The era of Black wokeness and stardom has never been as dimmed with its pretentious dysfunction and destruction of sensibility, nobility, and pride. Our ancestors became free from mental and bodily bondage, and for and by their sacrifices, they paved the way for ours and future generations to be free and lit and woke, to be our full unapologetic authentic selves.
Asking for my friends, the parents of small children, teens, and young adults, when did our collective "wokeness" become skewed in the fallacy of leading social media influencers and their abject disregard for the societal, moral, and behavioral norms or considerations?
When Lil Nas X was a practical unknown, his hit song Ole Town Road, won him millions of audience streams from toddlers to young adults. He skyrocketed to orbital reach capturing the hearts and pockets of children and adults with a ravishing appetite for more of his music.
As Lil Nas X climbed the pinnacle of fame and stardom, he climaxed his torpedic rise in the music industry, with his flaming sexual agenda of 'out and proud' and being his authentic self.
Is it his musical talent or his prized openly gay sexuality that makes the artistry so evocative and themed in the armor of his pleasure palette? Should we question or criticize, we may have a Twitter tsunami of followers exhaling hate expletives to anyone daring to contest the hard-core exploitation of its younger school-aged generational audience. No, parents were blindsided. Lil Nas X became more prolific as his music catalog became more X-rated.
Can we present the Nicki Minaj viral award for maleficence? Minions of barbs and many public international media houses provided exhaustive forums and unsubstantiated discussions on rabid mistruths about the pro and cons of vaccination. All the nonsensical pontificating, because Ms. Minaj with her millions of followers, spoke to her truth with the unlikely cousin, uncle, swollen testicles tale of C19 vaccine inertia.
Cardi B has created a bible of song scripts describing actualized definitions of sexual prowess. That WAP is treated as conjecture for young girls of every age, up through teen to adults is the public education in sexual exploration. Every erotic fantasy in lyrics conjured is poetically enunciated and articulated verbatim verse for a verse like pros by young listening ears.
In the new social etiquette dictionary search, where being obscured from any form of reality is a remedy for viral reach, the words large or fat are labeled as truth shaming. Lizzo is Queen of the debacle of the monstrous notoriety of excessive and visually over self-infatuated BIG. She is the anointed woke glamor example.
Lizzo Bares Almost All in See-Through Mesh Gown for Cardi B's Birthday Party
All the rumors are true: Lizzo showed up to Cardi B's 29th-birthday party in a completely see-through dress. See the "Good as Hell" singer's bold look below.
For Pop culture readers, the last paragraph in the article glowingly sums up this iconic spectacle
"Thank you soooo much," she tweeted in response. "Like imagine Halle Berry wishing you a happy birthday? Like omgg."
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
A 14 year old shared a very distilling perspective
ReplyDeleteWe often miss our lines communication..so it just happened that we discussing Art..
I look at a wall and said. To me this is a beige wall. Yet in someone else's eyes they may conjure it up to be a masterpiece.
Then her illumination..perhaps in the mind or draw if painting..it may be how the paintbrush was held, or if the paint strokes were up and down. Or even with fluid strokes.
I asked her to look at the Lizzo picture in this blog
She scowled. Then explained that fashion and the premise of nakedness can be well crafted or it can be insulting to the expression of fashion
Note there was no attempt to vulgarity or to label body shaming as in my own 65 year old attempt of moralizing nudity with fat bodied with vulgarity
Her explanation was very inclusive. Her aesthetician visual interpretation was that wearing an all mesh gown with no concept of artistry or fashion construct was far more offensive than my attempt at body shaming
The reveal on why Lil Nas X as an artist was beyond the clammer of religious or moralistic divisiveness was her very intelligent sophistication and artistic comprehension of the primal instinctive assessment of an artistic statement
She contested my position that the LilNasX appeal began as an exploitative introduction to amass an audience of a younger generation
Her very matter of fact analysis was, he was being branded and merchandised under the pretext of wholesome and safe. That, she explained, if you listened to Old Country Road lyrics, it was about misogyny and cheating on women and classic shoot em and womanizing.
She further elucidated LilNasX changed his music artistic style to be authentically loud and proud..as a black gay man in a very privileged music industry
Then she said this, all this Christianity BS over Montero, the lap dance with the Devil was the very faith driven, defile the devil dogma..expressed in more cleaner ways, our good books and teachings, rather that a gay man having dominance over the Satan with a very lurid lap dance
I was schooled..I had to unlearn, unpacked, and pay attention