WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:13.722 --> 00:00:14.931 (crowd applauding) 4 00:00:14.973 --> 00:00:17.559 (rock guitar playing) 5 00:00:23.106 --> 00:00:27.402 Taylor Mac: I was born four years after the Stonewall Riots. 6 00:00:27.485 --> 00:00:30.321 -(applause and music continue) -(fan whistles) 7 00:00:34.117 --> 00:00:36.244 All the songs that we're gonna sing in this decade 8 00:00:36.327 --> 00:00:38.788 were on the jukebox in Stonewall at the time. 9 00:00:38.872 --> 00:00:41.541 I don't actually know if that's true. 10 00:00:41.624 --> 00:00:43.168 (chorus vocalizing) 11 00:00:43.209 --> 00:00:46.546 Who started the Stonewall Riots? 12 00:00:46.629 --> 00:00:49.257 ♪ Ooh-ooh... ♪ 13 00:00:49.341 --> 00:00:51.301 Taylor: The most fun story is that 14 00:00:51.343 --> 00:00:56.681 Marsha P. Johnson was hanging out at Stonewall. 15 00:00:56.723 --> 00:01:01.061 And the cops come to arrest the queers, 16 00:01:01.144 --> 00:01:03.021 just because you're who you are. 17 00:01:03.063 --> 00:01:04.647 ♪ Ooh-ooh... ♪ 18 00:01:04.688 --> 00:01:07.650 Taylor: And Marsha took a shot glass. 19 00:01:07.692 --> 00:01:11.071 She threw it against a mirror and it shattered, 20 00:01:11.154 --> 00:01:12.322 and they said, 21 00:01:12.364 --> 00:01:15.742 "It was the shot glass heard 'round the world." 22 00:01:15.825 --> 00:01:17.744 (cheering) 23 00:01:19.162 --> 00:01:22.916 ♪ War, children ♪ 24 00:01:22.999 --> 00:01:24.876 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 25 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:31.424 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 26 00:01:31.508 --> 00:01:35.011 ♪ ♪ 27 00:01:35.428 --> 00:01:39.057 ♪ Ooh, the fire is spreading ♪ 28 00:01:39.098 --> 00:01:43.311 ♪ On our very streets today ♪ 29 00:01:43.395 --> 00:01:47.524 ♪ Burning like a red coal carpet ♪ 30 00:01:47.565 --> 00:01:51.777 ♪ Mad bull has lost its way ♪ 31 00:01:51.860 --> 00:01:55.115 ♪ War, children ♪ 32 00:01:55.198 --> 00:01:57.450 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 33 00:01:57.533 --> 00:01:59.244 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 34 00:01:59.327 --> 00:02:03.123 ♪ War, children ♪ 35 00:02:03.206 --> 00:02:05.959 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 36 00:02:06.042 --> 00:02:10.422 ♪ It's just a shot away ♪ 37 00:02:10.505 --> 00:02:12.340 ♪ ♪ 38 00:02:12.424 --> 00:02:16.428 Taylor: The show is about our history as Americans. 39 00:02:16.469 --> 00:02:18.847 That history is in our songs. 40 00:02:18.930 --> 00:02:20.932 (cheering) 41 00:02:21.016 --> 00:02:24.019 Taylor: It's what happens when history is filtered 42 00:02:24.102 --> 00:02:26.021 all through one body. 43 00:02:26.103 --> 00:02:27.230 (song continues as instrumental) 44 00:02:27.272 --> 00:02:29.816 (Taylor inaudible) 45 00:02:29.899 --> 00:02:33.403 Taylor: I love the idea that a queer body 46 00:02:33.445 --> 00:02:37.699 could become a metaphor for America. 47 00:02:37.781 --> 00:02:40.785 ♪ Yeahhh! ♪ 48 00:02:40.869 --> 00:02:45.290 (cheering and applause) 49 00:02:45.331 --> 00:02:47.459 Taylor: Yeah! 50 00:02:50.378 --> 00:02:53.173 Singing has just always been... 51 00:02:53.256 --> 00:02:55.466 My mom, she sang around the house, you know, 52 00:02:55.550 --> 00:02:57.135 all the time when we were kids. 53 00:02:57.218 --> 00:03:01.348 So it's just been a part of... my life. 54 00:03:01.431 --> 00:03:04.893 And when I was thinking of a form that would best represent 55 00:03:04.976 --> 00:03:06.519 our history, 56 00:03:06.603 --> 00:03:08.730 it just seemed like popular music was the thing 57 00:03:08.813 --> 00:03:13.651 that would tell the story the best way. 58 00:03:15.445 --> 00:03:20.533 So we're gonna do a transition into the next decade right now. 59 00:03:21.034 --> 00:03:22.994 We've been working on this show 60 00:03:23.036 --> 00:03:25.204 for over ten years now. 61 00:03:25.789 --> 00:03:30.585 We took it out on tour as four six-hour shows. 62 00:03:30.669 --> 00:03:32.837 I knew I wanted to do the whole show 63 00:03:32.921 --> 00:03:35.757 as a 24-hour performance, 64 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.510 but I only wanted to do it once. 65 00:03:38.551 --> 00:03:42.514 (harps and horns playing expansive overture) 66 00:03:44.182 --> 00:03:46.351 (drums join in) 67 00:03:55.067 --> 00:03:58.530 (cheering and applause) 68 00:03:58.613 --> 00:04:00.824 (band playing bluesy jazz) 69 00:04:11.710 --> 00:04:14.170 Hello, everybody! 70 00:04:14.212 --> 00:04:19.718 Today, tonight and tomorrow, 71 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:24.014 we are making a 24-decade history 72 00:04:24.055 --> 00:04:26.057 of popular music. 73 00:04:26.099 --> 00:04:28.935 (cheering and applause continue) 74 00:04:29.019 --> 00:04:31.688 Taylor: I didn't know if I could do it. 75 00:04:31.730 --> 00:04:36.109 I would be singing basically nonstop for 24 hours. 76 00:04:36.192 --> 00:04:38.403 (band playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy") 77 00:04:40.572 --> 00:04:44.743 ♪ Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony ♪ 78 00:04:44.826 --> 00:04:49.164 ♪ Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni ♪ 79 00:04:49.247 --> 00:04:50.957 ♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up ♪ 80 00:04:51.041 --> 00:04:53.251 ♪ Yankee Doodle dandy! ♪ 81 00:04:53.293 --> 00:04:55.253 ♪ Mind the music and the steps ♪ 82 00:04:55.337 --> 00:04:57.714 ♪ And with the girls be handy ♪ 83 00:04:57.756 --> 00:05:00.884 I was dreading having to start our show with this decade 84 00:05:00.925 --> 00:05:02.844 because most of the music that has survived 85 00:05:02.927 --> 00:05:06.765 is patriotic music from the American Revolutionary War. 86 00:05:06.848 --> 00:05:09.059 And maybe you can tell from the way I'm dressed, 87 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:11.728 I'm not exactly an unironic patriot. 88 00:05:11.770 --> 00:05:14.272 (laughter) 89 00:05:14.314 --> 00:05:16.274 ♪ Father and I went down to camp ♪ 90 00:05:16.316 --> 00:05:18.526 ♪ Along with Captain Gooding ♪ 91 00:05:18.610 --> 00:05:20.487 ♪ And there we saw the men and boys ♪ 92 00:05:20.570 --> 00:05:23.114 ♪ As thick as hasty pudding ♪ 93 00:05:23.156 --> 00:05:25.075 ♪ Yankee Doodle keep it up ♪ 94 00:05:25.116 --> 00:05:27.118 ♪ Yankee Doodle dandy! ♪ 95 00:05:27.202 --> 00:05:28.953 ♪ Mind the music and the steps ♪ 96 00:05:29.037 --> 00:05:31.247 ♪ And with the girls be handy ♪ 97 00:05:31.331 --> 00:05:35.126 ♪ And there we saw a great big gun ♪ 98 00:05:35.168 --> 00:05:36.795 (laughter) 99 00:05:36.878 --> 00:05:40.965 ♪ As large as a log of maple ♪ 100 00:05:42.634 --> 00:05:46.304 ♪ And every time they shoot it off ♪ 101 00:05:46.388 --> 00:05:49.474 ♪ It takes a horn of powder ♪ 102 00:05:49.516 --> 00:05:52.977 ♪ And makes a noise like father's gun... ♪ 103 00:05:53.061 --> 00:05:55.230 Uh-oh, that's sad. 104 00:05:55.313 --> 00:05:56.648 (laughter) 105 00:05:56.690 --> 00:05:59.401 ♪ ...only a nation louder ♪ 106 00:05:59.484 --> 00:06:02.487 ♪ It scared me, so I hooked it off ♪ 107 00:06:02.529 --> 00:06:05.490 ♪ Nor stopped as I remember ♪ 108 00:06:05.532 --> 00:06:08.576 ♪ Nor turned about till I got home ♪ 109 00:06:08.660 --> 00:06:12.080 ♪ Locked up in mother's chamber ♪ 110 00:06:12.163 --> 00:06:16.584 This is the song I'm supposed to feel patriotic about? 111 00:06:16.668 --> 00:06:18.795 A song that makes fun of effeminate men? 112 00:06:19.295 --> 00:06:21.506 But then I did a little research 113 00:06:21.589 --> 00:06:26.678 and it turns out that this song was a British song. 114 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.514 The British wrote it to make fun of Americans 115 00:06:29.556 --> 00:06:31.141 'cause they said we were effeminate, 116 00:06:31.182 --> 00:06:34.185 which is really saying something coming from the British. 117 00:06:34.227 --> 00:06:35.979 (laughter) 118 00:06:36.021 --> 00:06:37.897 Not only were we effeminate, 119 00:06:37.981 --> 00:06:40.275 they said we had no fashion sense... 120 00:06:40.358 --> 00:06:42.360 (gasps) 121 00:06:42.444 --> 00:06:44.112 ...which is kind of true. 122 00:06:44.863 --> 00:06:48.700 But then what happened was the Americans won a battle 123 00:06:48.783 --> 00:06:52.579 and we pointed our bayonets at them and we made them dance 124 00:06:52.662 --> 00:06:56.374 and sing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" over and over and over again. 125 00:06:56.457 --> 00:06:59.210 And that's how it became an American song. 126 00:06:59.294 --> 00:07:01.296 Dandy revenge! 127 00:07:01.379 --> 00:07:03.214 (laughter and applause) 128 00:07:03.298 --> 00:07:06.176 (dramatic piano music playing) 129 00:07:06.217 --> 00:07:09.846 Taylor: Please welcome the Dandy Minions, all through the house. 130 00:07:09.888 --> 00:07:13.892 They're here to perform random acts of fabulousness. 131 00:07:13.975 --> 00:07:16.227 (music continues) 132 00:07:16.311 --> 00:07:19.564 Niegel Smith: Taylor was like, "Look, I'm looking for a co-director. 133 00:07:19.606 --> 00:07:22.734 "I'm working on a 24-hour performance art concert, 134 00:07:22.776 --> 00:07:25.278 which is a radical fairy realness ritual." (chuckles) 135 00:07:25.362 --> 00:07:27.572 It is a radical 136 00:07:27.614 --> 00:07:32.534 fairy realness ritual sacrifice! 137 00:07:32.577 --> 00:07:36.664 The gathering, the event, that is the ritual. 138 00:07:36.748 --> 00:07:40.710 The audience is the sacrifice. 139 00:07:41.169 --> 00:07:44.631 We didn't want to be the only ones dressed up this evening, 140 00:07:44.714 --> 00:07:47.467 so we brought some drag, and the dandies are going 141 00:07:47.550 --> 00:07:49.969 to pass that drag out to you all right now. 142 00:07:50.053 --> 00:07:52.222 (excited cheering) 143 00:07:54.641 --> 00:07:58.436 Niegel: It's a ritual that asks us to move closer 144 00:07:58.478 --> 00:08:00.105 to our queerness, 145 00:08:00.188 --> 00:08:02.107 and to practice empathy, 146 00:08:02.190 --> 00:08:04.609 and most importantly, I think, practice joy 147 00:08:04.651 --> 00:08:06.111 and exuberance and maximalism. 148 00:08:06.194 --> 00:08:09.572 -Photographer: Hey, ready? -(disco music playing) 149 00:08:09.614 --> 00:08:11.825 -(crew laughing) -Machine Dazzle: Supermodel! 150 00:08:11.908 --> 00:08:13.910 Taylor: A lot of people would say, 151 00:08:13.952 --> 00:08:15.745 "Have you ever thought about making traditional work? 152 00:08:16.204 --> 00:08:20.125 I don't know, a-a kitchen sink drama with a couch?" 153 00:08:20.207 --> 00:08:23.128 And I always thought, well, the Ancient Greeks 154 00:08:23.169 --> 00:08:26.297 wore platform high-heel shoes when they would perform, 155 00:08:26.381 --> 00:08:28.299 and they had masks on, 156 00:08:28.341 --> 00:08:32.386 and sometimes when I'm in my drag, I just feel classical. 157 00:08:32.470 --> 00:08:35.724 (disco music continues) 158 00:08:35.765 --> 00:08:39.102 Taylor: The project started with the idea of making a show 159 00:08:39.144 --> 00:08:43.106 that was a, a metaphorical representation of the AIDS epidemic, 160 00:08:43.148 --> 00:08:46.317 specifically about how communities build themselves 161 00:08:46.359 --> 00:08:48.445 because they're being torn apart. 162 00:08:48.528 --> 00:08:54.826 Erin Hill (singing): ♪ Fare thee well ♪ 163 00:08:56.202 --> 00:09:01.583 ♪ My own true love ♪ 164 00:09:03.501 --> 00:09:05.295 (cheering) 165 00:09:05.337 --> 00:09:06.504 ♪ Farewell ♪ 166 00:09:06.546 --> 00:09:12.344 ♪ For a while ♪ 167 00:09:12.385 --> 00:09:14.471 ♪ I'm going ♪ 168 00:09:14.512 --> 00:09:20.018 ♪ Away ♪ 169 00:09:20.101 --> 00:09:22.354 ♪ But I'll ♪ 170 00:09:22.395 --> 00:09:27.734 ♪ Be back ♪ 171 00:09:27.817 --> 00:09:31.404 Taylor: We start with 24 musicians on stage, 172 00:09:31.488 --> 00:09:33.615 and then every hour we lose a musician. 173 00:09:33.698 --> 00:09:36.409 ♪ Can't you see ♪ 174 00:09:36.493 --> 00:09:38.411 ♪ Can't you see ♪ 175 00:09:38.495 --> 00:09:40.372 ♪ That lonesome dove ♪ 176 00:09:40.455 --> 00:09:42.040 ♪ That lonesome dove... ♪ 177 00:09:42.082 --> 00:09:43.750 Taylor: And at the start of the show, 178 00:09:43.833 --> 00:09:45.752 we have all the sound, 179 00:09:45.835 --> 00:09:47.712 and slowly it diminishes, 180 00:09:47.754 --> 00:09:49.214 diminishes, diminishes. 181 00:09:49.255 --> 00:09:52.467 Taylor and Erin: ♪ He's weeping for ♪ 182 00:09:52.550 --> 00:09:54.552 ♪ His own true love ♪ 183 00:09:54.636 --> 00:09:58.556 The concept came from the AIDS epidemic, 184 00:09:58.640 --> 00:10:01.184 that... 185 00:10:01.226 --> 00:10:06.523 you fall in love and then somebody's gone. 186 00:10:06.564 --> 00:10:11.403 ♪ Come he back ♪ 187 00:10:11.444 --> 00:10:15.490 ♪ My own true love ♪ 188 00:10:15.573 --> 00:10:20.578 ♪ Come back and stay a while ♪ 189 00:10:20.662 --> 00:10:25.375 ♪ If I had a friend ♪ 190 00:10:25.417 --> 00:10:30.422 ♪ In all the earth ♪ 191 00:10:31.715 --> 00:10:34.467 ♪ You've been ♪ 192 00:10:34.551 --> 00:10:39.097 ♪ A friend to me ♪ 193 00:10:39.139 --> 00:10:41.391 Machine and I are going to change! 194 00:10:41.433 --> 00:10:44.102 Bring down the screen. 195 00:10:44.144 --> 00:10:47.105 (horns blowing, choir vocalizing) 196 00:10:51.985 --> 00:10:54.279 Machine: When Taylor first came to me 197 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:57.782 and said we were gonna do this 24-decade show, 198 00:10:57.824 --> 00:10:59.284 I got totally inspired. 199 00:10:59.325 --> 00:11:02.120 I was like, "Oh, my God, I get to make 24, like, 200 00:11:02.203 --> 00:11:05.457 historical, like, period costumes, but my way." 201 00:11:05.540 --> 00:11:07.459 So this is Crazy Jane. 202 00:11:07.500 --> 00:11:08.793 She lives in a whisky barrel. 203 00:11:08.835 --> 00:11:10.295 She has a toothbrush. 204 00:11:10.337 --> 00:11:11.713 She has her dildo. 205 00:11:11.796 --> 00:11:14.632 She has everything that she needs. She's crazy. 206 00:11:14.716 --> 00:11:16.301 Taylor: I'd never tell Machine what to do. 207 00:11:16.343 --> 00:11:18.470 -Machine: You're crazy, girl. -Crazy, Crazy Jane. 208 00:11:18.511 --> 00:11:21.931 Taylor: I'll say, "This is what the decade's about. 209 00:11:21.973 --> 00:11:28.313 I'm gonna sing songs that were popular in pubs in 1796." 210 00:11:28.396 --> 00:11:30.231 That's all I tell him, and then he's like, 211 00:11:30.315 --> 00:11:32.567 "Okay, it's in pubs and they're pub songs." 212 00:11:32.609 --> 00:11:35.320 So then he makes me a headdress of corks... 213 00:11:35.403 --> 00:11:36.821 (laughs) ...right? 214 00:11:36.905 --> 00:11:38.990 Um, corks all popping-- he puts them on little things 215 00:11:39.032 --> 00:11:41.326 so it looks like they're popping out of my head. 216 00:11:41.409 --> 00:11:42.952 He's an artist. 217 00:11:42.994 --> 00:11:45.705 I'm not gonna tell an artist to change their art. 218 00:11:45.789 --> 00:11:48.165 -We're good. Thank you. -All right. 219 00:11:48.249 --> 00:11:50.585 Taylor: Whatever he gives me, I wear. 220 00:11:50.669 --> 00:11:53.171 (band playing risqué ballad) 221 00:12:02.055 --> 00:12:04.849 Taylor: We were drinkers, we were such big drinkers. 222 00:12:04.933 --> 00:12:07.060 The pub was a community center. 223 00:12:07.143 --> 00:12:10.313 There wasn't clean water so we had to drink. 224 00:12:11.856 --> 00:12:15.110 We're gonna pass out some beer to the drinkers 225 00:12:15.193 --> 00:12:19.030 and ping-pong balls to the non-drinkers. 226 00:12:19.072 --> 00:12:23.201 The theater can be so uptight, and there's so many rules, and don't talk, 227 00:12:23.243 --> 00:12:25.161 and don't express yourself from the audience, 228 00:12:25.203 --> 00:12:27.288 and it's-- you're just there to listen 229 00:12:27.372 --> 00:12:30.375 and to a-appropriately clap and, you know, 230 00:12:30.417 --> 00:12:32.669 appropriately laugh at the right places. 231 00:12:32.711 --> 00:12:36.715 And it was just saying, it's okay for you to be chaotic in this space. 232 00:12:36.798 --> 00:12:39.009 (risqué music continues) 233 00:12:40.510 --> 00:12:43.054 Now, you're gonna negotiate with your partner 234 00:12:43.096 --> 00:12:45.348 which one of you during the next verse 235 00:12:45.390 --> 00:12:48.893 is gonna spit their ping-pong ball into the other person's mouth. 236 00:12:48.977 --> 00:12:50.729 (laughter, woman exclaims) 237 00:12:50.770 --> 00:12:55.108 And, drinkers, just sit back and drink. 238 00:12:55.191 --> 00:12:57.569 (cheering) 239 00:13:01.448 --> 00:13:04.034 American Revolutionary War just happened. 240 00:13:04.075 --> 00:13:06.911 They've been living under the system of oppression. 