Bear in mind when Prepare’s “Hey, Soul Sister” appeared like an harmless, ukulele-driven bop? Effectively, Saturday Night time Dwell simply reminded us that not every little thing ages properly—particularly if you dig into the lyrics. In a hilarious sketch set in Nineteen Fifties Detroit, SNL takes the track’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 mother and father — 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 mother and father, Dismukes pulls out what he believes is the last word peace providing: a track he wrote that can absolutely change everybody’s minds. That track? 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.
