Keep in mind when Prepare’s “Hey, Soul Sister” appeared like an harmless, ukulele-driven bop? Nicely, Saturday Evening Dwell simply reminded us that not all the pieces ages nicely—particularly if you dig into the lyrics. In a hilarious sketch set in Fifties Detroit, SNL takes the music’s problematic undertones and places them right into a painfully awkward new context.
The sketch revolves round Andrew Dismukes and Ego Nwodim, enjoying an interracial couple making an attempt to get Dismukes’ old-school, white dad and mom — performed by host Michael Keaton and Heidi Gardner — to approve of their relationship. On the flip aspect, Nwodim’s household (Kenan Thompson and Devon Walker) are already on board.
To win over his skeptical dad and mom, Dismukes pulls out what he believes is the final word peace providing: a music he wrote that may certainly change everybody’s minds. That music? Yep, it’s “Hey, Soul Sister,” with the “soul sister” clearly referring to Nwodim.
Yikes.
Whereas Keaton and Gardner’s characters eat it up, Nwodim and Thompson should not having it. Thus, the sketch ends with Nwodim and her household promptly calling off the engagement.