241 00:13:06.953 --> 00:13:08.955 It's a little bit like a kid in high school's 242 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.332 living under the thumb of his parents, 243 00:13:11.416 --> 00:13:12.584 strict rules and stuff. 244 00:13:12.625 --> 00:13:15.754 Goes to college for the first time and what does he do? 245 00:13:15.837 --> 00:13:18.256 He turns America into a frat party. 246 00:13:20.592 --> 00:13:23.303 (gargling musically) 247 00:13:26.348 --> 00:13:29.434 -(crowd cheering) -("Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" begins playing) 248 00:13:29.476 --> 00:13:33.605 ♪ ...and I'll not ask for wine ♪ 249 00:13:33.688 --> 00:13:38.610 ♪ The thirst that from the soul doth rise... ♪ 250 00:13:38.651 --> 00:13:41.738 I think a temperance choir just walked into our pub, 251 00:13:41.780 --> 00:13:43.823 and they're trying to ruin all our fun. 252 00:13:43.907 --> 00:13:47.952 ♪ I sent thee late a rosy wreath... ♪ 253 00:13:48.036 --> 00:13:50.622 Taylor: That decade is so much about 254 00:13:50.705 --> 00:13:52.457 my own life in the, in the club world 255 00:13:52.540 --> 00:13:53.792 and coming from the theater. 256 00:13:53.875 --> 00:13:56.044 (band playing "Crazy Jane") 257 00:14:00.215 --> 00:14:03.343 (cheering) 258 00:14:03.426 --> 00:14:05.553 Taylor: When I got out of acting school, 259 00:14:05.637 --> 00:14:08.223 I found that I couldn't even get an audition. 260 00:14:08.306 --> 00:14:11.976 And I said, "Okay, well, where can I go where they'll just 261 00:14:12.060 --> 00:14:13.478 let anyone into the room?" 262 00:14:13.520 --> 00:14:16.147 And it turned out it was the clubs in New York City. 263 00:14:17.565 --> 00:14:20.902 ♪ Why, fair maid in every feature ♪ 264 00:14:22.445 --> 00:14:26.658 ♪ There's such signs of fear express? ♪ 265 00:14:26.741 --> 00:14:29.160 ♪ Does this wandering ♪ 266 00:14:29.202 --> 00:14:30.870 ♪ Wretched creature ♪ 267 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.207 ♪ With such terror ♪ 268 00:14:34.290 --> 00:14:36.584 ♪ Fill thy breast? ♪ 269 00:14:36.668 --> 00:14:39.629 ♪ Do my brazen looks ♪ 270 00:14:39.671 --> 00:14:41.548 ♪ Alarm thee? ♪ 271 00:14:41.631 --> 00:14:43.091 ♪ Trust me, sweet ♪ 272 00:14:43.174 --> 00:14:45.844 ♪ Thy fears are vain ♪ 273 00:14:45.885 --> 00:14:48.596 ♪ Not for kingdoms ♪ 274 00:14:48.680 --> 00:14:51.182 ♪ Would I harm thee ♪ 275 00:14:51.266 --> 00:14:56.980 ♪ Well, I'm not some Crazy Jane ♪ 276 00:14:57.022 --> 00:14:59.274 Taylor: I started showing up to the clubs, 277 00:14:59.357 --> 00:15:04.529 dressed up in my version of drag at the time, and... 278 00:15:04.612 --> 00:15:06.614 I'd say, "Can I do a number?" 279 00:15:06.656 --> 00:15:08.700 And they'd just, "Sure," you know. 280 00:15:08.742 --> 00:15:12.537 ♪ I'm Crazy Jane ♪ 281 00:15:12.579 --> 00:15:15.165 Taylor: I'm singing a song and somebody's giving somebody 282 00:15:15.206 --> 00:15:17.250 a blow job right there in the audience. 283 00:15:17.334 --> 00:15:20.211 So, I would learn these techniques on how 284 00:15:20.253 --> 00:15:24.215 to steal back the... the story. (laughs) 285 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:29.054 ♪ ♪ 286 00:15:33.808 --> 00:15:36.561 ♪ While each passerby ♪ 287 00:15:36.644 --> 00:15:38.730 ♪ In pity ♪ 288 00:15:38.772 --> 00:15:40.857 ♪ Cries, "God help thee" ♪ 289 00:15:40.899 --> 00:15:43.735 ♪ "Crazy Jane" ♪ 290 00:15:43.818 --> 00:15:46.154 ♪ Cries, "God help thee" ♪ 291 00:15:46.237 --> 00:15:52.535 ♪ "Crazy Jane" ♪ 292 00:15:52.577 --> 00:15:54.537 (cheering) 293 00:15:54.579 --> 00:15:58.540 I cut my teeth in the clubs in New York City. 294 00:15:58.583 --> 00:16:01.294 The Cock, the Slide and the Hole, in that order. 295 00:16:01.378 --> 00:16:02.212 (laughter) 296 00:16:02.253 --> 00:16:03.797 When you cut your teeth in the clubs 297 00:16:03.880 --> 00:16:05.256 and then you try to work in the theater 298 00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:08.385 and stuff, ah, ah, it's a long road. 299 00:16:08.426 --> 00:16:11.304 I used to only get booked in, um, in theaters 300 00:16:11.388 --> 00:16:16.101 when there was a festival going on with a, a caveat in the title. 301 00:16:16.142 --> 00:16:19.145 I was at Yale performing one time 302 00:16:19.229 --> 00:16:20.897 in a, in a festival there. 303 00:16:20.939 --> 00:16:23.942 They called it the "No Boundaries Festival." 304 00:16:24.025 --> 00:16:25.360 (laughter) 305 00:16:25.443 --> 00:16:29.864 Which made me really nervous because I have boundaries. 306 00:16:29.948 --> 00:16:32.784 (laughter and applause) 307 00:16:32.826 --> 00:16:35.078 One time at The Cock I saw a woman, 308 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.832 she pulled a chicken leg out of her vagina. 309 00:16:38.915 --> 00:16:40.583 -She ate it... -(audience members gasp) 310 00:16:40.625 --> 00:16:42.919 ...and she threw it into the audience. 311 00:16:42.961 --> 00:16:44.671 (shocked laughter) 312 00:16:44.754 --> 00:16:47.048 Then... 313 00:16:47.132 --> 00:16:49.092 she pulled another chicken leg... 314 00:16:49.134 --> 00:16:50.552 (shocked laughter) 315 00:16:50.635 --> 00:16:52.679 ...out of her vagina. 316 00:16:52.762 --> 00:16:56.808 She ate it and she threw it into the audience. 317 00:16:56.891 --> 00:16:58.518 (groans and laughter) 318 00:16:59.394 --> 00:17:00.645 Then... 319 00:17:00.729 --> 00:17:02.355 (gasps and laughter) 320 00:17:02.439 --> 00:17:05.150 ...she pulled the rest of the chicken... 321 00:17:05.233 --> 00:17:07.861 -(shocked laughter) -...I kid you not... 322 00:17:07.944 --> 00:17:10.405 ...out of her vagina. 323 00:17:10.488 --> 00:17:14.576 She ate it and she threw it into the audience. 324 00:17:14.659 --> 00:17:16.202 (groans and laughter) 325 00:17:16.411 --> 00:17:19.830 And I thought two things when I saw that performance. 326 00:17:19.914 --> 00:17:22.208 Only two. 327 00:17:22.291 --> 00:17:27.464 The first thing I thought was, "She's full." 328 00:17:27.505 --> 00:17:28.840 (laughter) 329 00:17:28.882 --> 00:17:31.259 And the second thing I thought was, 330 00:17:31.343 --> 00:17:34.012 "She has no boundaries." 331 00:17:34.054 --> 00:17:36.181 Audience Member: Whoo! 332 00:17:36.264 --> 00:17:38.183 I actually thought three things. 333 00:17:38.266 --> 00:17:39.517 The third thing was, "Taylor, 334 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:41.895 you're just putting on eyeliner." 335 00:17:41.978 --> 00:17:44.314 (laughter) 336 00:17:44.356 --> 00:17:49.194 Maybe you've noticed this isn't like a regular concert. 337 00:17:49.277 --> 00:17:52.197 I call this a performance art concert. 338 00:17:52.280 --> 00:17:53.531 What does that mean? 339 00:17:53.615 --> 00:17:55.492 At a regular concert, if you don't laugh 340 00:17:55.533 --> 00:17:58.703 and enjoy every single moment, cry all in the right places, 341 00:17:58.787 --> 00:18:00.121 then the artist has failed you. 342 00:18:00.205 --> 00:18:02.207 But in a performance art concert, 343 00:18:02.248 --> 00:18:05.543 you can-- you can love it or you can hate it. 344 00:18:05.627 --> 00:18:07.087 You can be bored out of your mind. 345 00:18:07.170 --> 00:18:08.296 You can despise me. 346 00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:09.881 You can hate everything I'm asking you to do. 347 00:18:09.923 --> 00:18:14.052 You can be annoyed, and I still will have succeeded. 348 00:18:14.135 --> 00:18:17.305 (cheering) 349 00:18:17.389 --> 00:18:20.225 It is the genius of performance art, 350 00:18:20.266 --> 00:18:22.477 there is no failure. 351 00:18:22.560 --> 00:18:24.145 (cheering) 352 00:18:24.521 --> 00:18:30.568 Gold... The gold goes away... 353 00:18:30.610 --> 00:18:31.444 just a little bit. 354 00:18:31.528 --> 00:18:33.697 Machine: This is a beautiful opulence, 355 00:18:33.738 --> 00:18:36.908 just for the sake of opulence, for the sake of beauty, 356 00:18:36.991 --> 00:18:40.078 for the sake of... 357 00:18:40.161 --> 00:18:41.663 effeminism. 358 00:18:42.956 --> 00:18:45.917 -And it's a reveal too. -It's a reveal, like when-- 359 00:18:46.001 --> 00:18:48.920 Because the audience has been blindfolded for an hour, 360 00:18:49.004 --> 00:18:52.257 so we want them to concentrate on their other senses for a while. 361 00:18:52.298 --> 00:18:54.342 There's multiple reasons, but one is because 362 00:18:54.426 --> 00:18:57.012 they've been staring at the stage for four hours. 363 00:18:57.095 --> 00:19:00.765 And I thought, let's let them focus on different senses. 364 00:19:00.807 --> 00:19:04.436 And I wanted this because the audience is blind, 365 00:19:04.477 --> 00:19:07.981 I wanted this to be the most beautiful, most opulent costume 366 00:19:08.064 --> 00:19:10.108 that they don't get to see during the show. 367 00:19:10.191 --> 00:19:11.985 Yeah. (laughs) 368 00:19:12.068 --> 00:19:13.945 That's what I love about it. 369 00:19:14.029 --> 00:19:16.239 (piano playing "Coal Black Rose") 370 00:19:19.784 --> 00:19:23.496 My job is to surprise the audience enough 371 00:19:23.580 --> 00:19:25.915 that it can push them out of their patterns 372 00:19:25.957 --> 00:19:29.044 and, um, out of the current mood that they're in 373 00:19:29.127 --> 00:19:31.379 so that they're-- they continue to dig in 374 00:19:31.463 --> 00:19:33.673 and continue to consider. 375 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:38.678 How can we get everybody to ask questions in the audience 376 00:19:38.762 --> 00:19:40.263 about the moment, 377 00:19:40.305 --> 00:19:44.184 rather than, "Ah, yes. I understand that moment"? 378 00:19:46.436 --> 00:19:48.355 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 379 00:19:48.438 --> 00:19:50.065 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 380 00:19:50.148 --> 00:19:51.858 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 381 00:19:51.941 --> 00:19:53.651 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 382 00:19:53.693 --> 00:19:59.240 ♪ Plays on the banjo all night long ♪ 383 00:19:59.324 --> 00:20:03.953 ♪ Then she sings her Southern song ♪ 384 00:20:05.997 --> 00:20:07.499 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 385 00:20:07.582 --> 00:20:09.376 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 386 00:20:09.459 --> 00:20:11.211 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 387 00:20:11.294 --> 00:20:12.629 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 388 00:20:12.671 --> 00:20:14.339 ♪ Her bangles and her beads ♪ 389 00:20:14.422 --> 00:20:18.510 ♪ They jingle all night ♪ 390 00:20:18.593 --> 00:20:20.470 ♪ They never stop ♪ 391 00:20:20.512 --> 00:20:23.765 ♪ Till the morning light ♪ 392 00:20:24.683 --> 00:20:29.020 ♪ ♪ 393 00:20:29.104 --> 00:20:32.023 ♪ ♪ 394 00:20:32.107 --> 00:20:34.275 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 395 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:36.027 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 396 00:20:36.111 --> 00:20:37.862 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 397 00:20:37.946 --> 00:20:39.614 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 398 00:20:39.698 --> 00:20:45.370 ♪ One more round then heave her dry ♪ 399 00:20:45.412 --> 00:20:47.330 ♪ Come on, Jack Tout ♪ 400 00:20:47.372 --> 00:20:50.667 ♪ You're not that shy ♪ 401 00:20:52.293 --> 00:20:54.045 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 402 00:20:54.087 --> 00:20:55.338 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 403 00:20:55.380 --> 00:20:57.507 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 404 00:20:57.549 --> 00:20:59.342 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 405 00:20:59.384 --> 00:21:01.219 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 406 00:21:01.261 --> 00:21:03.054 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 407 00:21:03.096 --> 00:21:04.889 ♪ Oh, me Rosie ♪ 408 00:21:04.973 --> 00:21:06.891 ♪ Coal black Rose ♪ 409 00:21:06.933 --> 00:21:09.894 ♪ ♪ 410 00:21:09.978 --> 00:21:11.688 (song ends) 411 00:21:11.730 --> 00:21:13.732 The-- Don't applaud that song. 412 00:21:13.815 --> 00:21:15.567 Don't applaud it, don't applaud it. 413 00:21:15.608 --> 00:21:20.405 That is a sea shanty adaptation of the very first minstrel song. 414 00:21:21.031 --> 00:21:23.158 Um... 415 00:21:23.241 --> 00:21:24.743 (sighs) 416 00:21:24.784 --> 00:21:27.579 What is happening, and may-maybe you didn't hear the lyric, 417 00:21:27.620 --> 00:21:31.750 uh, there's this lyric i-in the song called, ah, it goes, 418 00:21:31.791 --> 00:21:34.753 "One more round then heave her dry, 419 00:21:34.794 --> 00:21:36.546 come on, Jack Tout, you're not that shy." 420 00:21:36.588 --> 00:21:38.965 And what is happening is the men on the boat, 421 00:21:39.049 --> 00:21:40.759 they are hoisting up a sail 422 00:21:40.800 --> 00:21:43.053 and they're trying to build their community 423 00:21:43.094 --> 00:21:44.512 by hoisting up the sail together, 424 00:21:44.596 --> 00:21:46.848 with the idea that when they get their job done, 425 00:21:46.931 --> 00:21:50.935 they can go into town and gang rape a slave, 426 00:21:50.977 --> 00:21:53.229 a woman who is enslaved. 427 00:21:53.271 --> 00:21:54.647 (clicks tongue) 428 00:21:56.316 --> 00:21:57.609 (sighs) 429 00:21:57.942 --> 00:22:02.238 People love things that build communities, you know? 430 00:22:02.280 --> 00:22:06.910 And they never want to get rid of anything that builds a community. 431 00:22:06.951 --> 00:22:08.787 But... 432 00:22:08.828 --> 00:22:10.705 sometimes you have to acknowledge 433 00:22:10.789 --> 00:22:12.582 that the things that have built the community, 434 00:22:12.624 --> 00:22:16.211 um, the foundation for them is evil. 435 00:22:16.294 --> 00:22:18.630 And that it's not serving you 436 00:22:18.713 --> 00:22:21.007 and that you have to tear it down 437 00:22:21.091 --> 00:22:22.634 and start from scratch. 438 00:22:24.469 --> 00:22:27.138 You can take off your blindfolds now. 439 00:22:30.975 --> 00:22:34.604 And these are the songs that are part of our DNA 440 00:22:34.646 --> 00:22:36.981 passed down through us all. 441 00:22:37.065 --> 00:22:41.069 We teach children these songs and they sing them. 442 00:22:41.152 --> 00:22:44.656 That's the foundation of, of our, our learning. 443 00:22:46.199 --> 00:22:52.414 ♪ A-B-C-D ♪ 444 00:22:52.497 --> 00:22:57.210 ♪ E-F-G ♪ 445 00:22:57.293 --> 00:23:01.172 I'd say, "What is this particular hour of the show going to be about?" 446 00:23:01.256 --> 00:23:05.427 and go and hunt for songs that were popular around the time. 447 00:23:05.510 --> 00:23:08.304 ♪ Now I know ♪ 448 00:23:08.346 --> 00:23:09.723 ♪ My ♪ 449 00:23:09.806 --> 00:23:14.269 ♪ ABCs ♪ 450 00:23:14.352 --> 00:23:17.230 (cheering and applause) 451 00:23:17.313 --> 00:23:21.484 (childlike voice) ♪ Next time won't you sing ♪ 452 00:23:21.526 --> 00:23:25.739 ♪ With me? ♪ 453 00:23:25.822 --> 00:23:28.700 (cheering) 454 00:23:28.783 --> 00:23:30.785 (applause) 455 00:23:30.869 --> 00:23:34.539 (flutes playing) 456 00:23:36.791 --> 00:23:41.796 In the Indian Removal Act, we're singing children's songs. 457 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:46.885 I wanted Taylor's look to have a playful element to it. 458 00:23:46.968 --> 00:23:50.722 So it's kind of in the likeness of a, like a nanny, 459 00:23:50.764 --> 00:23:53.058 a caretaker of the children, 460 00:23:53.099 --> 00:23:54.601 or it could be the mother. 461 00:23:55.226 --> 00:23:58.521 I wanted whimsy for the sake of the children, 462 00:23:58.938 --> 00:24:03.360 but I wanted something disturbing and sad 463 00:24:03.401 --> 00:24:07.197 as a representation of the extermination 464 00:24:07.238 --> 00:24:09.074 of the Indians. 465 00:24:11.201 --> 00:24:13.745 Taylor: We tell the story of the Cherokee people 466 00:24:13.787 --> 00:24:15.789 who are on the Trail of Tears. 467 00:24:15.872 --> 00:24:17.957 Andrew Jackson had this agenda to get rid 468 00:24:18.041 --> 00:24:20.168 of all the Native Americans. He wanted genocide. 469 00:24:20.251 --> 00:24:23.755 Let's sing a bunch of children's songs on the Trail of Tears 470 00:24:23.797 --> 00:24:26.966 in order to distract you from what's going on. 471 00:24:27.050 --> 00:24:32.097 He forced the Cherokee to go on this trek from Georgia to Oklahoma. 