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Friday, March 21, 2014

Y U Mad Tay?: Why I Hate Kim Kardashian

Lawd, Geezus, it’s a fire! Kim Kardashian is on the cover of Vogue! Light the pitch forks!!

All the controversy and its not even one of Kim K's best pictures

I think seeing Kim K’s airbrushed faced on the cover of what is considered the “Holy Book of Fashion” was the final nail in the popular culture coffin for a lot of people. Looking deeper into it, the fact that people place a bounded publication on such a pedestal that they are ready to riot in the street over a face that popular culture has seared with a scarlet letter being placed on the cover is part of the reason why the Kardashian’s are able to add on to their multimillion dollar empire in the first place.

As much as people would like to claim that the Kardashian clan are a group of talentless attention slores, the disappointing truth is that they have the same talent that millionaires on wall street have. They have the same talentless talent that the CEO’s of billion dollar corporations have. It’s the talent of making money. Any intro course in marketing will teach you the sure way to be successful in selling is find a niche in the market and attack it.

The Kardashian niche just so happens to be the stupidity, the insecurities and the material values of the American culture. The Kardashian clan does nothing but eat from the same plate the billion dollar beauty industry eats from. The Kardashian Empire is nothing but a mirror of the values of the greatest country on earth.

And nobody saw anything wrong with this. smh

Now as much as I would like to type this from my intellectual, moral high horse, I too shuttered at the sight of seeing a Kardashian face on the cover of such a “prestigious” magazine. A page that was exclusively reserved for the air brushed faces of the talented, the beautiful, the fashionable and the influential now being clouded by a reality star and main stream America’s most hated black man? GASP! But once again the Kardashian’s have forced my morals into contradiction. My feminist mind rejoiced at the fact that a beautifully curvy women, who did not fit America’s blonde haired, blue eyed standard of beauty was on the cover of fashion magazine with such prestige. My fist welding, black power mind applauded seeing an interracial couple on a magazine reserved for the “traditional”. Considering the last time a black man was featured on the cover was in reference to King Kong; seeing a black man, in a fine tailored suit made me smile.

I have made conscious attempts to reprogram my mind to not judge a woman by what she does with her own vagina. Deeming Kim K a whore for liking successful black men has always seemed annoyingly misogynistic and just a popular form of slut shaming. Hell, I love successful black men too. Get ya swerve on girl! But I think it’s what Kim K represents that is so unsettling. My discomfort stems from the fact that she has done all she has accomplished and achieve a status of celebrity that a slutty black girl could never achieve. My irritation stems from the fact that not only one person; but a FAMILY of people with no royal bloodline can become this rich and famous without having one talent in their gene pool other than proper posing ability. My anger brews from how one woman, can single handedly reconfigure the American dream for young women. Little girls don’t want to own a home with a white picket fence and dog. No. Little girls want to be in music videos, and be on a realty show, and do playboy covers. Instead of possibly owning these huge companies passing out multimillion dollar endorsements, we want to put our faces on the bottles of tanning oils, and other beauty products that help young women maintain the infamous unobtainable standard of beauty.

My frustration is not with Kim K and her family. Hell, if someone offered me a million dollars and some change to take my picture, I’d give em poses from all angles all day long. My anger is with the culture that we have adapted to that allows a rich girl with a sex tape to be famous and idolized. This culture has made way for many to exploit themselves and their families for our entertainment and amusement. Exploitation = millions. Why should we be mad at Anna Wintour for adapting to our new moral standards. She has to pay for her NYC townhouse somehow. (Want to know how much the Editor-in-Chief at Vogue makes?) Just because a person is late to the party doesn’t mean the party hasn’t already started.

Side Note: All controversy aside, baby Nori West is the cutest!!!

Nori: "Yall know ya'll only got this cover because of me right?"

Look for the cover on the April 2014 issue of Vogue. Unless that online petition passes..smh

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Tay's Unpopular Opinion: 5 Artist We Have No Use For

Lets be honest, now a days the music worlds is full of BS. Some of the BS we tolerate for the purpose of keeping the party going, or the tears flowing. While they are certain songs that are useless to us now, there are certain artists who haven’t been able to live up to the hype that they have generated with their first hit. Here are just a few artists that nobody would really miss if they fell off.

