{"id":9867,"date":"2019-05-21T01:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2019-05-21T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:05:40","slug":"melinas-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/21\/melinas-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"Melina&#8217;s Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/coveteur.com\/2019\/05\/20\/melina-matsoukas-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from COVETEUR (opens in a new tab)\">from COVETEUR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WE ONCE RAIDED MELINA MATSOUKAS\u2019 CLOSET&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And it was just as cool as we imagined. Los Angeles. In Partnership with BET.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/coveteur.com\/author\/laurel-pantin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Laurel Pantin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/coveteur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Melina_Matsoukas-66.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of pretty much any music video you\u2019ve loved in the past few years, and odds are director Melina Matsoukas is behind it. We\u2019re talking Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LrCHz1gwzTo&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;noredirect=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Formation<\/a>,\u201d Rihanna\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We Found Love<\/a>\u201d (for which she was the first female director ever to win a Grammy), Snoop Dogg\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y1PVmANeyAg&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sensual Seduction<\/a>\u201d (yaaas), and Lady GaGa\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Abk1jAONjw&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Just Dance<\/a>.\u201d Matsoukas is the realest of deals, and also the coolest person you could ever hope to spend an afternoon with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you thought directing ground-breaking music videos would be enough for most people, you\u2019d find that \u201cmost people\u201d doesn\u2019t apply to Matsoukas. She just wrapped the forthcoming film\u00a0<em>Queen &amp; Slim,\u00a0<\/em>written by\u00a0Lena Waithe and James Frey, and has garnered much well-deserved praise for her work on\u00a0<em>Insecure.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/coveteur.com\/2019\/05\/20\/melina-matsoukas-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at COVETEUR (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at COVETEUR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from COVETEUR WE ONCE RAIDED MELINA MATSOUKAS\u2019 CLOSET&nbsp; And it was just as cool as we imagined. Los Angeles. In Partnership with BET. by Laurel Pantin Think of pretty much any music video you\u2019ve loved in the past few years, and odds are director Melina Matsoukas is behind it. We\u2019re talking Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cFormation,\u201d Rihanna\u2019s \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}