Also: “At least the Aaliyah biopic was regulated to Lifetime”

At its best, Nina is cosplay karaoke

It might if there is vodka mixed with that cranberry juice.

There needs to be a term for this feeling i have surrounding this new phenomena of obviously awful movies that flop. Cinematic Schadenfreude or something like that. That Christian Bale egypt movie, the other egypt action movie and now this. I love it when audiences rebuff these obviously bigoted movies made by bigoted…

One should never be reminded of Russell Brand’s obnoxious turn in Get Him to the Greek while watching a representation of Nina Simone, and, yet, here we are.

I hate to say it, but the film was as painful as a UTI.

There’s also the bizarre decision to focus on the last ten years of Nina Simone’s life instead of earlier when she was, ya know, doing stuff. And almost every single review mentions or suggests watching the 2015 documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?, instead.

My relationship with Prince was musical before it was visual so I’d already decided this guy was a monster, a complete force to be reckoned with. When I eventually did start to see his videos and his presence I could see the feminine presence but I never felt Prince was actually feminine.

That preemptive NoHomo / GayPanic reaction was a big thing in the 80s— I had SO many boy classmates who’d rag on us endlessly because we liked Duran Duran, in their poet-blouses and lipstick, then turn around and look at this album-cover by this new act called Poison and declare “those chicks are so hot!” Their…

I once read an interview with Henry Rollins where the interviewer asked him what he thought about people thinking he was gay and his response was (paraphrasing) People can think what they want, people think Prince is gay but have you ever seen the women Prince is surrounded by?? I’d like to be that gay”

The title of the article is “Don’t Kid Yourselves, Everyone Would Have Sex With Prince.” :)

Her eyebrows are perpetually on fleek. Damnnnnn.

The article is a wonderful exploration of blackness and homosexuality and how the two complement and face each other down. Black men, myself being one, are obviously saddled with the existential dread that comes with being a black man in N. America. I have found that straight black men tend to be more verbally abusive…

Read the article. It’s pretty good. Foxx is talking about his unease being around Prince for fear that he might want to fuck him. It’s his attraction to another man that frightens Foxx.

“I’m not a woman, I’m not a man I am something that you’ll never understand”

Growing up as a black kid in a all black neighborhood in Chicago, the emergence of Prince was truly interesting period. Watching guys (like Foxx) contort themselves to say they like Prince but make it clear they didn’t “like” Prince.*

Not the same thing because she was a dancer/actress and not a musician, but Robia LaMorte was Pearl on the Diamonds and Pearls tour, and then she was on Buffy TVS! She popped up on MSNBC yesterday to talk about her memories of him and I was like, oh yeeeeah!

As someone who is (generally) straight, I always thought Prince was delightfully confusing

Did you first think Prince was gay?

Right! Sometimes I find myself giving Foxx the side eye.