A viral scene from the Netflix series, Wednesday, shows Jenna Ortega’s titular daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams busting out in a creepy-kooky dance at a school event. Ortega, a Latina actor in her early twenties from the Coachella Valley in Southern California, first thanked 1980s-era UK post-punk singer and icon Siouxsie Sioux among others on social media for the “help” and inspiration for her wacky self-choreographed solo performance. In Hulu’s This Fool, 30-year-old Maggie, a Latina from South L.A., wears a red streak in her black hair and a Siouxsie Sioux graphic T-shirt that emphasizes the singer’s famous eye makeup. Maggie’s boyfriend, Julio, hates when people in the neighborhood assume he’s a Morrissey fan because he wears a “gentlemen’s haircut” that mimics the pompadour and fade popular with the ex-Smiths singer from Manchester and his many Latino fans. These recent pop culture moments demonstrate not only the ubiquity...

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