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Journalists DRAGGING for filth in articles.
Honestly, one of the best things about music journalism is people with large vocabularies and lots of pop culture knowledge just giving the eloquent SYG read we wish we got paid to write. This is a thread for collecting them so we can all kii. For example, this lovely article SCALPING Katy, Selena, Snooki, posted by Ivy in Celebria:
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Bad Formula : Purr by Katy Perry
The first scent by the recently divorced pop star
comes packaged in the form of a purple cat and
features Katy dressed up in matching skin - tight
cat suit within the advertising .
While I really wanted to like this scent, I found it
to be very watered down and lasting no more than
two seconds upon spritzing it on my skin . Then , I
thought maybe if I put on a bit more , that would
make it last longer ! But, sadly, the scent had
disappeared before I d even made it out the door .
While I love the packaging , I felt like Purr left a
lot to be desired , Katz said
Horrible Smell : Snooki by Nicole Polizzi
While I m super happy to hear that the Jersey
Shore starlet recently gave birth to a healthy boy, I
can honestly that s probably the only news she s
ever released that I actually cared about.
Last year , Nicole launched her own signature
fragrance called Snooki which features colored
leopard print packaging . The scent itself is super
sweet ( pink cupcake accord and sugared musk are
just some of its main ingredients) .
I remember watching her sell it on HSN and
cringing while hearing her describe the various
places she liked to spray it before clubbing or
smushing .
Unfortunately a lot of celebrity fragrances smell
very mass/ cheap and standard - issue, says
Amber Katz of BeautyBloggingJunkie. com .
Snooki s smells like a baby prostitute , to quote
Janis Ian from Mean Girls.
Confusing Scent : Boyfriend by Kate Walsh
There s absolutely nothing wrong with a woman
smelling like a man sometimes .
As a fan of unisex scents ( Calvin Klein always
manages to do a great job in this department !) , I
don t really think the whole idea of this particular
fragrance hit the nail on the head .
Apparently, Walsh created this fragrance with the
intent of capturing the scent of a man on a
woman. While the packaging is different ( it
features several male names emblazoned all over
the bottle ) it definitely doesn t live up to its
scented hype .
I was kind of put off by the marketing for this ,
Katz confessed. I wouldn t want to smell like
this , but I m guessing the draw here is trying to
mimic your boyfriend s scent if your boyfriend is
a lumberjack .
The One that got Away : Selena Gomez
Not to be outdone with her loving boyfriend Justin
Beiber , Gomez launched a signature fragrance
earlier this year . It may not be raking in the
millions that Beiber s has ( his women s
fragrances have literally dominated the celebrity
fragrance industry , next to Elizabeth Taylor , of
course ) , but I give her accolades for at least
trying .
It s easy to judge her scent before you even take a
whiff as the bottle features these strange lip
attachments that stick out of the top ( I still
haven t figured out what they re supposed to be ) .
The fragrance itself smells super sweet and is very
light , much like you would imagine a teenage
scent to be . But, I feel like this is one that never
quite made it onto the celebrity fragrance radar ,
like Lady Gaga s or Nicki Minaj s have . I mean , be
honest : did you even know it existed before
reading this article ?
Fierro confessed that shed heard about Selena s
scent but never took a whiff of it .
I was so disinterested that I didn t even respond
to PR pitches for it, she said.
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