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Iggy Azalea is Self-Absorbed
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All year, the bizarre collection of affected mannerisms that is Iggy Azalea has been slowly gaining in momentum—first dropping the single “Fancy,” featuring Charli XCX, that became the song of the summer, sort of, as well as contributing rhymes to Ariana Grande’s “Problem” and teaming up with Rita Ora on “Black Widow.” Her fame has come hand-in-hand with notoriety; rumors fly that Azalea does not write her own lyrics, her live performances have been less than dazzling, and last but not least, her entire career seems to be built on shameless cultural appropriation.
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The problem is not that Azalea is a racist. It’s more that she seems so self-absorbed. The root of her cultural appropriation is her deeply held belief that she’s allowed to do whatever she needs to in order to succeed. And she lives with it by convincing herself—a starlet with two chart-topping songs and 3.34 million Twitter followers—that she can somehow wash her hands of responsibility for racial stereotypes she buys into and perpetuates for profit, daily. She has an incredible platform, and she can’t even get a link right. And while that might, to her mind, make her “fancy,” or “the realest,” it is, in fact, incredibly humdrum—the banality of passing the buck, the easiest of all political activities. “It’s embarrassing of T.I. to put Iggy on a song called “No Mediocre,” because she is the definition of mediocrity,” wrote Lambert of Azalea. “Iggy raps, but she never says anything.”
It’s not art; it’s commerce. But Azalea’s too busy making money to stand for anything. And while maybe we shouldn’t expect much from 23-year-old pop stars, when it’s true that even Macklemore showed up to protest, it seems like Azalea could take a break from self-absorption for the decency of googling, at least, what today’s protest was about.
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READ MORE: http://www.salon.com/2014/12/06/iggy..._shes_created/
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