{"id":275,"date":"2019-10-29T00:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-10-29T00:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T00:29:17","slug":"067-cadillac-records-with-jourdain-searles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2019\/10\/29\/067-cadillac-records-with-jourdain-searles\/","title":{"rendered":"067 &#8211; Cadillac Records (with Jourdain Searles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cadillacrecords-thob-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cadillacrecords-thob.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cadillacrecords-thob-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cadillacrecords-thob-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, Bitch Media writer and Bad Romance podcast host Jourdain Searles joins us to talk about 2008\u2032s musical multi-biopic <i>Cadillac Records<\/i>. Most famous for Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s performance as Etta James, the film arrived when audiences and Oscar were getting fatigued with the genre. But detailing the groundbreaking Chess Records, the film spreads its attentions over several artists (including Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters) while it centers on as Adrien Brody as record exec Leonard Chess.<\/p>\n<p>The film itself earns our positive praise for the most part, but we all effusively praise Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s invested (even if she doesn\u2019t until an hour into the movie) and transformative performance. But Oscar ultimately overlooked her work along with the film as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>We also discuss Adrien Brody\u2019s fitful post-Oscar career (including a dreadlocked cringe moment on SNL), the short-lived Oscar telecast presentation of former acting winners presenting the nominees, and Jeffrey Wrights understated gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Us on Twitter!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Had_Oscar_Buzz\">@Had_Oscar_Buzz<\/a><br \/>\nJoe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joereid\">@joereid<\/a><br \/>\nChris: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisvfeil\">@chrisvfeil<\/a><br \/>\nJourdain: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jourdayen\">@jourdayen<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1053\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-275-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_067_Cadillac_Records_-_with_Jourdain_Searles.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_067_Cadillac_Records_-_with_Jourdain_Searles.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_067_Cadillac_Records_-_with_Jourdain_Searles.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_067_Cadillac_Records_-_with_Jourdain_Searles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=275-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_067_Cadillac_Records_-_with_Jourdain_Searles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_067_Cadillac_Records_-_with_Jourdain_Searles.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Bitch Media writer and Bad Romance podcast host Jourdain Searles joins us to talk about 2008\u2032s musical multi-biopic Cadillac Records. Most famous for Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s performance as Etta James, the film arrived when audiences and Oscar were getting fatigued with the genre. But detailing the groundbreaking Chess Records, the film spreads its attentions over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2019\/10\/29\/067-cadillac-records-with-jourdain-searles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;067 &#8211; Cadillac Records (with Jourdain Searles)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}