I'm lowkey extra mad because Simone was a beautiful dark skinned black woman who wore her hair in braids/locs and she was the clear breakout-star-to-be of the group
it's been so long since we've seen a girl like that truly thrive in the pop realm and I feel like seeing that kind of positive representation for dark-skinned girls would have been so cool
I'm so upset about this. She had so much potential.