About Me
- Makeup Aficionada
- Hello, since you made it this far won't you go a little further? I love sharing my adventures in makeup with you all and busting the euro-centric status quo that tricks us into believing the makeup industry doesn't have to make room for us. Remember, happy girls are the prettiest - Audrey Hepburn
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Ever Feel Some Type of Way?
Right now I'm feeling some type of way. Ever wonder what ppl really mean by that? Why is it that you can't ever say what that way is? Is it mad is it angry, offended, betrayed, rudely disrespected..can saying that you feel some type of way be a better explanation of the way you feel than actually saying it. Is relative dating better than absolute? I wanna believe that we all have the abilities to say what we mean and mean what we say but by saying something and nothing at the same time are we merely keeping ourselves from fully exposing our emotions? just a thought
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Why Can't Musicians Speak?
So I was watching a selection of Music Videoz by an R&B artist and btwn the videos she would comment on making the videos. There I sat on the couch looking almost admirably at this young women who had pulled herself from the proverbial bootstraps to become a very talented star and then she did one of my most hated of pet peeves: used but as a non-sequiter. I would like to believe that most Black musicians and athletes at least got to the 10th grade before dropping out and when I hear them on the TV i would like that to be reflected but I'm living in a dream world, because the hour I spent jamming to her music was woefully disrupted by the cringing I did at her speech..loose vowels, bad grammar, improper adverbs..it was a mess. And then I thought to myself why can't musicians speak? They sound amazing in their songs but have you ever heard T-Pain or Soulja Boy in an interview. Good Lord. How can you be a "role model" to this new generation of children when you speak chicken scratch. I mean actual chicken scratch. You've adapted the actual written form to a spoken language. Isn't time we demanded a little bit more from our musicians? Shouldn't they be able to sing and speak intelligibly? Just a random thought.
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