Free With Ads - Burlesque, with Amy Roberts

Episode Date: August 6, 2024

This week Emily and Jordan welcome Amy Roberts of Style Theory to the podcast to talk about one of the most fashionable movies of the 2000's Burlesque, starring Cher, Christina Aguilera, and Alan Cumming.Check out Style Theory on YouTube!Make sure to purchase a copy of Jordan's YA horror graphic novel Youth Group, AND see him  in Los Angeles on August 24th at 826LA.Emily, Jordan, and producer Matt Lieb will be on Good Mythical Weekend throughout the summer, so if you haven’t subscribed to GMM on YouTube, you should do so immediately.Listen to our newest bonus episode of Free With Ads about The Outer Limits pilot! To listen, join Maximum Fun now (if you haven’t already!)

This This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why go to a strip club and pay a $20 cover when you can go on YouTube for free and watch women with tons of clothes on do sexy dances called things like the Chattanooga Hoochie Coo and Mommy's Little Milk Jug. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Burlesque, the camp cult classic starring Christina Aguilera as the star of L.A.'s most popular burlesque club that's only ever been about a half full.

We're going to get into this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads. But before we do, we have an awesome guest and we're going to get to know them in a segment we're calling Talk to Guest. Talk to Guest. Yeah, we have an awesome guest, and we're going to get to know them in a segment we're calling Talk to Guest. Talk to Guest. Yeah, we have a sting for you. A sting. Today we have Amy Roberts.

Hi. I've met at multiple things, including a party where we had a very good time. Yes, indeed. That was wild. That was a good party. But also, you are the host of Style Theory, a really cool YouTube channel. I watched one of your episodes about anime and how it's influenced fashion and style, and you're doing cool stuff. So tell me, you mind telling everybody a little bit more about where that comes from?

Of course. So over on Style Theory, we like to take a little more critical thinking to fashion, beauty, hygiene, all that kind of stuff. I have loved anime since I was a kid. And so that episode specifically was one I'd wanted to do forever. And so I was just like, Matt, get out of here so I can just talk about what I want to talk about. And now I get to have control over everything. It's lovely.

But I just, I like getting to nerd out about things. And one of my favorite things is just fashion, beauty, lifestyle. And I like dressing up. And so a movie like Burlesque was a really fun one to get to be invited for. Oh, I'm so glad you feel that way. We kind of picked it for you specifically. And I'm so glad that you liked it. Of course.

I mean, I remember watching this back in like 2010 it came out. Yeah, it's been around for a while, which I forgot about that. Right? It had such a big moment and then it just like went away and I'm like bring it back.

I want the sparkle the sequence. Yeah, but it keeps coming back because of Cher's Wagon Wheel Watusi which keeps coming up in like TikToks

and none of us know what that means but it's fun to think about what it is. Amy, can I ask you about your recent episode that you did

about Fallout the TV show Fallout? Yes. This was a great video. I really suggest people watch it. It is about functional clothing for the apocalypse. Let's just say an apocalypse happens. I don't know. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.

What are a couple of clothing items that we need should the world end? So wax canvas is actually going to be like your best friend. It is durable, waterproof, and it can stand up to anything. It can last for like 30 years. And so the thing people forget is that as you're like trampsing through this nuclear wasteland area, you are facing different types of weather. You're facing everything.

But you're also trying to keep all of the moisture out. And so making sure that your clothes aren't actually rotting off of you. People worry about zombies. People worry about mutants. They don't worry about moisture. This is what will kill us. Listen, bad hygiene and not washing your underwear is actually what is what will kill us. Listen, bad hygiene and not washing your underwear is actually

what is going to kill you. The nuclear radiation is livable after a little bit of time so while it will melt off your skin eventually, the bacteria in your dirty underwear will kill you so much faster. My mom used to tell me that all the time.

I like your mother. She's a smart lady. Yeah. You never told us, what was your mom's name again? Louise. We like talking about mom's names. What's your mom's name?

My mom's name is Jan. Jan. This amazing mother's name. That's a very good mom name. I love it. It's so mom. I think, I mean, and again,

I don't mean to pry into your family life. We've only just met. But is Jan a little bit fun? I love Jan. Jan is one of the best people that I have known in my entire life. And I'm a little bit biased, but I'm also just so right. Okay. Well, yeah.

What a year. So obviously we've talked about you love the fashion in this movie. Do you have like two or three other like movies, TV shows where you're like, this is peak fashion. This is my shit. Peak fashion. So it depends on kind of what you're aiming for because I love costume design. And so there are movies that are good and have really bad costume design. And there are movies that are like bad, but are like pretty.

And so what's in my brain right now is because of watching burlesque, honestly, Devil Wears Prada is iconic. And the looks in that, I want the Chanel boots. Like I want to wear that outfit that she comes in with. It's the blazer for me.

I love blazers. Blazers are having such a moment right now as we're in this like 80s, 70s revival. So like if you want to rock some shoulder pads, do it. Literally a tasteful shoulder pad because there's like crazy shoulder pad and there's like, you know. Listen, shoulder pads can be a really great thing. They give you shape and what I learned is that as a rectangle I need a wide amount of shape to not be a rectangular fruit.

So I highly recommend you try them. My, Gail, my mom, had shoulder pads and I was a very fidgety kid

and I would fold my mom's shoulder pads constantly. I would take them out of her coats and fold them. So, very fun to fidget with.

No, there is and if you look into a lot of sci-fi you'll actually see the sci-fi version of shoulder pads are those plate armors that you put on your shoulders. And that is the futuristic way to do it. You see it in a lot of – I'm losing it. Blade Runner had quite a few. Blade Runner was an interesting one for a lot of different – sorry. Again, my brain is in the burlesque mood, so that's coming forward.

Well, we'll get into it very soon. Oh, yeah, but Blade Runner, excellent costuming. Okay. Excellent. The hair in that is impeccable. It's futuristic, like, pinup, and it's awesome.

Well, hey, there you go. Some good fashion movies to put on your to-watch list. Let's talk about burlesque, shall we? Yeah. You've seen this movie. Emily, you've seen this movie multiple times. Yes. I'm very excited.

I know that there's been a lot of criticism about this movie, and I kind of get why. I guess the writing is a little campy and stuff like that, but it's, there's Cher, so. Cher is always a good thing. Yeah, like get over it, you guys. I don't care. But yeah, I'm excited to talk about it. I'm excited you're here. Thank you for being here.

