Saturday, May 01, 2021
That's Entertainment!
In 1974, MGM put out a clips-show style mash-up of it's old movies to celebrate its 50th anniversary, titling it "That's Entertainment!". A few sequels followed. Those movies, of course, were mostly about affluent white Americans falling in love, going to parties, traveling, and singing about love, parties and traveling. There was also dancing and swimming.
Some people loved the movies. Others noticed how the old movies didn't really depict many people's lives, then or now. One of the latter was the British band The Jam, who wrote a fantastic song contrasting the movies with their own view of working-class life:
