Listen to the lyrics. “Stand out above the crowd, even if I gotta shout out loud. Till mine is the only face you’ll see, gonna stand out till you notice me.” White people may hear a love song, but “Stand Out” is about overcoming White supremacy and tackling the challenge of first-generation high school graduates with college applications. A Goofy Movie had hidden messages to Negro youth. They never even knew. Thank you, Tevin. Thank you.
And the dance choreography? Not limited to Powerline, the whole troop had fire. Max saved Goofy’s life with the Perfect Cast and turned it into the street’s hottest dance. Goofy made it a hot line, Max a hot song. Goofy dropped, twirled, jumped, put his hands on his hips and fu*king moonwalks. I say again – when Goofy dropped, twirled, jumped, put his hands on his hips and fu*king moonwalks?! Powerline looks at him like “who is this ni– oh my god, I’ll allow it!” I’d go to a party and drop those moves right now. When Max dropped his moves and the game was over. Killed the game, RIP. And then Roxanne and her homegirl recognized game and was like “that’s the hottest sh*t in the streets” and they started doing it on the spot?
And in the midst of it all was the movie’s climax. Not kissing Roxanne, not hugging his dad – the most triumphant moment of A Goofy Movie when he made it onstage and his homies saw him. The exact moment Pauly Shore screams “That’s Max! Max is on the tuu-uuuube! That’s Max, I know him!” It makes me cry every time. J. Cole done made at least 3 albums trying to capture the strength of that moment and they’re all trash in comparison. Kanye tried his own version in “Family Business,” rapping “Remember when they ain’t believe in me? Now they like, see? That’s my cousin on TV,” and all of it is sh*t compared to “Max is on the tuu-uuuube! That’s Max, I know him!”
https://www.youtube.com/w... ?v=1DVUwWZfzMw
He did it, y’all. Roxanne aside, that single moment summarizes everything Max ever wanted: validation. For people to be proud of him the way he was never proud of his dad. For someone to claim him. He did it, and I saw him do it. Do you have any idea how powerful that was to 10-year old me? And so there it is. The journey is over, and at least for me A Goofy Movie remains the Blackest, most underrated nerd classic of all time for the message it sent to a young Black kid who wanted to fit in. Whose affirmations were so subtle that they’d instill a seed of confidence we never saw planted. “That’s Max. Max is on the tube. I know him.” I do too, Pauly Shore. I do, too.
And the dance choreography? Not limited to Powerline, the whole troop had fire. Max saved Goofy’s life with the Perfect Cast and turned it into the street’s hottest dance. Goofy made it a hot line, Max a hot song. Goofy dropped, twirled, jumped, put his hands on his hips and fu*king moonwalks. I say again – when Goofy dropped, twirled, jumped, put his hands on his hips and fu*king moonwalks?! Powerline looks at him like “who is this ni– oh my god, I’ll allow it!” I’d go to a party and drop those moves right now. When Max dropped his moves and the game was over. Killed the game, RIP. And then Roxanne and her homegirl recognized game and was like “that’s the hottest sh*t in the streets” and they started doing it on the spot?
And in the midst of it all was the movie’s climax. Not kissing Roxanne, not hugging his dad – the most triumphant moment of A Goofy Movie when he made it onstage and his homies saw him. The exact moment Pauly Shore screams “That’s Max! Max is on the tuu-uuuube! That’s Max, I know him!” It makes me cry every time. J. Cole done made at least 3 albums trying to capture the strength of that moment and they’re all trash in comparison. Kanye tried his own version in “Family Business,” rapping “Remember when they ain’t believe in me? Now they like, see? That’s my cousin on TV,” and all of it is sh*t compared to “Max is on the tuu-uuuube! That’s Max, I know him!”
https://www.youtube.com/w... ?v=1DVUwWZfzMw
He did it, y’all. Roxanne aside, that single moment summarizes everything Max ever wanted: validation. For people to be proud of him the way he was never proud of his dad. For someone to claim him. He did it, and I saw him do it. Do you have any idea how powerful that was to 10-year old me? And so there it is. The journey is over, and at least for me A Goofy Movie remains the Blackest, most underrated nerd classic of all time for the message it sent to a young Black kid who wanted to fit in. Whose affirmations were so subtle that they’d instill a seed of confidence we never saw planted. “That’s Max. Max is on the tube. I know him.” I do too, Pauly Shore. I do, too.
