I got a 2 hour train this evening, and was planning on reading my book, but somehow got sucked into the Jesy threads! Have found all the posts very educational and informative!
It's completely obvious, with the most basic of reading, why blackfishing is not ok. I was starting from a place where I feel like I pay attention to things anyway, but this whole fiasco just shows you can always, always learn more and grow further. Jesy just goes on the defence and then wonders why she has twats like Minaj and Dan Wooton on her side. Then laughing at the aggressive things Nicki was saying about Leigh-Anne, after doing a documentary about social media bullying... just a complete mess of a situation and I'd imagine she has done real damage to her burgeoning solo career. I do think she was clearly uncomfortable, but a person with backbone would have spoken back to Nicki and said she was going too far and Leigh-Anne had been her friend for a decade (even if it took a minute because you're in shock). Instead she just let her go on and on, and either said nothing or laughed like a schoolyard bully. Let's not forget she's 30 years old, not 14.
I think Jesy hasn't a clue who she is or what she wants to be. Even going back to her first audition on X Factor, Gary Barlow said there was no originality in her performance. I never paid a huge amount of attention to Little Mix, but it was clear when she brought out her documentary that she is not in the right job for someone like that, with major self-esteem issues. Her lips also look absolutely ridiculous.
THEN I got home and watched both her video and the video for the original song, and cringed so hard I've given myself whiplash. No originality, literally ripping off a black person's work frame by frame, from the old man at the beginning, to the cameo copied EXACTLY. The Guardian review says it better than I can- derivative, lazy, feeds into harmful tropes about "bad boys" and the hood, and says she could have used her debut solo single to subvert those things and do something interesting.
Gah, the whole thing is just cringe beyond belief, and she's burned her bridges completely with the other girls, I imagine.
). No originality or frankly talent on display.
What a way to launch your solo career! By throwing ur mates under a bus! and Pdiddy and I dunno about u but he hasn’t been relevant since he dated Jlo?