5.Tyga

Better seen, not heard.. you know if tatted up, Chris Brown look-a-likes are your thing

His hit Rack City (2013) drew just enough hype for him to be taken seriously. Everything he has put out as of recently has been enough to draw a casual head nod. But just like everybody else on Young Money, (excluding Drake and Nicki Minaj), when Lil Wayne’s flame went out, he took the rest of his signed rappers into the freezer with him. Tyga made a feature on a few major songs, but his verse always seems to pop up when you think the song is over. And after hearing Tyga just ramble about hoes and money for a few seconds, you kinda wished the song would have ended a minute ago. All of his verses sound like the vulgar thoughts of the typical male ego and lord knows nobody needs to hear that.

4.Ciara

Style, Beauty, Moves....musical talent? not so much

-Huuuh CiCi. Every other year Ciara comes up scrapes up all the talent she has in her, to entertain us with another song. We watch the video to see what contorted dance moves she has made up, the song gets some airtime for about a month….and then we’re done. Ciara has been trying to convince us that she can sing for years, she even made a cable movie called Mama I Want to Sing (2011), to even try to convince herself to no avail. Ciara is more entertaining to look at than she is to hear. She would be more respected as a choreographer, or a model. She could even dip her hand in song writing, assuming she writes any of her songs, but as a singer? After 6 years and 2 hits, it’s kinda time to hang it up.

3. Future

Better seen,not heard....hmm I'm sensing a pattern here

Hey, at least they look good.

- When your engagement to another D-list celebrity draws more hype than your album, it’s time for a change. Yes, we jigged to Tony Montana (2012) for a while, and Same Damn Time (2012) got the club going, no doubt about that, but really if we never heard Future’s voice again, would the party stop? No. Similar to his 4^th baby momma, Ciara, Future is a lot better to look at than he is to be heard. Future sounds like he’s drowning and Ciara sings like she dying a horrible, painful death half the time. I don’t know if making subpar music is what brought them together, but if these two got married and locked themselves in a mansion and were never heard from again, they wouldn’t be missed. Fortunately for them (and Future’s 3 other baby mommas) having a mediocre music career plays well.

2. Big Sean

And again... I can look at him all day

-It kinda hurt to add this one to the list but once again, if your engagement to another D-list celebrity draws more attention than your album, someone isn’t doing their job. Now Big Sean is probably the only one on this list who actually has the talent to be removed. Not sure if it is shotty management or Kanye's GOOD Music label has inherited Diddy's Bad Boy label curse. What ever it is Big Sean isn't quite as big as he should be. He has all the makings to be a hip hop legend. Good word play, endorsement by a hip hop legend, and moderately good looks, but for some reason, something isn't catching on. On paper, Big Sean has a verse on pretty much all the major hits of this generation, but his generally good verses are easily overlooked. Hopefully that flop of an album he released recently won’t be the end of him.

1. Keyshia Cole

Better seen....nah, nevermind

- Keyshia managed to resurrect R&B with her first couple albums. Even if you didn’t like her music, her reality show made you feel bad enough for her to buy it. But once the sympathy wore off, people realized she sounded like a dying cat. Keyshia was supposed to be the next Mary J Blige but once all of her songs started sounding the same, we gave up on that dream, leaving Keyshia’s next 2 albums in the clearance bin at Walmart. People blame her marriage to Daniel Gibson for her musical down fall, because of course no one wants to hear happy R&B music. But since a typical Hollywood divorce is anticipated for the two of them soon, maybe people will feel bad enough for her to buy her albums again.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Man Crush Monday!!!: Idris Elba

In preparation for the release of the bio-pic of the century Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom due in theaters Christmas Day, this week’s Man Crush goes to the long time sexiness of Idris Elba.

I may be a little out of my age bracket with this one...but credit must be given when credit is due.

About every 5 movies that have been released in the past 10 years have featured a performance by the amazingly talented Idrissa Akuna Elba. The sexy Elba is of African descent (Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean) , but gets his sexy on-again, off-again accent from Hackney, London, England. Idris first caught women’s eye for his role in the HBO series, The Wire. Yet another diamond in the rough in Hollywood, Elba manages to capture audiences whenever he is on screen. He made us hate him in American Gangster (2007) opposite Denzel Washington, had us on the edge of our seats in Takers (2010), and made us all cry in Tyler Perry’s: Daddy’s Little Girls (2007). His most memorable role will be his most recent film, portraying the South African president and anti- apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela in the long awaited Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. His performance will carry a little more weight than before since the recent passing of the heroic politician. Given Elba’s track record for capturing audiences, he should definitely do the icon, Mandela some justice.

