Black or white, Jesy’s look is a little mixed up
Former Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson, right, is accused of ‘blackfishing’ in her latest pop video, pretending to be a black person when you are actually white.
She says her new look was down to a deep tan she got from three weeks in Antigua and letting her straightened hair go wild with her natural curls — no offence or cultural misappropriation intended.
To which I must add that, as an Aussie in these judgmental days, I promise I’m not trying to pretend I’m an Aboriginal woman now I’ve let my hair go naturally curly. Sad that Paul McCartney engages in a public row with Mick Jagger, deriding the Rolling Stones as a ‘blues cover band’. Macca is worth £820million, Jagger £310million; the Beatles sold 600 million albums, the Stones 240 million; the Fab Four were together for seven years while the Stones tour on seven decades later. To Macca we gently whisper: ‘Let it be’. Coldplay’s Chris Martin says their 2022 concerts will run on 100% renewable energy, they will plant a tree for each ticket sold, and every time someone dances they will generate carbonfree energy to power the lights.
The band and their entourage will still travel on private jets to their concerts in Germany, Paris, Costa Rica, Mexico, Los Angeles, Chicago, Brussels and three gigs in London, to name but a few.
Bless this soppy songster for naively thinking he can be a jetsetting rock star and an eco-warrior. The one thing he can’t ‘fix’, though, is his latest album.
Our reviewer Adrian Thrills denounced it as ‘disappointingly run-of-the-mill’ and gave it two stars. Wayne Rooney is paid a reported £1 million for his warts-and-all documentary complete with confessions about his infidelities, prostitutes, his drinkdriving convictions and repeated humiliation of wife Coleen.
He implores us to ‘remember me for who I am rather than what I’ve done’. Yes, the same thick lad who in his personal life is remembered for one thing — scoring own goals.
Opinion is divided over Primark’s decision to rename its maternity range a ‘parenting collection’ in the UK. One mum asked: ‘What dad
needs clothes when the woman is pregnant?’
The rebranding is part of an attempt not to offend the teeny minority of trans people.
Jolly good, but viewing the range of dowdy outfits why not just describe them as ‘big floaty frocks and elasticised pants which look equally hideous on her, him, them or anyone who identifies with cheap horrible outfits’.