{"id":93530,"date":"2025-02-09T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93530"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:11:54","slug":"only-sister-can-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/02\/09\/only-sister-can-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Sister Can Do That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cMy job is to look out and make sure that we don\u2019t have any<br \/>\nkings or queens in this country.&nbsp; But it seems like y\u2019all have<br \/>\ndecided that it is going to be Mr. King and his Queen \u2013<br \/>\nand y\u2019all can pick which one is which<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> &#8211; <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Representative <strong>Jasmine Crockett <\/strong>criticizes the access <strong>Elon Musk<br \/>\n<\/strong>has been given by <em>El Presidente<\/em>.&nbsp; I love a woman who ain\u2019t fronting!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love music, but the <strong><em>Grammy Awards <\/em><\/strong>have never really excited me.&nbsp; But I can appreciate many of the artists, including <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>.&nbsp; Her country album <strong><em>Country Carter<\/em><\/strong> did very well at the <em>Grammys<\/em>.&nbsp; And this leads us to one of <em>Billy\u2019s Fun Facts<\/em>.&nbsp; Didya know it\u2019s been 51 years since a Black woman won a <em>Grammy <\/em>in a country music category?&nbsp; The last time was back in 1974 when <em>Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group<\/em> was won by four Black women \u2013 <strong>Ruth<\/strong>, <strong>Anita<\/strong>, <strong>June <\/strong>and <strong>Bonnie<\/strong>.&nbsp; You probably know them as <strong><em>The Pointer Sisters <\/em><\/strong>(back when they were a quartet).&nbsp; The song, \u201cFairytale\u201d, was written by Anita and Bonnie, and later covered by <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, there were political moments during the show.&nbsp; <strong>Shakira <\/strong>won <em>Best Latin Pop Album<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cI want to dedicate this award to all of my immigrant brothers and sisters in this country.&nbsp; You are loved, you\u2019re worth it, and I will always fight for you.\u201d&nbsp; This might be a good time to mention that our president\u2019s mother was an immigrant.&nbsp; Come to think of it, so were two of his wives!&nbsp; Then there\u2019s <strong>Lady Gaga<\/strong>, who won <em>Best Pop Duo or Group<\/em> with <strong>Bruno Mars <\/strong>for \u201cDie with a Smile\u201d.&nbsp; She took to the stage and used her moment to criticize <em>El Presidente<\/em>\u2019s edict that there are only two genders \u2013 male and female.&nbsp; \u201cTrans people are not invisible.&nbsp; Trans people deserve love.&nbsp; The queer community deserves to be lifted up.&nbsp; Music is love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy job is to look out and make sure that we don\u2019t have any kings or queens in this country.&nbsp; But it seems like y\u2019all have decided that it is going to be Mr. King and his Queen \u2013 and y\u2019all can pick which one is which.&#8221; &#8211; Representative Jasmine Crockett criticizes the access Elon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93542,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93530\/revisions\/93542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}