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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Gender Confusion



Saturday, September 02, 2006  

Gender Confusion


Looking over some gossip blogs, I see that the Mtv VMAs were on yesterday. I'm not sure if anyone really gives a damn about them, or pays attention to popular music anymore, but I did see one thing I thought worth commenting on. This picture of Fergie and two of her backup dancers.


Feel free to join me in a "WTF?"

At first you want to congratulate Fergie for actually finding two women ugly enough to make her look good. Or at least better. And then you look closer and you're like, "Those are guys, right?" Before realizing, "Wait, does the one on the right have boobs?"

Honestly, I don't know what I think now. I guess I'm leaning towards them being guys with fake tits, for some weird, theatrical reason. I can't call them transvestites since they don't look like women. Are they even supposed to? Are they actually attractive women who Fergie's makeup people successfully attacked?

Thanks to the magic of YouTube I even watched Fergie's show opening, lip-synched performance of her annoyingly-catchy London Bridge tune, but that didn't answer any of my questions. It turns out there are actually four backup dancers like these two, but the image quality on YouTube isn't good enough to make a guess at their genders. The choreography of the song has them dancing like women, but that doesn't prove anything, given the long history of androgenous dancers in this sort of song. Witness most any Madonna video from the past 15 years, for instance.

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Aren't all three of them men?

Seriously.


 

All three of them are whores . . .


 

i like the way she shakes her coochie


 

I heard her song playing in Macy's the other day. It was ok. I never thought her vocals were that good to warrant a solo album. She's not Gwen Stefani.


 

That's so cute Gura. Acting as if vocal ability has anything to do with a record contract!

As for this performance, I watched it again on youtube and I have to retract. She really does appear to be doing the vocals live, since the sound goes down a few times when she moves the mic, (like when the guard first hands it to her) there are some bits of crackling feedback, etc. So she can sing/rap it live, while walking and dancing. No one ever said she wasn't in great shape.

It doesn't tell me anything more about the dubious gender/appearance of her backup dancers, though.


 

hi From Paris !
I'm having a good laugh reading you and I like the other articles as well, your objectivity. (don't know if that word has a meaning in english oops)
her mother must have watch to much of the muppets during her pragnancy.


 

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