Just saw this picture of the popular slutwave artist Miley Cyrus wearing some sort of 'Hindu third eye red dot' kind of thing. I automatically assumed it was racist because she is a dumb tween and probably just does everything 2 be kewl, even if it offends people or if she has no direct/spiritual connection. Had to google 'red dot on forehead' and got a few wikipedia results.
Apparently it is either called a "bindi" or possibly a "Tilaka." Here is some woman vibing out, being sexie, but I think she is allowed to do it because she is actually from that part of the world. Just looked up 'bindi' on wikipedia:
Bindis are worn throughout South Asia, specifically India, Bangladesh, Nepal,and Sri Lanka, by women and girls, and no longer signify age, marital status, religious background or ethnic affiliation.[2] The bindi has become a decorative item and is no longer restricted in colour or shape. Self-adhesive bindis (also known as sticker bindis) are available, usually made of felt or thin metal and adhesive on the other side. These are simple to apply, disposable substitutes for older tilak bindis. Sticker bindis come in many colors, designs, materials, and sizes. Some are decorated with sequins, glass beads, or rhinestones. Outside South Asia, bindis are sometimes worn by women of Indian origin. Some Western women who have converted to Hinduism, such as in the Hare Krishnas, also wear bindis. Sometimes they are worn as a style statement. International celebrities such as Julia Roberts,[3] and many others have been seen wearing bindis.
Maybe Miley is trying to look 'enlightened', like she did some sort of summer program at Harvard / Yale / the University of Tween Superstars.
Are the 90s 'coming back' [via Gwen Stefani punk rocker]?
Bindis were a trend for teenage girls in the U.S. during the mid 1990's. Gwen Stefani, of the band No Doubt, popularized bindis as well as mehndi on the hands.
Yall... How can I be mad? She's just bein' Miley. She can do whatever the eff she wants. <3 tweens blossoming in2 women <3 U know the old saying... 'U can never say No 2 a slutwaver.'
Is Miley Racist? Do u h8 when cultural trends from a diff part of the world become part of American pop culture? Do u think she should just wear a lil bikini around like Lady Gaga? Do u h8 when white women adopt foreign trends for the sake of branding themselves as 'spiritual' + 'cultured'?
TTYL gotta go chill in my Kabbalah bracelet with Gwyneth "Coldplay" Paltrow
TTYL gotta go vibe out in my Palestinian scarf [link]
Taylor Swift is a tween sensation female singer who has tried to brand herself as being 'wholesome' and 'all about female/family values' so that she could sell mad albums to tweens + people who shop at Walmart who like country music. She just released a new album abt how she is 'becoming a woman', and that means she is dealing with hornie bros who just want to 'get off' but don't really want much emotional attachment, so they just dump ur ass ~15 minutes after they ejaculate.
Anyways she apparently had a 'fling' with John Mayer, then he was like "Peace--I'm outta here. Oh shit ur young. Older people just hook up without falling in love. Anyways, sorry. G2G. U had a super sweet/tight body though." Now TSwift is all pissed and wrote a song abt how John Mayer is a meanie head.
FOR pure star-on-star revenge, "Dear John," from the new Taylor Swift album, "Speak Now," will be tough to beat. Six and a half minutes long and flagrantly provocative, it's a deeply uncomfortable song, its protagonist anguished and violated. "Don't you think I was too young to be messed with?" she asks. "The girl in the dress/Cried the whole way home."
Is John Mayer a 'pimp'? Is he mean? Do u think J Mayer 'violated her' more than Kanye West? Is it authentic to write 'breakup songs' abt some1 famous?
She tried to be all 'secret' about it being abt John Mayer even though the song is called "Dear John."
Of course, this being the coy, evasive Ms. Swift, the name John Mayer is never uttered on this song, just as she didn't say it during a lengthy interview in Nashville last month, just as she will likely never fully confess that the John of the title is Mr. Mayer, with whom she has performed and who tabloids reported she was involved with earlier this year. Still, whatever he did — or whatever Ms. Swift would like to suggest that he did — must have been brutal:
You'll add my name to the long list of traitors
Who don't understand
And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said
"Run as fast as you can!"
