Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Lizzo playing James Madison's flute, Usher's thirst traps, and more.
Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.I'm intrigued by a small independent sci-fi movie that has a lot of really beautiful work. It's called, and it's an eco fable about a time when humankind has managed to bioengineer the nature out of nature. It has contributed to a planet where nothing grows anymore.
There's a 13-year-old girl named Vesper who is trying to biohack her way into a sustainable world. I felt as if it was a combination of maybeChildren of MenIt's just a beautiful picture that has a bunch of practical effects, as they had no budget. Just things that are presumably happening in front of the camera, and then a lot of things that can't be happening in front of the camera that had to have been digitally added.
It's a European production, and it's really, really interesting. And it opens this weekend so everybody else gets a chance to see it, too.I love the mashup that's going on with the Library of Congress and Lizzo on the Internet this week. The Library of Congress' Carla Hayden tweeted at Lizzo, on her way to Washington, D.C., to perform.
The Library has this incredible collection of historic flutes, and I think there was a security team that went and delivered James Madison's Crystal Flute to Lizzo, which sheIt's just been really funny to see the Library of Congress tweeting Lizzo's lyrics to her and her going to the Library of Congress. It's a bit of a duet I was not expecting, and as a long-time Washingtonian, I just kind of love it.
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