472 00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:33.765 And thousands died. 473 00:24:33.848 --> 00:24:35.266 (band plays "Rove Riley Rove") 474 00:24:35.350 --> 00:24:36.685 ♪ I went up on a mountain ♪ 475 00:24:36.768 --> 00:24:38.645 ♪ Gave my horn a blow ♪ 476 00:24:38.728 --> 00:24:40.605 ♪ I think I hear my one true love say ♪ 477 00:24:40.647 --> 00:24:42.857 ♪ "Yonder comes my beau" ♪ 478 00:24:42.941 --> 00:24:45.068 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 479 00:24:45.151 --> 00:24:46.861 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 480 00:24:46.945 --> 00:24:49.364 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy ♪ 481 00:24:49.447 --> 00:24:51.574 ♪ Got nowhere to go ♪ 482 00:24:51.616 --> 00:24:53.118 ♪ Mama gave me meat ♪ 483 00:24:53.159 --> 00:24:55.036 ♪ And the Christians give me bread ♪ 484 00:24:55.120 --> 00:24:57.580 ♪ The pretty girl gave me a kiss ♪ 485 00:24:57.622 --> 00:25:00.125 ♪ It just about knocks me dead ♪ 486 00:25:00.208 --> 00:25:01.710 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 487 00:25:01.793 --> 00:25:03.712 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 488 00:25:03.795 --> 00:25:07.465 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy got nowhere to go ♪ 489 00:25:07.549 --> 00:25:10.218 ♪ An opossum is a pretty thing ♪ 490 00:25:10.301 --> 00:25:12.429 ♪ It rambles in the dark ♪ 491 00:25:12.512 --> 00:25:14.222 ♪ The only time you know he's 'round ♪ 492 00:25:14.305 --> 00:25:16.641 ♪ Is when you hear that Ranger bark ♪ 493 00:25:16.725 --> 00:25:18.685 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 494 00:25:18.768 --> 00:25:20.478 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 495 00:25:20.520 --> 00:25:22.814 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy ♪ 496 00:25:22.856 --> 00:25:24.649 ♪ Got nowhere to go ♪ 497 00:25:24.733 --> 00:25:27.819 And I don't know if this lyric is about the Trail of Tears, 498 00:25:27.902 --> 00:25:30.530 but I do know they had to go from Georgia 499 00:25:30.613 --> 00:25:33.408 through Arkansas to get to Oklahoma. 500 00:25:33.491 --> 00:25:35.744 ♪ I went down to Georgia ♪ 501 00:25:35.827 --> 00:25:37.829 ♪ And what do you think I saw? ♪ 502 00:25:37.871 --> 00:25:39.998 ♪ A thousand feet pushing a cart ♪ 503 00:25:40.081 --> 00:25:42.500 ♪ All the way through Arkansas ♪ 504 00:25:42.542 --> 00:25:44.669 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 505 00:25:44.753 --> 00:25:46.796 ♪ Rove, Riley, Rove ♪ 506 00:25:46.838 --> 00:25:48.757 ♪ Rove, Riley, poor boy ♪ 507 00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:50.800 ♪ Got nowhere to go ♪ 508 00:25:50.842 --> 00:25:54.804 (cheering and applause) 509 00:25:54.846 --> 00:25:56.806 Matt Ray: I came up as a jazz musician, 510 00:25:56.848 --> 00:26:00.685 and I brought some of those people into the 24-hour show, 511 00:26:00.727 --> 00:26:02.187 into Taylor's world. 512 00:26:02.854 --> 00:26:06.358 Taylor would send me a list of songs. 513 00:26:06.441 --> 00:26:09.694 "Here's 30 songs that happened in this ten-year period. 514 00:26:09.736 --> 00:26:11.946 Which of these songs are interesting?" 515 00:26:12.030 --> 00:26:14.366 And trying to storytell out of that. 516 00:26:14.783 --> 00:26:21.206 We're going to sing the oddest abolitionist song for you now ever written. 517 00:26:21.289 --> 00:26:26.378 ♪ Oh, the Black man's only made for work ♪ 518 00:26:26.419 --> 00:26:29.381 (laughter) 519 00:26:29.422 --> 00:26:32.759 ♪ The Southern people say ♪ 520 00:26:32.842 --> 00:26:35.720 ♪ But the Black man's very willing ♪ 521 00:26:35.804 --> 00:26:38.807 ♪ And he wants to have his pay ♪ 522 00:26:38.890 --> 00:26:41.226 ♪ So he swims across the river ♪ 523 00:26:41.267 --> 00:26:44.229 ♪ And he flies across the plain ♪ 524 00:26:44.270 --> 00:26:46.981 ♪ But the Northern people catch him ♪ 525 00:26:47.065 --> 00:26:49.859 ♪ And they place him back in chains ♪ 526 00:26:49.901 --> 00:26:51.611 Matt: What if we tried it in three-four time? 527 00:26:51.695 --> 00:26:53.905 What if we tried it as a ballad and then it gets fast? 528 00:26:53.988 --> 00:26:59.202 And it was always about trying to find out how we could exhume 529 00:26:59.244 --> 00:27:02.580 the meaning of the song, the deeper meaning of the song, 530 00:27:02.622 --> 00:27:04.916 and the lyrics be heard in a new way. 531 00:27:04.958 --> 00:27:08.253 (upbeat music playing "Ghost of Uncle Tom") 532 00:27:10.505 --> 00:27:14.342 ♪ Well, the Black man's only made for work ♪ 533 00:27:14.384 --> 00:27:17.012 ♪ The Southern people say ♪ 534 00:27:17.095 --> 00:27:20.140 ♪ And the Black man's very willing ♪ 535 00:27:20.223 --> 00:27:22.934 ♪ But he wants to have his pay ♪ 536 00:27:22.976 --> 00:27:26.604 ♪ So he swims across the river ♪ 537 00:27:26.688 --> 00:27:29.107 ♪ And he flies across the plain ♪ 538 00:27:29.190 --> 00:27:32.861 ♪ And the Northern people catch him ♪ 539 00:27:32.944 --> 00:27:36.281 ♪ But they place him back in chains ♪ 540 00:27:36.364 --> 00:27:37.615 ♪ Knock knock knock ♪ 541 00:27:37.699 --> 00:27:38.992 ♪ ♪ 542 00:27:39.075 --> 00:27:42.704 ♪ When the hour of midnight comes ♪ 543 00:27:42.787 --> 00:27:45.498 ♪ Who's that a-knocking? ♪ 544 00:27:45.582 --> 00:27:48.001 ♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 545 00:27:48.084 --> 00:27:50.378 ♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 546 00:27:50.462 --> 00:27:53.548 -♪ Who is that knocking? ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 547 00:27:53.631 --> 00:27:56.676 -♪ He's always knocking ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 548 00:27:56.760 --> 00:27:59.804 -♪ He's always knocking ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 549 00:27:59.888 --> 00:28:03.058 -♪ He's always knocking ♪ -♪ It's the ghost of Uncle Tom ♪ 550 00:28:03.141 --> 00:28:05.018 ♪ He's always knocking ♪ 551 00:28:05.101 --> 00:28:08.980 Maybe you noticed, this is my subjective take on history. 552 00:28:09.064 --> 00:28:11.983 (laughter) 553 00:28:12.025 --> 00:28:16.404 I'm not really interested in the show being about history 554 00:28:16.488 --> 00:28:20.909 as much as I'm interested in it being about all of us in this room 555 00:28:20.992 --> 00:28:22.952 have a lot of history on our backs 556 00:28:22.994 --> 00:28:25.622 and we're trying to figure out what to do with it. 557 00:28:25.663 --> 00:28:27.832 (cheering) 558 00:28:31.294 --> 00:28:34.714 (smooth jazz playing) 559 00:28:34.798 --> 00:28:39.010 Machine: In this decade, we champion Walt Whitman 560 00:28:39.052 --> 00:28:42.555 adorned with gay male erotica, 561 00:28:42.639 --> 00:28:45.517 flowers and potato chip bags. 562 00:28:46.393 --> 00:28:48.978 The reason for the erotica is, Walt Whitman, 563 00:28:49.020 --> 00:28:52.982 famous queer writer, also wrote erotica. 564 00:28:53.024 --> 00:28:55.568 The reason for the potato chip bags is, 565 00:28:55.652 --> 00:28:58.780 apparently potato chips were invented during that decade too. 566 00:28:58.863 --> 00:29:02.367 ♪ Weep no more, my ladies ♪ 567 00:29:02.450 --> 00:29:05.620 ♪ Weep no more today ♪ 568 00:29:05.704 --> 00:29:09.791 ♪ We will sing a song for the old Kentucky home ♪ 569 00:29:09.874 --> 00:29:11.376 ♪ For the old Kentucky home ♪ 570 00:29:11.459 --> 00:29:13.253 ♪ Far away ♪ 571 00:29:13.336 --> 00:29:16.798 ♪ Corn tops ripe on the little cabin floor ♪ 572 00:29:16.881 --> 00:29:20.343 ♪ All merry, all happy and bright ♪ 573 00:29:20.385 --> 00:29:23.930 ♪ The time has come when the darkies all must part ♪ 574 00:29:24.014 --> 00:29:27.767 (discordant music plays, fades) 575 00:29:27.851 --> 00:29:29.394 ♪ The time has come ♪ 576 00:29:29.477 --> 00:29:32.856 ♪ When the darkies all must part ♪ 577 00:29:32.897 --> 00:29:35.483 ♪ Oh, my old Kentucky home ♪ 578 00:29:35.567 --> 00:29:37.569 ♪ Good night ♪ 579 00:29:37.652 --> 00:29:42.157 This is the state song of Kentucky, 580 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:44.993 a minstrel song. 581 00:29:45.076 --> 00:29:49.914 And they didn't know that until the 1980s, 582 00:29:49.956 --> 00:29:53.668 so they changed the word "darkies" to "people." 583 00:29:53.752 --> 00:29:57.088 They couldn't get rid of the song. 584 00:29:57.172 --> 00:30:00.759 The song was written by Stephen Foster. 585 00:30:00.842 --> 00:30:04.471 He is considered the father of American song. 586 00:30:04.554 --> 00:30:08.141 And people say, "Oh, you can't be too hard on Stephen Foster, 587 00:30:08.224 --> 00:30:09.684 he was a product of his time," 588 00:30:09.768 --> 00:30:13.229 but other people were a product of Stephen Foster's time. 589 00:30:13.271 --> 00:30:16.274 You know, Sojourner Truth, uh, Frederick Douglass, 590 00:30:16.358 --> 00:30:19.235 and one of the great radicals of all time, 591 00:30:19.277 --> 00:30:23.490 so radical he's still radical to this very day, Walt Whitman. 592 00:30:23.573 --> 00:30:24.491 (audience cheers) 593 00:30:24.574 --> 00:30:27.535 Walt Whitman said that his poems were songs. 594 00:30:27.619 --> 00:30:31.706 So I think Walt Whitman should be the father of American song. 595 00:30:31.790 --> 00:30:32.957 (cheering) 596 00:30:32.999 --> 00:30:37.671 So what I thought we would do is to have an epic smackdown. 597 00:30:37.754 --> 00:30:40.507 -In this corner... -(band playing fanfare) 598 00:30:40.590 --> 00:30:45.470 ...the sentimentalist minstrel songwriting Stephen Foster. 599 00:30:45.512 --> 00:30:47.180 In this corner, 600 00:30:47.263 --> 00:30:50.850 the self-proclaimed no-sentimentalist, 601 00:30:50.934 --> 00:30:53.478 radical fairy poet Walt Whitman. 602 00:30:53.520 --> 00:30:58.191 Who will win the title of father of American song? 603 00:30:58.274 --> 00:31:00.777 -You decide. -(fanfare ends) 604 00:31:00.819 --> 00:31:02.946 -(cheering) -All right. 605 00:31:02.987 --> 00:31:06.991 You, sir, with the scarf and the popcorn right there? 606 00:31:07.075 --> 00:31:08.827 Yeah. Come up here. Come up here. 607 00:31:08.868 --> 00:31:11.996 Gorgeous. You're going to be Stephen Foster. 608 00:31:12.080 --> 00:31:13.832 I'm gonna play Walt Whitman. 609 00:31:13.873 --> 00:31:15.959 But I'm gonna sing your songs 610 00:31:16.001 --> 00:31:17.711 'cause you don't know them, okay? 611 00:31:17.794 --> 00:31:19.170 Stephen Foster. 612 00:31:19.212 --> 00:31:22.549 ♪ The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home ♪ 613 00:31:22.632 --> 00:31:26.261 ♪ The young folks, they're rolling on the floor ♪ 614 00:31:26.344 --> 00:31:29.681 ♪ We will sing a song for our old Kentucky home ♪ 615 00:31:29.723 --> 00:31:33.184 ♪ Keep those hard times away from my door ♪ 616 00:31:34.936 --> 00:31:36.187 Walt Whitman. 617 00:31:36.271 --> 00:31:41.026 "Native moments when you come upon me... 618 00:31:41.067 --> 00:31:43.194 "Oh, you're here now. 619 00:31:43.278 --> 00:31:46.865 "Give me now libidinous joys only. 620 00:31:46.948 --> 00:31:49.367 "Give me life, coarse and rank. 621 00:31:49.409 --> 00:31:51.536 "Give me the drench of my passions. 622 00:31:51.578 --> 00:31:53.705 "Today, I consort with nature's darlings. 623 00:31:53.788 --> 00:31:58.877 "Tonight, too, I am for those who believe in loose delights. 624 00:31:58.918 --> 00:32:03.131 I share the midnight orgies of young men." 625 00:32:03.214 --> 00:32:04.841 -(cheering) -Ah. 626 00:32:04.883 --> 00:32:06.509 And the historians will all tell you 627 00:32:06.551 --> 00:32:08.470 "orgy" meant "party" back then, you know? 628 00:32:08.553 --> 00:32:10.805 They do, do whatever they can to convince you that no-- 629 00:32:10.889 --> 00:32:12.057 there was no queerness. You know, they, 630 00:32:12.098 --> 00:32:13.975 "Orgy meant party back then." 631 00:32:14.059 --> 00:32:15.518 No! It meant orgy. 632 00:32:15.560 --> 00:32:16.936 (laughter) 633 00:32:17.020 --> 00:32:18.396 "No, it meant party." 634 00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.690 Yes, but what happens at a party, right? 635 00:32:20.732 --> 00:32:23.234 A drinky-drinky, a smokey-smokey, and pretty soon... 636 00:32:23.318 --> 00:32:24.486 (gurgling) 637 00:32:24.569 --> 00:32:27.989 -(laughter) -Audience Member 1: Whoo! 638 00:32:28.073 --> 00:32:30.116 At least that's been my experience. 639 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:31.576 Audience Member 2: Whoo! 640 00:32:31.618 --> 00:32:32.994 Stephen Foster. 641 00:32:33.078 --> 00:32:36.164 (band playing "Camptown Ladies") 642 00:32:36.247 --> 00:32:38.166 ♪ Camptown ladies sing that song ♪ 643 00:32:38.249 --> 00:32:39.709 ♪ Doo-dah! Doo-dah! ♪ 644 00:32:39.751 --> 00:32:41.586 ♪ Camptown racetrack five miles long ♪ 645 00:32:41.670 --> 00:32:42.962 ♪ All the doo-dah day! ♪ 646 00:32:43.046 --> 00:32:45.048 ♪ Gonna run all night! ♪ 647 00:32:45.090 --> 00:32:46.591 ♪ Gonna run all day! ♪ 648 00:32:46.675 --> 00:32:48.718 ♪ I'll bet my money on a bob-tail nag ♪ 649 00:32:48.760 --> 00:32:50.762 ♪ Somebody bet on the bay! ♪ 650 00:32:50.845 --> 00:32:52.013 Walt Whitman. 651 00:32:52.097 --> 00:32:55.183 "Listen. I will be honest with you. 652 00:32:55.266 --> 00:32:58.603 "I do not offer old, smooth prizes 653 00:32:58.687 --> 00:33:00.980 but offer rough, new prizes." 654 00:33:01.064 --> 00:33:03.900 I love that. That's how I feel about my art. 655 00:33:03.942 --> 00:33:06.736 I don't offer you old, old smooth prizes. 656 00:33:06.778 --> 00:33:08.279 I offer you rough, new prizes. 657 00:33:08.321 --> 00:33:10.990 If you came to this show expecting a polished show, 658 00:33:11.074 --> 00:33:12.909 you came to the wrong show girl. 659 00:33:12.951 --> 00:33:14.452 (cheering) 660 00:33:14.494 --> 00:33:18.540 Yeah. And you came to the wrong show comma girl. 661 00:33:18.623 --> 00:33:20.625 -(laughter) -But Stephen Foster says, 662 00:33:20.709 --> 00:33:25.171 "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute." 663 00:33:25.255 --> 00:33:27.799 -(mouthing words) -Uh, w-w-wait a minute. 664 00:33:27.841 --> 00:33:32.387 (laughter and applause) 665 00:33:32.470 --> 00:33:34.848 "This epic smackdown is rigged." 666 00:33:34.931 --> 00:33:38.435 This epic smackdown is rigged! 667 00:33:38.476 --> 00:33:39.769 (laughs) 668 00:33:39.811 --> 00:33:42.272 What else would I say? 669 00:33:42.313 --> 00:33:43.773 Amazing. 670 00:33:43.815 --> 00:33:47.110 "Everybody knows I'm the father of American song." 671 00:33:47.152 --> 00:33:50.530 (laughing) Everybody knows I'm the father... 672 00:33:50.613 --> 00:33:51.948 (audience laughing) 673 00:33:51.990 --> 00:33:53.992 ...of American song. 674 00:33:54.034 --> 00:33:56.077 -"And to prove it..." -And to prove it... 675 00:33:56.161 --> 00:33:57.829 "...I'm gonna release my secret weapon." 676 00:33:57.912 --> 00:34:00.623 ...I'm gonna release my secret weapon. 677 00:34:00.665 --> 00:34:02.000 (laughter) 678 00:34:02.083 --> 00:34:03.835 "A song so insidious..." 679 00:34:03.918 --> 00:34:05.295 A song so... 680 00:34:05.337 --> 00:34:07.839 -"Insidious." -...insidious... (laughs) 681 00:34:07.881 --> 00:34:10.382 -"...the minute you hear it..." -...the minute you hear it... 682 00:34:10.467 --> 00:34:12.260 "...you're not gonna get it out of your head." 683 00:34:12.344 --> 00:34:14.471 ...you're not gonna get it out of your head. 684 00:34:14.512 --> 00:34:17.014 "You're gonna go home and you're gonna try to sleep, but you're not gonna be able to sleep 685 00:34:17.056 --> 00:34:19.976 because it's gonna go around and around in your head on an endless loop 686 00:34:20.018 --> 00:34:22.687 until you go mad, I tell you, mad!" 687 00:34:26.024 --> 00:34:27.692 (laughing) 688 00:34:27.734 --> 00:34:29.069 Uh... (chuckles) 689 00:34:29.152 --> 00:34:31.862 English was my second language. 690 00:34:31.946 --> 00:34:34.532 (laughter and applause) 691 00:34:47.212 --> 00:34:48.922 (Taylor humming) 692 00:34:49.005 --> 00:34:52.926 Machine: You know, all the school bands' marching uniforms, 693 00:34:53.009 --> 00:34:54.969 they're all actually modeled 694 00:34:55.053 --> 00:34:58.848 off of the Civil War soldier outfits. 695 00:34:58.890 --> 00:35:01.851 And I read somewhere that hotdogs 696 00:35:01.893 --> 00:35:04.688 were invented during this time from German immigrants, 697 00:35:04.729 --> 00:35:07.982 selling their sausages inside of buns on the street. 698 00:35:08.525 --> 00:35:12.070 Is it blood or is it ketchup? You get to decide. 699 00:35:12.153 --> 00:35:14.781 Hot dogs. Hot dog! 700 00:35:14.864 --> 00:35:18.410 -Spins! We like spins! -(show music playing) 701 00:35:18.451 --> 00:35:20.495 Taylor: It's drag as metaphor 702 00:35:20.578 --> 00:35:23.289 as opposed to drag as impersonation. 703 00:35:23.373 --> 00:35:26.543 I'm never trying to look like Marlene Dietrich. 704 00:35:26.584 --> 00:35:30.588 It's a metaphor for an idea or a specific time. 705 00:35:30.672 --> 00:35:34.009 It's the Civil War, and I'm gonna divide you in half. 706 00:35:34.092 --> 00:35:38.096 This side of the audience, you're going to be the Union soldiers. 707 00:35:38.138 --> 00:35:41.474 -(cheering) -This side of the audience, 708 00:35:41.558 --> 00:35:44.185 you are going to be the Confederate soldiers. 