Really didn't know she is 21. Feel like people try to make it seem like she is 14 years old. Do ppl just try to 'protect her' bc she is white?
She is still sometimes treated with kid gloves, as if she were a child star, but Ms. Swift is an adult now; she'll turn 21 in December. Still, if this is what this preternaturally wise teen star turned 21st-century multimedia celebrity is developing into, bring it on.
Why did every1 care so much abt Kanye West 'violating' her white reality? She was probs a 'grown ass woman' when that meme happened. Really h8 Tay Swift. Glad I am a bro, and I can just like 'bros b4 ho's' and vibe out with JMayer + Kanye. They seem chill, like they just like to 'hit it and quit it' and don't worry with the inconsequential emotions of girls who are stuck being all tweeny.
H8 Taylor Swift so much. She is bad 4 women's rights/lib/'the_movement.' Glad John Mayer 'railed her' then 'bailed' so hard.
R u on #TeamTaySwiftTweenCoddling or #teamGrownAssMenGettingTheySwerveOn? Now that Taylor Swift admits to <3ing peen, does this mean she is a slutwaver? Is she exploiting relationships just to get coverage? Is she genuinely 'talented' or just another empty female who sings abt feelings 2 other lonely females? Do u have more respect 4 John Mayer now that u know he would 'hit it and quit it'?
Jack Donoghue is the 'front man' of the popular 2k10 rape gaze buzzband SALEM. Even though they have been around for a while, they got a lot of buzz after the genre RAPE GAZE was meme-fied in their Pitchfork review, and now every1 wants to know more about 'rape gaze', experience it live, see how dark u can get.
Did u hop off the chillwave, and r u vibing the rape gaze?
Anyways, just saw Jack Donoghue in a picture chillin with Courtney Love. He seems like a 'pimp', vibing out, even though I think he is 'openly gay', he probs could 'get it in' it if he wanted 2. If ur in a buzzband, girls will do anything 4 u. Can't even tell if he is wearing pants in these pix.
Do yall <3 Jack? Is he the new male sex icon in indie music? Will he become part of the gay indie mafia with Edward Droste (Grizzly Bear), the guy from Bloc Party, and Rostam [via Vampy Weeks]? R u turned on by him? Do u think Courtney Love <3s rape gaze music? Do u think Jack could replace Kurt Cobain? Is Salem getting 'hella famous' after winning CMJ, and will they 'go mainstream'?
Gonna embed this video of Jack rapping everytime I blg abt him
Were yall ever a member of the popular social networking site MYSPACE? It used to be a popular place for people to friend, comment, and look at pix before facebook / twitter replaced Myspace cuz it was bulky, slow, ugly, and too customizable. So many emo/goth tweens 'pimped out' their profiles [via Thomas's Profile Editor] and it was all ugly and poopy of a website.
Every1 got on facebook and it is more chill, then alt ppl got in twitter, and they believe twitter is 'brilliant' bc it is simple. Myspace seems 'effed', so they keep trying to do shit that makes their site more like fb/twitter, but no1 rlly cares abt them any more.
The redesign, which was reportedly scheduled for mid-October (I assume it has hit some delays), has been described as the News Corp-owned social networking site's last stand to stop the loss of users and ad revenue. (comScore reports that Twitter recently passed MySpace in traffic for the first time. And the company has seen a number of executives leave.) Chief digital officer Jon Miller said last month that the redesign is "a full swing of the bat" that will initially scare some users away.
Here is some screen cap of 'the new user interface' that is meant to provide a 'more enriching' experience for ppl who still use myspace. Should I deactivate my facebook/twitter and become a re-early myspace adopter?
Check out this sweet 'identity' work. Wonder if the new logo / new site design is going to 'save' myspace, or if it is effed. New logo is soo flexible, open 2 interpretation. Like it doesn't matter how much of an individual u r, u will always have ur own space at my _________. Is this logo 'dumber' than the GAP's new/old logo? [link]
Do u use myspace? Is myspace for Mexis/ african americans / azns / whites / tweens / emos / poors / Californians? When was the last time u logged in2 myspace? Should I purchase Microsoft Paint and become a logo designer? Is Myspace 'totes irrelevant'? Why did Myspace die? Should Myspace just 'pull the plug', or are there still a few billion dollars that they can squeeze out of it?
