blech! I stopped paying attention to her after Tragic Kingdom....I guess I missed all this stuff.

Yeah, I can forgive her a bit for making bindis a thing, in the 90s, for that reason... but to this day, she’s unapologetic about the Harajuku girls, and doesn’t seem to grasp concepts of cultural appropriation and racial fetishization: http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/gwen-s…

As recently as 2012, No Doubt released that…

God, I hope she’s not telling her son, “He doesn’t want US.” What a mindfuck for a little boy.

OMG I know the same type of girl! Back in the day of AIM, she had to change her screenname constantly because it was always had something to do with a guy: MattsAngel, DavesChick, FutureMrsGlen, etc. She had no identity without a boyfriend. So OF COURSE she ends up marrying a guy in the military, because it came with…

Gwen’s use of the Harajuku girls was something a bit related: some appropriation, a LOT of fetishization. She took a distinct part of Japanese culture, sanitized it for North American consumption, and shamelessly used it to promote herself. She also took human beings and treated them like exotic pets that followed her…

Ehn... this particular white subculture is lacking in oppression, and Gwen wouldn’t be representing something which would be accepted when she does it, and where she’s given credit as if she invented it, where it has previously been shunned and suppressed when the original culture’s people have done it. So no, it’s…

I dunno. If you consider that Gwen is probably completely unfamiliar with any kind of country lifestyle, it’s kind of cultural appropriation lite (this time with white people!). Not like this is her culture.

I know a woman in her 30s. In the last decade she—

JLaw’s dress is whatever, but this interview question from the link kills me:

I so knew at least 3 girls who were like that when I was growing up. All, for the most part, perfectly nice but MAN did they turn into the mirror image of their boyfriend’s real quick. For some reason, it used to annoy the crap out of awkward, flat-chested 15 year old me (“get your own personality!” I used to think to…

I think Gwen is fun and cute, but ... She’s kind of the chick you knew in high school who absorbs all of her boyfriend’s interests rather than having her own.

The fact that her father is still trying to profit off her with this is enough for me to want to boycott the film. I will always remember the footage in the documentary where she’s taken a couple months off to try to get healthy, get out of the public eye, and recharge, and he shows up with a film crew to film her for…

And quite stringy blonde.

I always imagined that they took their hats off during breaks and when the camera wasn’t on the crowd, but right before the camera pans to the crowd, a huge “HATS ON” light flashes above the stage, and everyone quickly puts their hats back on in unison.

Plus, once it’s that heavy you gotta at least try to get a little relief by holding it.

I actually LIKE Keith Urban and I also thought it was Billy Ray. Someone needs to do an intervention there. Nicole, we’re all looking at you.

I watched the show and I’m still not sure why they were there. Their lead singer (Patrick?) is so good that the country dude singing with him sounded like he couldn’t hold a note or sing in tune if his life depended on it. Whoever told Thomas Rhett it would be good for his career to sing with a singer way out of his…

Love it. Steven Tyler needs to always do Steven Tyler.

I’m not American - but I feel I am preeettty clued up to US gossip (thanks Dlisted!) - and I know 9. A few solely because my mom used to watch a lot of American Idol and one because Nicole Kidman married him. It must be like a different sphere or something.

what is this hair even