How to Tell If You're Stuck in the Friend Zone
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Three Great Things To Do If Dateless On Valentines Day
10 Things I’ve Learned Since Becoming A Daddy
How To Snag A Last Minute Valentine’s Date
5 Fun Ways to Argue Without Breaking Up
6 Signs You’ve Fallen Into The “Friend Zone”
6 Signs That A Woman Has Been Friend-Zoned
A Guide To Avoiding Relationship Fumbles
A Guide to Making New Friends
- no real point to the video, period
– lots of chexual innuendo (”take the D”)
- like most Kanye West videos, the video doesn’t relate to the song whatsoever
That’s a lot of fodder for discussion, but none of that is a good reason for it to be catching flack – hell it’s the general outline for most of today’s videos. The reason he’s catching flack is this: it’s the video for “Best I Ever Had”, the song that makes most women love the Young Angel. With this one song, women everywhere who pretty much don’t care for most of today’s rap found the one man who acknowledged the ladies and put them on a pedestal even if in other songs he referencing women as ho*s.
That, and that alone is his biggest problem. Women have expectations for Drake. A while back I posited 10 reasons why women love Drake, and though I didn’t mention it, this song is largely the reason. Women decided that Drake was the respectful savior to today’s generally exploitation heavy hip-hop while forgetting one simple fact.
Drake is still a man.
(I actually think the video is semi-genius; make the music for the ladies but make the videos for the men. Great Gatsby!)
Once the video aired, many women were up in arms (I’ve stayed reading message boards about this because the response befuddles me, from women AND men). How could Drake make such an “ignorantly, exploitative video”? How come there are so many boobs? How come all the boob-ers are light skinned?
Aside: I’ve often wondered if Black women would feel better if the exploitation was more diverse? A lot of the arguments about videos is that all the women are light, ethnically ambiguous to white looking women. If they were all darkskint, would that be better? Is exploitation more palatable as long as everybody gets their shot to be exploited? Methinks not. Then again, I didn’t think Jodeci would end up on crack.
From an artistic standpoint, the video adds absolutely nothing to the song. In fact, the video just comes across as some sh*t they basically decided to do on a random Wednesday, and because they could, they called everybody they knew and just started rolling film with a bunch of litebrite models. No harm, no foul really. And if it was anybody but Drake, this video would probably be written off as just another video that does nothing more than exist. Kind of like a Plies video.
10 Things I’ve Learned Since Becoming A Daddy
How To Snag A Last Minute Valentine’s Date
5 Fun Ways to Argue Without Breaking Up
6 Signs You’ve Fallen Into The “Friend Zone”
6 Signs That A Woman Has Been Friend-Zoned
A Guide To Avoiding Relationship Fumbles
A Guide to Making New Friends
- no real point to the video, period
– lots of chexual innuendo (”take the D”)
- like most Kanye West videos, the video doesn’t relate to the song whatsoever
That’s a lot of fodder for discussion, but none of that is a good reason for it to be catching flack – hell it’s the general outline for most of today’s videos. The reason he’s catching flack is this: it’s the video for “Best I Ever Had”, the song that makes most women love the Young Angel. With this one song, women everywhere who pretty much don’t care for most of today’s rap found the one man who acknowledged the ladies and put them on a pedestal even if in other songs he referencing women as ho*s.
That, and that alone is his biggest problem. Women have expectations for Drake. A while back I posited 10 reasons why women love Drake, and though I didn’t mention it, this song is largely the reason. Women decided that Drake was the respectful savior to today’s generally exploitation heavy hip-hop while forgetting one simple fact.
Drake is still a man.
(I actually think the video is semi-genius; make the music for the ladies but make the videos for the men. Great Gatsby!)
Once the video aired, many women were up in arms (I’ve stayed reading message boards about this because the response befuddles me, from women AND men). How could Drake make such an “ignorantly, exploitative video”? How come there are so many boobs? How come all the boob-ers are light skinned?
Aside: I’ve often wondered if Black women would feel better if the exploitation was more diverse? A lot of the arguments about videos is that all the women are light, ethnically ambiguous to white looking women. If they were all darkskint, would that be better? Is exploitation more palatable as long as everybody gets their shot to be exploited? Methinks not. Then again, I didn’t think Jodeci would end up on crack.
From an artistic standpoint, the video adds absolutely nothing to the song. In fact, the video just comes across as some sh*t they basically decided to do on a random Wednesday, and because they could, they called everybody they knew and just started rolling film with a bunch of litebrite models. No harm, no foul really. And if it was anybody but Drake, this video would probably be written off as just another video that does nothing more than exist. Kind of like a Plies video.
Début de l'événement
29.10.2021
Fin de l'événement
29.10.2021