709 00:35:44.269 --> 00:35:47.439 -(booing) -It's not personal. 710 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:49.524 I don't know you. You're not playing you. 711 00:35:49.607 --> 00:35:53.069 You're playing the part I assign you. 712 00:35:53.111 --> 00:35:56.573 Now, everybody stand. Everybody, everybody. 713 00:35:56.614 --> 00:35:59.325 We're going to have our very first battle. 714 00:35:59.409 --> 00:36:02.954 This one is gonna be a slow-motion fight. 715 00:36:03.038 --> 00:36:06.291 And you're gonna slow-motion fight with each other, people around you. 716 00:36:06.332 --> 00:36:10.420 And I want it dirty: I want it like g-groin punches 717 00:36:10.462 --> 00:36:13.965 and kicks and strangulation and asshole slaps. 718 00:36:14.049 --> 00:36:17.010 I don't like calling them "bitch slaps," asshole slaps. 719 00:36:17.093 --> 00:36:22.140 Just make it dirty and disgusting and cruel in slow motion. 720 00:36:22.182 --> 00:36:26.227 It's gonna go on a lot longer than you're gonna want it to. 721 00:36:26.311 --> 00:36:28.229 (band playing "The Fall of Charleston") 722 00:36:37.530 --> 00:36:39.824 ♪ With a whack, rowdy-dow ♪ 723 00:36:39.908 --> 00:36:42.494 ♪ A hunky boy is a Yankee soldier ♪ 724 00:36:42.577 --> 00:36:44.829 ♪ Whack, rowdy-dow ♪ 725 00:36:44.913 --> 00:36:47.832 ♪ Invincible is he! ♪ 726 00:36:47.916 --> 00:36:49.959 (rollicking jazz playing) 727 00:37:00.011 --> 00:37:01.346 (music slows) 728 00:37:01.388 --> 00:37:06.685 (elongated) Keeeeep going in sloooow motion. 729 00:37:06.768 --> 00:37:13.692 I'm gonna kick you dirty Confederate soldierssssss. 730 00:37:13.733 --> 00:37:18.321 I'm gonna punch you in the faaaaaace. 731 00:37:18.363 --> 00:37:23.243 I'm gonna strangle youuuu... 732 00:37:23.326 --> 00:37:25.120 Taylor: I'm interested in what happens 733 00:37:25.203 --> 00:37:28.039 when the audience has to make a commitment to something. 734 00:37:28.081 --> 00:37:31.042 (contemplative piano music playing) 735 00:37:36.589 --> 00:37:38.967 Taylor: It stops being just a party game. 736 00:37:39.050 --> 00:37:42.137 It becomes something, um... 737 00:37:42.220 --> 00:37:45.056 something deeper. 738 00:37:45.098 --> 00:37:47.267 (contemplative music continues) 739 00:37:52.522 --> 00:37:56.192 Six hundred thousand people died in the Civil War. 740 00:37:56.234 --> 00:38:00.405 Representing one of those 600,000 741 00:38:00.488 --> 00:38:02.782 is our mandolin player, Ethan. 742 00:38:02.866 --> 00:38:04.075 Come on down, Ethan. 743 00:38:04.117 --> 00:38:07.454 Every hour we lose a musician. 744 00:38:10.915 --> 00:38:14.252 ♪ The old church bell will peal with joy ♪ 745 00:38:14.294 --> 00:38:18.590 ♪ Hurrah, hurrah! ♪ 746 00:38:18.631 --> 00:38:22.177 ♪ To welcome home our darling boy ♪ 747 00:38:22.260 --> 00:38:25.930 ♪ Hurrah, hurrah! ♪ 748 00:38:25.972 --> 00:38:29.893 ♪ The village lads and lassies say ♪ 749 00:38:29.934 --> 00:38:34.064 ♪ With roses they all stray away ♪ 750 00:38:34.105 --> 00:38:37.359 ♪ And we'll all feel gay ♪ 751 00:38:37.442 --> 00:38:42.447 ♪ When Johnny comes marching home ♪ 752 00:38:46.451 --> 00:38:48.953 We lost Johnny in the war. 753 00:38:52.457 --> 00:38:55.418 So Mother, after the war, 754 00:38:55.460 --> 00:38:56.544 wants to have 755 00:38:56.628 --> 00:38:58.004 a big family dinner. 756 00:38:58.088 --> 00:39:01.341 She wants us all to be together and enjoy ourselves, 757 00:39:01.424 --> 00:39:06.304 so this is Reconstruction, which means dinner. 758 00:39:06.388 --> 00:39:08.473 (laughter) 759 00:39:08.556 --> 00:39:10.308 So, um, I want you guys 760 00:39:10.350 --> 00:39:12.686 to jam out a little bit 'cause I'm gonna go pee. 761 00:39:12.769 --> 00:39:15.480 (playing "Down by the Riverside") 762 00:39:23.446 --> 00:39:26.157 ♪ Oh, I'm gonna lay down ♪ 763 00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:28.284 ♪ My sword and shield ♪ 764 00:39:28.326 --> 00:39:31.329 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 765 00:39:31.413 --> 00:39:34.416 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 766 00:39:34.499 --> 00:39:36.543 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 767 00:39:36.626 --> 00:39:38.628 ♪ I'm gonna lay down ♪ 768 00:39:38.670 --> 00:39:40.338 ♪ My sword and shield ♪ 769 00:39:40.422 --> 00:39:43.008 ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ 770 00:39:43.091 --> 00:39:48.847 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 771 00:39:50.682 --> 00:39:53.935 Other inventions of this time were the toilet paper rolls, 772 00:39:54.019 --> 00:39:55.979 so I have these empty toilet paper rolls, 773 00:39:56.021 --> 00:39:58.314 but also dynamite is another invention of the time. 774 00:39:58.356 --> 00:40:02.360 So I thought that was kind of a nice combination, toilet paper and dynamite. 775 00:40:02.402 --> 00:40:05.071 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 776 00:40:05.155 --> 00:40:08.241 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 777 00:40:08.324 --> 00:40:12.620 ♪ Oh, yeah, I don't want to, you can't make me ♪ 778 00:40:12.704 --> 00:40:14.914 -♪ Whoa-oh-oh ♪ -♪ No-oh-oh ♪ 779 00:40:14.998 --> 00:40:17.917 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 780 00:40:18.001 --> 00:40:21.463 -♪ I ain't gonna ♪ -♪ Study war no more ♪ 781 00:40:21.546 --> 00:40:25.216 ♪ Oh, yeah, I ain't gonna study war ♪ 782 00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:28.553 ♪ No more ♪ 783 00:40:28.595 --> 00:40:30.847 (tempo increases, syncopation added) 784 00:40:38.772 --> 00:40:41.858 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 785 00:40:41.900 --> 00:40:45.320 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 786 00:40:45.362 --> 00:40:50.075 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 787 00:40:50.116 --> 00:40:52.744 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 788 00:40:52.827 --> 00:40:56.581 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 789 00:40:56.623 --> 00:41:00.585 ♪ I ain't gonna study war no more ♪ 790 00:41:00.627 --> 00:41:03.963 (jazzy finish, tempo slowing) 791 00:41:05.090 --> 00:41:10.428 ♪ Yeah-eah ♪ 792 00:41:10.512 --> 00:41:12.806 (cheering and applause) 793 00:41:12.889 --> 00:41:15.767 Taylor: We bring out all these tables and we do 794 00:41:15.809 --> 00:41:18.353 a dinner theater production of the Mikado. 795 00:41:18.436 --> 00:41:20.355 (electronic music playing) 796 00:41:20.438 --> 00:41:22.524 We call it the Marskado. 797 00:41:22.607 --> 00:41:26.361 (lilting music, nasal horns blowing) 798 00:41:26.444 --> 00:41:28.947 (nasal voices) 799 00:41:37.831 --> 00:41:40.458 Niegel: The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, 800 00:41:40.542 --> 00:41:42.168 popular music. 801 00:41:42.252 --> 00:41:44.087 Deeply problematic. (chuckles) 802 00:41:44.129 --> 00:41:48.466 Uh, because the history of English and white folks 803 00:41:48.508 --> 00:41:49.718 putting on yellow face, 804 00:41:49.801 --> 00:41:52.595 putting on a culture that is not theirs, 805 00:41:52.637 --> 00:41:56.725 uh, in-in order to tell a story about themselves. 806 00:41:56.766 --> 00:41:57.475 What? 807 00:41:57.517 --> 00:41:59.978 And so we couldn't do that. 808 00:42:00.020 --> 00:42:03.398 And I said, "Well, what's something that we could put on?" 809 00:42:03.481 --> 00:42:04.983 So we went to Mars. 810 00:42:05.025 --> 00:42:08.361 Now, on Mars, in this strange coinky-dink 811 00:42:08.445 --> 00:42:10.447 that mirrors the Gilded Age in America, 812 00:42:10.488 --> 00:42:16.828 two percent of the population owned about 40% of the entire wealth of the nation, 813 00:42:16.911 --> 00:42:20.081 and 40% of the country had zero wealth. 814 00:42:20.498 --> 00:42:22.167 (in nasal distorted voice) 815 00:42:40.727 --> 00:42:42.020 (audience laughs) 816 00:42:42.062 --> 00:42:45.357 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 817 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:46.816 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 818 00:42:46.858 --> 00:42:48.526 Just do that over and over. 819 00:42:48.568 --> 00:42:52.197 (high-pitched nasal voice) ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 820 00:42:52.238 --> 00:42:53.323 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 821 00:42:55.492 --> 00:42:57.494 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 822 00:42:57.535 --> 00:43:01.247 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 823 00:43:01.331 --> 00:43:02.374 (audience laughs) 824 00:43:02.415 --> 00:43:04.376 (chuckles) ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 825 00:43:04.417 --> 00:43:07.587 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow... ♪ 826 00:43:07.671 --> 00:43:10.215 (audience laughing) 827 00:43:13.093 --> 00:43:16.388 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 828 00:43:16.471 --> 00:43:17.972 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 829 00:43:20.350 --> 00:43:23.520 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 830 00:43:23.561 --> 00:43:25.897 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 831 00:43:30.276 --> 00:43:32.237 (laughter) 832 00:43:33.029 --> 00:43:35.365 (lower pitch, slower) ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 833 00:43:35.407 --> 00:43:39.244 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 834 00:43:51.798 --> 00:43:56.177 (softly) ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 835 00:43:56.261 --> 00:43:58.221 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 836 00:44:01.725 --> 00:44:04.352 (laughter and applause) 837 00:44:11.234 --> 00:44:12.944 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 838 00:44:12.986 --> 00:44:17.323 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 839 00:44:25.874 --> 00:44:29.127 ♪ Tit-willow, tit-willow ♪ 840 00:44:29.210 --> 00:44:31.296 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 841 00:44:42.182 --> 00:44:44.976 Together: ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 842 00:44:45.060 --> 00:44:50.190 ♪ Tit-willow... ♪ 843 00:44:50.273 --> 00:44:55.403 ♪ Tit-willow ♪ 844 00:44:55.487 --> 00:44:57.364 (cheering and applause) 845 00:45:02.744 --> 00:45:06.498 Well, let me tell ya, dinner's over. 846 00:45:06.539 --> 00:45:10.335 (bluesy jazz playing) 847 00:45:10.377 --> 00:45:13.338 Anastasia Durasova: The makeup kind of takes over. 848 00:45:13.421 --> 00:45:16.758 There is, uh, less control, through the movement, 849 00:45:16.841 --> 00:45:18.927 through the sweat, through the tears. 850 00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:21.179 -(both laughing) -It transforms itself, 851 00:45:21.262 --> 00:45:23.890 uh, without my control, at least. 852 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:30.397 Taylor: Well, it was part of the concept of the drag in the beginning was, 853 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.148 it's never homogenous. 854 00:45:32.190 --> 00:45:35.026 You can't really say that, that it's one thing. 855 00:45:35.068 --> 00:45:38.405 It's, it's giving you masculine and femininity at the same time. 856 00:45:38.488 --> 00:45:42.492 It's, um, giving you mess and order at the same time 857 00:45:42.534 --> 00:45:44.911 and beauty and, um... 858 00:45:44.994 --> 00:45:48.081 and just real grotesquery... 859 00:45:48.164 --> 00:45:50.959 (laughs) ...all happening at the same time. 860 00:45:51.042 --> 00:45:54.379 We have never done more than 12 decades before. 861 00:45:54.462 --> 00:45:56.047 Whew! 862 00:45:56.131 --> 00:45:59.759 -(chuckles) -(band playing bluesy jazz) 863 00:45:59.843 --> 00:46:03.013 So we are about to venture 864 00:46:03.054 --> 00:46:05.724 into uncharted territory. 865 00:46:05.765 --> 00:46:07.600 (cheering) 866 00:46:07.684 --> 00:46:12.772 ♪ ♪ 867 00:46:12.856 --> 00:46:17.110 ♪ ♪ 868 00:46:17.193 --> 00:46:20.071 -(music stops) -Taylor: Part of the art was that the audience 869 00:46:20.155 --> 00:46:23.241 would be with us for 24 hours as well. 870 00:46:23.992 --> 00:46:27.412 Most of the profound experiences in my life have happened 871 00:46:27.495 --> 00:46:32.083 as a result of giving more time to the, to the event, 872 00:46:32.125 --> 00:46:36.755 or, um, or the art, or, I mean, weddings... 873 00:46:36.796 --> 00:46:38.256 that last all day long. 874 00:46:38.340 --> 00:46:40.884 You know, those are things that you remember. 875 00:46:40.925 --> 00:46:44.262 Um, uh, trips to various places 876 00:46:44.304 --> 00:46:47.849 last weeks, or at least a few days. 877 00:46:47.932 --> 00:46:50.310 So these are things that you're welcoming in 878 00:46:50.393 --> 00:46:53.063 a certain amount of surprise and a, a different way 879 00:46:53.104 --> 00:46:55.940 of looking at the world, uh, when you, 880 00:46:55.982 --> 00:46:58.401 uh, when you commit to them. So I just want, 881 00:46:58.443 --> 00:47:01.071 I've always wanted theater to kind of do the same thing. 882 00:47:01.112 --> 00:47:03.239 (martial music playing) 883 00:47:03.281 --> 00:47:05.033 It's World War I. 884 00:47:05.116 --> 00:47:07.285 (band playing "Keep the Home Fires Burning") 885 00:47:09.120 --> 00:47:13.333 ♪ They were summoned from the hillside ♪ 886 00:47:13.416 --> 00:47:17.295 ♪ They were called in from the glen ♪ 887 00:47:17.379 --> 00:47:21.841 ♪ And the country found them ready ♪ 888 00:47:21.925 --> 00:47:24.636 ♪ At the stirring call ♪ 889 00:47:24.678 --> 00:47:29.099 ♪ For men ♪ 890 00:47:29.140 --> 00:47:33.311 ♪ There's a silver lining ♪ 891 00:47:33.395 --> 00:47:37.816 ♪ In the dark clouds shining ♪ 892 00:47:37.857 --> 00:47:41.611 ♪ Turn the dark cloud inside out ♪ 893 00:47:41.653 --> 00:47:45.782 ♪ Till the boys come home ♪ 894 00:47:45.824 --> 00:47:47.325 (drums tattooing) 895 00:47:47.367 --> 00:47:50.620 All the women in the audience, self-proclaimed women, 896 00:47:50.662 --> 00:47:52.539 I would like you to sing this song. 897 00:47:52.622 --> 00:47:54.833 We have the lyrics. 898 00:47:54.916 --> 00:47:59.045 ♪ Keep the home fires ♪ 899 00:47:59.129 --> 00:48:01.923 ♪ Burning ♪ 900 00:48:02.007 --> 00:48:07.929 ♪ While your hearts are yearning ♪ 901 00:48:08.013 --> 00:48:13.518 ♪ Though your lads are far away ♪ 902 00:48:13.601 --> 00:48:19.691 ♪ They dream of home ♪ 903 00:48:19.733 --> 00:48:25.655 ♪ There's a silver lining ♪ 904 00:48:25.697 --> 00:48:31.911 ♪ In the dark clouds shining ♪ 905 00:48:31.995 --> 00:48:37.667 ♪ Turn the dark cloud inside out ♪ 906 00:48:37.709 --> 00:48:42.547 ♪ Till the boys come home ♪ 907 00:48:42.630 --> 00:48:46.968 -(cheering) -(band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again") 908 00:48:47.052 --> 00:48:50.388 ♪ Happy days are here again ♪ 909 00:48:50.430 --> 00:48:53.224 ♪ The skies above are clear again ♪ 910 00:48:53.266 --> 00:48:56.895 ♪ So let's sing a song of cheer again ♪ 911 00:48:56.978 --> 00:49:00.023 ♪ Happy days are here again ♪ 912 00:49:00.106 --> 00:49:04.819 This song is like a person at a party trying to force their fun on you. 913 00:49:04.903 --> 00:49:06.654 (laughter) 914 00:49:06.696 --> 00:49:09.574 Sixteen and a half million people 915 00:49:09.657 --> 00:49:11.451 died in World War I, 916 00:49:11.534 --> 00:49:13.828 and people are singing a song called 917 00:49:13.912 --> 00:49:15.872 "Happy Days Are Here Again." 918 00:49:15.914 --> 00:49:18.792 Here we go! ♪ Happy days... ♪ 919 00:49:18.875 --> 00:49:21.461 (song continues, muted) 920 00:49:21.544 --> 00:49:24.339 ♪ ...the skies above are clear again ♪ 921 00:49:24.422 --> 00:49:27.676 ♪ So let's sing a song... ♪ 922 00:49:27.759 --> 00:49:30.053 (piano playing boogie-woogie) 923 00:49:36.351 --> 00:49:40.605 Everybody who is over 60, stand please. 924 00:49:40.647 --> 00:49:43.608 (cheering) 925 00:49:43.650 --> 00:49:46.945 Is anyone over 80? 926 00:49:47.195 --> 00:49:49.406 (cheering louder) 927 00:49:49.447 --> 00:49:52.242 Come to the stage. 928 00:49:53.284 --> 00:49:57.580 Raise your hand if you're under... 929 00:49:57.622 --> 00:49:59.624 20. 930 00:49:59.666 --> 00:50:01.710 Great, come up on stage. 931 00:50:01.793 --> 00:50:05.130 (cheering) 932 00:50:05.213 --> 00:50:11.469 You are going to teach this person how to dance. 933 00:50:11.511 --> 00:50:15.807 She's gonna copy everything you do, okay? 934 00:50:15.849 --> 00:50:18.560 All right? Ready? 