Ridin’ Modelly
Music, Watched April 2nd, 2007Yesterday night I watched a bit of this season’s Australia’s Next Top Model (A bunch of clips found here too). I’ve always had a morbid sense of curiousity towards the modelling industry, especially their behind-the-scenes. I like to catch American’s Next Top Model too, when that’s on. There’s something fascinating about their obsession with appearance and bitching at each other.
It’s almost surreal to see A GROWN WOMAN, make disgusted face while going “ugh, she’s got a muffin top!” while referring to a selected contestant who has a slight bulge around her waist because she was wearing tight-ass jeans. It’s eye-opening to hear critiques of contestants being something like, “you might be pretty enough to attract boys, but you’re a model and your target audience are women”. What do they mean by that? Do men and women see pretty girls that differently? And it’s alarming when girls as young as 16 (they lowered the age of entry this year) break down because of the weird (I daresay, arbitary, vague and confusing) standards of expectations placed on them.
Also, Tim and I heard the song Ridin’ and wow, how INANE are those lyrics? Just to take the chorus,
They see me rollin
They hatin
Patrolling they tryin to catch me ridin dirty
“They” obviously refer to the police. I think it’s reasonable to assume that “ridin’ dirty” refers to committing an offence in a car, or using a car to transport illegal material. So basically the whole song is about the protagonist who openly admits to having committed a crime, and complaining that the police are “hatin’” because they are trying to catch him. Oh yes, #$%# the Po-lice for doing their job and trying to catch criminals. Why can’t they stop their hatin’ and let people like the protagonist do they (criminal) thing (or should I say, thang?)? I admit the song is very catchy, but damn, talk about stupid lyrics! Weird Al’s White and Nerdy parody is so much cleverer.
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Men and women most definitely have different standards for beauty in women; compare (say) a Playmate to a model.
Obviously this is a generalisation, but I think most men prefer their women a bit more curvy than your average size -6 model. Not huge, but definitely some ‘jiggly bits’ to play with. It’s just not cool when you’re trying to feel a girl up and instead of some nice soft booby-surprise you end up with xylophone-style rib-jab.
Mm that is true. But isn’t it weird? Why have women come to prize (extreme) thinness and stuff? Personally the idea of soft jiggly bits are more attractive to me than bones and gauntness. I would think that’s the intuitive way to think to, as thinness has been seen as sign of malnutrition. How come there’s a whole industry pushing such a counter-intuitive concept to a specific half of the population?
Dee just stole the words I was gonna say right out of my mouth. From an article I read, men subconsciously look for a curvy woman, someone who looks like she can bear him plenty of children. Women look for thinness, hair colour, facial features, etc.
You know how they say, “Women don’t dress up to impress men. They dress up to impress other women.” I think it’s like that. Coz guys would be happy just to see you in their own shirt and undies, but women wouldn’t be so impressed by that.
And I do think that 16 is much too young for the competition. Ideally all the girls have a strong sense of who they are, that’s how they can take all the criticism, but at 16? It would all be too much.
I’ve seen ANTM since the very first cycle. The first two cycles were really awesome and at least credible, but it’s gone down since. Now I feel like ANTM keeps the girls for the drama. But that’s why it’s one of my guilty pleasures. :P
From what I’ve seen in ANTM, models have to do somewhat masculine poses (I think that’s what they said). Men like the curves and sexy poses, but women are kinda turned off by that. So models aim for androgyny, with the tall, thin frame.
No, he’s saying that because he’s black, the police are EXPECTING that he’s riding dirty and trying to catch him, when he really isn’t!
I looked this up awhile ago, because I love the weird al version of this song
Hmmm that’s a geniune possibility (though I didn’t expect it to be a race thing, cos in his clip the policeman is also an African American”). I’m just looking at more of his lyrics, for example:
Isn’t a blunt… marijuana? Or is it just a cigarette? And is HE driving while on drugs or is his friend drinking and doing the driving? That’s pretty illegal. It’s so difficult to understand the lingo. >_<
Either way, the vibe I get from the song is that they do illegal things but very cleverly hide it from the police and when the police checks them up they’ve already hidden it.
But you might be right, it could come down to it being a message about racism and racial profiling.