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[jianantonic]

I love this song. It's so catchy. So I'm watching the video right now on some website...and...I have a problem with it. First of all, Fergie is painfully beautiful. She's not your typical Hollywood beauty - I mean, anyone can look like Paris Hilton with a good plastic surgeon and a bottle of hair dye. (Ok, and a lot of money.) But Fergie is very natural-looking, and that's pretty sexy if you ask me. None of her features are particularly amazing, but the whole package - DAY AMN. But that's not where I was going with this. I love the song "My Humps." But. Those girls in the video - Fergie included - have very little curvature. They're skinny little beanpoles talking about all the junk in their trunks. Wha?

Back in the day, when Sir Mix-a-lot came out with "Baby Got Back," those of us with junk in our trunks (even when I was a size 0 in high school, I still had a bitchin' backside) rejoiced. Finally, some respect for the girls who don't look like your average heroin-addicted supermodel. And here comes "My Humps," seemingly another anthem for those of us with what Sisqo once called dumps in the truck, truck, truck. But then we look at the video and man, if those are humps, then mine are mountains, nay, planets - and I don't recall any rappers idealizing such an image of woman. So my point is, Fergie is fucking out of this world gorgeous, and she's curvy - for a size four - but if you're going to write a song and make a video about your lovely lady lumps, cast some women that actually have lady lumps. Seriously. This is why girls who wear a very healthy and truly slender size 6 suffer from low self esteem and eating disorders. Nothing against the Black Eyed Peas, though. They probably don't have much of a creative voice when it comes to anything beyond their lyrics, and even then, I'm willing to bet that their label exercises quite a bit of censorship.

In other news, I found a $50 gift certificate to Bed Bath and Beyond in one of my old purses. It's still fully loaded - what should I get?

Peace.

Comments

[bigonbnl.livejournal.com]

I had the Sir Mixalot cassette. I wish I still had it. My Hooptie was my favorite. I'm like you, even when I was tiny.. still had junk. T'was lovely. :)

[flamingophoenix.livejournal.com]

On a tangent, I also think it's very telling that people refer to it as "junk."

[bigonbnl.livejournal.com]

I more commonly refer to it as "my fat ass."

[flamingophoenix.livejournal.com]

basstendencies Check out her icons--either on her userinfo page or in a recent entry, I forget which.

[flamingophoenix.livejournal.com]

Add to that the fact that many of us with close to "ideal" bodies spent all of middle and high school absolutely miserable about their bodies...