Popularity
Siegfried and Roy's popularity has prompted many television shows both to honor them as pop culture icons and to lampoon their aesthetic sensibilities and question the true nature of their relationship. Primetime animated shows in particular, such as The Simpsons, have poked fun at the duo.
Siegfried and Roy were characters themselves in the television animated series Father of the Pride. The characters were voiced by Julian Holloway and David Herman; the real Siegfried and Roy were involved with the show as executive co-producers. The duo are also mentioned in the theme song to Kenan and Kel.
Michael Jackson wrote and performed a song, called "Mind is the Magic", about Siegfried and Roy. The song is used as their theme tune in Father of the Pride.
Tanya Freemont in StarKid Productions's "Little White Lie" mentioned Siegfried and Roy in her song, Boy Toy, by Tanya and the Hot Girls.
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“The popularity of disaster movies ... expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“A more problematic example is the parallel between the increasingly abstract and insubstantial picture of the physical universe which modern physics has given us and the popularity of abstract and non-representational forms of art and poetry. In each case the representation of reality is increasingly removed from the picture which is immediately presented to us by our senses.”
—Harvey Brooks (b. 1915)