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Bust out your best Donkey Roll: This week marks the fifth anniversary of
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the Lonely Island collaboration that not even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles could stop from entering the new cult canon.
Popstar was the first film created from page one by
Jorma Taccone,
Akiva Schaffer, and
Andy Samberg, a.k.a. the Lonely Island. A mockumentary about the sagging fortunes of a, well, pop star, the film invited inevitable comparisons to
This is Spinal Tap. Like that
Rob Reiner classic, which the Lonely Island revere,
Popstar also fared poorly at the box office before being discovered and embraced on home video and on cable. In that respect, Taccone, at least, invites comparisons between the two films. “We could all just be like,
The Breitbart Guide to the Best and Worst of Eurovision 2021
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21 May 2021
For the first time in two years, the Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Saturday, pitting the countries of Europe (and some invited interlopers, like the American rapper Flo-Rida) against each other to see who can write the catchiest pop song of the year.
Originally founded as France’s big idea to prevent World War III, the half-century-old tradition requires participants to submit an original, apolitical song and accompanying performance. The countries each get points they distribute to who they think did best and the points often fall to cultural kin or geopolitical allies, meaning the countries that play favorites least often have an outsized impact on who wins, since who they give the most points to will be less predictable than, say, Spain and Portugal always giving each other 12 points (and always losing).