Of course. This is gonna be great. This was my first time. I was excited to watch this. I think I clocked this on here, and I am like, I love Big, I love camp, I love a musical. So I was stoked for this one. And yeah, I kind of know this as kind of a like, I don't know if people call this a bad movie classic,

but it's definitely in that zone of like, fun movies to watch and yell at the screen. So I was stoked. It definitely falls into like guilty pleasure. Guilty pleasure, yeah. If that's kind of like your vibe. Yeah, I think that you're right about that and I noticed when I was just like searching for like

how to watch it it's like on cable constantly so it's this movie that I think lives on cable in a weird way anyway oh I didn't know that well yeah let's get into it we open on the Dwight bar it's a scummy bar in a little podunk town Christina Aguilera she's the bartender and Dwight Bar. It's a scummy bar in a little podunk town.

Christina Aguilera, she's the bartender. And Dwight, the guy that owns it, he's a jerk and he's not paying her. So she's like, I'm getting out of here. I'm taking the money you owe me out of the register. Smart. We got a little save the cat moment. The other bartender that works there she's like I'm taking I'm taking this money

and I'm gonna give it to you for a bike for Keith little Keith is getting a bike because Christina Aguilera is

taking money out of the register so we know we know we know she's salt of the earth up there up top

yep you can tell by the wig that's not too blonde but just blonde enough. It's a strawberry blonde. Yes! It works very interestingly with her very, very 2000s tan in this movie.

It is just that slight off orange. Yes, and a good lip liner that's like, ooh, is it? Okay. It's fine. Listen, we'll get to it when we get to her moments with Cher in this movie, but the fact that her makeup

is perfect through this entire thing and she's not a makeup lady, I clocked that and I was like, hmm, your skin is too perfect in this foundation for this to be your first time. She's like, my mom died and I don't know how to do makeup.

And this is my first lesson and I'm like 19, 20, whatever, however old she is. I don't know how old she's supposed to be. Yeah, exactly. So before she gets out of this one horse town, she kicks off her shoes and does a little song and dance in the bar. And we're kind of seeing that intercut with her moving to LA. She gets on the bus. One-way ticket, she says.

So she's got the backstage West or something, and she's looking for jobs. Nobody's hiring. And she wanders into the burlesque lounge. It's calling to her. This is my place. And the guy working the door is Alan Cumming. Great to see Alan Cumming in this movie. He's in this movie in a weird way.

Yeah. Like he's in some scenes and he's always great. But then you're like, why isn't Alan Cumming here more? Yes. It feels like he's supposed to be the like, you know, a very similar thing to like Cabaret. It's clear that he was cast to be like the master of shows or something like MC yeah MC and then he just didn't do it like it it was frustrating I don't know no yeah I I spent the whole time just being like give me more give me more I think they did it as like an homage to

cabaret so that he could because his makeup and dressing is all like his uh when he was in cabaret back in the 90s and so i'm i'm like i guess you're there because they were inspired by this and you're like sure paycheck i get to sit here and then do a very odd dance number later yeah i don't know if we like if anybody like read anything about the behind the scenes stuff of this it does kind of feel like he maybe had a plot line that was edited out i don't't know. I did not look into it too much. It definitely seems that way, for sure. But he's great. Everything he does is awesome.

It's true. He says, the club has no windows, but the best view on the Sunset Strip. Great line. Great line. Because of all the ladies. Great line. And then the first number she sees is Cher. She's dressed like some sort of paramilitary figure.

Salute. Salute. Salute. And again, if you're here in this club for skin, you ain't getting it. Everybody's got a ton of clothes on.

It's true. More clothes than the people in the audience. Tons of clothes on these people. And zero burlesque. Right?

Yeah. That's the weirdest thing in this movie. I'm like, maybe one of these is a burlesque song. The rest is just Christina Aguilera having a concert. Right.

Or it's just girls kind of dancing around. It's like there's no kind of strip tease. There's one song with Christina Aguilera that's a strip tease. But that's it. I was going like, I don't think you know what the word burlesque means. No. Yeah, and there's this moment where she's like, after she learns she loves the club, where she's like laying on her bed and she's word burlesque means. Yeah, and there's this moment where she's like, after she learns she loves the club,

where she's like laying on her bed and she's reading burlesque books. And that's, I guess, the only little nod we get to the fact that this is like a historical thing. And I always kind of wanted Cher to kind of explain like why we love the art and what this is and it's, you know, tease and it's comedy. Not really, it does seem like maybe the people, like, Googled burlesque before they wrote this movie

instead of, like, seeing some. I think they were like, we want to make Chicago, but we don't want to get sued. So what if we just call it burlesque? It's really true. I was saying to Emily during lunch today, it feels like the pitch for this was PG-13 showgirls. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because the dynamic is like you have this kind of like shit-kicking country kid who comes to do the show. And then you have the like vampy Kristen Bell character who is kind of like the Gina Gershon. Anyway, it kind of feels like the same dynamics and the same kind of plot. And it's all like a Star is Born. And then I was saying that I feel like it's a cross between that. Yeah. Gina Gershon. Anyway, it kind of feels like the same dynamics and the same kind of plot. And it's all like A Star is Born. And then I was saying that I feel like it's a cross between that and Coyote Ugly. So like, yeah, this movie feels like it has like five different personalities.

It's Coyote Ugly, it's Devil Wears Prada, it's Chicago. It's like all of them just converging into this one little shindig. And it's supposed to have a lot of, like, I would think that the main thing about it should be glamour. Like, it's, you've got Cher, you've got Christina Aguilera, where's the glamour? It just feels like, we got some good wigs.

Yeah, good wigs and a lot, a lot of lipstick. Yeah. Like, I was just like, girl, you are painted and I can see you from the next state. I wonder if there's like a big budget Baz Luhrmann version of this movie that they wanted to make. And they're like, sorry, we couldn't get Baz. You have five million dollars. Shoot it in a week. Oh, that's a great Baz Luhrmann could have really crushed that.

But yeah, but it does feel a little bit small. And I think you're right that like it for what it is, it feels like you should be more a little more over it does feel a little bit small, and I think you're right that for what it is, it feels like you should be a little more over the top, a little more fabulous. We also only have like three sets throughout this entire movie. Yes, very efficient movie to shoot. Oh yeah, yeah. So she's in the club. She loves

it. This is her place. She clocks a hunky bartender. He is wearing a ton of eyeliner. Oh boy, the eyeliner on these fellas. Lots of it. It was the age ton of eyeliner. Oh, boy, the eyeliner on these fellas. Lots of it. It was the age of guy liner. Yeah, I think so. It was.

They were like, they like the emos. So let's bring in the emo girls. This is, yeah, is this maybe like 2010? So maybe peak My Chemical Romance? No, yeah, we're hitting black. Maybe are we over that? We have just hit Black Parade, and we're in the echoes of it. I will be honest. I like Guy Liner.

