Girls Gone Wrong

Run, run for your lives!...the ignorance is taking over! Honestly what the hell is going on out there?! We’ve got naked women purposefully exposing old sex tapes for some claim to “embarrassed” fame. Really? How shamed could you be if you knew you had them and you knew who to get them to for them to be “leaked”? [Kendra Wilkinson]. And for those ruined women, whose names have been stained with adultery and deceit; apparently it’s a lot easier than an actual 9-5. There is obviously something financially sound in finding a rich, married and “celebified” man to have commit infidelity and then make him pay her for it! Doesn’t that sound like minimized social degradation and glorified prostitution? And I’m not just attacking the women…the men are up to no good too. But another thing. Palin’s daughter (the one who was underaged and pregnant during the McCain/Palin campaign) is now being featured in the Harper’s Baazar magazine—as a glamorous teenage mom! Are you kidding me? So what, is it cool to be a teenager and to have a baby the hot thing of the week now? No way in hell should she be displayed as a positive goal to attain for the young audience out there.

I’m not entirely blaming these women for the poor choices that they made, but nonetheless until otherwise learned, they were well aware and conscious when they decided to say ‘yes’ to those bad ideas. Though what I am definitely giving equal credit to would be the media and the society that runs behind it. Young women shouldn’t feel like their only way up is to pull their panties down, and society shouldn’t allow certain social reinforcers that are ultimately rewarding these same young women a little later down the road. For instance: sex tapes shouldn’t equal celebrity and recognition/ adultery shouldn’t equal one time pay checks larger than a medically trained surgeon’s yearly salary/ teen pregnancy shouldn’t equal glamorous lifestyle without ever having worked for a damn thing. There is something dangerously wrong with this picture.

But like I said, I’m not trying to reprimand only girls today, some boys have been bad too. But really quick, how is overtly gay or bisexual PDA for women who may not be gay, be some way to bring attention to their fame [Christina Aguilera, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Lady Gaga]? It you’re talented, then be talented, we don’t need all these unnecessary allusions to what you might do to a same-sex partner. I personally don’t have any problem with those that identify with homosexuality, but when it’s being used to extort celebrity-ness, I have a problem with that. IDK ladies, selling your character for the price of fame…there’s no refund for that. Ugh, I guess I had no tattling to do on the bad boys after all. Next time.

Here’s: What I Think (WIT)- Again

• Clap. Clap…clap…clap clap clap…applause. That is the dramatic slow progression of applause given for T.I., who was recently on Larry King Live. I must say that man is quite articulate and very well versed in finding compatible language for the audience that Larry King generates. Not that I’m surprised. WIT: I love how Blacks are more aware of having to “white-up” their speech the same way some may have to “dumb it down” occasionally to get their second party to comprehend in a conversation. Basically Tip succeeded at just that in the live interview. And if you peep the show yourself, you’d see. T.I. had some pretty ridiculous questions shot at him, namely from Larry (and even from an in-studio caller that got confused on the name of the woman that he’s friggn’ engaged to! Caller had the nerve to say she was a fan, LOL).

• The middle son of the Simmons clan has joined the ranks of professional rapper. Yes he got flow. Everybody should be on the watch for this petite hottie, because if you turn your head long enough you might miss a growth spurt that’ll push him into the spotlight Bow Wow used to hold down. WIT: though the kid is good, it’s got to be a damn SMH moment for the family considering the eldest boy (JoJo) attempted a rap career first but was convincingly not talented. I guess he expected that his dad and his uncle’s coat tails combined would be long enough to carry him. He thought wrong. Now lil Diggy is gunnin for him and the rest of the genre at full speed ahead and even Diggy knows it. He said in ‘What They Been Waitin For’, “becuz I’m young articulate and very different…even the old heads diggin it”…go ‘head Diggy. (I just like this song~ aww shoot!)

• That damn video! Have you seen it? The one where she’s grinding the mutheffin floor in the first 30 seconds as if a man was actually beneath her legs. I mean it’s one thing to watch those particular fools at the club, that feel compelled to do that sometimes on the dance floor, but really Ciara? WIT: In Ciara’s newest video for her song ‘Ride’, she’s obviously trying to achieve the same (if not higher) recognition that she did when she dropped the ‘Promise’ and ‘Like A Boy’ videos back in ’07. My thing is, there is nothing wrong with wanting to regain your famed position, but do you really need to do it at the expense of your dignity? Grinding on the floor in spandex leggings and standing legs wide open above Ludacris’ head in a revealing one-piece bathing suit is a little extreme. And the pivotal part where she literally rides a mechanical bull to the beat of the track…geez.

