SKY FERREIRA

yeah it's just a huge cliché at this point - i'm disappointed in it on two levels, one the racist tropes it plays into and two what a tired concept it is anyway. i don't get the impression she's trying to ~make a point~ which lessens the offensiveness slightly but makes it barely worth any interest. how hard is it to do a video that doesn't play up to clichés and stereotypes, good god

The worst part about this is that it was a totally unforced error. The actual song (which is really good!) doesn't in any way suggest this video. As much as she represents this as part of her grand vision, I can only imagine the record execs sitting around trying to come up with ideas that were "edgy".

whenever I see videos like this I always imagine Bruno sitting in the director's chair

the actual song suggests an entirely different sort of video cliche

wow she's still going on about it on facebook

"Does exploitation still exist? It's so '90s." (one comment)

Jeez

I guess she doesn't blame herself for this, eh eh?

it's like talking to a fan who is calling you a racist

I know it's not your fault that you don't understand

She's just a face, she had no choice

Greer otm

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/SkyFerreiraDirector2_zpsbc5d0845.png

"Speaking as a man whose last name itself references an offensive ethnic stereotype..."

d'oh http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/SkyFerreiraDirector2_zpsbc5d0845.png

video director keeps digging:

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/317-directors-cut-sky-ferreiras-i-blame-myself/

I don’t know what we could have done differently other than cast all white dancers

That is the only other possible music video idea you could come up with?

Wow that interview/article is super pandering and strawmanny.

You can’t really do anything daring without people lashing out at you and creating meaning when there is none.

what's daring about it if there is no meaning?

Apparently the real meaning of the video is addressing the 'controversy' over her and her boyfriend being busted for drugs last year. Not sure what is controversial about that (other than if any of the dancers in her new video were busted they probably would still be in jail right now).

the real meaning of the video is Sky Ferreria dancing in front of the logo of some clothing company

Whites

what's daring about it if there is no meaning?

― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Friday, April 18, 2014 2:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

I think people are sort of bored on the internet and waiting around to be offended. I think that people look to find something to find wrong or racist.

wow her director is an enormous moron, the sooner she stops working with him the better

also lol at talking about how much empathy he has for what miley "went through" like he is a victim here

She's been a friend of Terry Richardson for years, recorded a song by Ryan Tedder, and dates the goober junkie from DIIV. She may have given some smart interviews in the past, but let's stop pretending she's on top of things.

Kind of wonder if they did that interview before they released the video.

The Ryan Tedder thing is such a random bit of info to include.

Not when you hate Ryan Tedder like I hate Ryan Tedder.

some people in the entertainment industry are just profoundly stupid. smh.

It seems pretty clear that neither of them even grasps what someone might find offensive about the video

ah, youtube comments

"If you think the video is racist, you should just go and literally blame yourself for thinking that way. Do some research before saying some crap. If they were white, no one would give two shits."

uh....

youtube comments

also putting aside the race stuff this video is quite bad, the editing (especially the editing—what a mess), the slo-mo cinematography, ferreira screaming into the lens, the staging, the line readings, everything. it's kind of incomprehensible what the director was going for.

whole thing is a mess

oh well, nobody will remember this two weeks from now

miley should have another video by then

"Speaking as a man whose last name itself references an offensive ethnic stereotype..."

― espring (amateurist), Saturday, April 19, 2014 12:45 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

Well I think he chose his stage name based on a failed Gucci Mane rebrand attempt

How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUs9YzY7t-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPWcX-16A9Y

this is disheartening because a video for this song deserved to be a triumph, not bait for thinkpieces. the "cute white girl hangs out with a gang / in the ghetto LOL" is not a new trope, but i'm glad it's being called out. to me the issue seems to be tied as much to class as race, but perhaps in america (disclaimer: not american, never been there) separation between the two is often invisible.

Generally, in America if someone says something isn't about race, it's totally about race

America doesn't think about class because we are delusional

Getting back to the album here, I'm not one to usually pay that much attention to this stuff but the whole album seems awfully mastered and mixed

i actually rly like the choreography

but she still touches her hair too much

also racist

the album is crazy good. i still listen to it routinely and like it more every time

same

Week-late OTM to this: people seem to think that being called a racist for anything short of burning a cross in a black family's front lawn is a grave injustice.

These things always end up with: I don't consider myself a racist and hate racism and have friends of many races therefore nothing I do can be considered racist in any way, end of discussion, byeeee. The idea that racism is so pernicious because it can be subconscious and doesn't only apply to skinheads with swastika tattoos just doesn't figure.

wow "Omanko" sounds a lot like Suicide doesn't it

or like early Stereolab

Sounds like Suicide meets "Wonderful Christmas Time"