Uh-oh! It's a leap year, the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, and Sarah Palin showed up on another singing show
Four years ago, Sarah Palin graced The Masked Singer with her rendition of "Baby Got Back." We were in quarantine by the end of the week.
Maybe the Book of Revelation was onto something with that whole Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse thing. If you’ve been paying attention to world events in 2024, you may have noticed some eerie similarities to a certain calendar year where things went… a bit south. 2020 was a leap year (so is this one), the Chiefs beat the 49ers in the Super Bowl (guess what!), and Biden and Trump were set to go head to head in November’s election.
Now, it seems like those three harbingers may have just been waiting for their fourth horrible buddy to really seal the deal. In case you’re a healthier person than we are and somehow managed to block this one out, former governor of Alaska and all-around upsetting political and cultural figure Sarah Palin graced the world with her rendition of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” on The Masked Singer in, you guessed it, March 2020. Three days later, the world locked its doors and started baking banana bread. That was four years ago, but oh—would you look at that! She just did it again. Cue the Jaws music.
This time, Palin took her meager vocal talents to a different clue-based, celebrity-focused Fox singing show. With her cousin JD, the former Republican VP candidate popped up on We Are Family, a game show hosted by Anthony Anderson and his mom Doris, where contestants have to identify the celebrity singing with their non-famous relative. The pair sang a brief version of Garth Brooks’ “Friends In Low Places,” which admittedly wasn’t quite as horrifying as a furry Palin singing about getting sprung, but was on the nose in an unsettling, “they’re all just laughing at us now” sort of way.
Palin didn’t say anything after the performance, but her cousin did share that her brief vice presidential run/shot at further undermining American politics was “mind-boggling for our entire family” and “a heck of a ride, but it was fun” as the audience clapped and cheered. So there’s that! Here’s hoping that this was the final nail in the coffin to reset the timeline away from whatever crazy alternate reality we’ve been living in for the past four years, instead of plunging us even further into the Bad Times.