{"id":699,"date":"2022-04-02T03:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/?p=699"},"modified":"2022-04-02T03:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T03:15:11","slug":"you-played-yourself-9-the-slap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"You Played Yourself 9: The Slap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here we go, the biggest night of your career, third time\u2019s a\ncharm, hopefully, the big prize dodged you twice already,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past few years been a rough ride, box-office bombs and shit\n\u2018bout your personal life, least of which the entanglement with the wife, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 was supposed to be a return to form, a redemption of\nsorts for you to reclaim the throne,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then things got underway, at first played out as expected,\n\u2018til the court jester took centre stage, what followed no one saw coming,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cracked a joke that involved the missus, initially had you\nlaughing but damn, she was steaming, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Off you strode up onto the stage, the smile long gone, smacked\nthat fool in the chops before casually walking off,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then cursed him out loud, twice, \u2018Keep my wife\u2019s name out\nyour fuckin\u2019 mouth\u2019, nice,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got him lost for words while everyone present turned to\nstone, not long after they declared you the winner, got you all emotional, the\ntears they did roll,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you\u2019re going home a winner, but it\u2019s a lot more\ncomplicated, Brother,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You made a damn fool of yourself, they\u2019re talking \u2018bout it\nall over, in tones that hardly serve to flatter,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No award\u2019s gonna undo the damage, way to throw your brand\naway,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Career now on life support, never know if or when they\u2019ll\npull the chord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You played yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Felt the need to defend your wife\u2019s honour, well that part\nis understandable,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure if his verbal missiles were directly even aimed at\nher, could\u2019ve only been about the film that he\u2019d mentioned,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless you could\u2019ve and should\u2019ve handled it better,\nwhat got into ya?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You were laughing just seconds ago, come on, Bro, why flip\nthe switch to aggro?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did she tell you to sort him out right there and then? Her\nnon-reaction\u2019s kinda telling,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could\u2019ve stopped you from making the front pages but sat\nthere just keeping her quiet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could\u2019ve handled it like a grown adult would, taken him\naside then chew him for being so rude,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tell him he\u2019s out of pocket for that bullshit, that the\nmissus wasn\u2019t having it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Way to provide your critics with extra ammunition, the ones saying\nshe has your balls in a death grip,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owns your heart and soul like a female mantis, day by day\nmanipulating,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re saying, also, that you were just trying to act all\nhard and macho,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still competing with the slain rapper that she still diggin\u2019,\ngotta bury the notion that you\u2019re soft like napkins, that you, too, can somehow\nbe masculine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not gonna touch them August jokes, that\u2019s for another post,\nbut they\u2019re still out there, Friend, branding you the second letter of the\nGreek alphabet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course the C and S words rhyming with buck and shrimp,\nonly gets worse from here, better get a grip,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They might take that prize from you, that \u2018nice cool guy\u2019\nrep in a shambles,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably won\u2019t be invited next year or to the one right after,\n\u2018cuz you got caught up in your feelings like a sucker,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throwing hands to combat temporary emotions, such behavior\u2019s\nunbecoming of a responsible adult, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Count your lucky stars he ain\u2019t pressing charges, could\u2019ve\nhad five-o on your ass after that career revival,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for your fellow winners and attendees way to ruin their\nnight, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stole their thunder and made it all \u2018bout you, if you\u2019re\npunished, well, it kinda serves you right,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time will tell if this\u2019ll blow over, hopefully it won\u2019t be a\ncareer-killer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, congrats on the win, Sir, third time turned out\nto be a charm, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a damn shame that in the end you\u2019d done less good and plenty\nof harm,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You played yourself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go, the biggest night of your career, third time\u2019s a charm, hopefully, the big prize dodged you twice already, Past few years been a rough ride, box-office bombs and shit \u2018bout your personal life, least of which the entanglement with the wife, 2022 was supposed to be a return to form, a redemption &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/?p=699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Played Yourself 9: The Slap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}