Between those two queries lie two of P-Funk's earliest triumphs. "I Bet You" was a foot in the door, lent to the Jackson 5 that same year as an ABC album cut as an offering to Motown's post-Cloud Nine psychedelic dabblings but pushed here to its canyon-deep, in-the-red limits through six minutes of fevered intensity that established the colossal neck-snap thump of drummer Tiki Fulwood and slyly hinted at the future virtuoso depths of Eddie Hazel. The other watershed moment, the Fuzzy Haskins-penned "I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing," is like watching a volcano erupt: a burbling glow of harmonic soul calling for solidarity despite social differences crests into a thousand-degree explosion of Fulwood-propelled funk power. Add on some powerful connections to the old blues roots -- "Music For My Mother," "Good Old Music," and "Qualify & Satisfy" slot neatly somewhere between Wilson Pickett and Cream -- and it epitomizes the notion of the all-killer-no-filler LP for the R&B world. Psychedelic soul had been done before, but never so heavily, so wildly, or so deeply in tune with a future few were so committed to both seeing and creating. Even at this early stage, Funkadelic perfectly split the difference between Jimi Hendrix and Sly & The Family Stone in a year where both artists were lost to tragic death and studio solitude respectively. They didn't just fill that gap, they carved their own niche. And it'd only grow wider from there.
The future for upcoming generations of LGBTQ+ kids is bright, and that's thanks to people like JoJo Siwa. A true entertainment industry multi-hyphenate, the 18-year-old dancer, singer, actress, and social media star (whose big break came after appearing on Lifetime's hit reality series Dance Moms back in 2015) has been hitting the ground running ever since publicly coming out at the start of 2021, doing everything from starring in a Paramount+ movie, JoJo Siwa: My World, to producing her own reality series where she searches for the next big pop girl group, to slaying the competition on ABC's Dancing with the Stars with dance partner Jenna Johnson; the two made history as the show's first same-sex dance couple to compete in the ballroom.
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