SKY FERREIRA

important to remember that she's not solely responsible for it; yes, she should bear some of the responsibility but as a major label artist this video would have been OKed by a lot more people than just her and the director

can't wait for the "i had to endure people calling me a racist" survival narrative that will emerge when her next album comes out

lily allen is already playing this card!

she's precocious

i'm hesitant to rush to make excuses for sky, but lily's facial expressions - evoking loftiness, mockery, condescension - seemed a lot more blatantly racist than what was going on here.

got sky on the guardian website front page tho

?You know what? I know some of you racism aficionados won't approve, but I think Sky's response is good. However, I submit the following for your enjoyment re the video's director.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/SkyFerreiraDirector_zps24010e1c.png

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

Gu Wop

Starting the video with a direct reference to Trayvon Martin is strike #1 against this video (and it doesn't need any more strikes against it after that imo).

what Trayvon reference?

Well this is uncomfortable.

It begins w a shot from the back of someone walking down the street, with a hood up, so the viewer spends time literally following a hoody-wearing person (whose identity is hidden before the reveal of sexy Sky legs) from behind.

Or are we as a culture completely over that by now?

Hmmm, true. I couldn't finish it.

But surely this entire 'controversy' is utterly calculated. I mean, that Facebook response, srsly.

A white female popstar juxtaposing her image against black bodies to indicate some kind of edginess? Must be a Thursday.

No, but this is so typical of the shit Miley, Britney, Madonna, etc. pull and have pulled that I can't even muster up more than casual annoyance. It's too tired to really be risible at this point. This kind of thing deliberately preys upon embedded racist notions of white womanhood and it's vicinity to stereotypes of black masculinity to generate a response. So I don't buy her claim that the fact of her as the lone white body in this video as the leader of an otherwise entirely black gang in a song where she sings "I blame myself for my reputation" is purely down to coincidence and only hiring the most qualified people to be in the video.

Though I must admit I enjoyed the random dance break in the midst of whatever the rest of that was.

really sky ferreira just needs to get a new director, none of the videos have been particularly great

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mB0tP1I-14

When she was on The Tonight Show, she just did this song with a lazer show. Should've made a video like that.

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.