Why so snarky? I think it’s pretty cool that Weiss created ITG and Glossier and is such a success. I use some of their stuff - the stretch concealer is the best I ever tried, and I even tried Clé de Peau. Cosmetics is 75% marketing (just using a random figure here, you know what I mean) and she clearly knows what…
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I was awed by her talent if underwhelmed by her material UNTIL I heard “Breakdown”. That, for me, remains a great song in that she challenged what a pop singer could do at that time with it, both as a concept and vocally. She also became the de facto blueprint for what female pop singers would do in future,…
Agreed. This phenomenon was especially apparent when he did two looks on the same person as he did here with model Amber Valletta. Between the brows and the nose, you’d never guess that both people featured in the image were the same person.
Damn straight he was.
Making Faces was great not just for the makeup tutorials, but for the section showing how makeup and contouring in particular could completely transform a look.
What I find amazing is that she had folks falling over her left and right trying to make her a pop star a la “a Fergie, Gwen Stefani or Britney Spears”, and she *still* insisted on trying to rap - trying to use a style that demands a cultural connection she did not appreciate and did not bother with. Christ, *ICP* is…
Well researched and written. The biggest takeaway is that she should have listened to the people around her. Even the song you posted in the article, had she dropped the blaccent and gone with Valley girl ala kesha in the first part of her career that would have been a cute little underground sleeper hit.
All through this article producers and directors are trying to get her to go pop instead of hip-hop, and when she finally does try to do hip-hop everyone holds it against her that she is white.
Nobody is crying any tears for this poor, beleaguered white girl who was handed a music career based on her whiteness, while a few people tried to steer her away from the cultural appropriation she so needed to commit. Fuck her.
Oh diddums, poor baby Donnie only wanted to help the nice old lady who helps him down tiny ramps and the police officer!
Jon Cooper was a major ass with that tweet. Busy gave him hell and his sexist bullshit deserved every bit of it.
...Man, I think I’m going to keep coming back to this piece all day, thinking about it more. Upon reflection, this bit is really sticking with me:
He’s such a fucking manbaby. “More progress against ISIS in the last nine months...” What? H0w? Based on what? These are just words. And his dumbfuck supporters will just look at them and say “See!?!” without even one thought as to what they actually mean.
Excellent piece! Never paid much attention to Iggy, but wow I’m completely floored by her inability to listen, understand, and change in the face of her friends, peers, mentors, and basically entire hip hop community telling her she’s wrong.
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This is amazing — thoroughly researched, relentlessly argued and really compellingly written. Thank you for making my morning with it!
Kelly Clarkson says she turned down millions of dollars just so she wouldn’t have to share song-writing credit with Dr. Luke.
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