I love it. I'm just like, but why call it Guy Liner? Just give me the sultry eyes. I'm down for this. Yeah, yeah. Also, we do this thing on the show called Hunk Watch, which we do not have to do right now. But it's the hunkiest person in the movie. I mean, I can tell you. You like the bartender.

Yeah. I was going to say, I think he's got the worst hat. The worst hat. You don't like the clockwork orange? Like, no? I don't like the clock. He looks like one of the goons who would be trying to beat up Adam West Batman. And maybe this is a pro for some people.

For me, I never like, this guy never locked in for me. Listen, I remember him from Twilight and I can't unsee him. I didn't know he was in Twilight. Yeah, he's the baddie in the first Twilight movie. He's like the one that smells them and tracks them. And so I'm just like, I just picture you just running through the woods like this

like where is Edward and I'm just like I can't I've never watched Twilight you convinced me to watch it now since this hunky hunky who is this dude I didn't recognize him and he did not leave much of an impression where is he from

never seen him in my life so I just know Twilight and then he had like a big career after that of people just having cutouts of him. So outside of that, I don't know

because I don't think he's done that much since. Well, yeah, he's, I think that his, Matt, can we go on eBay and price a cutout of this dude? Yeah, yeah, I'll find out. I'll find out how much he costs.

His name in the movie, I believe, is James? Jack. Jack? Yeah. In Twilight? Yeah, yeah, I'll find out. I'll find out how much he costs. His name in the movie, I believe, is James? Jack. Jack? In Twilight? Well, no, in this movie, he's Jack. Oh, no, in Twilight, he's James. So I think they just ran out of J names

and he lost all of his jobs. Jerry, Jim. Right? I will say there is, his name is Cam, oof, Giganet, Gigandet? Oh, yeah. Gigandet. Camgigandet. Cam Gigandet.

Just Gigandet. I think I've seen that name around. More like Cam Giga Chat. You know what I mean? There you go. Cam can get it. I mean, I will say this. This movie is stacked with hunks.

Like, I've never seen a movie this stacked with hunks. We usually do, like, one hunk watch or whatever, but we've literally got McSteamy in this. Right? I was like, I couldn't... I forgot he was in this movie. I know, me too. And then Peter Gallagher. Well, yeah, let's actually, let's talk about it.

I was almost there on mine. Let me just kind of sprint to where I had Hunkwatch in our little outline. She's like, I got to work here. I got to get a job. The hunky bartender says like, you should check backstage. And she just lets herself in where everyone is changing i know she's very rude in this movie yeah um and she sees share uh talking to her costume designer stanley tucci hey i think it's time for hunk watch i was

gonna say i know yeah he he's he's terrific in this yeah and share have really awesome chemistry that's true i i love him every time he pops up it's a cold ass take i realized he had no shit he's terrific in this. He and Cher have really awesome chemistry. That's true. I love him. Every time he pops up, it's a cold ass take. I realize, yeah,

no shit, you love Stanley Tucci, Jordan. But yeah, I was just, every scene they had together, I thought was awesome. I mean,

that was going to be my hunk watch. I'm like, Stanley. Oh yeah, tell me everything. What do you think? Stanley Tucci, like, this was Stanley Tucci

before his sexual reawakening that he had. Sexual reawakening that he had. Sexual reawakening. I love that. But like so real. So this was back when people didn't realize that he was a hottie. And then he started cooking and they're like, oh my god, those forearms. Yeah, the cooking.

That was when the world knew. I don't know. I think we all knew he was a hottie. But no one would admit it. They're like, he feels like the old guy. And I'm like, no. Just roll up them sleeves. I feel like he's immortal. Right?

There's like no wrinkles on this man. He's like, he's perfect. Also, the bald man. I think. Exactly. It's the bald man in the glasses. Like he just. And the beard.

And the tape measure around the neck and the two pins in the mouth. Two pins in the mouth. He did have a theme at that point, which was this. And he plays the same character. And I'm going to say Devil Wears Prada too much in this episode. But it was the same time frame. It's true. He's pretty smoke show.

And then Peter Gallagher, who's the OC, he was in there. Yes, yes, yes. Smoky smoke show. He's hot as fuck too. and then Peter Gallagher who's the OC he was in yes Smokey Smoke Show he's hot as fuck too David Walton who's like playing Stanley Choochie's lover at some point in this

he's a pretty big hunk who just pops up in every sitcom ever I was like he was the new girl guy because he was the hot boyfriend there I just

I never think of him as the hottie just because I always see him with the mustache and that gets me and I'm just like I can't I think he's as the hottie just because I always see him with the mustache and that gets me. And I'm just like, I can't. I think he's like the chocolate lab of men. Oh, that makes sense.

Like he's always got a little bit of drool hanging out of his mouth. Like he's adorable. You love him. You can rough him around. But he always comes back looking happy. Yeah, he'll come back for more, you know? Exactly. So, well, yeah, actually, you mentioned Peter Gallagher.

He is, Peter Gallagher, he is, he's like the business partner. He's doing, he's cooking the books. He's the guy in the books. And he's like, we're not making money. We got to make more money. We find out that she, he and Cher are like divorced, but they still work together. Fun relationship. I think he's the tallest person in the movie.

Tallest guy. So we meet him, and all the while, Christina Aguilera is just hanging around, watching all of this. They're just doing it all in front of her, and people are changing. She's just a stranger off the street. So we also meet Nikki.

Oh, and she's late. She's got a, oh, she had a, ooh, she's, you're supposed to be on stage, Nikki. This is Kristen Bell. She's got a black wig. Um. Ugh, that wig. Yeah, weird. Worst hat.

Oh, maybe that's the worst hat. Yeah. The worst hat. Oh. A hat can be a wig. We have a lot of really great stings on this show. Oh, yeah. I'm loving this. I should have warned you. Just every moment. By the have a lot of really great stings on this show. I'm loving this. I should have warned you.

Just every moment. By the way. Did you bring any stings? Yeah, feel free to create a sting. Yeah, it's easy. I can do it so fast. It's got to be one, two, three. It's got to be three syllables.

Okay. Okay. I'm going to percolate on that. It will come to me. I know it will. But yeah, that wig is trash, don't you think? Why is everyone in a wig? Well. They got that from Party City. I would have wondered it will. But yeah, that wig is trash, don't you think? Why is everyone in a wig? Well, they got that from Party City.

I wonder, like, there's this moment where Stanley Choochee's like, oh, Kristen Bell, you would look great with short hair. And she's like, I'm not going to cut my hair. He's like, no, no, a wig. Yeah. Are people all just shooting other things at this point? Is everyone just busy? I don't know what else Christina Aguilera was doing, but it does seem like people are doing this on the weekend. Well, considering that Christina Aguilera was wearing a wig from the get-go.

Yeah. I mean, and that wig was fab. You didn't like it? No. It's not that I don't like it. It was just I could tell so much that it's a wig. And it bothers me when I know. I'm like, you have money, you have budget, you have makeup artists.

I should not know it's a wig. I can tell how much hair you have under that with how much it is sticking out of your head. So wait, how many wigs do you think you... I mean, Cher, we know, wig. But Cher has like this makeup and persona where it's like she's made for wigs do you think you I mean Cher we know wig but Cher has like this makeup and persona where it's like she's made for wigs no and she's also she's being Cher as a character right and so like she's not trying to she can wear whatever she wants but how many wigs do you think were clocked on these girls who were in the cast on stage every single one of the named actresses. Like, every single one.

Julianne Hough. Julianne Hough has it. She has it. At least two people in that dance ensemble have it. Speaking of, the fact that that dance ensemble doesn't do anything else in this entire movie, but that's the reason that Christina Aguilera came through it. Yeah. Like, she saw the lady.

She was like, I'm into that. She came in and nothing else. Yeah, she just wanted to be a dancer. It's so confusing. I don't know. Yeah. So I won't harp too much on this. A little weird. They make a lot of jokes about how Christine or Kristen Bell looks like a dude. It's like, come on, movie. That was gross. That was awful. That was gross. You know, like anyway, so that that kind of stinks. That's a weird little runner that wasn't great. But but yeah, so it's Christina Aguilera. She's industrious.

She's going to work there whether they like it or not. She just grabs a tray and starts taking drink orders, getting drinks, being industrious. Love it. She wants to work there. We meet Marcus Gerber. He's there. He's like dating Kristen Bell, and he's a high roller, and he wants to buy the club. He has to have it. He's like dating Kristen Bell and he's a high roller and he wants to buy the club. He has to have it.

He's got to have this club. And he's like offer and share all this money, but she won't sell because it's her dream. She loves it. So then Kristen Bell does a musical number. And then Christina Aguilera says something about singing. And they're like, Tess is the only one who sings. No one else does. And so Christina Aguilera, they don't know she can sing.

It's her dream and she's going to wow them coming up later in the movie. So someone breaks into her shitty apartment and then she goes to live at the bartender's house. Great house on this guy. Oh, my God. Well, it's like a loft. Yeah, it's a beautiful, beautiful tile. I have a thing

where I love bedrooms and Jordan has noticed this, but you don't really get to see the bedroom very much, but it's like a loft where it's kind of open. There's French doors that open to the bed.

The tiles on the wall in that kitchen, I really, really like it. Just saying. I like that apartment. But the fact that I think they're paying like $1,200 for that in the middle of town.

Do they say how much they're paying for it? He's charging her $600. You're assuming it's about half. Right. Yeah. Oh, man. All utilities included. Right?

She's not paying anything else. So how? He is a struggling. Listen. Catch your breath. Catch your breath, Amy. As someone who pays rent in LA, when that happens, I get so frustrated because I'm like, this is why people come here.

This is why their rent is so high. And this is where- They see burlesque. They assume they can live here. And they bring their fucking talentless asses over. I am just like Christina Aguilera. I'm going to walk down into a club and Cher's going to be like, you're my star. Just kick my way into the dressing room.

Yeah, I think this is probably to us Angelenos, this feels like how New Yorkers felt about the Friends apartment. It's like, fuck you. It's a little bit like that. But this felt a little bit more realistic because it's just like, there's no real other room. It's like two rooms. So I liked it and I loved that floating island in the middle of the ocean. The island was great.

We learned that the bartender guy, there's no funny business going to happen because he's got a fiance. She's in New York doing a play so they're not going to hook up no matter how much they want to. So she's's tendon bar and guess what one of the dancers gets pregnant georgia she's pregnant and so there's an opening

in the cast who's gonna fill that opening we ask who on earth what and so they're doing auditions they can't find anybody uh stanley tucci makes the, like, what I'm sure was the topical ass joke at the time. He's like, Sierra's like, where are all the good dancers in L.A.? And he's like, they're all dancing with the stars. I'm sure this fucking destroyed in 2010. Well, because, you go ahead, Amy. No, because Julianne Hough is from Dancing with the Stars. Oh, right.

Exactly. And this was her first acting gig. Really? Yeah. So this was her first acting gig. I think it was Christina Aguilera's first big acting moment outside of Mickey Mouse Club kind of stuff. Right. And so the fact that they're like, we're kicking this girl out because she's pregnant and she's going to Dancing with the Stars after this.

Because she probably had to actually go. Right. Well, a number of their backup dancers in that show are from Dancing with the Stars. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. A handful of them, yeah. Oh, cool. It didn't know that. A handful of them, yeah. Oh, cool. It's a fun time.

And I'm also just like, she is the least, her pregnancy is so fast in this movie. Oh, I know. I didn't realize that like nine months and a half had passed because she looks fine by the end. Yeah. I also just love any scene where somebody's throwing up and they come out and they go, are you pregnant? It's like, she could just be hungover.

A lot of reasons to throw up. She's not Kristen Bell in this movie, so she's not going to be drunk. That is her thing. Yeah, Kristen Bell, drunk as hell. She is a drunk. Yep. So, it's okay. So, Christina Aguilera just jumps up on stage.

She's going to audition, whether they like it or not. Now, Christina Aguilera is being very brash. But also, why won't they let her audition? Why are they so against it? I can never quite figure out. While they're like, all right, you can work here. But they're always like, but you can never get on stage. Never.

Like, she is attractive. Gorgeous. And it is weird. They're like, you'll never get on stage. I think there's like some typical LA gatekeepy shit that they're trying to go just because you come to LA and you're hot doesn't mean you can just, you know, it's that kind of thing.

But it's also like, why did she ever want to be a dancer? This girl is a singer, which we knew from the beginning. I don't know. I feel like she just wanted to do something. And this was the thing that she found. And so she's like, I can dance. I can sing. I can do know. I feel like she just wanted to do something, and this was the thing that she found. And so she's like, I can dance.

I can sing. I can do all of it. Yeah. They do have a line at some point that's about, like, she needs to pay her dues. And Cher's like, you don't know what dues she's paid. Maybe it just occurred to me, because, like, the thing about the singing is weirdly integrated. I wonder if this was just a movie movie and then Christina Aguilera signed on and it's like, we have to make this about singing.

But this is about burlesque, which is about dancing. We'll do a thing about how she... Obviously, all the Christina Aguilera musical numbers are awesome and she's an amazing voice, but it's weirdly integrated. Maybe it is a little bit about the origin story of the Pussycat Dolls.

