Cultural Impact
"Milkshake" has been featured in several films, such as Mean Girls and Norbit. In Date Movie, the song is played when actress Alyson Hannigan dances around on the streets wearing a fatsuit. In the Family Guy episode "Sibling Rivalry", Peter Griffin is forced to sing the song to prisoners. McSweeney's published a series of "Short Imagined Monologues", including one regarding "Milkshake" from the point of view of "an aging Kelis". In February 2007, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart jokingly reported that the song had been chosen as the campaign song of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. The song was featured in the The Simpsons episode "The Great Simpsina" (first broadcast in 2011). The infamous line was also referenced by Mia Fey in the video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations. When first meeting Dahlia Hawthorne, she says, "Well, I suppose we all know whose milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...".
In Kelis' song "Bossy", the lead single for her fourth studio album, Kelis Was Here, "Milkshake" is referred to in the chorus, when she sings: "I'm bossy I brought all the boys to the yard". Justin Bond of cabaret duo Kiki and Herb said that he had seen many people lip-sync to the song in clubs, and called the song "a big wink about the way you can reclaim your sexuality—it's about making the person who's objectifying you the weaker one." In 2010, Kelis said that she believed the song changed the music for female singers, comparing the music before and after "Milkshake" was a hit, and said: "I mean you kind of have to be retarded to deny that it literally changed female vocalists."
The ABC TV series Ugly Betty featuring Becki Newton (as Amanda Tanen) covered the song in the second season episode "A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding".
The reality TV series The Glee Project featured the song on the fourth episode "Sexuality" of Season 2, using it in a mashup with the Maroon 5 song Moves Like Jagger. The song is used during the week's music video, depicting the Season 2 cast taking a sex education class.
American actress Lindsay Lohan, who plays the main character from Mean Girls, the film where "Milkshake" is in one scene, said she is a fan of the song.
The song has been used in a 2012 promo for a SpongeBob SquarePants promo.
Read more about this topic: Milkshake (song)
Famous quotes containing the words cultural and/or impact:
“To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)