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Taylor Swift opened the 2019 Billboard Music Awards with a Beyoncé-inspired performance and The OverExplainer just had to react. Check out Danielle Young's hilarious response.
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00:00You can't just come after homecoming and give us home less.
00:05You know from the whistle blow this is just about to be.
00:08Come on ladies, now let's gentrification.
00:11Prove to me you are from Rhythmless Nation.
00:14I'm not saying Beyonce invented March of Mans, but Beyonce invented March of Mans.
00:19I need an entire bag of lemons.
00:21Beehive.
00:22And they look like they just got the email yesterday to show up with their drums.
00:27You need rhythm to be in a drum line.
00:29They ain't even in step or on beat with each other.
00:32And then here she come.
00:34Now she can tell from her stance that she was not ready for this.
00:38Even the pose is unsure like should we be doing this?
00:41I just want to.
00:42Well who are the girls with the briefcases?
00:44Where they going?
00:45They on their way to gentrification.
00:47I bet Mary Poppins is also offended.
00:49Like the band is not even needed.
00:52Like she didn't have to enter the room like Beyonce enters the room.
00:55We might actually have to join Kanye's cult to go get him.
00:58To bring him back.
00:59Because he told the future.
01:01He was the one that said, I'm going to let you finish.
01:04Now I'm thinking he should have never let her finish.
01:06Somebody tell the band to go home.
01:08It's raining gentrification.
01:10Can I stop it?
01:11Like do I have to watch the whole thing?
01:12I think we get the point.
01:14The marching band is making me very upset.
01:16And you know what Taylor was thinking?
01:18Beyonce don't own marching bands.
01:20She doesn't.
01:22But she does.
01:23If you don't understand why people are up in arms about Taylor Swift's Billboard Music Awards performance.
01:28Allow me to over explain it to you.
01:30You see black culture always becomes pop culture.
01:34And sometimes it gets a little annoying when people want to take experiences of blackness.
01:40And make them, how do I say?
01:44Whitewashed.
01:45It felt a lot like appropriation.
01:47Not saying that marching bands are inherently black, but come on guys.
01:50If we got to dig back into history, who brought us the drums?
01:55Until the next moment of cultural appropriation, I'm Danielle Young and this is The Overexplainer Reacts.
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