Cold Weather, Hot Takes ❄️🔥🎤

This week it’s just the dolls! Ari Kiki and Viki Villainess, because DJ is off on yet another vacation (must be nice). While he’s somewhere warm, we’re freezing our lace fronts off in -10° NYC weather, with a real feel colder than the North Pole. 🥶

And yet somehow, that doesn’t stop Ari from running all over New York and New Jersey like she’s training for the Winter Olympics in kitten heels.

We celebrate Grammy Award winner Bad Bunny and his headline-grabbing Super Bowl halftime performance, singing entirely in Spanish while certain corners of the internet had a full meltdown. Representation wins, and the culture was outside. 🌎🔥 We also gag over Lady Gaga’s cameo and start placing early bets on next year’s Super Bowl performer.

Meanwhile, Turning Point USA has an unseasoned Alt-Right Half Time show headlined by washed up statutory racist Kid Rock.

On the business side of the shade, Viki breaks down a new social media strategy now that TikTok’s ownership situation has shifted toward Oracle, and what that could mean for creators, reach, and staying visible in a chaotic algorithm era.

And that’s just the first 20 minutes.

Cold outside, heated inside, welcome to another week of The Shade Parade. 🎧