If you can tolerate Gilbert Gottfried singing a song
(and here’s me realizing I’m old again, apparently young folks today don’t know who Gilbert Gottfried is…. which I find rude, do I go around saying that I don’t know who Pete Davidson is? No, he’s an ex SNL guy who is friends with John Mulaney, because I keep up with culture)
he was a comedian known for a particularly unpleasant voice….. but damn if he doesn’t nail it in this song. I never thought I’d find something to like about this movie, a movie I swear the rest of the world forgot about
and comparing myself to this animated parrot, I think Jafar might have actually been a half decent employer up until this point. Which echoes, my two good jobs were tremendously kind to me, right up until the economy screwed them and they were generous enough to extend that screwing to me.
The lyric that got me;
“I never found a friend that I can trust
They promise caviar, and leave me eatin’ dust!
That’s some reward for loyalty
From here on in, I’m lookin’ out for me!”
I mean, except not socially, just economically. As long as I don’t need them financially people tend to like me.
“It just don’t pay to give a hoot
I’m giving all I got, what do I get? The boot!”
the funny thing about it is that it does actually work out with him developing a better job, as Alladin’s lackey instead of Jafar. Ah, fantasy animated movies. I tried to go work for the hospital that replaced the one I loved so….. it wasn’t remotely similar.
This also hits home because while running errands today we saw a billboard for Taco Bell hiring, and I said to my wife;
“I think I’m done with the phase of my life where I work for explicitly evil companies”
anyway we had a block party, and a neighbor asked what I do, and I said “nothing really”, and he was supportive. Has it always been this way? Who was I trying to impress? Not my friends neighbors or family apparently.
I’m looking out for me, is the point.
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1. @heartless- You now owe me $1M for watching/hearing this video. My poor ears, ooouchie >.<
2. Holy cow, I just googled it and apparently Disney totally changed the origin country of the story! (Google- "Aladdin country of origin")
"The original Aladdin was actually Chinese.
In the original story, Aladdin is born to a poor tailor in the capital of one of China's vast and wealthy kingdoms. The Chinese setting of the story, however, has in most recent iterations, notably the Disney animated film of 1992, been almost entirely rewritten."
Ugh, Leave it up to Hollywood to completely rewrite/alter history. -_- I get this is "just a movie" but still.
3. “I’m looking out for me, is the point.”
Sadly, that’s what’s happened to America. People are squeezed and treated like crap at work, and they lash out at others (not saying you are, just society in general, a la Karen’s and Ken’s), and they become callous and only care about themselves. Which is why you’ll see no one helping someone if they fall down for example. Or show much kindness these days to strangers. Hell, even to ppl they know.
I swear growing up, ppl, weren’t so assholish to each other. People were nicer back when the economy was better, decades ago. Ppl were more polite back then. Karen’s weren’t a thing. And you could afford a fucking meal out or a living with decent wages, even without a college degree. But no more. Even eating at McDonald’s isn’t affordable anymore. $10 for a meal now.
Ppl being squeezed at work, by shitty bosses, shitty coworkers, financially and time-wise, and is causing ppl to be shitty/uncaring to other humans.
(again, not saying you are shitty, i’m saying society in general has gotten shitty). i wonder when everything will boil over? when will it “bottom out”? have we decades to go before that happens? i don’t see anything improving, only conditions worsening.
Gilbert Gottfried (r.i.p.) was hilarious if you could tolerate that voice. I saw a video he did called The Aristocrats. It took all his unique talent to pull off and is priceless. Vulgar, obscene, laced with profanity and sexual content, but hilarious.