935 00:50:18.643 --> 00:50:20.395 Here we go. 936 00:50:20.478 --> 00:50:22.814 ♪ The old folks are doing it ♪ 937 00:50:22.897 --> 00:50:24.899 ♪ The young folk too ♪ 938 00:50:24.983 --> 00:50:30.196 ♪ But the old folks teach the young ones what to do ♪ 939 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.407 ♪ They shake that thing ♪ 940 00:50:34.242 --> 00:50:37.662 ♪ Oh, they shake that thing ♪ 941 00:50:39.497 --> 00:50:41.958 ♪ They're getting sick and tired ♪ 942 00:50:42.042 --> 00:50:46.129 ♪ Of telling you to shake your thing ♪ 943 00:50:46.171 --> 00:50:47.839 Oh, my God, yes. 944 00:50:47.922 --> 00:50:49.299 Oh, my God. 945 00:50:49.341 --> 00:50:53.970 -Wow, okay. -(audience cheering) 946 00:50:54.012 --> 00:50:57.265 So everyone over 50, stand up. 947 00:50:57.349 --> 00:50:58.933 Everyone over 50? Okay. 948 00:50:59.017 --> 00:51:03.980 Now, everybody who is sitting, clock someone who's standing, 949 00:51:04.022 --> 00:51:09.319 and in this next musical section, you're going to copy their moves. 950 00:51:09.361 --> 00:51:11.988 Now, we live in an ageist culture, 951 00:51:12.030 --> 00:51:15.867 so if you don't actually look at the person and try to do what they're doing, 952 00:51:15.950 --> 00:51:18.495 you're being ageist, all right? 953 00:51:18.536 --> 00:51:20.538 And here we go! 954 00:51:20.622 --> 00:51:25.043 ♪ Well, Grandpapa Johnson, he grabs sister Kate ♪ 955 00:51:25.085 --> 00:51:29.881 ♪ And he shook her just like you shake jelly on a plate ♪ 956 00:51:29.964 --> 00:51:32.592 ♪ He shook that thing ♪ 957 00:51:34.761 --> 00:51:37.389 ♪ He shook that thing ♪ 958 00:51:39.641 --> 00:51:42.227 ♪ He's getting sick and tired ♪ 959 00:51:42.268 --> 00:51:45.730 ♪ Of telling you to shake your thing ♪ 960 00:51:49.359 --> 00:51:51.069 ♪ With music like this ♪ 961 00:51:51.111 --> 00:51:55.573 ♪ Why wouldn't you wanna shake ♪ 962 00:51:55.657 --> 00:51:58.743 ♪ Your thing? ♪ 963 00:51:58.827 --> 00:52:04.082 (band playing dramatic finish) 964 00:52:04.124 --> 00:52:06.418 (cheering and applause fades) 965 00:52:09.546 --> 00:52:11.339 Yeah. Gooey. 966 00:52:11.423 --> 00:52:15.760 -Yes, gooey good. -(snarling) Yeah, yeah... 967 00:52:23.268 --> 00:52:25.311 Taylor: It's the Great Depression, 968 00:52:25.395 --> 00:52:27.147 and one of the ways 969 00:52:27.230 --> 00:52:30.233 we survive poverty-induced depression 970 00:52:30.275 --> 00:52:35.280 is just to get together and admit that it's happening. 971 00:52:35.321 --> 00:52:38.033 (playing "I Ain't Got No Home/ Dust Won't Kill Me") 972 00:52:38.116 --> 00:52:40.535 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 973 00:52:40.618 --> 00:52:44.205 ♪ I'm just a-wanderin' 'round ♪ 974 00:52:44.289 --> 00:52:46.416 ♪ I'm a wanderin' worker ♪ 975 00:52:46.458 --> 00:52:50.295 ♪ And I go from town to town ♪ 976 00:52:50.378 --> 00:52:52.797 ♪ Police, they make it hard for me ♪ 977 00:52:52.881 --> 00:52:55.967 ♪ Wherever I may go ♪ 978 00:52:56.051 --> 00:52:58.303 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 979 00:52:58.386 --> 00:53:02.223 ♪ In this world anymore ♪ 980 00:53:02.307 --> 00:53:04.893 ♪ That old dust storm ♪ 981 00:53:04.976 --> 00:53:08.104 ♪ Killed my baby ♪ 982 00:53:08.146 --> 00:53:11.066 ♪ But it won't kill me, Lord ♪ 983 00:53:11.149 --> 00:53:13.193 ♪ It won't kill me ♪ 984 00:53:14.277 --> 00:53:16.780 ♪ That old dust storm ♪ 985 00:53:16.863 --> 00:53:19.491 ♪ It killed my family ♪ 986 00:53:19.574 --> 00:53:22.535 ♪ But it won't kill me, Lord ♪ 987 00:53:22.619 --> 00:53:24.662 ♪ It won't kill me ♪ 988 00:53:26.331 --> 00:53:29.250 ♪ I'm farmin' on the shares ♪ 989 00:53:29.334 --> 00:53:31.920 ♪ And always I am poor ♪ 990 00:53:32.504 --> 00:53:35.173 ♪ And all my crops they go ♪ 991 00:53:35.215 --> 00:53:37.884 ♪ Into the banker's door ♪ 992 00:53:37.967 --> 00:53:41.221 ♪ And my wife took down and died ♪ 993 00:53:41.304 --> 00:53:44.391 ♪ Upon the cabin floor ♪ 994 00:53:44.474 --> 00:53:46.685 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 995 00:53:46.726 --> 00:53:50.313 ♪ In this world anymore ♪ 996 00:53:51.189 --> 00:53:53.566 ♪ That old landlord ♪ 997 00:53:53.650 --> 00:53:56.027 ♪ He got my homestead ♪ 998 00:53:56.569 --> 00:53:59.906 ♪ But he won't get me, Lord ♪ 999 00:53:59.989 --> 00:54:02.534 ♪ He won't get me ♪ 1000 00:54:02.575 --> 00:54:05.328 ♪ That old pawn shop ♪ 1001 00:54:05.370 --> 00:54:08.331 ♪ Might get my furniture ♪ 1002 00:54:08.373 --> 00:54:12.210 ♪ But it won't get me, Lord ♪ 1003 00:54:12.252 --> 00:54:14.004 ♪ It won't get me ♪ 1004 00:54:15.547 --> 00:54:18.258 ♪ As I travel 'round ♪ 1005 00:54:18.341 --> 00:54:21.219 ♪ It's very plain to see ♪ 1006 00:54:21.261 --> 00:54:24.389 ♪ That this whole world's a great ♪ 1007 00:54:24.431 --> 00:54:27.475 ♪ And a funny place to be ♪ 1008 00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.437 ♪ Where the gamblin' man gets rich ♪ 1009 00:54:30.520 --> 00:54:33.898 ♪ And the workin' man is poor ♪ 1010 00:54:33.982 --> 00:54:36.192 ♪ I ain't got no home ♪ 1011 00:54:36.234 --> 00:54:39.821 ♪ In this world anymore ♪ 1012 00:54:41.156 --> 00:54:43.992 (fiddle playing Western music) 1013 00:54:44.075 --> 00:54:47.454 ♪ ♪ 1014 00:54:55.420 --> 00:54:58.590 Taylor: My father was born in Abilene, Texas. 1015 00:54:58.673 --> 00:55:01.343 (somber, syncopated jazz playing) 1016 00:55:01.426 --> 00:55:03.970 He died when I was four. 1017 00:55:05.805 --> 00:55:07.724 So we're going to sing this song. Uh... 1018 00:55:07.766 --> 00:55:10.101 I just want to point out that I decided to sing 1019 00:55:10.185 --> 00:55:14.064 one of the hardest popular songs in the history of popular songs 1020 00:55:14.105 --> 00:55:16.775 at hour, what is it, 16? 1021 00:55:16.858 --> 00:55:19.778 -Matt: 16, yeah, 17. -Something like that. Yeah. 1022 00:55:19.819 --> 00:55:21.780 A-And the reason that I decided to do it 1023 00:55:21.863 --> 00:55:24.991 is because this song traumatized me as a child, 1024 00:55:25.075 --> 00:55:29.829 and I thought, "Well, only way to get over that trauma is to own it." 1025 00:55:31.498 --> 00:55:34.793 This was my dad's favorite song. 1026 00:55:34.876 --> 00:55:37.962 (chuckles) I don't know if that's true, but that's what I was told. 1027 00:55:38.046 --> 00:55:41.758 ♪ I wonder what he'll think of me ♪ 1028 00:55:42.676 --> 00:55:44.886 ♪ I bet he'll call me ♪ 1029 00:55:44.928 --> 00:55:47.180 ♪ The "old man" ♪ 1030 00:55:47.263 --> 00:55:48.807 ♪ I bet he'll think ♪ 1031 00:55:48.848 --> 00:55:53.561 ♪ I can lick every other fella's father ♪ 1032 00:55:53.978 --> 00:55:57.107 ♪♪ Well, I can ♪ 1033 00:55:59.984 --> 00:56:03.655 ♪ I bet that he'll turn out to be ♪ 1034 00:56:03.697 --> 00:56:08.326 ♪ The spittin' image of his dad ♪ 1035 00:56:08.410 --> 00:56:11.329 ♪ But he'll have more common sense ♪ 1036 00:56:11.371 --> 00:56:13.832 ♪ Than his puddin'-headed father ♪ 1037 00:56:13.915 --> 00:56:16.376 ♪ Ever had! ♪ 1038 00:56:19.796 --> 00:56:21.673 ♪ Bill ♪ 1039 00:56:23.133 --> 00:56:24.676 ♪ My boy Bill ♪ 1040 00:56:24.759 --> 00:56:28.179 ♪ I will see that he's named after me ♪ 1041 00:56:28.221 --> 00:56:30.515 ♪ I will ♪ 1042 00:56:30.557 --> 00:56:32.017 ♪ My boy Bill ♪ 1043 00:56:32.058 --> 00:56:35.270 ♪ He'll be tall and as tough as a tree ♪ 1044 00:56:35.353 --> 00:56:37.063 ♪ Will Bill ♪ 1045 00:56:37.147 --> 00:56:41.234 ♪ Like a tree he'll grow with his head held high ♪ 1046 00:56:41.317 --> 00:56:44.863 ♪ And his feet planted firm on the ground ♪ 1047 00:56:44.946 --> 00:56:48.199 ♪ And you won't see nobody dare ♪ 1048 00:56:48.283 --> 00:56:50.201 ♪ To try to boss him ♪ 1049 00:56:50.285 --> 00:56:52.120 ♪ Or toss him around! ♪ 1050 00:56:52.203 --> 00:56:55.498 ♪ No flat bottom, flabby face, pot-bellied ♪ 1051 00:56:55.540 --> 00:57:00.628 ♪ Baggy-eyed bastard will boss him around ♪ 1052 00:57:00.712 --> 00:57:03.340 Taylor: I grew up with this mythology, 1053 00:57:03.381 --> 00:57:07.469 I'm not supposed to be the way I am. 1054 00:57:07.552 --> 00:57:10.221 That's-- I'm supposed to be like Bill, 1055 00:57:10.305 --> 00:57:16.561 like his ideal version of, of what a son would be is what I'm supposed to be. 1056 00:57:17.854 --> 00:57:20.065 (contemplative horns blowing) 1057 00:57:25.028 --> 00:57:27.113 Oh, no... 1058 00:57:27.197 --> 00:57:31.910 What if he is a girl? 1059 00:57:31.951 --> 00:57:34.037 (gasps) 1060 00:57:35.747 --> 00:57:36.915 (groans) 1061 00:57:36.956 --> 00:57:39.876 Oh, Bill, Bill! 1062 00:57:39.918 --> 00:57:43.588 Now, what can I do f-- What can I do for her? 1063 00:57:43.630 --> 00:57:47.425 What can I do with her? 1064 00:57:47.467 --> 00:57:50.220 ♪ You can have fun with a son ♪ 1065 00:57:50.261 --> 00:57:53.056 ♪ But you gotta be a father ♪ 1066 00:57:53.098 --> 00:57:58.103 ♪ To a girl ♪ 1067 00:57:59.354 --> 00:58:00.605 ♪ My little girl ♪ 1068 00:58:00.689 --> 00:58:03.233 (relentless music playing) 1069 00:58:03.274 --> 00:58:05.527 ♪ I gotta get ready ♪ 1070 00:58:05.610 --> 00:58:07.529 ♪ Before she comes ♪ 1071 00:58:07.612 --> 00:58:09.781 ♪ I got to make certain ♪ 1072 00:58:09.823 --> 00:58:12.575 ♪ That she won't be dragged ♪ 1073 00:58:12.617 --> 00:58:15.620 ♪ Through the slums with a lot of bums ♪ 1074 00:58:15.662 --> 00:58:18.498 ♪ Like me ♪ 1075 00:58:19.791 --> 00:58:21.543 ♪ She's gotta be sheltered ♪ 1076 00:58:21.626 --> 00:58:23.545 ♪ And fed and dressed ♪ 1077 00:58:23.628 --> 00:58:27.590 ♪ In the best that money can buy ♪ 1078 00:58:27.632 --> 00:58:29.551 ♪ I never knew how ♪ 1079 00:58:29.634 --> 00:58:31.636 ♪ To get money ♪ 1080 00:58:31.720 --> 00:58:33.138 ♪ But I'll try! ♪ 1081 00:58:33.221 --> 00:58:35.974 ♪ By God, I'll try! ♪ 1082 00:58:36.016 --> 00:58:39.644 ♪ I'll go out and make it ♪ 1083 00:58:39.686 --> 00:58:41.563 ♪ Or steal it ♪ 1084 00:58:41.646 --> 00:58:46.651 ♪ Or take it ♪ 1085 00:58:46.693 --> 00:58:48.111 ♪ Or ♪ 1086 00:58:48.153 --> 00:58:55.201 ♪ Die! ♪ 1087 00:58:55.577 --> 00:58:58.163 (cheering and applause) 1088 00:59:12.886 --> 00:59:17.349 Machine: I made this Marilyn Monroe kind of wig 1089 00:59:17.432 --> 00:59:22.103 out of 3D glasses and, um, the big, almost like poodle-esque kind of skirt, 1090 00:59:22.187 --> 00:59:25.940 lots of white picket fences, and all of the houses that were the same. 1091 00:59:26.024 --> 00:59:28.485 McDonald's, the rise of the suburbs, 1092 00:59:28.568 --> 00:59:34.616 uh, you know, complete with a marabou white picket fence, but not before the heels. 1093 00:59:34.699 --> 00:59:38.661 -(Latin rhythm playing) -Machine: Gorgeous. Yes! 1094 00:59:38.703 --> 00:59:41.206 Yes. Beautiful. 1095 00:59:41.247 --> 00:59:42.957 Stunning. Stunning. 1096 00:59:43.041 --> 00:59:45.001 It's so good. 1097 00:59:45.043 --> 00:59:46.086 Perfect. 1098 00:59:46.169 --> 00:59:49.339 Yes. Yes. 1099 00:59:49.381 --> 00:59:51.049 What about fingers in mouth? 1100 00:59:51.132 --> 00:59:54.928 Oh, my gosh, she just came from the drive-through. 1101 00:59:55.011 --> 00:59:57.722 She can't wait to go home for her TV dinner. 1102 00:59:57.806 --> 00:59:59.224 Love, love, love. 1103 00:59:59.307 --> 01:00:01.518 Taylor: I grew up in Stockton, California, 1104 01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:04.229 which is maybe two and a half hours away 1105 01:00:04.312 --> 01:00:07.023 from San Francisco. 1106 01:00:07.065 --> 01:00:11.820 It's in the middle of what used to be great farmland 1107 01:00:11.903 --> 01:00:14.531 but has been overdeveloped with tract housing, 1108 01:00:14.572 --> 01:00:18.410 so it's a lot of, uh, kinda cheap, ugly houses 1109 01:00:18.493 --> 01:00:20.286 one after another after another. 1110 01:00:20.370 --> 01:00:22.038 It was pretty homophobic. 1111 01:00:22.372 --> 01:00:28.628 Nobody said anything about gay people unless it was to call us fags. 1112 01:00:28.712 --> 01:00:31.047 Now the white people in the suburbs, 1113 01:00:31.089 --> 01:00:34.217 they can stop people of color from being in their community 1114 01:00:34.259 --> 01:00:37.762 by making it really hard for people of color to get loans. 1115 01:00:37.846 --> 01:00:43.143 But what they can't do is stop the white queer from being born amongst them. 1116 01:00:43.226 --> 01:00:47.313 -(cheering) -You thought you were safe in the suburbs, 1117 01:00:47.397 --> 01:00:49.107 and then your child is me. 1118 01:00:49.190 --> 01:00:51.943 (laughter and cheering) 1119 01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:58.575 All the young men ages 18 to 30 who are straight 1120 01:00:58.783 --> 01:01:01.953 are going to come to the stage now because 1121 01:01:01.995 --> 01:01:04.122 the only way the white queer 1122 01:01:04.205 --> 01:01:09.461 can hook up with anyone is if he converts. 1123 01:01:09.502 --> 01:01:11.504 ♪ When marimba rhythm ♪ 1124 01:01:11.588 --> 01:01:13.298 ♪ Starts to play ♪ 1125 01:01:13.340 --> 01:01:14.883 ♪ Dance with me ♪ 1126 01:01:14.966 --> 01:01:16.176 ♪ Make me sway ♪ 1127 01:01:16.259 --> 01:01:17.802 All the straight guys! 1128 01:01:17.844 --> 01:01:20.805 ♪ Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore ♪ 1129 01:01:20.847 --> 01:01:23.183 ♪ Sway me smooth ♪ 1130 01:01:23.266 --> 01:01:25.060 ♪ Sway me more ♪ 1131 01:01:25.143 --> 01:01:28.730 ♪ Other dancers may be on the floor, yeah ♪ 1132 01:01:28.813 --> 01:01:32.650 ♪ Dear, but my eyes, they see only you ♪ 1133 01:01:32.692 --> 01:01:36.112 ♪ Only you have the magic technique ♪ 1134 01:01:36.154 --> 01:01:39.783 ♪ When we sway, I go weak ♪ 1135 01:01:39.824 --> 01:01:42.243 Do exactly what I do. 1136 01:01:42.327 --> 01:01:43.661 ♪ ♪ 1137 01:01:43.745 --> 01:01:46.039 (cheering) 1138 01:01:54.881 --> 01:01:58.426 ♪ Other dancers may be on the floor ♪ 1139 01:01:58.510 --> 01:02:01.971 ♪ Dear, but my eyes, they see only you ♪ 1140 01:02:02.013 --> 01:02:05.767 ♪ Only you have the magic technique ♪ 1141 01:02:05.850 --> 01:02:07.143 ♪ When we sway ♪ 1142 01:02:07.227 --> 01:02:09.854 ♪I go weak ♪ 1143 01:02:09.896 --> 01:02:12.899 ♪ I can hear the sound of violins ♪ 1144 01:02:12.982 --> 01:02:17.070 ♪ Long before it begins ♪ 1145 01:02:17.153 --> 01:02:19.864 ♪ When we sway you have a way with me ♪ 1146 01:02:19.906 --> 01:02:21.282 ♪ Stay with me ♪ 1147 01:02:21.324 --> 01:02:22.450 Do exactly what I'm doing. 1148 01:02:22.534 --> 01:02:24.285 ♪ Stay with me ♪ 1149 01:02:24.369 --> 01:02:26.746 (panting) 1150 01:02:27.372 --> 01:02:31.292 (raucous cheering) 1151 01:02:37.257 --> 01:02:40.552 Keep doing that, keep doing that, keep doing that, keep doing that. 1152 01:02:42.554 --> 01:02:44.556 I think we have a winner. 1153 01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:45.640 (cheering) 1154 01:02:45.724 --> 01:02:47.642 You all may go sit down now. 1155 01:02:47.726 --> 01:02:50.145 Thank you. Thank you. 1156 01:02:50.228 --> 01:02:52.897 (men shouting) 1157 01:02:52.939 --> 01:02:55.400 ♪ Don't ♪ (panting) 1158 01:02:55.483 --> 01:02:57.110 ♪ Don't ♪ 1159 01:02:57.193 --> 01:02:59.154 ♪ That's what you say in the suburbs ♪ 1160 01:02:59.237 --> 01:03:02.240 When I wanna have a little public display of affection with you 1161 01:03:02.323 --> 01:03:04.784 and you're gonna try to stop me, you know, just a little bit at first 1162 01:03:04.868 --> 01:03:08.121 and then by the end of the number, I'm gonna be chasing you around the stage. 1163 01:03:08.204 --> 01:03:09.247 Okay? 1164 01:03:09.330 --> 01:03:12.083 ♪ Each time ♪ 1165 01:03:12.167 --> 01:03:14.711 ♪ That I hold you ♪ 1166 01:03:14.753 --> 01:03:17.339 ♪ This way ♪ 1167 01:03:19.174 --> 01:03:22.010 ♪ When the night is cold ♪ 1168 01:03:22.093 --> 01:03:24.929 ♪ And I want to hold you ♪ 1169 01:03:24.971 --> 01:03:26.973 ♪ Baby, don't say "Don't" ♪ 1170 01:03:27.057 --> 01:03:29.768 ♪ Don't, come on, say "Don't" ♪ 1171 01:03:29.851 --> 01:03:31.102 (laughs) 1172 01:03:31.144 --> 01:03:36.024 ♪ Don't leave my embrace ♪ 1173 01:03:36.107 --> 01:03:41.112 ♪ For here in my arms ♪ 1174 01:03:41.196 --> 01:03:43.948 ♪ Is your place ♪ 1175 01:03:44.032 --> 01:03:46.368 Just give me a kiss! 1176 01:03:46.451 --> 01:03:48.620 Ehhhh... 