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re: The Library of Congress let Lizzo play a Crystal Flute Owned by James Madison
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:15 pm to Oates Mustache
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:15 pm to Oates Mustache
Whoever let her use that thing should be fired.
What is with letting celebrities use historical items?
What is with letting celebrities use historical items?
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Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:20 pm to Oates Mustache
What's the story behind the flute? Where did it come from? How did Madison acquire it? How did the Library of Congress acquire it?
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:27 pm to DirtyDawg
quote:Everyone who disagrees with my Lizzo / flute takes has this profile pic:
Jesus, clutch the pearls a little harder and you might be able to make your own.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:28 pm to PrimeTime Money
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This may not seem like a big deal, but it is. The point of this stunt, and others like it, is to send the message that your national symbols and national heroes are not important. They’re a joke. They deserve to be mocked, degraded, and ridiculed, and they do it right in your face while you watch helplessly. They want you to feel demoralized.
Man, you guys just reach for anything. She seemed pretty appreciative and respectful in the other video. The only reason I've ever heard of her before is this board. I wouldn't melt over some fat chick playing a flute.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:29 pm to McVick
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What's the story behind the flute? Where did it come from? How did Madison acquire it? How did the Library of Congress acquire it?
She explains it in the other video.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:32 pm to Oates Mustache
quote:
played another trill while twerking to the adoring audience’s applause.
jesus come soon because we are barely hangin on
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:33 pm to EarlyCuyler3
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She explains it in the other video.
You mean I need to WORK to get an answer? Sheesh
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:33 pm to Scruffy
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Whoever let her use that thing should be fired.
What is with letting celebrities use historical items?
I would have said the same thing about any pop creature, regardless of political leanings. Had Lizzo played it respectfully, I wouldn't really care. The first part where she plays it in the hall, I wasn't really upset. Seh is actually a trained flute player, and isn't horrible.
But letting your jiggly bits hang all over while you twerk and play it? Nah, that deserves the ridicule.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:34 pm to EarlyCuyler3
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She seemed pretty appreciative and respectful in the other video.
You're right, and if they left it at that, I don't think anyone would care. But that second video was disrespectful as hell.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:35 pm to Oates Mustache
Zombie Thomas Jefferson just got so erect 
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:38 pm to boosiebadazz
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Zombie Thomas Jefferson just got so erect
I know he liked him some black women, but heavies too?
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:40 pm to Oates Mustache
Obesity was for like kings and shite back then. Could you imagine how foreign a big ole fat black Lizzo would look to them? Like an alien.
…who Thomas Jefferson would totally want to frick
…who Thomas Jefferson would totally want to frick
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:41 pm to Oates Mustache
Back then, the only people of Lizzo’s size were in traveling circuses.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:41 pm to ProjectP2294
quote:She played a flute.
There are people obsessed with degrading and destroying everything that came before. They insist on telling us that ugly is beautiful. This is just another example. That walking blob of cholesterol is a symptom of the cultural rot being pushed on us right now.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:41 pm to boosiebadazz
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Could you imagine how foreign a big ole fat black Lizzo would look to them? Like an alien.
…who Thomas Jefferson would totally want to frick
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:42 pm to redneck hippie
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I'm a direct descendant of James Madison. He was my grandmother's great grandfather
Posted on 9/29/22 at 4:45 pm to TBoy
quote:Are you insane? Sounds like it.
She was wearing modest clothing and she played it briefly in a civilized setting, and played it beautifully.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:01 pm to EarlyCuyler3
So, a much better writeup of the flute is here LOC Blog
It is suggested the flute passed through many hands until it was donated in 1941.
Also more about the preparation and care that goes into accessing artifacts like this
LOC Newsroom
It is suggested the flute passed through many hands until it was donated in 1941.
Also more about the preparation and care that goes into accessing artifacts like this
LOC Newsroom
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Before Lizzo arrived, the Library’s curators in the Music Division made sure that it could be played safely and without damage. This sort of thing is not as unusual as it might sound. Many of the Library’s priceless instruments are played every now and again, even the five stringed instruments by Antonio Stradivari. Those, in fact, were given to the Library by Gertrude Clarke Whittall with the stipulation that they should be played from time to time. Music fans can hear the Library’s Stradivari and some of our other classic instruments — the 1654 Nicolò Amati violin and Wanda Landowska’s Challis clavichord — during the fall 2022 Concert Series.
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So when Lizzo asked if she could play the flute at her Tuesday concert in front of thousands of fans, the Library's collection, preservation and security teams were up the challenge. When an item this valuable leaves any museum or library, for loan or display in an exhibition, preservation and security are the priorities. At the Library, curators ensure that the item can be transported in a customized protective container and a Library curator and security officer are always guarding the item until it is secured once more.
For obvious reasons, we don't say much more about security in public. But when the Library sent Thomas Jefferson’s Koran to the World Expo in Dubai last year, conservation, preservation and strict environmental requirements were enforced. The Library and the State Department executed a plan to transport and securely display the Koran. A Library professional with experience preserving and maintaining the security of important cultural items accompanied the Koran at every step.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:08 pm to Oates Mustache
Has anyone asked if she stuck it in her...
Posted on 9/29/22 at 5:13 pm to S1C EM
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what is a "Lizzo"?
An obese female black racist
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