Breaking down Joe Exotic's low-budget (but nevertheless compelling) music videos
Photo: Netflix While we have plenty of suggestions for what to do and eat as we shelter in place, there’s always the matter of what to watch. And if you — like me — are on the hunt for something so outrageous you won’t be able to think of anything else, it’s my pleasure to suggest to you Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness on Netflix.
I’ll begin with the most innocuous: “I Saw a Tiger,” which is a straightforward political ballad about preserving wildlife. It features Joe in pleather pants and handcuffs, romping around with baby tigers. During the chorus, we see him standing atop a white emergency vehicle with a backdrop of animated storm clouds:
The tone of the song is ostensibly sunny, but the video itself leaves you with a sense of deep unease. I wonder, in spite of Joe’s attempts at buoyancy, if guests picked up on the feeling of malaise that plagues our hero and permeates the the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park. Our final and most alarming video is “Here Kitty Kitty” which zeroes in on Joe’s archenemy, Carole Baskin. Baskin has long accused Joe of animal abuse and is committed to shuttering his operation, while Joe just really seems to hate Carole and attempted to pay a hit man $3,000 to kill her in 2017 .
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