Slightly contradicting myself from a conversation I had yesterday with a friend about all the people who leapt onto Twitter yesterday morning to judge women’s dresses one by one. Blimey, that was a long sentence. I don’t get it, why bother negatively commenting on each and every dress? I know we all judge but there were a few folks that went about dissecting every outfit on Twitter. Straight unfollow situation. I digress, hardly anyone spoke about the plethora of dope men’s looks from the likes of Justin Timberlake and actor Gary Oldman. More on the reverse.
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Remember how much I used to worship this woman? Every music video was instantly posted as soon as it hit the web but now, nada. I just don’t agree with the image she’s promoting, the lyrics! Allow. This beautifully shot short film for Elle Magazine featuring the Bajan beauty. Directed by Tom Munro, the short film is set in her past life where life was simple in a rural town in Mexico (?) with RiRi parading around in her scantily clad but classy outfit. The story doesn’t have much to it but doesn’t it need to? It’s a fashion film and a beautiful one – nicely shot, graded and even scored. Perfect fusion of fashion, music and art. Have a gander on the reverse.
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Following a sold-out US tour, last week Drake kicked off the European leg of his Club Paradise tour in London and Y&Y were in the audience for the second of his London nights (March 27th) at the o2 Arena.
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What is KONY 2012 you may ask. Well let me start off by saying that no single video has had an impact on me the way that the video I am bringing to your attention today has had. KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. Jason Russell is by far one of the most inspiring individuals I have ever come across, and I’ve never met him, because he has taken major strides to help with the capture of the sadistic human being known as Joseph Kony. Joseph Kony is a Ugandan guerilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and what they basically do is capture children force and train them into becoming child soldiers. They are forced to kill their own parents and inflict suffering on others, should they not comply with what Kony demands then they themselves are killed. More on this when you read on, please read on as this is a very important post.
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I’m a day late with this post! Apologies. Arriving home at 11pm on Sunday night after the Northern London derby means only one thing – BED. Not exactly. Bed at 1am but just didn’t have enough time to get this post out. Without further a do, I present to you Eargasms. Apologies in advance for the songs without links!
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Hope you’ve all had a great Christmas day! I’m pretty sure I’m still stuffed from the epic food consumption throughout the day, from roast to Indian. That’s how my family do. 5 tracks for you fat mofos after the cut, selected by me and DJB.
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Rihanna today released the music video for the first single ‘We Found Love’ from her upcoming album Talk That Talk. I have to say that this video is actually one of my favourites from her and I say this having only seen the video once. The video features male model Dudley O’Shaughnessy who had the very lucky job of playing Ri Ri’s boyfriend in the clip. although I do say that is is probably my favourite video in a long while from Miss Fenty, I would like to express my slight concern for her disregard to see herself as a role model for the young. While the video in my opinion as a 20 something year old adult is visually stimulating, it does raise an eyebrow when remembering that kids will be watching it during the day, for it reminds me of a Skins episode crammed into a 4 and a half minute clip. What with all the smoking, sex and possible drug taking it seems to capture, one does question whether there is a need for a more tame version to be shown before the watershed. That being said, I return to my earlier sentiment and say that this is a good video for a song that I had previously been neglecting. Having seen this video I now like the song so much more. P.S it was nice to see Calvin Harris make a short cameo. Peep the clip after the break.
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