Because of the pandemic, no one really had any idea exactly how the
Oscars were going to play out in 2021.
Still, no matter what people might have expected from this year’s ceremony, no one could possibly have guessed the night would include some booty-shaking from eight-time nominee Glenn Close.
During the live broadcast, musical director Questlove and Lil Rel Howery played a game with the celebrity guests, in which they were asked to guess whether certain songs had been snubbed by the Motion Picture Academy back in the day.
When it came to Glenn’s turn, she was played E.U.’s Da Butt, and surprised everyone in attendance with her somewhat encyclopedic knowledge of the track.“Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second,” she insisted. “I know that’s Da Butt. I know that.
“Da Butt was a classic song by the great
Washington DC go-go band E.U., Spike Lee had it written for his brilliant movie School Daze and my
Friends at the Oscars missed it… and it wasn’t nominated, so it couldn’t have won, which I think is an effin’ disgrace.”
“I wasn’t expecting that at all, that you’d know Da Butt,” Lil Rel said.
Imagine his surprise, then, when he asked Glenn to demonstrate Da Butt’s accompanying dance, and she happily obliged."THATS DA BUTT!!"Bruh, I'm dead!!!!! #GlennClose#Oscarspic.twitter.com/eu0Kxv2TuB— Andrew LaSane (@laptop_lasane) April 26, 2021Truly, it was a moment none of us could have prepared for:Glenn Close shouting out EU and Sugar Bear on the Oscars for "Da Butt," and I’m about to fall out. Dead.— David Aldridge (@davidaldridgedc) April 26, 2021i love that glenn close knows the entire wikipedia history of da butt #Oscars— Candice Frederick (@ReelTalker) April 26, 2021I’m sorry I know it’s late but that whole bit was worth it for that GLENN CLOSE DOING DA BUTT #Oscars— Kathleen Newman-Bremang (@KathleenNB) April 26, 2021Glenn Close, funk historian— Elamin Abdelmahmoud (@elamin88) April 26, 2021Glenn Close just did da butt on the Oscars is a brand new sentence— 🟣 Wiffy Mountbatten (@wyntermitchell) April 26, 2021"THATS DA BUTT!!"Bruh, I'm dead!!!!! #GlennClose#Oscarspic.twitter.com/eu0Kxv2TuB— Andrew LaSane (@laptop_lasane) April 26, 2021Do NOT question Glenn Close's knowledge of Da Butt #Oscarspic.twitter.com/WpO3mQ6Rre— Jenna Guillaume (@JennaGuillaume) April 26, 2021I did not have Glenn close doing da butt on my Oscar bingo card but here we are.— roxane gay (@rgay) April 26, 2021I LOVE GLENN CLOSE 😭😂 #Oscars— Meatloaf Crunch (@yosoymichael) April 26, 2021ok i forgive glenn close for hillybilly ellygy— sonia (@soniasaraiya) April 26, 2021The Academy doesn't deserve Glenn Close— Kevin Fallon (@kpfallon) April 26, 2021Glenn Close knows “Da Butt” #Oscarspic.twitter.com/6iJdCWppoF— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) April 26, 2021Give Glenn Close an Oscar for that pls.— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) April 26, 2021At least we have a new Glenn Close gif to replace this one #Oscarspic.twitter.com/aeF0USJh2O— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) April 26, 2021Glenn Close did not win an Oscar... she won The OSCARS!!! https://t.co/lyxG1wxFQQ— Daniel P. (@dinasztie) April 26, 2021It didn’t go unnoticed that this totally bizarre scene then segued seamlessly into… the rather somber In Memoriam tributes section of the evening.A swift transition from Glenn Close doing "Da Butt" to a somber In Memoriam segment: only... the Oscars.— Brennan Carley (@BrennanCarley) April 26, 2021Glenn Close was nominated for her eighth Oscar on Sunday night, but lost out in the Best Supporting
Actress category to Youn Yuh-jung.
She now holds the dubious honour of being the living
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