Maybe there's a little bit of that because Pussycat Dolls was originally like a burlesque style rock and roll thing that happened in Hollywood. And then they made a girl group out of it. So I think that there is some of that in there. No, that makes sense. Also, question for you. Do you count this as a musical when the music numbers are all like in the actual storyline and not outside of it? Like they're all performances

versus like ones that happen spontaneously. Yeah. I count it as a musical. And only two people sing. That's the other thing that gets me. I'm like only two people sing in this movie. So I guess Kristen Bell also has a musical number. Well she doesn't sing.

But that was confusing to me because I felt like she was singing. But then Christina Aguilera afterwards goes, everybody's always lip syncing. And I went, I feel like she just sang. I have this. This bothered me, too. Yeah. Can I take a minute to complain about the logic of burlesque? Please.

I know this is foolish. I know this is foolish. I know this is, there's no reason to do this, but it is in my brain and I have to say it. Okay. So there's the thing of like, Christina Aguilera, the thing that she brings to this is like, we're going to start singing. I have this amazing voice. We're going to make the show around me.

And then they're like, but burlesque dancers only lip sync. That's how we do it. And she shakes things up. But Kristen Bell has the song. And then they're like, burlesque dancers don't sing. Well, she does. But no one else does. And I'm like, well, is Christina Aguilera, is what she's doing a big deal?

Because someone's already doing it. Here's how it read to me. They had the script written. Kristen Bell's like, I want to sing. Fuck. Okay, we'll give her one and then we'll say she does it. Anyways, it drove me up a wall. Yeah, I think you're right about that because it seemed like she did sing that number.

And also I realized complaining about the logic is stupid. No, no, no, no, no. But I felt the same way as I was watching it because we all know Christabel could sing because we've seen Frozen. Yes. So we know. And Schmigadoon.

Is she in Schmigadoon? I don't know. She's not in Schmigadoon. Well, okay. It seems like she should be in Schmigadoon. She would make a really good Schmigadoon. I mean, come on. I don't know what Schmigadoon is

and it sounds like you guys are just trying to fool me. Schmigadoon is- Like you all agree to make up something called Schmigadoon is, and it sounds like you guys are just trying to fool me. Schmigadoon is- Like you all agree to make up something called Schmigadoon. It truly does. Just to break Matt. And then Matt will be like, oh, I watch it. I love it. Yeah, no, I love Schmigadoon.

Better than the bear. Schmigadoon feels like something that you would just get in a fever dream. That is the show Schmigadoon. I mean, as a word, it sounds like that. Yeah, Schmigadoon does sound like what a fever dream is. Well, it's Brigadoon. It's the play on Brigadoon, which is the musical. Oh, my God.

It is one of those things. It's like on Apple TV, and you drive by a billboard of it, and you're like, what the fuck is that? You're like, it's been on for five seasons. Yeah. What is this? Josh Hartnett and 50 Cent are on a show on Starz? And it's won five Golden Globes?

And I'm just seeing this bill, it's one of those. It's one of those. This is how I felt when my friend was like, have you been watching Burn Notice? And I'm like, that's still on. That is still on? No, no. I don't think it is, but still, what is it?

It seemed like a fake show, but also probably more people watch that than watch shows that like... That we enjoy. Well, the fact that Yellowstone is the most watched show of all time right now... Now, hang on, Amy. I think you're in need to back up. Just kidding.

Well, things are getting spicy in there. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Yeah, it's a pretty... Yellowstone is a show for Republicans who pretend they're Democrats. Yeah. Finally, TV for me. Yeah, you know, it's for boomer Democrats. But I also like it. I don't know. But I mainly like the prequels, let's be honest. It's no Schmigadoon.

It ain't no Schmigadoon, which we all watch and know is real. Listen, it ain't no Schmigadoon. It ain't no shmigadoon. Which we all watch and know is real. Listen, it ain't no shmigadoon. I know it's real. Sometimes you shmigadoo, sometimes you shmigadoon. It's true. Oh, very well said. Story of my life. Well said.

Snaps, snaps. So Christina Aguilera is like, I'm going to audition. Cher's like, fine, you can do the wagon wheel what to see. Woo! And she does it it and guess what she kills so okay she's in the show

she's backstage putting on makeup as we mentioned she says that her mom died when she was seven so she doesn't really know how to put on makeup and Cher's like

here let me I enjoy it because painting a face it's like painting a canvas yeah what the fuck is is okay let me ask

y'all is this moment I like painting a face because it's like painting a canvas. Is this the moment where you're like, ah, written and directed by a man? Yes, a bit, yeah. Like, I will admit, makeup is fun because it's like arts and crafts on your face. Sure. That's how she should have said it. But the fact that she's like, my makeup brush is too old.

I can't actually do the makeup. I'm like, my makeup brush is from like eighth grade. Bitch, clean it with some Dawn dish soap. Let's go. That got me. And the fact that like she has had perfect makeup this entire movie. It's true. Just no eyeliner.

I think they wanted us to believe that she was naturally like perfectly beautiful, which I do think the makeup on her did look very fresh and youthful. And boy, that wig. I loved that first wig she was wearing. I'm going to be honest. I know it was a wig. It was obvious. But I want that hair color so bad. But it's the no makeup makeup look.

It's the you think she's bare faced and fresh faced, but she's wearing like 15 things on her face. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. So Christina Aguilera, she's in the show, and Kristen Bell decides she's going to sabotage her. So she cuts the power during her big number. And there's also a weird logic thing here, too, of like, they have a band, but also what Kristen Bell cuts is the recorded music.

But then the band just starts playing the song. If the band knows it, why isn't the band playing it? They're there. You're paying them. I know. Anyway. That was a little confusing, too, because if it's lip syncing, why do you need a band there? But there was a quite OK, here's the other thing. I was thinking about this a lot and I just decided to

go. I bet that they were on set and there were plenty of women on set going, why doesn't she have a mic on her head if there's a there's a microphone on stage. There's this whole thing. on set going, why doesn't she have a mic on her head? Because there's a microphone on stage, there's this whole thing. And they went, people won't care. And you know what? They were right.

I definitely had it in my head as things were going on because as soon as she was doing other numbers and running around and dancing, she's singing out loud, but she doesn't have a mic or anything. It's amazing acoustics in this place. That's exactly. They need to go record's amazing acoustics in this place that's exactly like they need to go record a studio album just in this club

yes yes totally so yeah the power's cut she starts singing everybody fucking loves it the band starts playing oh my god this is great

backstage they're all cheering they're all patting her on the back Cher's like we're shutting down the whole show we're gonna write an entirely new show

around your singing everybody goes yay I'm like nope they would go fuck you going to write an entirely new show around your singing. Everybody goes, yay. I'm like, nope. They would go, fuck you. We're going to write a new show because she's a good, have her do one song. I know. I was thinking that as well. I would be so mad if I was one of those chorus people. I know. Oh my God. But it is kind of, I don't know. This is kind of the story. I think this is the story of the Pussycat Dolls because I'm looking up the writer director and he only has 18 photos I guess he was in the Goonies yeah he was an actor

and he was in the Goonies and he was also Jesse in the Rick Springfield Jessie's Girl video oh really yeah so I think the only movie he had directed

before this was like a direct to DVDD slasher movie. Cool. And obviously this movie has its fans and it's made its impact, but we're not going to get a music video director to direct this thing. Yeah, you're so right. We're going to get somebody. Get a McG.