Avey Tare's new album Down There got a decent amount of buzz, but I think it was mainly because he released an album before Panda Bear. The album cycle sorta 'came out of nowhere', so I think ppl never really vibed to it. Usually every1 gets 'jacked' for a new AnCo member release, like it is supposed to 'replace' AnCo MP3s, but I think Panda Bear has all of the expectations on his shoulders.
Anyways, it seems like Pitchfork 'panned' the fuck out of Avey Tare, giving him a 7.9, which is like a 1.0 in Animal Collective standards. Just compared it to AnCo and said it was kinda 'meh...in a positive way'
Down There is less accessible than latter-day Animal Collective and harder to wrap your head around, but it isn't a callback to the more difficult sound that marked the band early on. If anything, it sounds like Portner is taking a lateral step away from Animal Collective in order to work out some pressing personal issues on his own.
7.9 seems like a massive failure if every1 in 2k10 is getting a 8.4 at least. Guess this means that P4k is sorta 'going cold' on Animal Collective as a relevant band. Wonder if MPP was the 'peak' of the AnCo era.
Here is a sentence where they compare Avey to Panda, but don't rlly tell us who is 'better.'
Down There opener "Laughing Hieroglyphic" finds Portner touching on notions of protection and kinship, ideas common to the work of his bandmate Panda Bear's solo work
Also learned that Avey Tare isn't going on a world tour. Kinda pissed. He needs 2 'support' his album instead of just making mp3s for 'art's sake.'
Portner has said that he has no plans to perform this material live, hinting that the feeling of the music isn't something that he wants to revisit every night on tour. And it's true that Down There embodies a mindset that most people are trying to get away from.
The review just kept talking abt how 'sad' this album was, and how it was created 2 reflect on dark/sad emotions. Sorta bummed out, but I guess u can't really have a 'great album' in the modern world that is 'all sad.' Sure it can be good/tasteful, but in today's fast moving indie memesphere, ppl want to 'be happy, lol, and feel cool' instead of listening to sad ass mp3s.
Did P4k 'pan' Avey Tare? Was this a fair score? Do u wish Avey just wrote 10 'Brother Sport' type songs? Should Avey write a sad EP about how he got below an 8.0 in the 'easiest' p4k scoring era of all time? Do u wish u could 'pull an Avey Tare' [via divorcing ur wife] and write a dark album? r u still pissed at Panda Bear 4 not releasing an album in 2k10?
Even though u don't realize it, buzzworthy human beings used to be 'regular ass people' like u or me, just forgettable humans browsing the internet, trying to make new friends, and trying to plant a seed in some1 to make a new human. Some people are special, and they do 'great things' with their lives'.
Alice Glass used to be known by her human name "Maggie Osborn." It seems like she used to be in a mnstrm high school before she was in Crystal Castles.
Do u think she looks cute in her photo from the North Collegiate Toronto Institute in 2002? I feel like I see something special in her. A yearning 4 something more. Yearning to be the front woman songstress of an relevant bleep bloop indie band.
So weird 2 look back at ur high school yearbook and see so many forgettable faces. Not every1 can 'become some1.' Oh Alice, wish I could have been in a high school relaish with u, then u would have dumped me when u got indie famous and go on a 10 year relevant bender, but then u would come back home and realize that I authentically <3ed u, even though u weren't buzzworthy in HS. We would be together 4evr.
Do u <3 Alice Glass? Did u go to high school with a relevant indie singer? Should Alice Glass 'go solo' and change her name 2 'Maggie Osborne'? Do u like Alice's new personal brand? Do u know how she got the name "Alice Glass"? Do 96% of high school graduates go on to become forgettable lamestreamers? Were u 'weird' in HS? Did Alice Glass look 'goth', or like she had 'pain' that she was going 2 use to fuel her career?