YAS!

This is how I now I'm out of my age range with this one because I still had parental controls on my tv when HBO'S The Wire had the most hype.

Idris has already been nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture in the Golden Globes. The movie itself is nominated for 3 awards.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is due in American theaters on Dec.25. It is also anticipated to be the longest movie ever made since the VH1 Michael Jackson movie. (That is not an official fact, just Tay's expectation)

Sorry ladies this MCM is married, with a baby on the way...And she's cute. Triple blow to the heart, I know -_-

We cant look tho... ;-)

Stalker Notes :
                               Twitter: idriselba

Saturday, December 21, 2013

All Hail Queen Bey!!!: 4 Visual Favs from the Beyonce album

Have you died of Beyonce' overdose yet? It's ok, me either. Queen Bey was able to take a royal number two on the music world by releasing an album with zero promotion via ITunes last week. The album equipped with 14 songs and 17 matching visuals, climbed the Bilboard charts to No.1 in 3 days, went No.1 in over 100 countries worldwide and managed to go platinum before physical copies were released in stores. The album was able to have record breaking success without the help of retail chains Target and Amazon. They are choosing not to carry the album because the digital release of the album will "impact demand and sales projections". They must have forgot they are talking about a Beyoncé album but its fine, non IPhone owning BeyHive stans can pick up the album when they get their snow tires and Captain Crunch at Walmart.
Releasing 16 music videos at one time has its perks, people take longer to get tired of you. And since we not tired of Beyonce yet, here are 4 of my favorite videos from the album.

4) Blue

Since we only get to see Miss Blue Ivy Carter’s face once a month and she’s usually mean mugging when she is photographed, it was nice to see the 2-year-old, Jay Z clone smile. It’s also reassuring to know that the child actually has a face, not just a chubby cheeked profile. Queen Bey actually let us match a cute little voice to the face this time too! Considering Bey pretty much gave free promotion to the Costa Rican tourist industry, the visuals in this video are worth looking at.

Bey really focused on the beauty of Costa Rica in this vid

Theme of this video was "Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww"

She really is the perfect physical mix of Bey and Jay

I loved hearing her little voice attempt to say Beyoncé at the end of the song. Awwwww

3) Drunk In Love

Infamous video director Hype Williams, definitely did Yonce’ justice in this video, not that he had to try very hard. Then again, you can’t give Hype that much credit. Beyonce wet, in a bikini is worth looking at in itself. And in real life, everybody looks good in black and white. (Don’t believe me? Play with your Instagram fillers). Considering whenever you put Jay and Bey in the same frame, its camera worthy, the video is simple enough to accompany the dramatics and eeriness of the song.

"Can keep yo eyes of my fatty daddy, I want you" o_o

nothing sexier than water and sand in black and white

"talkin all that shit in the car talkin bout you the baddest b!tch thus far"

You ever notice as sexy as Beyoncé is, she still cant seem to make Jay Z look sexually appealing. Like you want to be with Jay, but you cant see yourself laying under him.

2) Partition

The song by itself is enough to make a pimp clutch his pearls. Though I may not have enjoyed watching this as much as a man would, I can definitely appreciate the sexiness of this video. One thing I admire about this video is, as raunchy as the song is; the video finds its extreme sexiness without turning into soft core porn. The burlesque inspired strip teases, curvy shadows, and vintage European lingerie, brings a certain type of class to the whole thing. I’d imagine that’s hard to do when you make a song about giving fillato in the back of a limo. The effortlessness of Bey’s moves, make you believe this is just a nightly show that she puts on for Jay Z after concerts.

"Man aint neva seen a booty like dis"

Mrs.Carter let the freak out with this song. I wonder does Hov really call her "Peaches" in the bed. haha

"Driver roll up the partition please...."

This is how you be sexy and classy.

...Please not at the breakfast table Mrs. Carter ;-)

1) Haunted

Bey was definitely bitten by the abstract art bug with this album. Every big pop star, tries the whole “creepy”,”scary”, “Michael Jackson Thriller” thing at least once. Rihanna did it with Disturbia, Chris Brown in Wall to Wall, and Lady Gaga just scares people all the time. It’s usually a hit or miss, but the visual for Haunted is perfect in every way. Bey’s flawless makeup and tux, the eerie imagery, the song its self is amazingly thrilling. Now, do I completely understand the meaning behind all the weird imagery? No. Not at all. But something about the incomprehensible weirdness of this video just makes it cool to watch. Bey proved she can truly do no wrong.