Get a McG. That's why we have McG. You want to know something crazy? Can I tell you something about McG? Yes. Do you know who McG crazy? Can I tell you something about McG? Do you know who McG is? It sounds very familiar. He directed the Charlie's Angels movies.

Yes. But he also directed a lot of things. So he was a customer of mine at Jack Spade. I used to work at Jack Spade. It's like the men's version of Kate Spade. Yeah. And he came in and he liked me a lot. And then he took me to dinner a couple of times.

And I thought he was going to make me famous. And he didn't. Oh. I just got some free beer and some chicken wings. I mean, at least you got something. I know, but it was nice to meet him. I'm sure he had lots of fun stories about Lucy Liu. Well, no, he didn't. But then he was very nice.

But not a lot of stories. I don't know what it was. I was like 25. I don't know. So the rich guy starts to kind of take a liking to Christina Aguilera. He drives her home. He's like, we got to stop by this party. It's his party.

She's these shoes that she really likes. And then the next day, the shoes show up in the mail. What'd you think? Tell me about these shoes. Is that how you pronounce Louboutin? Like, how did she say it? She said Louboutin or something? No, it's Louboutin.

That lady who had them pronounced it weird. What was that? They were just like, it's the Louboutins. It's like, they're just like, listen, I just like have my shoes and I just like my Louboutins, those little red soles. Yeah. And it was late. She goes, those are so cute.

And then she said it wrong. And I was like, have I been saying it wrong the whole time? No, I think they're just trying to make her feel uncultured. And I'm just like, instead you just make it sound like none of you know what's going on. No,

those shoes were nice. What I, what I didn't like was the guy like being like, Oh, you want to go out this guy for shoes? I'm like, why not? Like let her live her life dude like you want some good shoes yeah sure he's just like here's some food have shoes um then we see this little number that alan cumming is doing with these like

um uh contortionists it it's great. And this is kind of like, this is kind of what burlesque actually is, right? Like it's a little comedy, it's a little dance. He's kind of doing this like sexy dance with them. There's this moment where one of them like spreads their legs and he kind of plops into her crotch and he turns to the audience and goes, hello. And the audience loses their shit.

A guy does a spit take. They cut to a guy after Alan Cumming goes, hello. A guy goes, he's laughing so hard. This is the funniest thing these 10 people have ever seen. By the way, there's only ever 10 people in this club. It's supposed to be this huge phenomenon. There's never anyone in there. Yeah, that's so true. I mean, I just, in my mind, I decided there was a balcony full of motherfuckers.

I don't know. Anyway, but I am simultaneously like, what are these people enjoying so much about this? But I'm also like, but this is also great. I don't know. For sure. But, I mean, think about this, Jordan. Like, you and I both love Jumbo's Clown Room. Oh, sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you ever been to Jumbo's? I have not. I took a lot of your coworkers to Jumbo's. Listen, I just kind of passed out that day. And I'm like, I will come back to it. I'll come back to it. Do you mind?

I want to talk about that just briefly. We should say Jumbo's Clown Room is a club in LA. It's in a little strip mall and it has sexy dancing. Nobody gets naked but it's go-go dancing.

And it's really fun and I think it is very inclusive, very accepting and they serve Miller High Life. Oh boy. I very inclusive, very accepting, and they serve Miller High Life. Oh, boy. I can't find a bar in L.A. that has Miller High Life. Well, I also wanted to talk a little bit about the fashion show where I first met you, and I took all your coworkers to Jumbo's. You did. That's hilarious to know who went to that.

So that's hilarious to know who went to that. But so the fashion show that I first met you at, would you mind telling us a little bit about it? Because it was so cool. Yeah. So we hosted our first ever Creators in Fashion, which is a digital first fashion live stream show to kind of bring Fashion Week to digital creators and get to showcase people doing what they're passionate about on a live main stage which is something that we really just don't get to see creators do and so like I've always really loved having other people's passion get to like be showcased I love seeing people love things and so it was really really cool to get to invite people that I've loved for so long because we got Critical Role, Pop Flex, ZHC and they all just brought their own things that I've loved for so long because we got Critical Role, Pop Flex, ZHC, and they all just

brought their own things that they've been working on because like Laura Bailey from Critical Role is the head of their merch merchandising department. Cassie's been doing it for years and ZHC trusted us to like premiere his line there alongside with ours. And it was just really, really cool to get to see a bunch of people come together. And like we gave them custom music, custom graphics. And it was it was really magical as someone who grew up watching like Project Runway and wanting to be in this. Yeah, it felt like that. It was so cool. Is there a way for people to watch it, even though that it was live when you were doing it? But is there a way to watch it now? Yes, it is still live on Style Theory, so you can go and watch the entire show.

We did a behind-the-scenes kind of wrap-up episode after that where you can kind of learn how it came to be and the story behind all of it. And it's a fun time. We're in production to kind of figure out what a year or two would look like and how we can make it bigger and better. That's so cool. And I'm really excited. There was a whole fallout line, Jordan. Oh, cool. You would really love it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we had a bunch of different things and we had our official Dune merchandise. We had our official Godzilla vs. Kong merchandise. And a bunch of Five Nights at Freddy's because that is what we are famous for. Yeah, that's awesome. It was so rad. Yeah. Yeah.

Will, we have like, we have a Poppy line. I don't know if you know Poppy Playtime. I just know Poppy the YouTuber. Poppy the YouTuber is iconic. But if you like

blue fuzzy things this is going to be really fun. We have it coming out in winter. It's going to be really fun. Very cool. Well thank you for letting me

get your coworkers drunk and thank you for telling me about that again. Listen. It's a hilarious thing to witness. So I highly recommend it. Hell yes. Okay.

We are almost at the thrilling conclusion of burlesque. And we're going to talk about it after this break. We're back. It's Free With Ads. We're talking about burlesque. So Cher and Kristen Bell kind of like have a little fight. Kristen Bell says she like slept with Cher's husband. Cher smacks the car with a tire iron. This is like the fun over-the-top stuff that I like.