• But for the videos that I do approve of for the week would be Alicia Keys’ ‘Unthinkable (I’m Ready)’ and Drake’s ‘Find Your Love’—hands down. WIT: Alicia, considering that you’ve been greatly distracted by that boo of yours (and being with child counts), most of the CD you just dropped wasn’t the best of your work…BUT that song ‘Unthinkable’…man! Just great, and happily you failed to disappoint with an equally matching good video to accompany the song. Co-starring Chad Michael Murray and a theme of decades worth of tested love, I gotta say, bravo. As for you Mr. Drizzy, since your celebrity all rests on the most anticipated album drop of the year, so far you’re doing good with your single releases. ‘Over’ was good, ‘Find Your Love’ is better, things should only get great from here—that’s the hope anyway. It’s obvious that the lesson you’re learning from this quick climb up is that you have to have greats on your side to better enhance what you’ve been shielding the world from. For example, employing Kanye is genius, basically because, well he is. Therefore I’m pleased; so don’t mess up.

• Apparently Usher has figured out how to be the best storyteller. He took his life, ever since 8701 and gave us descriptive play by plays of how his most public relationships between Chili and Tomeka went down. Of course we didn’t really take note until the obliviousness of his infidelity with Chili went public and gave him coincidentally mega stardom in Confessions. WIT: Something that all the other unfaithful celebrities failed to figure out, was to take your indiscretions and make them work for you—cash 'em in. Usher confessed to cheating and supposedly creating a child out of wedlock with his mistress and got a multi-platinum status as an artist. So now the story continues in Raymond v. Raymond. Usher again figured we’d wanna know what went down between him and his now ex-wife, so who better to serenade us about it than Usher himself. Another thing Usher was good at figuring; how to use the new “pop” sound of the era and combine it with the usual recipe for a profitable R&B album. Good work, you have now been proclaimed as a Veteran to the game.

it's my birthday! ♥ and FELIZ CINCO DE MAYO!

In the infamous words of 50 cent:
"Go, go, go, go
Go, go, go shawty
It's your birthday
We gon' party like it's yo birthday
We gon' sip Bacardi like it's your birthday"

AND...cuz i always thought this was cute:



this is what the fam bam sings evvvveeerrry year:

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

kids say the darndest things

Hands down that little girl gave the best child actress performance I’ve ever seen. She already managed to snatch some attention with her “knowledge beyond her years” attitude in her 500 Days of Summer character and now she’s figured how to channel that over in remnants of this new character in Kick Ass, where she plays a no-holds-bar bad ass miniature vigilante. She’s a hard-core trained assassinator and holds her own in a man to man combat with a grown adult man. 11 year old Chloë Moretz carries herself with the adult charisma that will set her apart from the already recognized Dakota Fanning’s and the former Drew Barrymore’s. In Kick Ass alone, she’s cursing and handling heavy artillery; which is slightly disturbing to know that she never exposes awkwardity for holding guns or driving cars…or committing relentless murders for that matter. That’s definitely the main reason why this film is receiving the rare, but existent negative reviews; traditional Hollywood doesn’t know how to receive a little girl that isn’t little. But this is the thing, when it comes to child actors, us adults forget that they are in the business of portraying characters just like grown-ups do. They are acting too! We expect kids to be kids, and to be seen as such. But let’s not discredit that Chloë is probably still a kid at heart, and that she simply did her job. She delivered such a compelling performance that the critics forget to criticize the skill that it took for her to carry that out. To further the contradictions of Hollywood: they gather these talented children and provide them the venues it takes to roll out the red carpet (so to speak) of stardom for the price of their innocence and childhood; and then as soon as they begin to live up to the pressures that adulthood imposes on them from the business, they’re judged for not being nascent. It’s bothersome that the industry is that hypocritical.

Without her input, I know for sure that I wouldn’t have enjoyed the film as much as I did. Go see it for yourself.