![]() ![]() A key theme of these bizarre videos was “Did You Know?”, which manifested as a bunch of celebrities - all of whom were clearly desperate to lick the boot hard enough to be made Knights and Dames - queuing up to tell us various complimentary “facts” about the new King. Saying it was “like North Korea” would be not only lazy but also inaccurate because, really, North Korea wishes it was at the U.K.’s level here. Somehow worse than North Korean propaganda: These pre-recorded segments were where the royal propaganda - designed for the thoroughly King-pilled - was at its most intense. One of the videos shown on the big screen featured Tom Cruise in a jet, telling his Majesty the King that he can be his “wingman” any day, which made me question whether I’d accidentally taken a tab of acid. By contrast, it was the sketches and linking videos played in between the acts which felt most out of place: Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog joined host Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, who at times looked like he was being held hostage at the event. The celebrity cameos: Elsewhere, there was an attempt to make the concert feel more high-art and distinctly British by including performances from pretty much everything with “royal” in the title, like the various ballet, Shakespeare, and opera societies the royals are patrons of. Prince William took time out from the smear campaign against his brother and sister-in-law to do a heartfelt speech in support of his father, which was good of him, I suppose. William’s bit: Sunday’s Coronation Concert did feature some British people, of course. The British press are calling this a “surprise cameo,” of course, because it’s an obviously pre-planned arrangement which somehow feels like a bad deal for everyone. The American Idol cameo: When Katy Perry was announced as a headliner for this concert, the collective reaction was: Why? Does her publicist hate her? But it seems both Lionel Richie and Perry were part of a deal in return for the King and Queen making a cameo on American Idol. ![]() People whose nation was supposedly founded on completely opposing principles but, somehow, have flown across the Atlantic to show fealty to our King anyway. But no, instead the baton seemed to fall primarily to people whose management didn’t get the memo that this was the most uncool gig ever: Americans! Yup, it turns out that there is only one thing more undignified than British people who are completely obsessed with Monarchy: hardcore American royalists. has to offer, like Adele or maybe even Elton John, Harry Styles, Dua Lipa or Ed Sheeran. Well, Rolling Stone’s Louis Staples had an incredible review of the chaotic concert and it’s worth highlighting some of his review:Ī very American concert: When I heard that there was going to be a Coronation Concert at Windsor Palace to celebrate the crowning of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, my first thought was: “Wow, who would voluntarily perform at that?” Some international viewers might have expected the biggest stars the U.K. The planning committee just went with Americans: Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Nicole Scherzinger. British artists avoided the concert like the plague – Adele, Elton John, Ed Sheeran, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney all skipped out. I didn’t watch Sunday’s coronation concert because A) I’m American and B) it sounded like it was going to be a pretty dull show.
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