Jimmy Fallon’s Band Played Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” When Michelle Obama Was Guest on Late Night Show… Oops, Wrong Song, Wrong Woman (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 2, 2011
Song Choice Debacle: Jimmy Fallon's band leader Questlove of The Roots made a deplorable song choice last week to introduce guest Rep. Michele Bachmann on Fallon's late-night talk show
I meant to get to this double-standard story days ago, but fell behind with the Thanksgiving holidays.
Band leader/drummer Questlove of The Roots is stunned — stunned, I tell you — that some viewers actually became angry that his band had played Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” when Michelle Obama strolled across the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” stage last week. He was going with a “historical angle” and was unprepared that some liberal extremists would consider the song choice offensive when applied to FLOTUS and her, uh, backside. Questlove — birth name Ahmir Khalib Thompson — meant the song in the nicest way, after all.
Oops — my bad. Wrong song, wrong woman, wrong political affliation. Wrong Michelle/Michele.
Correction: Questlove was surprised that people were upset when The Roots played the insulting song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” when conservative Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was introduced on Fallon’s show during Thanksgiving week.
Questlove is convinced that only tea party extremists would ever have an issue with that song being used to introduce an elected Republican female politician and [sniffle] thousands of tea partiers have been tweeting mean, racist things [sniffle] to him. And, well, hey, he FORGOT that “lyin’ ass b*tch” was in the title, so [sniffle] why can’t you mean tea partiers just get over it?
Except that he’s bloody LYING.
Questlove was so darned pleased with himself that he proudly tweeted this about his disrespectful song choice for Rep. Bachmann to fans just before the show aired, as reported by Ace ShowBiz:
On the Monday episode of the late-night show, the band played snippet of the 1980s track while Bachmann was waving to the audience without realizing the lyrics. The song itself is not political, but its lyrics mention the words “lyin’ a** b****” several times.
Prior to the show, Questlove had hinted about his band’s plan to use the song to welcome Bachmann. “aight late night walkon song devotees: you love it when we snark: this next one takes the cake. ask around cause i aint tweeting title,” he wrote, before giving another clue that the song is taken from Fishbone’s EP.
Reported by The Daily Caller, The Roots drummer says he was called a ‘n**ger’ by ‘tea party extremists’:
Questlove of The Roots, the house band of “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” was attacked by “3,500 tea party extremists” on Twitter after he publicly insulted Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann by playing the song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” when she took the show’s stage last week.
The most memorable insult he received was “n*gger f*ckhead ghetto stick,” he told Pitchfork.
“I really didn’t think about how it could be perceived as a misogynist swipe,” Questlove said of the song choice, claiming that he overlooked the sexist connotations of the word “bitch.”
Is this guy smoking any of that funny stuff? Why is he so stunned that his shocking song choice is shocking?
After looking up “misogynist” on Dictionary.com, Questlove’s pleading ignorance, that — OH, MY — he NEVER KNEW that most women, whether they’re Democrat or Republican, would have serious issues with a respected congresswoman, or ANY woman, being referred to as a “lyin’ ass b*tch,” especially on national TV.
The sniveling coward continues whining:
“It deeply offended a lot of women’s groups and non-Bachmann supporters, and for that I’m deeply sorry,” he said. “I was really just going with her whole revisionist history angle, I wasn’t calling it out on her being a woman.”
Pathetic liar. The song is about a “lyin’ ass b*tch,” for crikey’s sake, and those words are repeated a gazillion times. There’s some garden variety stuff about a woman breaking a guy’s heart because she’s a, well, you know. And that’s about it. Questlove chose this song because of the nasty provocative title, and now his liberal butt is being rightfully chewed out and he’s squirming like a slimy earthworm thrust into daylight.
He wants to be viewed as the boo-hoo victim with the retaliatory tweets he’s received (which could have come from any number of sources, if they even existed), not as the idiot bully/bad guy that he was. There is no “whole revisionist history angle” in the lyrics as he’s claimed — the song is saturated with the misogynist title, repeated over and over and over again, with the word “slut” thrown into the mix — some of the lyrics:
She swears that her heart’s for you
And she swears that her love never ends,
She swears that she’s all for you
As she messes around with your friendsI really thought our love was much too strong
But that little slut just proved us wrong,
I still care and that’s my fatal flaw
‘Cause sharing you will surely kill us all!
Hiding behind typically bogus, liberal CYA fabrication to make this song choice sound deep and philosophical — rather than it being the nasty, anti-female, partisan slam that it was against a sitting Republican congresswoman — just ain’t gonna work, Skippy.
What will Questlove select for Kim Kardashian’s or Ashton Kutcher’s mistress Sara Leal’s intro music when appearing on Fallon’s show? Doubtful that he’d pick “The Lady Is a Tramp.”
How about for Nancy Pelosi, Janet Napolitano, or Valerie Jarrett? Is he toying with “Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead”? “Big Shot”? “Witchy Woman”?
Hardly.
If Questlove wants to convince viewers that he’s profoundly professorial with his objective “historical angle” song choices for Fallon’s guests, one for Hillary Clinton could be “Before He Cheats.” Or, “Stand By Your Man.” Or, “Devil Gets His Dues.” Perhaps he’ll play the opening chords to “Jailhouse Rock” or “Folsom Prison Blues” when Michael Vick, Rod Blagojevich, or Martha Stewart are guests.
This jerk has yet to apologize to Bachmann, although Fallon and the NBC network scrambled to do so the following day — Questlove is more concerned about being fired.
Yeah, that could be a legitimate worry, dude.
From my DC Caller email alert:
To recap: Questlove knows that people who say bad things to him on Twitter are Tea Partiers because they just are, he only recently learned that calling a woman “bitch” might be considered misogynist, and he doesn’t feel the need to apologize to Michele Bachmann for what he did because he disagrees with her politically. It’s not like Jimmy Fallon needs to give people yet another reason not to watch his show, but that’s his problem.
Hey, what’s Max Weinberg up to these days?
From Ace ShowBiz:
Though accepting the apology, Bachmann made it clear that she was outraged over the incident. When appearing on Fox News, the politician said, “This is clearly a form of bias on the part of the Hollywood entertainment elite.” She added, “This wouldn’t be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama. It shouldn’t be tolerated if it’s a conservative woman either.”
NBC said last week that Fallon’s house band and Questlove had been “severely reprimanded” for the incident, whatever in the heck that’s suppose to mean. If you’re curious about the scatological/misogynist song, it’s here on YouTube.
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