies’ are all notably multicultural, with Jane being half Puerto Rican, Olivia is Mexican American, Nancy is Japanese American, and Cynthia is queer and non-binary.
Early reviews have not been kind to the woke re-boot, with the Guardian dubbing it ‘The prequel nobody asked for’.
The outlet said the show’s potential qualities are overshadowed by ‘subpar musical numbers and standard-grade streaming TV bloat.’
‘There’s a lot of too vigorous choreography, some cringe-y and underbaked imaginary sequences, and several forgettable songs per episode[.’]
‘Pink Ladies is such a mighty morass of bad ideas that it’s hard to keep it all straight,’ added a scathing review by USA Today.
Man-on-the-street reactions were no kinder. As the aforementioned observer wrote:
“Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” explores how a group of Rydell outcasts formed the Pink Ladies girl gang before Rizzo and Frenchy took over. The 10-episode series offers a more diverse, more self-aware take on the 1950s. https://t.co/19WkbEnnS6 pic.twitter.com/zkzaahBL1g
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 4, 2023
Another tweeter asked rhetorically, “So basically they are trying to woke the 50s?”
A different respondent echoed this, opining, “Rewriting history in the name of diversity is lame.”
And in a similar vein, yet another man stated, “How could a prequel to Grease set in the 1950s be ‘more diverse’? When this fails — and it will fall — maybe it’s the producers who need to be a little more ‘self-aware’ about handling a franchise they didn’t create?”
The respondent’s point is that America was at the time close to 90 percent white, and this figure didn’t really begin changing until our new immigration regime — which has caused profound demographic upheaval — took effect in 1968. In the ’50s, people stressed not “diversity” but unity.
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