1177 01:03:48.661 --> 01:03:50.872 ♪ And if you think that ♪ 1178 01:03:50.955 --> 01:03:54.709 ♪ This is just a way ♪ 1179 01:03:54.793 --> 01:03:58.546 ♪ Of saying ♪ 1180 01:03:58.630 --> 01:04:00.840 ♪ I don't mean... ♪ 1181 01:04:02.592 --> 01:04:03.677 (laughs) 1182 01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:08.973 ♪ ...everything I say ♪ 1183 01:04:09.057 --> 01:04:11.434 ♪ Don't... ♪ Just give me, love me! 1184 01:04:11.476 --> 01:04:13.728 Why can't you love me? 1185 01:04:13.812 --> 01:04:17.273 Don't... (sobbing) 1186 01:04:17.315 --> 01:04:19.025 ♪ That's ♪ 1187 01:04:19.109 --> 01:04:22.570 ♪ What you say ♪ 1188 01:04:22.654 --> 01:04:25.615 ♪ For here ♪ 1189 01:04:25.657 --> 01:04:28.118 ♪ In my arms ♪ 1190 01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:31.705 ♪ Is your place ♪ 1191 01:04:31.788 --> 01:04:34.874 ♪ ♪ 1192 01:04:34.958 --> 01:04:38.336 (cheering and applause) 1193 01:04:40.547 --> 01:04:42.215 Audience Member: Whoo! 1194 01:04:42.298 --> 01:04:45.260 (band playing "Freedom Highway") 1195 01:04:48.680 --> 01:04:50.557 ♪ Marching ♪ 1196 01:04:50.640 --> 01:04:53.143 ♪ On the freedom highway ♪ 1197 01:04:55.020 --> 01:04:56.813 ♪ Marching ♪ 1198 01:04:56.855 --> 01:04:59.190 ♪ Each and every day ♪ 1199 01:05:01.026 --> 01:05:03.945 You all are on the bus to the March on Washington now. 1200 01:05:04.029 --> 01:05:06.322 ♪ On the freedom highway ♪ 1201 01:05:07.907 --> 01:05:11.369 ♪ I found dead people in the forest ♪ 1202 01:05:11.411 --> 01:05:14.622 ♪ The Tallahatchie River and lake ♪ 1203 01:05:14.706 --> 01:05:17.709 ♪ The whole wide world is wonderin' ♪ 1204 01:05:17.751 --> 01:05:21.713 ♪ Oh, what's wrong with the United States? ♪ 1205 01:05:21.755 --> 01:05:24.924 ♪ Oh, yes, we want peace ♪ 1206 01:05:25.008 --> 01:05:28.094 ♪ That's if it can be found ♪ 1207 01:05:28.178 --> 01:05:31.431 ♪ I'm gonna stay on freedom's highway ♪ 1208 01:05:31.514 --> 01:05:34.601 ♪ And I won't be turned around ♪ 1209 01:05:34.684 --> 01:05:38.396 ♪ Well, I guess I'll vote for the right one ♪ 1210 01:05:38.438 --> 01:05:41.649 ♪ Who said we'll overcome ♪ 1211 01:05:41.733 --> 01:05:45.278 ♪ And I'll march on freedom's highway ♪ 1212 01:05:45.362 --> 01:05:48.073 ♪ Until the day is done ♪ 1213 01:05:48.114 --> 01:05:49.532 ♪ Oh, yeah, yeah ♪ 1214 01:05:49.574 --> 01:05:50.909 ♪ Marching ♪ 1215 01:05:50.992 --> 01:05:53.745 ♪ On the freedom highway ♪ 1216 01:05:53.828 --> 01:05:55.163 ♪ Yeah, hey, yeah ♪ 1217 01:05:55.246 --> 01:05:57.749 ♪ Marching ♪ 1218 01:05:57.791 --> 01:06:00.710 ♪ Each and every day ♪ 1219 01:06:00.752 --> 01:06:02.629 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1220 01:06:02.712 --> 01:06:04.839 ♪ I said I made up, I made up my mind ♪ 1221 01:06:04.923 --> 01:06:06.341 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1222 01:06:06.424 --> 01:06:08.259 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1223 01:06:08.301 --> 01:06:09.969 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1224 01:06:10.053 --> 01:06:11.429 ♪ Made up my mind ♪ 1225 01:06:11.471 --> 01:06:13.098 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1226 01:06:13.181 --> 01:06:14.849 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1227 01:06:14.933 --> 01:06:16.267 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1228 01:06:16.309 --> 01:06:18.019 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1229 01:06:18.103 --> 01:06:20.188 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1230 01:06:20.271 --> 01:06:21.731 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1231 01:06:21.773 --> 01:06:23.149 ♪ I made up my mind ♪ 1232 01:06:23.233 --> 01:06:24.818 ♪ Made up my mind ♪ 1233 01:06:24.901 --> 01:06:26.236 ♪ And I won't turn around ♪ 1234 01:06:26.277 --> 01:06:28.113 ♪ And I won't turn a... ♪ 1235 01:06:28.154 --> 01:06:29.989 ♪ ...round ♪ 1236 01:06:30.073 --> 01:06:32.409 ♪ Ooh-ooh... ♪ 1237 01:06:32.450 --> 01:06:35.745 ♪ Every ♪ 1238 01:06:35.787 --> 01:06:37.038 ♪ Day ♪ 1239 01:06:37.122 --> 01:06:41.292 ♪ Hey-ey-ey-ey... ♪ 1240 01:06:41.376 --> 01:06:44.421 ♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪ 1241 01:06:44.462 --> 01:06:45.630 Hey! 1242 01:06:45.714 --> 01:06:49.092 (cheering) 1243 01:06:49.134 --> 01:06:52.303 Steffanie Christi'an and Thornetta Davis! 1244 01:06:54.472 --> 01:07:00.603 The March on Washington, it was organized by a queer Black man by the name of Bayard Rustin. 1245 01:07:00.645 --> 01:07:02.814 (cheering) 1246 01:07:02.897 --> 01:07:07.193 They did not want you to know he was a queer Black man, 1247 01:07:07.277 --> 01:07:10.655 because they were thinking, "One thing at a time." 1248 01:07:10.697 --> 01:07:12.032 (laughing) 1249 01:07:12.115 --> 01:07:15.493 Taylor: Growing up in Stockton, 1250 01:07:15.535 --> 01:07:18.329 you're feeling like the world is attacking you, 1251 01:07:18.371 --> 01:07:22.792 and so you have to find your people or, or you'll dissolve, 1252 01:07:22.834 --> 01:07:24.669 um... 1253 01:07:24.753 --> 01:07:26.212 or be beaten to a pulp. 1254 01:07:26.296 --> 01:07:28.006 You know, you have to find, you have to find them. 1255 01:07:28.048 --> 01:07:29.674 So I-I found them. 1256 01:07:29.716 --> 01:07:31.676 1, 2, 3, 4... 1257 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:34.596 (playing "Born to Run") 1258 01:07:37.390 --> 01:07:40.685 ♪ In the day we sweat it out on the streets ♪ 1259 01:07:40.727 --> 01:07:44.230 ♪ Of a runaway American dream ♪ 1260 01:07:44.314 --> 01:07:48.026 ♪ At night we ride through the mansions of glory ♪ 1261 01:07:48.068 --> 01:07:51.279 ♪ In our suicide machines ♪ 1262 01:07:51.363 --> 01:07:54.366 ♪ Sprung out on cages out on Highway 9 ♪ 1263 01:07:54.449 --> 01:07:56.493 ♪ Chrome wheeled, fuel injected ♪ 1264 01:07:56.534 --> 01:08:00.413 ♪ And steppin' out over the line ♪ 1265 01:08:00.497 --> 01:08:05.085 ♪ Whoa, baby this town rips the bones from your back ♪ 1266 01:08:05.168 --> 01:08:06.419 ♪ It's a death trap ♪ 1267 01:08:06.503 --> 01:08:08.213 ♪ It's a suicide rap ♪ 1268 01:08:08.296 --> 01:08:11.466 ♪ We gotta get out while we're young ♪ 1269 01:08:11.549 --> 01:08:13.593 ♪ 'Cause, baby tramps like us ♪ 1270 01:08:13.677 --> 01:08:17.889 ♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪ 1271 01:08:25.479 --> 01:08:27.941 This is what's gonna happen. 1272 01:08:28.024 --> 01:08:29.984 I'm going to be the queer of America, 1273 01:08:30.068 --> 01:08:32.028 you're the homophobes of America. 1274 01:08:32.069 --> 01:08:35.740 -Audience: Whoo! -I'm gonna run by you, and when I run by you, 1275 01:08:35.823 --> 01:08:38.368 you can throw your ping-pong balls at me, okay? 1276 01:08:38.410 --> 01:08:40.453 One, two, three, four! 1277 01:08:40.537 --> 01:08:43.415 ♪ The highway's full of broken heroes ♪ 1278 01:08:43.497 --> 01:08:46.417 ♪ In a last chance power drive ♪ 1279 01:08:46.459 --> 01:08:49.879 ♪ Everybody's out on the run tonight ♪ 1280 01:08:49.921 --> 01:08:52.506 ♪ And there's no place left to hide... ♪ 1281 01:08:52.590 --> 01:08:54.509 (groans) 1282 01:08:54.591 --> 01:08:56.594 Niegel: My mom a-and dad came 1283 01:08:56.636 --> 01:08:58.888 and after the show ends, my mom 1284 01:08:58.930 --> 01:09:01.599 still has the ping-pong ball in her hand and she says, 1285 01:09:01.683 --> 01:09:04.435 "I'm sorry, but I-I just couldn't throw it." 1286 01:09:04.477 --> 01:09:06.312 And his aunt was like, "Yay, I'll..." 1287 01:09:06.395 --> 01:09:08.148 She was throwing the ping-pong ball. 1288 01:09:08.231 --> 01:09:13.069 Everyone has a different internal monologue that they're going through. 1289 01:09:13.111 --> 01:09:15.779 That's the art that's in the room. 1290 01:09:15.863 --> 01:09:17.115 ♪ Run ♪ 1291 01:09:17.157 --> 01:09:22.120 ♪ Run-uh-uh-uh-un ♪ 1292 01:09:22.162 --> 01:09:24.663 (band playing dramatic finish) 1293 01:09:24.747 --> 01:09:26.416 (applause) 1294 01:09:26.457 --> 01:09:30.462 So that's what it was like in America before Will & Grace. 1295 01:09:30.545 --> 01:09:31.671 (laughter) 1296 01:09:31.755 --> 01:09:34.883 (band playing "Snakeskin Cowboys") 1297 01:09:38.261 --> 01:09:39.970 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1298 01:09:40.055 --> 01:09:43.224 ♪ Snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1299 01:09:45.810 --> 01:09:49.898 ♪ Who the hell you think you are? ♪ 1300 01:09:53.026 --> 01:09:55.528 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1301 01:09:55.612 --> 01:09:59.199 ♪ With your high-heeled boots ♪ 1302 01:10:00.909 --> 01:10:04.871 ♪ Don't think that should get too far ♪ 1303 01:10:07.957 --> 01:10:10.919 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1304 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:13.922 ♪ With your fancy pants on ♪ 1305 01:10:15.507 --> 01:10:20.011 ♪ You ain't got nothin' on me ♪ 1306 01:10:23.264 --> 01:10:25.517 ♪ Thinkin' you got it ♪ 1307 01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:29.354 ♪ Right here on the stage ♪ 1308 01:10:30.522 --> 01:10:33.316 ♪ Stick around, boys ♪ 1309 01:10:33.358 --> 01:10:38.863 ♪ Maybe I can set you free ♪ 1310 01:10:38.947 --> 01:10:41.491 Matt and I, we didn't wanna actually have to listen 1311 01:10:41.533 --> 01:10:43.952 to the Ted Nugent song in order to learn it. 1312 01:10:44.035 --> 01:10:45.704 (laughter) 1313 01:10:45.745 --> 01:10:48.373 We read the lyrics and they seemed bad enough. 1314 01:10:48.415 --> 01:10:50.834 I said, "This lyric is about fag-bashing." 1315 01:10:50.875 --> 01:10:53.753 And, and I thought, "Well, that's maybe not true." 1316 01:10:53.837 --> 01:10:57.257 And then I-I heard an interview with Ted Nugent from the '70s 1317 01:10:57.340 --> 01:11:00.010 where he said, "This song's about fags." 1318 01:11:00.051 --> 01:11:02.429 He doesn't like anyone who dresses fancy on a stage, 1319 01:11:02.512 --> 01:11:04.848 and he's gonna set them free. 1320 01:11:07.100 --> 01:11:10.311 Maybe you could see why I would take offense to that song. 1321 01:11:10.395 --> 01:11:12.188 (laughter) 1322 01:11:12.230 --> 01:11:15.942 When I read that lyric, I said, "We're gonna appropriate that shit." 1323 01:11:16.026 --> 01:11:19.320 (cheering) 1324 01:11:19.404 --> 01:11:22.741 So, so Matt threw down some of his own music 1325 01:11:22.782 --> 01:11:26.911 and we decided to turn the song into a gay junior prom song. 1326 01:11:27.996 --> 01:11:29.914 I want you to find somebody 1327 01:11:29.998 --> 01:11:32.667 who is the same gender as you. 1328 01:11:32.751 --> 01:11:36.254 If you're gender queer, you can pick anybody. 1329 01:11:36.296 --> 01:11:38.757 And find someone who's the same gender as you 1330 01:11:38.840 --> 01:11:41.426 and you're going to slow-dance with them. 1331 01:11:41.468 --> 01:11:43.553 Come on up, come on up. Everybody, everybody up. 1332 01:11:43.595 --> 01:11:46.639 Stand up. Stand up, everybody. You're all doing this now. 1333 01:11:46.723 --> 01:11:50.393 You're all finding somebody of your same gender to dance with. 1334 01:11:50.435 --> 01:11:52.896 Here, let me-- I'll demonstrate on this guy right here. 1335 01:11:52.937 --> 01:11:57.609 I've noticed, uh, that when straight guys dance, 1336 01:11:57.650 --> 01:11:59.611 or even gay guys that don't know each other, 1337 01:11:59.694 --> 01:12:01.863 they can sometimes, you know, um, ch-- 1338 01:12:01.946 --> 01:12:04.491 or when they hug, they, like, try to put their, their pelvises 1339 01:12:04.574 --> 01:12:07.494 as far away from each other as possible. 1340 01:12:07.577 --> 01:12:09.954 Like, I don't want any space between you. 1341 01:12:10.038 --> 01:12:12.415 I want this kind of... 1342 01:12:12.457 --> 01:12:14.084 -All right? Okay? -Okay. 1343 01:12:14.125 --> 01:12:16.461 All right. So that's what I want. So go find somebody. 1344 01:12:16.544 --> 01:12:18.296 It doesn't have to be two people, 1345 01:12:18.338 --> 01:12:19.464 it can be three people. 1346 01:12:19.547 --> 01:12:21.675 It's not a heteronormative narrative. 1347 01:12:25.345 --> 01:12:27.430 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1348 01:12:27.472 --> 01:12:29.849 ♪ Snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1349 01:12:33.603 --> 01:12:37.524 ♪ Who the hell you think you are? ♪ 1350 01:12:40.777 --> 01:12:43.029 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1351 01:12:43.113 --> 01:12:47.033 ♪ With your high-heeled sneakers ♪ 1352 01:12:48.785 --> 01:12:53.665 ♪ Don't think that should get too far ♪ 1353 01:12:56.710 --> 01:12:59.254 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1354 01:12:59.337 --> 01:13:02.757 ♪ With your fancy pants on ♪ 1355 01:13:04.551 --> 01:13:08.680 ♪ Prancin' all around the stage ♪ 1356 01:13:10.515 --> 01:13:12.308 All right, I let you have a round 1357 01:13:12.350 --> 01:13:15.520 where you got to laugh and joke and hook up with people and stuff. 1358 01:13:15.562 --> 01:13:16.771 -(laughter) -Audience Member: Whoo! 1359 01:13:16.855 --> 01:13:21.151 But now, I want you to take it really seriously. 1360 01:13:21.192 --> 01:13:25.196 I realize that sometimes the nervous laughter and the chatting and stuff 1361 01:13:25.280 --> 01:13:30.493 is about intimacy with strangers in public spaces and, you know, I get it, 1362 01:13:30.535 --> 01:13:33.538 but it's also maybe the possibility 1363 01:13:33.621 --> 01:13:35.874 that there's a little bit of that nervousness 1364 01:13:35.957 --> 01:13:40.378 is about internalized homophobia or a homophobia, right? 1365 01:13:40.420 --> 01:13:44.466 So just, uh, just hold the person, 1366 01:13:44.549 --> 01:13:46.634 just be romantic with them 1367 01:13:46.718 --> 01:13:50.430 and while Matt plays this piano solo. 1368 01:13:50.513 --> 01:13:52.891 (romantic piano solo playing) 1369 01:13:52.932 --> 01:13:56.728 ♪ ♪ 1370 01:13:56.770 --> 01:14:00.231 Taylor: I want to believe that an artist's job 1371 01:14:00.315 --> 01:14:02.192 is to dream the culture forward. 1372 01:14:02.233 --> 01:14:06.988 So to look at the things that aren't working in society 1373 01:14:07.072 --> 01:14:10.867 and imagine how it could be better. 1374 01:14:11.659 --> 01:14:14.245 (piano music continues) 1375 01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:29.761 ♪ Ooh, snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1376 01:14:32.472 --> 01:14:36.768 ♪ Who the hell do you think you are? ♪ 1377 01:14:40.230 --> 01:14:42.524 ♪ You're hangin' around ♪ 1378 01:14:42.607 --> 01:14:46.027 ♪ With your high-heeled boots ♪ 1379 01:14:48.279 --> 01:14:53.785 ♪ Don't think that should get too far ♪ 1380 01:14:57.205 --> 01:14:59.624 ♪ Ooh ♪ 1381 01:14:59.666 --> 01:15:04.462 ♪ Snakeskin cowboys ♪ 1382 01:15:04.504 --> 01:15:07.132 (song ends) 1383 01:15:07.215 --> 01:15:08.633 (cheering and applause) 1384 01:15:08.717 --> 01:15:11.136 Thank you so much! 1385 01:15:11.553 --> 01:15:14.347 Taylor's created something that 1386 01:15:14.431 --> 01:15:17.350 is a radical format 1387 01:15:17.434 --> 01:15:19.102 for creating community, 1388 01:15:19.144 --> 01:15:20.603 and I, I think 1389 01:15:20.645 --> 01:15:23.314 the number-one reason we have problems in America 1390 01:15:23.356 --> 01:15:24.983 is lack of community. 1391 01:15:25.025 --> 01:15:26.317 That's my opinion. 1392 01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:30.363 Um, I think that's why all these people are so angry, 1393 01:15:30.447 --> 01:15:32.032 because they want to belong to something. 1394 01:15:32.115 --> 01:15:38.663 What Taylor does is opens the queer community to the world. 1395 01:15:38.705 --> 01:15:40.915 Taylor: We're gonna focus on songs that were 1396 01:15:40.999 --> 01:15:47.714 popular in the, in the back-room sex party from 1976 to '86. 1397 01:15:47.797 --> 01:15:50.008 (piano playing slow version of "Gloria") 1398 01:15:58.224 --> 01:15:59.601 ♪ Gloria ♪ 1399 01:15:59.684 --> 01:16:02.520 (laughter) 1400 01:16:02.604 --> 01:16:04.939 ♪ You're always on the run now ♪ 1401 01:16:06.691 --> 01:16:09.152 ♪ Runnin' after somebody ♪ 1402 01:16:11.613 --> 01:16:14.866 ♪ You got to get him somehow ♪ 1403 01:16:16.743 --> 01:16:20.955 ♪ I think you better slow down ♪ 1404 01:16:21.039 --> 01:16:25.669 ♪ Before you stop growing ♪ 1405 01:16:25.710 --> 01:16:29.714 ♪ I think you're headed for a breakdown ♪ 1406 01:16:30.924 --> 01:16:33.927 ♪ So be careful not to show it ♪ 1407 01:16:35.970 --> 01:16:39.182 ♪ Then you really don't remember ♪ 1408 01:16:40.892 --> 01:16:44.229 ♪ Was it something that he said? ♪ 1409 01:16:45.730 --> 01:16:49.317 ♪ Or the voices in your head ♪ 1410 01:16:52.153 --> 01:16:54.030 ♪ Calling ♪ 1411 01:16:54.114 --> 01:16:56.533 ♪ Gloria! ♪ 1412 01:16:56.574 --> 01:16:57.992 (laughter) 1413 01:16:58.076 --> 01:16:59.494 Okay. 1414 01:16:59.577 --> 01:17:03.039 So, every single person in this room 1415 01:17:03.081 --> 01:17:05.625 has had somebody in their life, at some point in their life, 1416 01:17:05.709 --> 01:17:09.546 tell them that having sex with multiple partners is a bad thing. 1417 01:17:09.587 --> 01:17:11.006 Every single person in this room. 1418 01:17:11.089 --> 01:17:14.092 So I want you to channel that person right now. 1419 01:17:14.175 --> 01:17:17.762 You're just going to point at your neighbors 1420 01:17:17.846 --> 01:17:20.056 and you're gonna sing this. 1421 01:17:22.100 --> 01:17:24.769 (quiet, judgemental tone) ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1422 01:17:24.853 --> 01:17:27.397 Just do it, channel that judgy person. 1423 01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:29.941 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1424 01:17:31.443 --> 01:17:34.404 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1425 01:17:36.281 --> 01:17:37.782 ♪ Gloria, Glo-- ♪ 1426 01:17:37.824 --> 01:17:40.243 Now, point it at yourself. 