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Girl Scout’s Remix Of Cardi B’s ‘Money’ To Sell Cookies Goes Viral
Alicia Keys Opens GRAMMYs With Help From Michelle Obama, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Lopez And Lady Gaga
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
The 61st annual GRAMMY Awards are going down in Los Angeles tonight and the evening’s host, Alicia Keys, kicked things off in a big way.
The 15-time GRAMMY- winner flaunted a makeup free face and a scarf covering her hair when she took the stage in a gorgeous, green en- semble and huge grin to match.
“It is so exciting to be here because music is what we all love. Music is what it’s all about. Everybody is out here shining and I’m so proud to bring us together to honor this moment because music is what we cry to; it’s what we march to, it’s what we rock to, it’s what we make love to,” said Keys. “It’s our shared, global language. When you really want to say something,
you say it with a song.” Moments later, she prepped the crowd for a huge surprise. “Y’all didn’t think I was coming out here by my-
self, did you?”
The curtain lifted to reveal
Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michelle Obama, and Jennifer Lopez holding hands as they walked down the stairs and took center stage to show support for their pal, Alicia Keys.
“We express our pain, our power, and our progress through music whether we’re creating it or just appreciating it,” said Jada Pinkett Smith. “Here’s what I know, every voice that we hear de- serves to be honored and re- spected.”
Our Forever First Lady had to give the audience a moment to cheer so she could
speak and it was clear that the celeb-filled crowd was star- struck by Mrs. Obama and in genuine disbelief she was there.
“Alright. We got a show to do,” she said over their huge applause.
“From the Motown Records I wore out on the Southside to the “Who Run the World” songs that fueled me through this last decade, music has always helped me tell my story and I know that’s true for everybody here,” said Michelle Obama. “Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share our- selves...our dignity and sor- rows; our hopes and joys. It allows us to hear one another; to invite each other in. Music shows us that all of it matters; every story within every voice, every note within every song.”
KAYLA “KIKI” PASCHALL
Black girls are such magic and know how to use that magic wisely.
Case in point: One Girl Scout remixed Cardi B’s hit song “Money” to help boost her cookie sales. And let us tell you...it’s pretty dope!
According to KTLA, 10- year-old Kayla “Kiki” Paschall from the San Fer- nando Valley dropped the video this week, which since then has been retweeted more than 20,000 times.
Kiki told KTLA that she wanted to do something that would stand out, because in the past she’s encountered some rough patches trying to
sell.
“Sometimes people will
say that they’re on a diet so they don’t buy cookies, other times they’ll be like, ‘Oh, I al- ready bought some,” she ad- mitted.
Her mom, Shania Ac- cius, added: “Every year, the last day of sales we’re sitting out in front of some super- market trying to sell our last few boxes. So this year, we’re like, OK let’s try to do some- thing strategically.”
And strategic and success- ful it was, because Kiki sold out of all of her cookies in a matter of two days.
In The Age Of Surveillance, Trust Nothing: Not Your iPhone, Not Your Fridge
It has been a terrible week for Apple. Not only did the tech company report its first decline in revenues and prof- its in more than a decade, but it was embroiled in an embar- rassing privacy scandal. A much-discussed bug in its FaceTime app meant that, in certain circumstances, you could turn someone’s iPhone into an all-seeing, all-hearing spying device.
The glitch was a blow to Apple’s reputation for secu- rity, and a reminder that our smartphones are essentially surveillance tools. Even if your apps aren’t riddled with bugs or malware, your phone
Who’s listening? FaceTime’s bug is a headache for Apple – and a disaster for the rest of us. Photograph: Sascha Steinbach/EPA
data-collecting devices are everywhere. Internet-con- nected video doorbells, for ex- ample, which alert your phone when someone is at the door, and send a live video feed of the visitor, have been rocketing in popularity. Ring, one of the best-known connected-doorbell compa- nies, was bought by Amazon last year; the e-commerce company has filed a patent that would combine doorbell cameras with facial recogni- tion technology, alerting homeowners and police to “suspicious” visitors. Consid- ering the biases found in fa- cial recognition, this sounds
like it has the potential to be a racial profiling, and civil- liberties, nightmare.
Things don’t get much more private inside your home. There’s malware that can turn your headphones into a microphone, and your smart TV into a listening de- vice. Your smart vibrator may have been tracking your sex life. If you have a fancy robot vacuum, there’s a chance it’s sharing detailed maps of the layout of your house with third parties. And if you have an internet-connected fridge then, well, you should think very carefully about your life choices.
isprobablytransmittingmore of your private information than you realize.
It’s not just your phone you should be wary of. We live in an age of surveillance;
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