If we didn't get anything from this album, we got enough visuals of Bey's ass

Naw, its ok, I don't get it either...

Her whole look in this video was so f**kin kick ass. Say it with me... SLLLLLLAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!

Stalker Note (For those who are not already virtually stalking the Carters):

IG: Beyoncé

Beyoncé is available on ITunes and in stores ( not Target or Amazon because they are some haters that apparently didn't get Hov's message when he said #newrules)

Check out why Target and Amazon decided to NOT carry Bey's already platinum album.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/12/19/targets-risky-snub-of-beyonce/

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Beyonce!!: YAAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!

One word...no explanation needed.

12 am, December 13^th, the world stopped gathered around together and let out a unified YAAAAAAAASSSSS! With no leaks, and using nothing but speculation and anticipation as promo, Beyonce released her 5^th studio album. The massive self-titled juggarnaut debuted No.1 in 72 countries within the first 3 hours of release, and No.1 in 100 countries in the first 24 hours! Queen Bey made sure she rewarded her loyal Bey Hive with as much Mrs. Carter as we could stand. The iTunes exclusive project included 14 tracks to dance in your room to, and 17 visuals to marvel at.

Heeeeeeyyyyy Miss Carter

The album in its entirety is something to appreciate after you get over the initial shock. Beyonce breathed life into her sexy persona Mrs. Carter. And compared to Sasha Fierce, Mrs. Carter is more grown and raunchier. But of course leave it to bored, sex deprived, pearl wearing housewives to have a problem with Yonce’s new image. Liberal Christian women mourned the loss of their daughter’s perfect role model, while their husbands grabbed their crotches watching her post-baby body gyrate in Parisian lingerie. While it’s entertaining to watch the critics clutch their pearls, the raunchiness of the album is a hit or miss throughout the album. The vocal excellence of Rocket needs to be the sound score for a sex scene in a movie while Partition, although a banger, sounds a church girl trying too hard to impress her gangster boyfriend.

"Sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker, Yonce’ all on his mouth like liquor"

Each song does a good job of taking on its own personality, even without the visuals. Bey provides everything that we expect from her and then some. The hip-hop heiress, Blue Ivy made her debut on her mother’s heartfelt dedication. Both the turnt up love ballad, Drunk in Love with her hubby Jay Z and the revamp of producer HitBoy’s Bow Down (2013), renamed Flawless will be played in the clubs for a while, although club anthems are uncharacteristic of the R&B, pop Queen. Ignoring Drake living out his lifelong, light skinned fantasy of harmonizing with Beyonce, Mine, and No Angel are made with Drake’s smooth, easy listening style. Tracks like Haunted, have a sexy, eerie, sound that appeases the pop music genre. Bey still gives us the typical feel good, feminist friendly, dance hits and dramatic vocal performances, but the whole album sounds like something Bey has been trying to get out for a while. It’s going to be interesting to see how she incorporates this new, cocky, rebellious style into her legendary performances that she’s known for. While some of the songs can be easily over looked, as a dedicated bee of the Bey Hive, I must rule that Beyonce is definitely Tay Approved.

Thank you Ms. Pope. I was wondering what I was going to do until Scandal came back on.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Woman (Women) Crush Wenesday!!!! : The Black Women of the 2013 Victoria Secret Fashion Show

Horny men and lovers of the 5 for 26$ panty sale all gathered around to watch the Victoria Secret Fashion Show last night. While Miss Secret’s show didn’t disappoint in displaying huge wings and sparkly underwear sets that one will never see in the store at the mall, the show did manage to shock critics by adding a little more color to the show than in previous years. And by color, I don’t mean the seizure inducing light displays. Young girls were disappointed and surprised to see that the fashion industry's current token black girl, Chanel Iman was replaced by not one but by 5 other 6ft tall, size 2 , ethnic beauties. Yes 5 of em yall! We got a black man in the white house and now we got 5 non-white girls on the Victoria Secret Runway. I tell ya da times sholl’ is a changin! Scroll down and see 3 of the of this week’s Woman Crushes and get jumpstart motivation for that 20lbs weight loss New Year’s Resolution.

Cindy Bruna