1427 01:17:40.285 --> 01:17:42.704 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1428 01:17:42.787 --> 01:17:44.372 And then other people and yourself. 1429 01:17:44.456 --> 01:17:48.168 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1430 01:17:49.294 --> 01:17:51.671 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1431 01:17:51.755 --> 01:17:54.215 (mouthing words) 1432 01:17:54.299 --> 01:17:55.842 Audience (softly): ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1433 01:17:55.925 --> 01:17:57.635 Taylor: Okay. Great. 1434 01:17:57.677 --> 01:18:01.723 All right, now the next step is, uh, 1435 01:18:01.806 --> 01:18:04.934 you're about to enter the back room and you're gonna liberate yourself, 1436 01:18:04.976 --> 01:18:07.312 so you're like, "Oh, my God! So exciting!" 1437 01:18:07.354 --> 01:18:10.648 So you're just gonna, like, shout out "Gloria" to the universe, 1438 01:18:10.732 --> 01:18:12.025 like you're saying hallelujah. 1439 01:18:12.108 --> 01:18:14.694 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ Yes. 1440 01:18:14.778 --> 01:18:16.154 (man shouts "Gloria!") 1441 01:18:16.237 --> 01:18:20.241 (with audience) ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1442 01:18:20.283 --> 01:18:23.036 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1443 01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:25.663 Great, you guys got that one, all right. 1444 01:18:25.747 --> 01:18:28.083 Now, now the real trick, 1445 01:18:28.166 --> 01:18:30.794 in order to really know what it's like in a back room, 1446 01:18:30.835 --> 01:18:34.339 you have to have that shaming, the shaming of yourself 1447 01:18:34.381 --> 01:18:38.510 and also the liberation all at the same time. 1448 01:18:38.551 --> 01:18:42.055 That's what it really feels like to be in the back room. 1449 01:18:42.138 --> 01:18:46.184 Okay, so, everybody, you just mix it up whenever you want, right? 1450 01:18:46.267 --> 01:18:49.354 It is not a homogeneous experience. 1451 01:18:49.437 --> 01:18:52.982 You can do all kinds of different things. Ready? Okay, here we go. 1452 01:18:53.024 --> 01:18:57.696 ♪ Gloria, Gloriaaaa! ♪ 1453 01:18:57.737 --> 01:19:00.156 ♪ Gloria, Gloria! ♪ 1454 01:19:00.198 --> 01:19:01.408 (tempo increasing) 1455 01:19:01.491 --> 01:19:05.036 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1456 01:19:05.120 --> 01:19:07.497 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1457 01:19:07.539 --> 01:19:08.957 Now, everybody up on your feet. 1458 01:19:09.040 --> 01:19:12.877 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1459 01:19:12.961 --> 01:19:15.964 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ Yeah. 1460 01:19:16.047 --> 01:19:20.051 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1461 01:19:20.093 --> 01:19:23.555 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1462 01:19:23.638 --> 01:19:26.683 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1463 01:19:26.725 --> 01:19:29.894 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1464 01:19:29.978 --> 01:19:32.647 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1465 01:19:32.731 --> 01:19:34.232 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1466 01:19:34.274 --> 01:19:35.525 One more! 1467 01:19:35.567 --> 01:19:38.862 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1468 01:19:38.903 --> 01:19:40.905 ♪ Gloria, Gloria ♪ 1469 01:19:40.947 --> 01:19:43.450 (cheering and applause) 1470 01:19:43.533 --> 01:19:45.535 (band playing "Heroes") 1471 01:19:49.914 --> 01:19:55.086 ♪ ♪ 1472 01:19:57.464 --> 01:19:59.883 ♪ I ♪ 1473 01:19:59.924 --> 01:20:02.552 ♪ I wish I could swim ♪ 1474 01:20:04.220 --> 01:20:06.806 ♪ Like the dolphins ♪ 1475 01:20:06.890 --> 01:20:09.893 ♪ Like the dolphins can swim ♪ 1476 01:20:11.936 --> 01:20:14.856 ♪ And nothing ♪ 1477 01:20:14.939 --> 01:20:18.109 ♪ Will keep us together ♪ 1478 01:20:18.693 --> 01:20:21.905 ♪ We can beat them ♪ 1479 01:20:21.946 --> 01:20:25.450 ♪ Forever and ever ♪ 1480 01:20:25.617 --> 01:20:29.662 ♪ We can be heroes ♪ 1481 01:20:29.746 --> 01:20:32.123 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1482 01:20:33.875 --> 01:20:36.628 ♪ I ♪ 1483 01:20:36.670 --> 01:20:39.923 ♪ I will be queen ♪ 1484 01:20:40.924 --> 01:20:43.635 ♪ And you ♪ 1485 01:20:43.677 --> 01:20:46.846 ♪ You'll be my queen ♪ 1486 01:20:48.431 --> 01:20:50.684 ♪ And nothing ♪ 1487 01:20:50.767 --> 01:20:54.020 ♪ Will tear us apart ♪ 1488 01:20:54.104 --> 01:20:57.899 ♪ Oh, we can beat them ♪ 1489 01:20:57.982 --> 01:21:01.569 ♪ Forever and ever ♪ 1490 01:21:01.653 --> 01:21:05.198 ♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1491 01:21:05.281 --> 01:21:08.618 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1492 01:21:09.994 --> 01:21:12.622 ♪ I ♪ 1493 01:21:12.664 --> 01:21:14.582 ♪ I remember ♪ 1494 01:21:14.666 --> 01:21:17.085 chorus: ♪ I remember ♪ 1495 01:21:17.168 --> 01:21:20.005 ♪ Standing ♪ (Audience cheering) 1496 01:21:20.046 --> 01:21:21.548 ♪ Standing by the wall ♪ 1497 01:21:21.631 --> 01:21:23.675 Chorus: ♪ By the wall ♪ 1498 01:21:23.758 --> 01:21:26.886 ♪ And the bullets flew ♪ 1499 01:21:26.970 --> 01:21:28.847 ♪ They flew above our heads ♪ 1500 01:21:28.930 --> 01:21:31.057 Chorus: ♪ Above our heads ♪ 1501 01:21:31.141 --> 01:21:33.685 ♪ And we kissed ♪ 1502 01:21:33.727 --> 01:21:35.937 ♪ As if nothing could fall ♪ 1503 01:21:36.021 --> 01:21:37.772 Chorus: ♪ Nothing could fall ♪ 1504 01:21:37.856 --> 01:21:40.358 ♪ And the shame ♪ 1505 01:21:40.442 --> 01:21:45.030 ♪ It was on the other side ♪ 1506 01:21:45.113 --> 01:21:48.199 ♪ We could beat them ♪ 1507 01:21:48.283 --> 01:21:51.619 ♪ Forever and ever ♪ 1508 01:21:52.120 --> 01:21:55.665 ♪♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1509 01:21:55.707 --> 01:21:58.168 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1510 01:21:58.209 --> 01:22:01.921 Come on down, Russian penis! 1511 01:22:02.005 --> 01:22:04.632 -(audience cheering) -Taylor: Here comes Gorbachev! 1512 01:22:04.716 --> 01:22:10.638 I think we're gonna have to have a Cold War reenactment. 1513 01:22:10.722 --> 01:22:17.395 But when we do, the penises are going to ejaculate all over you. 1514 01:22:17.479 --> 01:22:20.732 Now, when they do ejaculate on you, 1515 01:22:20.774 --> 01:22:25.278 I want you to take that energy and have a little sex magic ritual right now. 1516 01:22:25.362 --> 01:22:28.531 Take all that energy from it, 1517 01:22:28.573 --> 01:22:30.867 and we're going to put it out into the universe 1518 01:22:30.909 --> 01:22:33.953 so that we can have some world peace. 1519 01:22:34.037 --> 01:22:35.538 Everybody, pull that energy in. 1520 01:22:35.580 --> 01:22:38.541 You're gonna have three yells, ready? Here we go. 1521 01:22:38.583 --> 01:22:42.754 Ohh! Ohh... 1522 01:22:42.837 --> 01:22:45.465 ♪ Ohhhhhh... ♪ 1523 01:22:45.548 --> 01:22:47.300 (sky rockets whistling) 1524 01:22:49.969 --> 01:22:53.723 ♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1525 01:22:57.102 --> 01:23:00.772 ♪ We could be heroes ♪ 1526 01:23:00.855 --> 01:23:04.025 ♪ Just for one day ♪ 1527 01:23:04.109 --> 01:23:06.653 (cheering and applause) 1528 01:23:06.736 --> 01:23:08.738 (pianist improvising on theme) 1529 01:23:16.454 --> 01:23:20.375 Taylor: Because we've lost a musician every hour, 1530 01:23:20.458 --> 01:23:22.711 hour one, you've got all the support, 1531 01:23:22.794 --> 01:23:26.631 but as you're at your weakest, you have the least amount of support. 1532 01:23:28.133 --> 01:23:31.302 But the audience, they start to support us more. 1533 01:23:31.386 --> 01:23:34.973 We lose energy onstage, but they give more energy, 1534 01:23:35.015 --> 01:23:38.226 even though they are really tired too. 1535 01:23:38.768 --> 01:23:42.188 (audience whooping and hollering) 1536 01:23:44.774 --> 01:23:48.486 Taylor: We're also building ourselves because we rally together 1537 01:23:48.570 --> 01:23:51.197 to figure out how to navigate it. 1538 01:23:54.492 --> 01:23:56.661 (band playing "Love Will Tear Us Apart") 1539 01:23:56.703 --> 01:23:58.788 (cheering) 1540 01:24:02.834 --> 01:24:06.838 ♪ ♪ 1541 01:24:09.382 --> 01:24:12.969 ♪ When routine bites hard ♪ 1542 01:24:13.011 --> 01:24:17.015 ♪ And ambitions are low ♪ 1543 01:24:17.057 --> 01:24:20.018 ♪ And resentment runs high ♪ 1544 01:24:20.101 --> 01:24:23.480 ♪ But emotion won't grow ♪ 1545 01:24:23.897 --> 01:24:27.525 ♪ And we're changing our ways ♪ 1546 01:24:27.567 --> 01:24:31.613 ♪ Taking different roads ♪ 1547 01:24:31.696 --> 01:24:33.239 ♪ Love ♪ 1548 01:24:33.323 --> 01:24:38.203 ♪ Love will tear us apart again ♪ 1549 01:24:40.955 --> 01:24:42.874 Anastasia: This is the AIDS era, 1550 01:24:42.916 --> 01:24:47.712 the era when so many people lost their loved ones. 1551 01:24:50.382 --> 01:24:52.676 And, and, you know, like how your mascara runs, 1552 01:24:52.717 --> 01:24:56.179 so it's tears, but it's also like mascara's running, 1553 01:24:56.221 --> 01:24:58.932 and it's just like, it keeps running, 1554 01:24:59.015 --> 01:25:01.184 and it's, like, doesn't stop. 1555 01:25:05.105 --> 01:25:06.606 (song ends) 1556 01:25:06.690 --> 01:25:09.234 (cheering and applause) 1557 01:25:10.276 --> 01:25:12.487 (band playing "Blood Makes Noise") 1558 01:25:13.863 --> 01:25:15.865 1986. 1559 01:25:15.907 --> 01:25:19.077 I've just watched the network television premiere 1560 01:25:19.160 --> 01:25:21.788 of Clash of the Titans. 1561 01:25:21.871 --> 01:25:23.748 That night I go to bed 1562 01:25:23.832 --> 01:25:29.504 and I have a dream of Maggie Smith riding a Pegasus. 1563 01:25:29.587 --> 01:25:31.881 (laughter) 1564 01:25:31.923 --> 01:25:34.843 And it is my first wet dream. 1565 01:25:34.926 --> 01:25:38.263 (laughter) 1566 01:25:38.346 --> 01:25:41.433 There are also two men having sex in the dream, 1567 01:25:41.474 --> 01:25:45.186 but I think it was Maggie Smith that did it. 1568 01:25:45.270 --> 01:25:47.939 I woke up from that dream in, like, mid-orgasm, 1569 01:25:48.023 --> 01:25:49.941 I was like... (gasps) 1570 01:25:50.025 --> 01:25:53.445 And I immediately thought, "Gay people, when they have sex, 1571 01:25:53.528 --> 01:25:56.531 "they give each other AIDS, and I just had sex, and I'm gay. 1572 01:25:56.614 --> 01:25:59.826 That means I must have just given myself AIDS." 1573 01:26:01.786 --> 01:26:04.789 (clicks tongue) Then all that day at school, 1574 01:26:04.873 --> 01:26:08.501 the teachers were teaching, teaching, teaching, talking, talking, talking. 1575 01:26:08.585 --> 01:26:10.795 I couldn't listen to a single thing they were saying 1576 01:26:10.879 --> 01:26:14.632 'cause the entire time, I thought, "I'm gonna get AIDS." 1577 01:26:14.716 --> 01:26:16.718 ♪ I'd like to help you, Doctor ♪ 1578 01:26:16.801 --> 01:26:18.970 ♪ Yes, I really really would ♪ 1579 01:26:19.054 --> 01:26:20.388 ♪ But the din in my head ♪ 1580 01:26:20.472 --> 01:26:22.223 ♪ It's too much and it's no good ♪ 1581 01:26:22.307 --> 01:26:23.641 ♪ I'm standing in a windy tunnel ♪ 1582 01:26:23.725 --> 01:26:25.352 ♪ Shouting through the roar ♪ 1583 01:26:25.435 --> 01:26:27.937 ♪ And I'd like to give the information ♪ 1584 01:26:27.979 --> 01:26:29.064 ♪ As before ♪ 1585 01:26:29.147 --> 01:26:31.983 ♪ But blood makes noise ♪ 1586 01:26:34.569 --> 01:26:36.696 ♪ It's ringing in my ear ♪ 1587 01:26:36.780 --> 01:26:38.281 ♪ Blood makes ♪ 1588 01:26:38.323 --> 01:26:40.033 (whispering) ♪ Noise ♪ 1589 01:26:40.116 --> 01:26:44.287 ♪ I can't really hear you in the thickening, I fear ♪ 1590 01:26:45.872 --> 01:26:49.167 ♪ Blood makes noise ♪ 1591 01:26:49.209 --> 01:26:50.585 (applause) 1592 01:26:50.669 --> 01:26:54.589 So we've reached our AIDS decade, and, uh... 1593 01:26:54.673 --> 01:26:57.342 I thought we should lose something very special, 1594 01:26:57.384 --> 01:26:59.719 so this is our last time with Machine, 1595 01:26:59.803 --> 01:27:01.096 our costume designer. 1596 01:27:01.179 --> 01:27:03.348 (audience sighing) 1597 01:27:05.350 --> 01:27:08.228 (cheering) 1598 01:27:09.938 --> 01:27:13.274 Taylor: The audience has a bond to that queen. 1599 01:27:13.358 --> 01:27:15.402 Every time you see one of those outfits, 1600 01:27:15.485 --> 01:27:17.278 it is just pure delight, 1601 01:27:17.362 --> 01:27:19.489 so when you think that all of that delight 1602 01:27:19.531 --> 01:27:23.952 and all that artistry was gonna be taken away, 1603 01:27:24.035 --> 01:27:26.496 for me, it's... 1604 01:27:26.538 --> 01:27:30.959 what it was like to come of age during the AIDS epidemic. 1605 01:27:31.042 --> 01:27:34.504 Uh, every incredible artist 1606 01:27:34.546 --> 01:27:39.050 that you... hoped would be a mentor, 1607 01:27:39.092 --> 01:27:41.386 you know, um, passes. 1608 01:27:41.428 --> 01:27:44.597 (cheering and applause) 1609 01:27:44.681 --> 01:27:47.976 Taylor: It's time to say goodbye to our guitarist, 1610 01:27:48.059 --> 01:27:50.061 Viva DeConcini. 1611 01:27:54.482 --> 01:27:57.235 Niegel: The first time we lose a musician 1612 01:27:57.277 --> 01:27:59.237 after the first hour, you're like, 1613 01:27:59.279 --> 01:28:02.782 "But you've only been here an hour." 1614 01:28:02.866 --> 01:28:05.577 Uh... Hmm. Excuse me. 1615 01:28:05.660 --> 01:28:08.663 (voice breaking) Uh, we lost so many people in our community, 1616 01:28:08.747 --> 01:28:13.043 um, to HIV and AIDS and the complications, 1617 01:28:13.126 --> 01:28:15.253 and some folks had only been with us 1618 01:28:15.337 --> 01:28:18.298 for a very short amount of time. 1619 01:28:19.883 --> 01:28:22.594 (sighs) Excuse me. 1620 01:28:22.677 --> 01:28:25.889 So it's very hard to lose people throughout the work, 1621 01:28:25.930 --> 01:28:31.895 um, and-and to be reminded of that, um, in our community. 1622 01:28:31.936 --> 01:28:36.733 Uh, so, yeah, it's deeply significant... 1623 01:28:36.775 --> 01:28:38.860 because when you're, when you're left, 1624 01:28:38.943 --> 01:28:41.196 and you've been working with them so hard 1625 01:28:41.279 --> 01:28:43.615 and then they're gone and you're left and so you're like, 1626 01:28:43.656 --> 01:28:45.367 "Great, I have to, I have to keep going. 1627 01:28:45.450 --> 01:28:48.495 I have to keep bringing my artistry and my voice." 1628 01:28:48.578 --> 01:28:52.457 Uh, I think there's so much poetry in that... 1629 01:28:54.417 --> 01:28:57.003 but that's also our life. 1630 01:28:58.380 --> 01:29:00.465 (cheering) 1631 01:29:07.472 --> 01:29:10.350 Taylor: Dating in the '90s was navigating 1632 01:29:10.433 --> 01:29:13.812 whether or not you wanted to go on a date 1633 01:29:13.895 --> 01:29:16.940 with someone who might not be here in six months. 