And I think this stuff does really well. I want to become a woman who keeps a tire iron in my car. If you need to smack some shit. I don't think I've ever seen a tire iron used to change a tire. It's only used for smacking. It's like, just in case. You never know. A fit of rage. A Cher moment. A Carrie

Underwood moment. You just gotta hit something sometimes. Yeah, for sure. I've never dug my keys into the sides of anybody's anything because it would just be too obvious. I will neither confirm nor deny I've ever done something like that.

Oh, really? You haven't done any Carrie Underwood anything? She says she won't confirm or deny it, Emily. Okay, Jordan. Listen, there's a long... She wants to keep some mystique. Or there's just a long statue of limitations on certain kinds of crimes

and you just don't want to admit them on the live podcast. So we gotta wait. We gotta wait for a couple years. We gotta wait for the tell-all memoir. Soon. Give it ten years. Tune in three years later. Coming in 2034. Amy will tell us all of the things.

So they all go to a wedding. Julianne Hough's wedding. This is where we learn that Stanley Tucci and Cher have hooked up before, despite Stanley Tucci primarily dating guys. They allude to that one time in Reno. I'm like, this is the movie I want to see. De-age them like Dial of Destiny. Make the prequel of them in Reno hooking up this is the movie burlesque too

that's the pitch or burlesque zero burlesque origins or just burl rise burl before the lesk before lesk there was only burl so this is a very fun scene the bartender and Christina Aguilera Girl. So this is a very fun scene.

The bartender and Christina Aguilera finally get to have their moment. He breaks up with his girlfriend on the phone. She comes back later and, like, fucks shit up in the house. I guess they didn't really break up anyway. But she walks in and Christina Aguilera is, like, posing for the bartender. And he's wearing a sailor hat. Anyway, fun couples activity. I mean, we're couples and he's wearing a sailor hat. Anyway, fun couples activity. I mean, we're couples activity.

I wear a sailor hat and take your picture. It does sound fun. I will say like I as someone who was like a huge gleek as a kid, like as a kid, I was very happy to see Diana Aguilera pop up. But I'm also just like, listen, I love you, Christina Aguilera. And like happy, happy bartender life for you. This guy had no ambitions before Christina Aguilera, and you're mad at Diana Agron for being like, dude, at least I'm trying. Yeah. I would mess that shit up, too.

So the rich guy, we learn that he doesn't want to buy the club to save it. He wants to buy it to tear it down. And build condos. We could have seen that coming a mile away. As soon as he said air rights, which I can't wait to talk about what the fuck that is. I love a learning moment. A movie that makes me feel educated.

Yeah, like how in Jurassic Park we learn about DNA and then in this movie we learn about air rights. That would be so good. Dino D- Air rights. Yeah, a little cartoon character.

I'm Mr. Airplane. Sure. Yeah, I'm Johnny Real Estate Deed. It's Margot Robbie in a bathtub going,

I got more. So this is, so we learn about air rights earlier in this movie. If you like buy the air rights no one can build up anything so your view is preserved. And so Christina Aguilera uses this knowledge to save the club.

They go to the rich guy across the street and say, your air rights are being fucked with because this guy's going to buy the club and then tear it down and ruin your view. So then that rich guy buys the club to preserve it. Okay, great. Hey, you're not going to save the club with dancing. What if we did a big dance number to save the club? Yeah.

And it was cool instead of a real estate technicality. It's like a John Wick movie ending with him getting all their cars towed. It's like, what about dancing? What if you saved it with dancing and not just going into an office and saying, like, I know a real estate technicality. It's the weirdest choice. I'm sorry. Is there anything sexier than real estate law? Maybe.

It's perhaps lost on me. A contract? What is more burlesque? Yes. Right? You peel back the layers of the law. What if, yes, what if they're like, we need to save the club. We're going to put on the biggest, craziest, sexiest show ever.

Nah, we're just going to find a zoning technicality. They're just like, talk procedural to me, daddy. Yeah, I guess so. Talk procedural to me. Some people love it. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Ooh, ooh, ooh. So that's kind of the end of the movie. Kristen Bell apologizes.

The bartender apologizes and hands her a song. He finally finished a song. This finally finished a song. This guy can't finish a fucking song that saved his life, but he finally did it. And that song is the big closing number. It is. I think the song is just called Burlesque.

Show me how you burlesque. Show me how you burlesque. There's like three songs called burlesque in this movie. All the songs in Burlesque are about burlesque. Which is our favorite, though? in this movie. All the songs in Burlesque are about Burlesque. Which is our favorite, though?

I do love the hairography in the Show Me How to Burlesque final number. She is whipping that hair everywhere. And it's only like three inches long, so that takes a lot. Okay, I like the Cher number, the first one.

Yes. Yeah, that's my jam. There's a number that I think is the most inventive, and it starts with Christina Aguilera in this outfit of pearls, like strings of pearls. The pearl dress. This is the only burlesque in the whole movie.

The good girl. Yes. It's the only time anybody takes off clothes. And I know I sound like I'm choosing that for horny reasons, and I partially am. There's nothing wrong with choosing things for horny reasons. Thank you, Matt. We all agree.

I think you're absolutely right on this. It is such a good number. It is. Well, yeah, that's kind of the end of the movie. Do you have any kind of closing thoughts about the fashion? If you were going to create a video about this movie, Where would you start and how would you rank it? So when it comes to fashion here, I would say it's a solid six and a half.

Like it tried, it wanted to have thoughts, it's there, the hands bodysuit is actually really, really fun. I like that it's very Beyonce nowadays with the one dress with the wrap around and so I would give it a 6.5 I just think they need to go bigger bolder more glitz and again this is a burlesque number peel it away there wasn't much feathers like whenever I think of burlesque I think like ostrich feathers. The big fans. The big fans.

Give me a fan number. But again, I think it really was trying to like, okay, so 2010, I loved Rock of Love. I don't know if you love Rock of Love. But I think Pussycat Dolls and the Naughties were kind of together where it was this kind of Avril Lavigne, like, stripper, 80s rocker combo. And they were kind of, like, I guess moving away from the classic glamour and trying to make it more cool. But they didn't. They lost it.

Like, it just lost a lot of its glitz. It just lost it. They lost their personality and the love of it because, like, you can see that the costume designer, like, really was trying for something. But I don't think any of it was cohesive. Yeah. Like, they didn't have a personality. And if you wanted to, like, get that feeling, go watch Chicago because that one is, like, that kills.

Yeah. There were a lot of derby hats. I will say that. A surprising amount of derby hats. Can I tell you I have a derby hat in my eBay cart right now? Are you just going to do a little pop-off? I don't know. I don't know.

What are you dropping on a derby hat on eBay? It's a brown derby hat with a silver ribbon around it. You look at it. Okay. It's 50 bucks. But I'm like, am I a derby hat, bitch? I don't know. What do you want to pair with a derby hat?

