Have you heard the Oscars are ditching their legendary red carpet? It's true. After 62-long-years, the Academy Awards has said "enough," and yanked the red carpet right out from under everyone.
Western Journal reported that many things about the Academy Awards have changed over the years, but for the past six decades there has been at least one constant: the red carpet. The hues have varied over the years, but it has always been some shade of red. Until this year.
On Wednesday outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, workers unspooled a champagne-colored carpet as Jimmy Kimmel, who is hosting the 95th Oscars on Sunday, presided over the occasion.
The decision to change the carpet color came from creative consultants Lisa Love, a longtime Vogue contributor, and Raúl Àvila, the creative director for the glamourous Met Gala in New York.
This year the carpet will be covered, in part to protect the stars and cameras from the weather, but also to help give the appearance of the “red carpet” arrivals attending an evening event. For Love, there has always been a disconnect between the elegant black tie dress code and the fact that it’s mid-afternoon when people arrive to be photographed in the daylight. With a covered carpet, they could change that.
“We turned a day event into night,” Love told The Associated Press. “It’s evening, even though it’s still 3:00.”
The Oscars red carpet dates back to 1961, the 33rd Academy Awards held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, when Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” won best picture, Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth Taylor won the lead acting prizes, and there was still a “juvenile award,” which went to Hayley Mills for “Pollyanna.” It was the first televised ceremony, broadcast on ABC and hosted by Bob Hope. The general public wouldn’t see the red carpet in all its glory on television until 1966, when the Oscars were first broadcast in color.
I dunno, that sounds like a strange reason, doesn't it?
Hear me out...
Personally, I think it has more to do with the recent "Sam Smith" blood-red demomic performance at The Grammy's. The backlash from that Satnic free-for-all was tremendous; as Americans are growing more and more tired of the anti-God/pro-Satan nonsense that Hollyweird has been shoving down our throats.
In addition, thanks to Biden's cruddy economy, many Amrericans are struggling to even make ends meet and as a result, there's definate "backlash" against the elites.
I think Celebrities realize that everyone has grown sick and tired of them and they're trying to tone down the "pomp and circumstance" by giving the carpet a makeover. Turst me, these celebs don't want to walk down the "red carpet" acting like they're that fake princess wannabe Meghan Markle.
But of course, none of this will actualy do any good - because it's not the red carpet Americans hate, it's the phony, smug celebrities who live in a clueless bubble, yet still believe they have the right to tell working-class Americans how to live and who to vote for.
We're sick of it.
So, Hollywood can change all the carpet colors they want and pretend they don't worship Satan himself with all their decadence and debauchery, but the American people already have their number.
We know better...
