...when what they don't realize is that's the best. fucking. part. of the planet.

Probably sensitive to the Hawaiian-bias at the moment because I spent some time in the Society Islands this summer and had friends who just got back to the PNW after living on Aitutaki for 2 years. There's SO much more to Polynesia than fucking Waikiki, and I used to be a Hawaii-specialist travel agent, so it's not…

Ah, not to be a dick, but calling all Polynesian cultures Hawaiin while simultaneously complaining of the bastardization of all Hawaiian cultures into one fucked up interpretation is kind of ironic. Especially seeing as the script was written by a non-Hawaiian Polynesian guy (Taika Waititi, who is NZ Maori).

The fact that we're all automatically assuming she's Hawaiian is also bugging me. Sure, Moana and Maui are Hawaiian spellings of inoffensively polynesian-sounding words. But why wouldn't she be from Raiatea or Bora-Bora? Even American Samoa. The Hawaii thing is so played— and the pidgin stereotypes are becoming…

Add to that list people automatically assuming Polynesian=Hawaiian, even though the script was originally written by a Maori dude.

The ALL IMPORTANT "Taylor Swift Connection"

I'm so excited as well and it's so nice to be able to (I hate this term but) fan-girl out to something even though I'm 32 years old. I grew up too quickly through a traumatic childhood so it's nice to have a handful of things to get silly-excited about like music I would have listened to in my youth and early 20's.…

TayGency

i hope my queen just tweets 'you're welcome.' we are blessed with anything she gives us.

Well, I can't imagine Meghan Trainor sounding good period.

I mean, YES it would be great if Taylor Swift would use a song about New York to talk about social injustice, but on the other hand, I feel like the fact that she DIDN'T do so isn't necessarily a reason to specifically single her out for criticism (and believe me, as a long-term San Franciscan, I have BUCKETFULS of…

I don't get the Jez hatred for this woman. Here's a young woman making a successful career for herself in the cutthroat music industry, with her own music and largely on her own terms. She doesn't pander to male sexual fantasies, she seems to be a good person (having done several things for people less fortunate). I…

Even her shout out to gay couples—"you can want who you want/boys and boys and girls and girls"—is pat and sort of tacitly privileged, though it will no doubt be lauded for its progressivism. (And, to be fair, 12-year-olds in conservative households need to hear that shit from her, truly—I will definitely give her…

I suppose Katy Perry's "California Gurls" should have discussed water shortages, migrant farm worker's rights, rising rent and gentrification, and state budget shortfalls.

That's absolutely fair. But there's a big difference between "this song she wrote addresses x topics" conversations and "this song she wrote isn't about a completely different topic." The latter—this piece—is just nonsensical as "criticism."

Sorry, what? Songs about New York City are now only allowed to be on certain specified topics? I'm all for calling artists out on failures, but this is ridiculous. "She's singing about happy things! SHUT IT DOWN."

I'm sure ol' Jez would love it if Taylor Swift were singing about poverty, school budget cuts and the perils of being a person of color in New York.

Not to mention that I don't think stop-and-frisk or poverty levels are really Taylor's stories to be telling, and if she had tried to address it, Jezebel would be taking her to task for that.

AGREED. My yellow lab is obviously throwing shade at fucking everything in this photo and she isn't even fully grown yet.

This is amazing. Now, I understand why my parents refused to let me have a one. I was obsessed with "Oscar Otter" as a kid and figured all they required were fish and slides.