1634 01:29:17.023 --> 01:29:22.362 Never having the moment where your sexuality is free. 1635 01:29:22.445 --> 01:29:24.906 (clicks tongue) Yeah. 1636 01:29:24.948 --> 01:29:27.450 So not... not kinda having 1637 01:29:27.492 --> 01:29:29.494 the sense of what you may be missing, 1638 01:29:29.577 --> 01:29:32.497 but you know, always, always being afraid of sex. 1639 01:29:32.580 --> 01:29:34.791 (band playing "Denny") 1640 01:29:36.835 --> 01:29:40.213 ♪ Denny picked me up, Denny did me ♪ 1641 01:29:40.296 --> 01:29:44.134 ♪ He got a tattoo of his dick on his belly ♪ 1642 01:29:44.175 --> 01:29:46.219 ♪ It was double vision ♪ 1643 01:29:46.302 --> 01:29:48.346 ♪ Disorienting ♪ 1644 01:29:48.388 --> 01:29:51.725 ♪ Denny's kind of a dorky fella ♪ 1645 01:29:51.808 --> 01:29:53.518 ♪ Denny's dramatic ♪ 1646 01:29:53.560 --> 01:29:55.061 ♪ Denny is dark ♪ 1647 01:29:55.145 --> 01:29:58.106 ♪ He ain't nothin' like the restaurant ♪ 1648 01:29:58.189 --> 01:30:02.402 ♪ He's got "HIV positive" tattooed in black ♪ 1649 01:30:02.485 --> 01:30:05.697 ♪ In six-inch letters on his back ♪ 1650 01:30:05.780 --> 01:30:09.868 ♪ He says, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1651 01:30:09.951 --> 01:30:11.536 ♪ Denny ♪ 1652 01:30:13.705 --> 01:30:16.541 ♪ Denny's reading the Decameron ♪ 1653 01:30:16.583 --> 01:30:20.211 ♪ About a plague that came before ♪ 1654 01:30:20.295 --> 01:30:24.049 ♪ 'Cause Denny is dying and Denny don't like it ♪ 1655 01:30:24.090 --> 01:30:27.802 ♪ And Denny don't dance no more ♪ 1656 01:30:29.429 --> 01:30:32.849 ♪ He's kinda New Age but Denny's not that smart ♪ 1657 01:30:32.891 --> 01:30:36.311 ♪ He's trying to love himself but doesn't really know how ♪ 1658 01:30:36.394 --> 01:30:40.690 ♪ He's got a heart tattoo with his own name in it ♪ 1659 01:30:40.732 --> 01:30:44.152 ♪ Trouble is Denny doesn't really get it ♪ 1660 01:30:44.235 --> 01:30:49.157 ♪ Self-esteem is just a dream for Denny ♪ 1661 01:30:51.701 --> 01:30:54.245 ♪ Denny can be very funny ♪ 1662 01:30:54.329 --> 01:30:58.500 ♪ He says he wants my asshole tattooed on his chin ♪ 1663 01:30:58.583 --> 01:31:01.753 ♪ Denny is very demanding ♪ 1664 01:31:01.836 --> 01:31:06.174 ♪ 'Cause Denny don't got long to live ♪ 1665 01:31:07.592 --> 01:31:09.260 ♪ Denny did porno ♪ 1666 01:31:09.302 --> 01:31:10.929 ♪ Photos and film ♪ 1667 01:31:10.970 --> 01:31:14.432 ♪ Until his tattoos ruined his career ♪ 1668 01:31:14.516 --> 01:31:17.977 ♪ He stands there watching the video ♪ 1669 01:31:18.061 --> 01:31:21.898 ♪ Watching himself get infected ♪ 1670 01:31:21.940 --> 01:31:24.776 ♪ Denny has pneumocystis ♪ 1671 01:31:24.859 --> 01:31:28.613 ♪ And a new tattoo as well ♪ 1672 01:31:28.697 --> 01:31:32.158 ♪ Denny got a skull and crossbones ♪ 1673 01:31:32.242 --> 01:31:35.453 ♪ Smack in the middle of his forehead ♪ 1674 01:31:35.495 --> 01:31:39.916 ♪ He said, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1675 01:31:39.958 --> 01:31:42.293 ♪ Denny ♪ 1676 01:31:42.377 --> 01:31:46.631 ♪ He said, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1677 01:31:46.715 --> 01:31:49.092 ♪ Denny ♪ 1678 01:31:49.134 --> 01:31:53.471 ♪ He said, "I want them to see what they'd done to me" ♪ 1679 01:31:53.513 --> 01:31:55.265 ♪ Denny ♪ 1680 01:31:55.306 --> 01:31:58.643 (cheering) 1681 01:32:00.812 --> 01:32:06.484 The very first time I ever met an "out" homosexual, 1682 01:32:06.568 --> 01:32:10.655 it was thousands all at the same time. 1683 01:32:10.739 --> 01:32:13.241 I found out about this thing called an AIDS Walk, 1684 01:32:13.324 --> 01:32:17.037 and my friend Marcy and I went to the AIDS Walk, 1685 01:32:17.120 --> 01:32:19.080 uh, in San Francisco, 1686 01:32:19.164 --> 01:32:23.585 and the first time I ever saw one "out" homosexual, it was thousands of them, 1687 01:32:23.668 --> 01:32:26.713 and the reason they were all together is 'cause, of course, they were dying, 1688 01:32:26.796 --> 01:32:29.174 and their loved ones were dying, 1689 01:32:29.257 --> 01:32:34.637 and they were screaming and laughing and dancing and joyous, 1690 01:32:34.679 --> 01:32:38.767 while at the same time horrified and full of sorrow, 1691 01:32:38.850 --> 01:32:42.854 and they, uh, were pushing loved ones in wheelchairs 1692 01:32:42.896 --> 01:32:44.647 and... 1693 01:32:46.107 --> 01:32:47.859 uh... 1694 01:32:49.027 --> 01:32:51.404 what I experienced was a community of people 1695 01:32:51.488 --> 01:32:54.532 that were being, um, built 1696 01:32:54.616 --> 01:32:57.243 as a result of being torn apart, 1697 01:32:57.327 --> 01:33:01.289 and it was a pretty profound experience for a kid. 1698 01:33:01.373 --> 01:33:04.167 Years later, I thought, many years later, I thought, 1699 01:33:04.209 --> 01:33:10.256 I wanna make a show that is some kind of metaphorical representation of that. 1700 01:33:10.340 --> 01:33:14.636 So we started making a 24-decade history of popular music. 1701 01:33:20.725 --> 01:33:23.019 This decade is all songs that were popular 1702 01:33:23.061 --> 01:33:26.690 with radical lesbians during the AIDS epidemic. 1703 01:33:26.731 --> 01:33:30.735 Many gay men, their parents, family members wouldn't take care of them 1704 01:33:30.819 --> 01:33:34.989 and their lovers were dying at the same time that they were struggling, 1705 01:33:35.073 --> 01:33:37.617 and so, um... 1706 01:33:37.701 --> 01:33:41.996 many lesbians really stepped up 1707 01:33:42.080 --> 01:33:45.750 in a way that was above and beyond. 1708 01:33:45.792 --> 01:33:49.963 (rock music playing) 1709 01:33:50.046 --> 01:33:53.925 Taylor: I learned my politics from radical lesbians 1710 01:33:54.009 --> 01:33:57.637 and I learned how to have confidence from radical lesbians. 1711 01:33:58.596 --> 01:34:04.769 Lesbians spend so much time having to stretch towards the rest of us. 1712 01:34:06.396 --> 01:34:09.107 I thought it would be sweet 1713 01:34:09.149 --> 01:34:12.444 if we invite all of the lesbians in the audience 1714 01:34:12.527 --> 01:34:13.778 to come up on stage. 1715 01:34:13.820 --> 01:34:16.281 (guitar playing "Girl on a Road") 1716 01:34:18.533 --> 01:34:20.035 Taylor: So, they got to see 1717 01:34:20.118 --> 01:34:22.078 all of us stretch towards them. 1718 01:34:22.120 --> 01:34:25.040 ♪ My momma was a waitress ♪ 1719 01:34:25.123 --> 01:34:27.792 ♪ My daddy a truck driver ♪ 1720 01:34:27.876 --> 01:34:31.129 ♪ The thing that kept their power from them ♪ 1721 01:34:31.171 --> 01:34:33.548 ♪ Slowed me down awhile ♪ 1722 01:34:33.631 --> 01:34:36.134 ♪ I remember the morning ♪ 1723 01:34:36.217 --> 01:34:39.637 ♪ It was the closing of my youth ♪ 1724 01:34:39.679 --> 01:34:42.766 ♪ When I said goodbye to no one ♪ 1725 01:34:42.807 --> 01:34:45.685 ♪ And in that way faced my truth ♪ 1726 01:34:45.769 --> 01:34:48.813 ♪ And a walk along the river ♪ 1727 01:34:48.897 --> 01:34:51.816 ♪ And a rain a-coming down ♪ 1728 01:34:51.858 --> 01:34:54.611 ♪ And a girl ♪ 1729 01:34:54.652 --> 01:34:56.696 ♪ On a road ♪ 1730 01:35:00.408 --> 01:35:03.328 Taylor: ♪ But if music is a boulder ♪ 1731 01:35:03.411 --> 01:35:06.748 ♪ Let me carry it a long while ♪ 1732 01:35:06.831 --> 01:35:09.793 ♪ Let it turn into a feather ♪ 1733 01:35:09.834 --> 01:35:12.754 ♪ Let it brush against my smile ♪ 1734 01:35:12.837 --> 01:35:16.174 ♪ Let the life be somewhat settled ♪ 1735 01:35:16.257 --> 01:35:19.344 ♪ With the life that song has made ♪ 1736 01:35:19.386 --> 01:35:22.764 ♪ Let there be nothing I am longing for ♪ 1737 01:35:22.847 --> 01:35:25.809 ♪ In some plan I may have made ♪ 1738 01:35:25.850 --> 01:35:29.104 ♪ In some story quickly written ♪ 1739 01:35:29.187 --> 01:35:32.524 ♪ In a long forgotten time ♪ 1740 01:35:32.565 --> 01:35:35.443 ♪ By a girl ♪ 1741 01:35:35.527 --> 01:35:37.904 ♪ On a road ♪ 1742 01:35:42.409 --> 01:35:45.161 Together: ♪ Rain upon the water ♪ 1743 01:35:45.203 --> 01:35:48.998 ♪ Makes footprints sunk in sand ♪ 1744 01:35:49.040 --> 01:35:52.127 ♪ Anger upon angry hurt ♪ 1745 01:35:52.210 --> 01:35:55.296 ♪ Take me by the hand ♪ 1746 01:35:55.380 --> 01:35:58.216 ♪ Take me by the heartstrings ♪ 1747 01:35:58.258 --> 01:36:00.969 ♪ And pull me deep inside ♪ 1748 01:36:01.052 --> 01:36:04.723 ♪ And say I'm one with your forgiveness ♪ 1749 01:36:04.806 --> 01:36:09.060 ♪ And separate from my pride ♪ 1750 01:36:11.813 --> 01:36:15.817 ♪ ♪ 1751 01:36:19.863 --> 01:36:21.448 (song ends) 1752 01:36:21.531 --> 01:36:24.826 (cheering and applause) 1753 01:36:29.039 --> 01:36:33.084 (cheering and applause continue) 1754 01:36:50.185 --> 01:36:55.106 Matt: I had put so much of my life at that point into helping create the show. 1755 01:36:55.148 --> 01:36:58.151 It took a physical toll on me and it took a mental toll 1756 01:36:58.234 --> 01:37:00.445 and it was all positive, but it was a lot. 1757 01:37:00.487 --> 01:37:03.281 We've been doing this all night and I thought, 1758 01:37:03.323 --> 01:37:05.200 I don't want to leave Taylor alone on stage. 1759 01:37:05.283 --> 01:37:08.370 I can't leave Taylor alone on stage, i-it's-- I have to stay here. 1760 01:37:08.453 --> 01:37:10.914 (cheering and applause) 1761 01:37:10.955 --> 01:37:13.625 (fans whistling) 1762 01:37:22.133 --> 01:37:25.970 (cheering and applause continue) 1763 01:37:46.825 --> 01:37:49.411 (audience exclaiming, applauding) 1764 01:38:06.136 --> 01:38:08.471 (cheers and exclaims intensify) 1765 01:38:17.355 --> 01:38:20.025 (playing "When All the Artists Leave or Die") 1766 01:38:29.784 --> 01:38:34.039 ♪ When all the artists ♪ 1767 01:38:34.122 --> 01:38:36.875 ♪ Leave or die ♪ 1768 01:38:36.916 --> 01:38:41.296 ♪ And you're alone on stage ♪ 1769 01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:46.843 ♪ Naked and unrehearsed ♪ 1770 01:38:46.885 --> 01:38:49.304 ♪ Grasping for lines ♪ 1771 01:38:49.387 --> 01:38:55.268 ♪ And trying to save some grace ♪ 1772 01:38:55.352 --> 01:38:59.064 ♪ When all the fairies ♪ 1773 01:38:59.105 --> 01:39:01.358 ♪ Are dead and buried ♪ 1774 01:39:03.068 --> 01:39:09.074 ♪ Then will the pixie dust be swept? ♪ 1775 01:39:09.157 --> 01:39:13.536 ♪ When all the radicals die ♪ 1776 01:39:13.620 --> 01:39:15.372 ♪ Or are married... ♪ 1777 01:39:15.413 --> 01:39:16.539 (laughter) 1778 01:39:16.581 --> 01:39:21.044 ♪ ...then will the tragedy end ♪ 1779 01:39:21.086 --> 01:39:23.463 ♪ Or begin? ♪ 1780 01:39:30.637 --> 01:39:33.139 Taylor: Ultimately for me, it's all about 1781 01:39:33.223 --> 01:39:35.016 expressing and experiencing 1782 01:39:35.100 --> 01:39:36.768 the full range of who you are 1783 01:39:36.851 --> 01:39:38.645 and taking the time 1784 01:39:38.728 --> 01:39:41.731 to actually do that, and, um... 1785 01:39:41.773 --> 01:39:43.316 and so, who you are 1786 01:39:43.400 --> 01:39:45.610 as somebody who has to leave, 1787 01:39:45.652 --> 01:39:47.987 as well as somebody 1788 01:39:48.071 --> 01:39:50.699 who can, um... 1789 01:39:50.782 --> 01:39:52.534 be at the center. 1790 01:39:52.617 --> 01:39:54.994 ♪ Sleep well ♪ 1791 01:39:55.078 --> 01:39:56.705 ♪ Get up ♪ 1792 01:39:56.788 --> 01:39:58.832 ♪ Do it again ♪ 1793 01:39:58.915 --> 01:40:04.170 ♪ Day after day after day ♪ 1794 01:40:04.254 --> 01:40:07.716 ♪ Until the cockroaches are ♪ 1795 01:40:07.799 --> 01:40:10.593 ♪ Your only patrons ♪ 1796 01:40:10.635 --> 01:40:12.345 ♪ Even then ♪ 1797 01:40:12.429 --> 01:40:14.806 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1798 01:40:14.889 --> 01:40:18.143 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1799 01:40:18.184 --> 01:40:21.187 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1800 01:40:21.271 --> 01:40:23.565 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1801 01:40:24.941 --> 01:40:27.360 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1802 01:40:27.444 --> 01:40:30.655 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1803 01:40:30.697 --> 01:40:33.366 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1804 01:40:33.450 --> 01:40:36.119 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1805 01:40:38.079 --> 01:40:39.789 Go ahead and sing it. 1806 01:40:39.831 --> 01:40:42.625 (laughter) 1807 01:40:42.667 --> 01:40:45.003 (with audience) ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1808 01:40:45.045 --> 01:40:48.882 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1809 01:40:48.965 --> 01:40:51.134 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1810 01:40:51.176 --> 01:40:55.180 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1811 01:40:55.221 --> 01:40:57.307 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1812 01:40:57.349 --> 01:41:00.352 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1813 01:41:01.936 --> 01:41:03.355 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1814 01:41:03.438 --> 01:41:06.524 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1815 01:41:08.234 --> 01:41:10.028 Audience (softly): ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1816 01:41:10.070 --> 01:41:12.822 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1817 01:41:14.449 --> 01:41:16.201 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1818 01:41:16.284 --> 01:41:19.287 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1819 01:41:20.997 --> 01:41:22.707 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1820 01:41:22.791 --> 01:41:25.710 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1821 01:41:27.420 --> 01:41:29.214 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1822 01:41:29.297 --> 01:41:32.676 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1823 01:41:34.052 --> 01:41:35.679 ♪ You can lie down ♪ 1824 01:41:35.762 --> 01:41:38.848 ♪ Or get up and play ♪ 1825 01:41:42.143 --> 01:41:44.479 (cheering and applause) 1826 01:41:48.400 --> 01:41:51.569 (band playing "People Have the Power") 1827 01:41:51.611 --> 01:41:54.572 Taylor: ♪ I was dreaming in my dreaming ♪ 1828 01:41:54.656 --> 01:41:58.118 ♪ Of an aspect bright and fair ♪ 1829 01:41:58.201 --> 01:42:00.036 ♪ And my sleeping ♪ 1830 01:42:00.078 --> 01:42:01.705 ♪ It was broken ♪ 1831 01:42:01.746 --> 01:42:05.250 ♪ But my dream it lingered near ♪ 1832 01:42:05.333 --> 01:42:08.712 ♪ In the form of shining valleys ♪ 1833 01:42:08.753 --> 01:42:12.007 ♪ Where the pure air is recognized ♪ 1834 01:42:12.090 --> 01:42:15.468 ♪ And my senses newly opened ♪ 1835 01:42:15.552 --> 01:42:19.973 ♪ I awakened to the cry ♪ 1836 01:42:20.056 --> 01:42:23.435 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1837 01:42:23.476 --> 01:42:27.105 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1838 01:42:27.147 --> 01:42:29.315 ♪ The power to dream ♪ 1839 01:42:29.399 --> 01:42:31.234 ♪ To rule ♪ 1840 01:42:31.276 --> 01:42:34.279 ♪ To wrestle the earth from fools ♪ 1841 01:42:34.362 --> 01:42:37.615 ♪ It is decreed the people rule ♪ 1842 01:42:37.657 --> 01:42:40.869 ♪ It is decreed the people rule ♪ 1843 01:42:40.952 --> 01:42:42.537 Listen! ♪ I believe ♪ 1844 01:42:42.620 --> 01:42:44.456 ♪ Everything we dream ♪ 1845 01:42:44.497 --> 01:42:48.126 ♪ Can come to pass in our union ♪ 1846 01:42:48.168 --> 01:42:51.546 ♪ We can turn the earth around ♪ 1847 01:42:51.629 --> 01:42:55.592 ♪ We can turn the world's revolution ♪ 1848 01:42:55.633 --> 01:42:58.970 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1849 01:42:59.054 --> 01:43:03.058 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1850 01:43:03.141 --> 01:43:06.019 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1851 01:43:06.102 --> 01:43:09.647 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1852 01:43:09.731 --> 01:43:12.776 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1853 01:43:12.817 --> 01:43:15.695 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 1854 01:43:15.779 --> 01:43:18.198 ♪ ♪ 1855 01:43:18.281 --> 01:43:21.951 ♪ ♪ 1856 01:43:21.993 --> 01:43:24.829 (rhythmic clapping) 1857 01:43:26.331 --> 01:43:28.625 (cheering and applause) 1858 01:43:28.667 --> 01:43:30.877 (band playing "Peter Gunn Theme") 1859 01:43:34.881 --> 01:43:36.341 ♪ To everything ♪ 1860 01:43:36.424 --> 01:43:37.884 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1861 01:43:37.967 --> 01:43:39.511 ♪ There is a season ♪ 1862 01:43:39.552 --> 01:43:41.763 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1863 01:43:41.846 --> 01:43:43.139 ♪ And a time ♪ 1864 01:43:43.181 --> 01:43:44.808 ♪ For every season ♪ 1865 01:43:44.849 --> 01:43:47.143 ♪ Under heaven ♪ 1866 01:43:47.185 --> 01:43:48.812 (horns improvising) 1867 01:43:57.946 --> 01:43:59.364 ♪ To everything ♪ 1868 01:43:59.406 --> 01:44:01.324 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1869 01:44:01.366 --> 01:44:02.867 ♪ There is a season ♪ 1870 01:44:02.909 --> 01:44:05.370 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1871 01:44:05.412 --> 01:44:06.454 ♪ And a time ♪ 1872 01:44:06.538 --> 01:44:07.956 ♪ For every purpose ♪ 1873 01:44:08.039 --> 01:44:11.376 ♪ Under heaven ♪ 1874 01:44:11.459 --> 01:44:13.253 ♪ A time for love ♪ 1875 01:44:13.336 --> 01:44:15.046 ♪ A time for hate ♪ 1876 01:44:15.088 --> 01:44:16.423 ♪ A time to rend ♪ 1877 01:44:16.506 --> 01:44:18.508 ♪ A time to sow ♪ 1878 01:44:18.550 --> 01:44:21.219 ♪ A time you may embrace ♪ 1879 01:44:21.261 --> 01:44:24.055 ♪ A time to refrain ♪ 1880 01:44:24.097 --> 01:44:27.392 ♪ From embracing ♪ 1881 01:44:27.434 --> 01:44:29.561 (horns improvising) 1882 01:44:42.657 --> 01:44:47.912 ♪ ♪ 1883 01:45:04.220 --> 01:45:05.555 Oh! 1884 01:45:10.435 --> 01:45:11.936 ♪ To everything ♪ 1885 01:45:11.978 --> 01:45:13.521 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1886 01:45:13.605 --> 01:45:15.231 ♪ There is a season ♪ 1887 01:45:15.315 --> 01:45:17.525 ♪ Turn turn turn turn turn turn turn ♪ 1888 01:45:17.609 --> 01:45:18.693 ♪ And a time ♪ 1889 01:45:18.777 --> 01:45:20.320 ♪ For every purpose ♪ 1890 01:45:20.403 --> 01:45:24.032 ♪ Under heaven ♪ 1891 01:45:24.115 --> 01:45:25.533 ♪ A time to gain ♪ 1892 01:45:25.617 --> 01:45:26.951 ♪ A time to lose ♪ 1893 01:45:27.035 --> 01:45:29.037 ♪ A time for love ♪ 1894 01:45:29.120 --> 01:45:30.330 ♪ A time for hate ♪ 1895 01:45:30.413 --> 01:45:32.457 ♪ A time to reap ♪ 1896 01:45:32.499 --> 01:45:33.625 ♪ A time to sow ♪ 1897 01:45:33.708 --> 01:45:35.794 ♪ A time for peace ♪ 1898 01:45:35.835 --> 01:45:41.383 ♪ I swear it's not too late ♪ 1899 01:45:41.466 --> 01:45:43.635 (horns improvising) 1900 01:46:01.569 --> 01:46:04.447 (band playing dramatic finish) 1901 01:46:04.489 --> 01:46:06.074 Good night, everybody! 1902 01:46:06.157 --> 01:46:08.159 (cheering and applause)