Having teamed up earlier within the weekend to pay tribute to Queen on the SNL50 Homecoming Live performance, Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard once more joined forces throughout the SNL50 dwell particular. This time, they carried out a rendition of Sinéad O’Connor’s Prince-penned “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Take a look at the video beneath.
In a shock look, Aubrey Plaza launched the duo’s efficiency. For Plaza, it wasn’t only a return to 30 Rock after being a former Saturday Night time Reside web page, however her first public look for the reason that passing of her husband, director Jeff Baena, earlier this 12 months.
Cyrus and Howard’s tribute to O’Connor was, after all, tied to SNL lore. Throughout her notorious 1992 efficiency on the present, O’Connor ripped up {a photograph} of Pope John Paul II. Regardless of frequent perception that this led to her being banned from SNL, Lorne Micheals himself stated in Questlove’s Women & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music that they’d by no means banned anybody: “We’re means too crass and opportunistic,” he stated. “If one thing’s sizzling, we’re going to go for it and have it on.”
What’s extra, Michaels stated of O’Connor specifically, “A part of me simply admired the bravery of what she’d carried out, and likewise absolutely the sincerity of it.”
The Saturday Night time Reside fiftieth Anniversary Particular opened with Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter duetting on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Sure.” Different highlights from Sunday’s present embrace Black Jeopardy (with Eddie Murphy taking part in Tracey Morgan subsequent to Tracey Morgan), and the return of Domingo together with his brothers Pedro Pascal and Unhealthy Bunny.
For extra of Howard, you may catch her on tour with the reunited Alabama Shakes this summer season by getting tickets right here. Phrase has it they’re engaged on new music, as nicely.
