That's because she objectified herself and sells sex whenever possible. Take Adele: the GP takes her almost 100% seriously because they think she has talent and what not. Plus, Moo hardly does anything full effort anymore.
no thats not it, her music was mostly balladss and cheesy love sings and rock critics hate that.
My friend (who's quite open-minded but has an irrational fear or transvestites, trans people, etc.) was horrified when he saw this video. His face when watching it.
I told my mom "oh look, another video with a straight cis guy playing a trans woman" and then said it looked like a straight guys' lame interpretation of LGBT culture and she is still mad at me for saying that.
It is, though. Quality is always applauded and is always a good thing. Critics wouldn't have their jobs if it wasn't important, don't be daft.
The only reason critics exist anymore is us. the Forum people who use their reviews as receipts. You want to tell me that if you like a song but Pitchfork gives it a bad review you wont buy it?
Can't complain about Pitchfork since my favourite artist is indie, too.
Someone Like You
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Here's how Adele opens this particular heartbreak adagio: "I heard that you're settled down, that you found a girl and you're married now." It gets worse from there. The slow, mournful piano figure underneath the track never changes or quickens or flattens out, but it's all the company Adele gets here; no other instruments show up on the song. So the piano is the quiet little skeleton that turns out to be all the song needs. With it, we get Adele's furious tornado of a voice, an instrument that here, heard in its undiluted form, absolutely blasts away the Amy Winehouse comparisons that, early in Adele's career, came too often.
And once you get past the insane power of that voice, there's still more meat there. Because as theatrically heartbroken as Adele sounds on this song, the lyrics still offer the sense that we're dealing with mature adult emotions here; it's not a woe-is-me tantrum. Throughout, she also wishes her ex well, calling him "old friend" and never demanding to know what the new girl has that she didn't. She doesn't have to ask; the question hangs there in the air anyway. She's got her face forward, or anyway she puts on a good show of it: "Never mind, I'll find someone like you"-- like she can will a better reality into being just by wailing it. Sometimes, pop music can still break your heart.
That's because she objectified herself and sells sex whenever possible. Take Adele: the GP takes her almost 100% seriously because they think she has talent and what not. Plus, Moo hardly does anything full effort anymore.
Mariah hasn't objectified herself as much as these current pop girls, but she started releasing awful songs and her vocal chords died along with her good tunes.
I told my mom "oh look, another video with a straight cis guy playing a trans woman" and then said it looked like a straight guys' lame interpretation of LGBT culture and she is still mad at me for saying that.
(I was right tho)
To add more to the story, they made the video after speaking with gay Jamaican children about their experiences living in fear of their identity. They asked Andrew Garfield to play the role after speaking with those children in Jamaica in hopes that it would be powerful to see the man who played Spider-Man playing the role.
Pretty sure that's not a thing.
