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Bravo! We're Black

Love Island USA Season 8 Premiere: Racism Against Blondes and Fun In The Sun

Bravo! We're Black

Kaya and Aaron

Entertainment News, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Phillip Solomon joins Kaya to talk about the premiere episode of Love Island USA season 8. From Ariana Madix's looks to the shocking shake up and maybe even blonde racism -- they talk about why this season is off to a rousing start!
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0:00.0

and we are back baby you see me you see philip this is bravo we're black and we came here for love

0:13.5

i want you to reach out um i do not know that maria carrie s song that they did the 16 count to at the beginning,

0:24.6

but it was very cute.

0:26.3

And Ariana definitely got her one-two-one-two-in.

0:30.2

I think that that is what we should start on with Love Island USA Season 8, okay?

0:37.1

It made a splash.

0:38.2

How did we like the music video?

0:40.9

Opening number was giving, if you told Chat and GPT to make up a song.

0:45.0

If you, like, gave it all the past few songs and said, hey, can you take all those?

0:48.8

Combine them into one.

0:50.0

Just take it, smash it together.

0:51.8

And you know what?

0:52.5

I didn't hate it.

1:34.9

Opening number, I thought to myself in the beginning, I was like, the girls are pretty good. And I was like, what if some of the cast can't dance? And then they panned over to the boys. And I was like, oh, that's what we do. Okay, so then we don't have the other half that we just water it down, I will say. This was the most watered down opening we've had as far as actual choreography difficulty. But like, I enjoy it. I literally wrote in the notes, why am I smiling ear to ear? I don't know why, but it makes me happy every year that I'm like, you know what? Okay. I feel like Love Island is always the start of summer. Like,

1:39.7

and it's, it's just, it doesn't matter that we aren't on the show. It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter that these people are eventually going to be people that we probably hate.

1:45.2

It's just starting.

1:47.4

Summer is just beginning, beginning anew.

1:50.2

And we obviously left some heavy stuff and actually like amazing work.

1:57.0

I think that the Summer House Reunion Part 2 was even better than Part 1, which part 1 was pretty

2:03.1

damn good.

2:04.0

But it was just such a shift in tone.

2:07.4

And I think that also in the back of my mind, knowing that Sierra will also be a part of this

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