After Taylor COINCIDENTALLY won female vocalist, album, and entertainer of the year (might have gotten one of those wrong) she finished her speech by saying "..and i want to thank every person in this room for not running up on stage during the speech!" Now, this is the same girl who in NUMEROUS interviews said " Kanye called me to apologize, and i accepted. Everything's fine." To me that's just straight phony - i don't know how people can't see through her. They completely buy the wholesome young girl-power teen artist thing she gives off, and of course the 'country' artist thing also pretty much making her Americas fucking sweetheart. She's a regular girl " but she wears short skirts, and i wear t-shirts..." Now Taylor, i know your ass has a miniskirt. You also wear make-up, get your hair, nails, and skin treated. Are you SERIOUSLY trying to pass yourself off as innocent and low maintenance? Ha. ok.See, that kind of phoniness calls your character into question. And for me when your character is in question as a representative of america, women in america, and white women in america.... i have a problem.
Speaking of her triumphence at the country music awards, Bessem and i were talking today and she helped me come to the a VERY telling conclusion. --->Many country music stars were reported to have said that they were upset with the young stars wins. It was their assertion that she "didn't put in the work" and by that i assume "the work" is being dedicated to and expanding upon and in the country music scene. Now, Kanye said the same thing as these people! A single black man takes a moment of raw and uninhibited emotion to storm the stage and say what he feels is immediately true regarding current events - while a group of seasoned artists quietly and strategically express their discontent in an interview. In private. Where things can OBVIOUSLY be manipulated. Now i ask you: who's REALLY being shady? Bottom line is both Kanye and numerous artists in the country music scene agree that Taylor swift is undeserving of pretty much every award given to her lately.
Speaking of, exactly how many awards are we going to give this girl? No amount of awards will cure the fact that he racism flared up when Kanye came to the stage. She was stunned, initially star stuck, until she realized the nigger wasn't there to kiss her feet and praise her beautiful porcelain skin. Basically she was appalled and shocked that Kanye ( who USED to fit nicely for white people with his affirmations that black women were gold diggers, and his clinging obsession to burberry) could, would, and did pass judgment on her ability to obtain the award. But seriously, Her video was NOT better than beyonce's and i don't even like b. But i know th truth. And the truth is Beyonce is a hardworking black woman who lost her award to a random 'country aritist' at an award show that is specifically for diverse music purposes.
Kanye is being punished for not kissing wp's ass and putting the work, dedication, and presence of black people before all else - - this is a heroic and (obvi) socially dangerous action but someones got to do it. As for as im concerned Kanye is a radical dude when needed. This is also the same man that randomly uttered "george bush doesn't care about black people" when dealing with katirna. Hmm, but radical white people liked him then. didn't they? But as always in history when a black man dares to defile a white woman social, emotional, economical, and even physicaly death are known reponses.
I hate racism, and i can spot it.
Oh, and did i mention that T. swift won 5 American music awards but was conveniently absent from the event (keeping attention on herself) ? Hmm. ya, no way thats intentional. She's just more talented than every other musical artist in america right now.....right, and slavery never happened!
Let's return to Rihanna's song 'Breaking Dishes' from her album Good Girl Gone Bad:
ReplyDelete"I'm breakin' dishes up in here
all night (uh huh)
Ima fight a man tonight,
Ima fight a man tonight-
a man, a man, a man,
a man, a man, a man"
The repitition of man, and even the stylings on the vowel sounds, at once reduces and exposes the concept of "man". Men are not "gentlemen" or some chivilrous, and honorable notion of "man"-- they are dishonorable and disrespectful. Rihanna's song is written from a very specific epistemic situation of black women, and serves as an empowering war cry for women to start responding in kind to the violence and threat of violence they face. And TA DA- a year later, Rihanna is fighting a man. This shit is a reality.
Sorry- but t-shirts aren't empowering- they're sexualized. That comfy girl next door thing is ridiculous. However, a year later, and Taylor Swift is being as high femme and dainty as ever to emphasize her victimization.
Loved your description of Taylor Swift's deer in headlights look when Kanye didn't come on stage to kiss her feet. I love how she got whiter literally and metaphorically.
And we are acting like he DID "defile" her- and all he did was name what EVERYONE with a brain who has been keeping track of pop music for years was thinking and publicly put black women first. Who else is going to storm the stage to do that? The VMA's certainly weren't going to put black women first.
But we take his storming the stage and stealing the mic as stealing her voice as conveniently cozy with the myth of the black male rapist.
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