“When KFC asked me to create my own meal,” said Harlow (or at the very least his publicist, in a press release), “I knew it couldn’t be just any meal.
While Taco Bell was staging drag brunches for Pride month, KFC was … releasing a combo meal with a guy who was featured on a Lil Nas X track, which for KFC is probably radical. Not literally radio silent, but silent on the brand collab - until KFC finally announced the “Jack Harlow Meal” in June. The shot leading up to this sequence shows him getting out of a car in front of Louisville’s Palace Theater is the chicken pile meant to be his tour rider? If so, I worry for this boy!
Just as his suit matches the room matches the bucket, so too does his mop of light brown hair resemble the surface of a piece of fried chicken, the way some expensive poodle-mix dogs do. It ends with him in a red-and-white KFC-bucket-striped room, only him and enough food for at least ten Jack Harlows. The ad had a tone that was oddly serious for the brand, with color-saturated drive-by shots of Louisville and narration from Harlow about how he “manifested” this moment of slingin’ chicken. 3 is because he made it very clear in a December 2021 commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken. (For what it’s worth, it’s still more than everything he knows about Brandy.) I couldn’t tell you the name of one song he’s in besides his Lil Nas X feature, who he’s dated/is dating, or his age.
That’s it, that’s the breadth of all my worldly knowledge of this man.