{"id":24596,"date":"2015-09-08T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24596"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:04:12","slug":"recalling-bjorks-sugarcubes-on-snl-and-kristen-wiigs-hilarious-snl-send-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-09\/recalling-bjorks-sugarcubes-on-snl-and-kristen-wiigs-hilarious-snl-send-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Recalling Bjork&#8217;s Sugarcubes on SNL and Kristen Wiig&#8217;s Hilarious SNL Send-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bjork-2001-oscars-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bjork-2001-oscars-04-393x600.jpg\" alt=\"bjork-2001-oscars-04\" width=\"393\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bjork-2001-oscars-04-393x600.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bjork-2001-oscars-04-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bjork-2001-oscars-04-262x400.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bjork-2001-oscars-04.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a brief lull in music-dom&#8217;s geyser, so we&#8217;ve hearkened back to our first introduction to <strong>Bjork<\/strong> via the <strong>Sugarcubes&#8217;<\/strong> fantastic performance of all-time favorite song <em><strong>Birthday<\/strong> <\/em>on <strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong> in 1988 (the studio version\/official-video for the song is at bottom). \u00a0Oh how that girl\/woman can sing (<strong>Bjork<\/strong> turns 50 years old in a couple months). \u00a0 And then, in contrast with the uber-seriousness of those<strong>\u00a0Sugarcubes<\/strong>, watch <strong>Kristen Wiig&#8217;s<\/strong> hilarious send-up of <strong>Bjork<\/strong> on SNL a decade later following the tragic\u00a0<strong>Icelandic Recession<\/strong>. &#8220;How is your skeleton?&#8221; \u00a0Indeed. \u00a0How does<strong> Seth Meyers<\/strong> not break? \u00a0Impressive, and entirely too funny. \u00a0OK, that&#8217;s enough nostalgia for a while. \u00a0Back to the matters at hand.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/xkkg5u\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/NnzsPC\/widget\/select\/media\/btahIkVELdlY?disableEndCard=true\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameBorder=\"0\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58bAgVSYV1E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a brief lull in music-dom&#8217;s geyser, so we&#8217;ve hearkened back to our first introduction to Bjork via the Sugarcubes&#8217; fantastic performance of all-time favorite song Birthday on Saturday Night Live in 1988 (the studio version\/official-video for the song is at bottom). \u00a0Oh how that girl\/woman can sing (Bjork turns 50 years old in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24596"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24605,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions\/24605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}