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Brandy have you ever acapella12/13/2022 ![]() The series also stars Naturi Naughton, who was a member of the Destiny’s Child-striving girl group 3LW, and Nadine Velazquez, who… starred in the NBC comedy My Name Is Earl. ![]() And Eve? Let’s just say I missed school one day after oversleeping because I was up all night attempting to download “Who’s That Girl?” on Napster using the landline AOL connection we were only allowed to dial into when everyone was in bed. But I had Brandy’s Never Say Never in the “1” position of my multi-disc boombox, and was capable of working myself into a heavy sob while lip-synching along to “Have You Ever?” or “Almost Doesn’t Count” on a particularly emotional day. Listen, in 1998, you couldn’t tell me I didn’t understand all the complexities of romance and heartbreak. At a time when we’re obsessed with “where are they now,” that’s surface-level intriguing content-even more so when you cast the series with performers who were at the height of their careers at that time. Or, well, Eve and Brandy.) It’s a spectrum of settling back into civilian life and perpetually chasing the high of that stardom, at least as portrayed on the show. (Think some semblance of TLC in the early aughts. Why is this not the plot of all TV series? If we can have three “Chicago” universe series and 75 Law & Orders, we should have at least half a dozen shows paying tribute to the greatest era of modern pop music while simultaneously giving juicy starring roles to iconic female entertainers in their 40s.īeyond the whole “getting the gang back together” framework of the early episodes, Queens tracks what happens to celebrities of the magnitude that Nasty Bitches reached. There’s millennium nostalgia and fun music. Yes, this is exactly the plot of Girls5eva. Each of the foursome is unfulfilled with how their lives ended up since-an overextended mom/housewife, a struggling has-been artist, a closeted churchgoer, and a flailing C-list celebrity-and agrees to forgive the past that led to their initial breakup and ride the wave of buzz into a career resurgence. The general conceit is that a four-woman group called the Nasty Bitches that had chart-topping, MTV-minted success in the late ’90s and early ’00s is back in the headlines 20 years later when a hot new artist samples one of their big tracks. I’m loath to use any word once it’s been bastardized by Mark Zuckerberg’s tiny mouth, but there is something deliciously “meta” about this series. Queens, which so far has aired three episodes on ABC and is available on Hulu, is one of my favorite new shows of what’s considered the traditional “fall TV season.” (Climate change has affected TV as well generally speaking, the seasons are barely recognizable anymore.) What I don’t know is why everyone isn’t talking about it. Did you know there is a TV show airing right now in which Eve and Brandy have multiple rap battles? Or that the icons of definitive Y2K-era music are, on a weekly basis, performing at the top of their game to new music? And that, in between, they are blessing us with top-tier acting in one of TV’s most underappreciated genres, the nighttime soap opera?
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