This song by the female singer with the bi-polar wig was contrived by the art director and/or the costume designer to BE silly, eye-caching and out-of-the-norm.
This late, late show is aimed at a trendy, cutting-edge-humor younger audience, as are the commercials....not to a traditional, sometimes fuddy-duddy (gasp!) audience such as many folks on conservative forums.
In our own younger and middle-aged days we watched "Leave it to Beaver", then went to bed. The younger generation stays up way late to watch "SNL".
They have disposable income, they watch the ads, they buy, it's THEIR time slot for fun and entertainment suited to THEIR tastes...in short, it's capitalism working as it's meant to. No one is forced to watch the show if it's not to their particular tastes.
All that being said, the very talented cast and Trump did the best they could with the lame material handed them...the writing stunk. What's happened to all the brilliant comedy writing that used to emanate from New York City for decades and decades?
Sad.
Leni
I’m always up that late, and used to watch SNL from the time of the first cast. I stopped after the 90’s because it just wasn’t as funny. However, I don’t think that it’s true that the problem with much of modern entertainment is just that only the hip can appreciate it. There has been a degrading of music just like the rest of culture. The problem may be that the artists themselves don’t believe in the music; everything is irony, because there are no truths. Back in the 70’s there were Bowie and Lou Reed, but most artists were into music because they were into the beauty and power of what they were doing (and the chicks were great)[Almost Famous reference]
“What’s happened to all the brilliant comedy writing that used to emanate from New York “
Al Franken left the show. 8^)
That just about covers everything in television. It drives me nuts how many TV series start out brilliantly and then croak at about the fifth episode. This year it's Blindspot and Limitless that started out as great ideas and then devolved into poorer than average police procedurals. I swear there are, because of a lack of talent, itinerant writers of the different genres who move from series to series to write the early episodes.
I first noticed it with Miami Vice. The first five episodes were great. It then devolved into self-caricature.