My head. I don't know. Maybe like a good black rock t-shirt or like a band t-shirt and some jorts. That's pretty much all I wear. But I'm just like, let's add a hat on it. I don't know. Listen, I respect that you can buy a hat off eBay and believe it fits your head. No, no.

I very much researched that because my head is enormous. Same. You have a big head. It doesn't look big. I have a gigantic head. When I order hats, they have to be like the large to XL size. Me too. Yeah.

Listen, the big brain thoughts. RIP to Jan's pussy. Poor Jan. No, see, listen. Didn't even try. It was a C-section. I went endless. poor Jan no see listen didn't even try was a c-section no I would

and listen if there's one thing Jan probably does her cables too Jan does her cables listen I'm just meeting you and your mom

seems lovely no she's fine she will laugh at that very much so okay I'm sorry Jan I'm very sorry but Lois will definitely tell you it was all natural and she

didn't need any drugs. We can just be mad at Lois. But, you know, big head girls unite. I'll have you look at the picture later. So, hey, we do something on this show every episode. We like to talk about the best lines in the movie.

I thought, in honor of Cher, who I think is everybody's favorite part of this movie. Yes. Yes. Instead of talking about the best lines of burlesque, we would read some classic Cher tweets. Cher, I think, arguably the greatest to ever tweet. I think we reminisce about the times when Twitter was fun.

Pre-Elon, pre-X. Cher was the shit and she tweeted like nobody else. She still does. That's great. That's awesome. I know. I think I certainly don't see anything

on there anymore that I want to. She's too busy with her young, young boyfriend. Oh, Cher. Good for her. Okay, so these are some iconic Cher tweets. Amy, you want to go first? Yes. So I love when she just has like a moment of realization and just like comes full force at it.

And this time, this was an iconic moment of it, which was, I blocked someone's dad? Who is it? Yeah. I wonder if she got any answers. Yeah. I wonder if she got any answers. I mean, I think if she was there asking for dads, I'd be like, I will volunteer my dad. Block him.

Block my dad. Block my dad, Cher. And we can be friends, Cher. Cher, block my dad. Emily, what do you got? We're a big fan of Moonstruck at this podcast. As you should be. I mean, we are Cher fans. Most of us are.

Well, yeah. Me and Matt have a, we're about to have a slap fight about something. We always are about to have a slap fight. But, okay, so she tweeted, iPad freezing up. Maybe it's overwhelmed because it just realized a fabulous diva was touching it. I can't really blame it. Snap out of it. She has a lot of iPadad centered tweets yeah she's frustrated

with her ipad a lot of times my favorite is she wrote something space space is space space a miss space space with ipad i love her i love her um i have somebody tweeted, at Cher, all caps, sit on my face. And then she types back, all caps, sit on your own damn face. I'm busy. Legend. Legend. Legend.

Amazing. I'm busy like that's the reason why she won't do it. I would. Normally I would, but my week has been swamped I had to take the car to get looked at I didn't have time to limber up today it wasn't going to work alright we are going to rank

burlesque on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials right after this We're back. It's free With Ads. We're going to rank burlesque on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials because that's what you have to pay to watch it. Amy, you're our guest. Let's go first. What do you think? 1 to 10, burlesque.

All right. So with my complete enjoyment of it as a moment in time, I would give it a solid 8 out of 10. Okay. Super live commercials. It's one of those ones that you can turn on at any point and just have a fun dance party by yourself and then kind of be sad sometimes. And maybe that's why it works so well on cable. Right. Maybe that's because it is just a movie where you can be like, oh, burlets. Go watch 20 minutes of this before I have to leave.

Emily, what do you think? I love to leave. Emily, what do you think? I love this movie. There's a little bit of like, I don't know, cringy stuff, but it's, I like the music. I love hearing Christina Aguilera sing. So, I'm going to give it a seven. I could

watch it over and over though. It can be in the background of any party at any time. That's my favorite thing about it. And Cher can grace the screens of any movie, any time. We love you, Cher. You know, I was looking forward to this one. I like this flavor. I like this tone.

But this did not work on me. I know it works on others. I know it has its cult. It has a musical that is now playing on the West End. Whoa, it does? Yeah, it's in London right now. Wonder what those costumes are like. It's a musical, I know.

But I think for me, the fact that it didn't go bigger, the fact that it like, I don't know, I feel like I wasn't humming any of the songs after we're done. So I think for me personally it's a five, but I'm glad for those who this movie does something for. I wish it was me, but it is unfortunately not.

It's okay, Jordan. Yeah, it's fine. So yeah, burlesque. For me, it's a five, but it will apparently live on forever. Yeah. On E! Entertainment Television at 4 o'clock on a Tuesday. Bachelorette parties. And bachelorette parties.

Oh, that's such a good bachelorette party movie. Oh, and there's also like so many bachelorette party themes around burlesque. Oh, really? When I was looking up around this movie just because I wanted to revisit that time period, the amount of Pinterest boards of bachelorette parties themed around this movie is more than I think I have ever seen. Wow. It's insane. You hear that, Nashville?

Yes. New bachel, Nashville? Yes. New bachelorette party theme. Hell yeah. Well, that is burlesque. And those are the things we thought about it. Let's do a little plug-in. Amy, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me.

This is so much fun. We loved your insight. We loved your energy. Yeah, tell us what folks should check out. Yeah, so I hang out over on two different places, which is Style Theory, which is the YouTube channel that I host where we talk about fashion, beauty, and sometimes hygiene, which gets a little weird sometimes,

but it's fun. And then I'm AmorybytheSea everywhere on the internet. Very cool. Emily, anything going on? I mean, I'm gonna continue to plug Good Mythical Weekend. We're having so much fun over there. I know it's for the summer currently, but I hope that it comes back again. So keep watching it, please.

Hey, I want to plug Youth Group, the graphic novel written by me, illustrated by Bowen McGurdy. Out now for all your YA horror comedy needs. And I'm doing some book events, including 826 Fest. That is right here in LA. 826 LA is a great nonprofit that gets writing classes to kids that need them. And I will be doing a book talk there with the great Bria Grant, who's been on this show. Bria Grant from the Reading Glasses podcast. We're going to be talking about making comics over there at 826LA on August

24th. So go to 826LA.org You can come get some books, listen to some talks and all that money goes to a good cause. 826, we love them. They're cool. Yeah, I think that's about it. Thank you for being here, Amy. Thank you for having me.

I'm happy to do this at any point in time. This is so fun. I want you back all the time. No, listen. Campy, campy movies is my jam. I'm down for it. Please let us know any suggestions you find about fashion or anything like that. I can't wait to know your opinions.

Okay, cool. All right. That's all for Free With Ads. Next week, our movie will be... Psycho 2!