SNL Roasts Stella Leffy In Cut-For-Time Weekend Update Segment
Stella Lefty must be so happy about all the Ed Sheeran stuff. Before Sheeran submitted to billionaire demands and kicked Macklemore off of his tour, Lefty, the Groupon heiress turned flavorless country-folk-pop singer, was the easiest snark-target in the music world. Lefty's breakout smash "Boston," still the #2 song in America, was a big enough bite of Noah Kahan's recent hit "Stick Season" that Kahan got writing credit , and then people kept noticing that other songs from Lefty's debut album were blatant ripoffs of other obvious popular songs. The "Stella Thefty" jokes wrote themselves. Now,
Stella Lefty must be so happy about all the Ed Sheeran stuff. Before Sheeran submitted to billionaire demands and kicked Macklemore off of his tour, Lefty, the Groupon heiress turned flavorless country-folk-pop singer, was the easiest snark-target in the music world. Lefty's breakout smash "Boston," still the #2 song in America, was a big enough bite of Noah Kahan's recent hit "Stick Season" that Kahan got writing credit , and then people kept noticing that other songs from Lefty's debut album were blatant ripoffs of other obvious popular songs. The "Stella Thefty" jokes wrote themselves. Now, Saturday Night Live has shared a cut-for-time Weekend Update bit built on the "Stella Lefty keeps stealing other people's songs" premise.
SNL came back last weekend with New York hero Jalen Brunson hosting the season premiere and whatever's left of KATSEYE as musical guests. Recently, SNL has been sharing sketches that were cut for time on its YouTube channel, and the most recent one of them is a Weekend Update Stella Lefty impression. It's a showcase for Veronika Slowikowska, a comedian who joined the cast last season. The premise is that all of Lefty's songs are about Boston and being drunk, and they're also obvious ripoffs of hits that everyone knows. The premise requires to Slowikowska to belt out tunes more convincingly than Lefty herself probably ever could. Check it out below.
Slowikowska may or may not do some singing outside the context of SNL , too. Last year, the New York indie-pop project Me As A Girl released its debut single "I Don't Know Why I Said That." That song is produced by Kyle Chase, Slowikowska's comedy partner, who is credited on YouTube though not on streaming services. Slowikowska has been coy about whether the singer on the track is actually her, but she has been promoting it a lot. Sure looks like her in the video, too. It's good!
Last month, Slowikowska made her live debut at the Brooklyn venue Baby's All Right and just sang the one song.
Me As A Girl could turn out to be some kind of elaborate prank, but it seems like a legit creative side project. In other news, we get Turnstile on SNL this weekend.
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