Normally I don’t dish on TV shows, but I had to say something out loud about the hot horrible mess that was “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B.” While I got every bit of my life from Black Twitter mockery of Lifetime – suggested they will cast Marc Curry and Holly Robinson Peete as Bey Z as well as Backstreet Boys and NSync collectively as Wu Tang – the movie was the pits at its most touching moments. And when I laid my eyes on what was clearly an emergency stand in Missy Elliot and Timbaland, I was like “how is Lil Mama” gonna play Left Eye and Missy?” It looked like they draped a 3X Adidas suit on that 3T frame, plopped an unfortunate Tichina Arnold wig that had been hit by a hedge clipper and said “Voila. Missy.” Though I know she’s not, producer Wendy Williams should be ashamed. And now my soul is a nervous wreck because I know my beloved Nippy is up next. I just don’t see how Lifetime can do justice to the complexity that is “Whitney and ‘Bobbaayy’” if they couldn’t handle Aaliyah.
