Comment on watching one of my favorite singers wither away right before our eyes is heartbreaking

• did_you_find_violets@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I watched it, and I just don’t buy this explanation when, in the same video, she’s purposely wearing stuff meant to accentuate her bones and figure. The “industry critique” aspect of the music video just falls flat. Someone on another platform said it better than I could: the fact that in a gore/horror-themed MV Ariana’s real-life body is the scariest part says it all. Ironically, I think the best “industry critique” is one she didn’t even mean, when she reads the innocuous note, “You bloom whenever you’re planted” (you become famous if, when, where, and how the ones at the top want you to).

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So the video accentuates how thin she is, then shows her negative response to the group that told her to be thinner… that all sounds consistent with criticising that kind of commentary to me.

    I’m not going to comment on how thin she is, but that explanation seems the most likely, else why would the note be in there at all?

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    • Micans@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Doesn’t the note sound like the agent from Jeanette’s book?

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    • did_you_find_violets@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, it’s the fact that the video glamorizes how emaciated she is, which is incompatible with seeing “could lose a few pounds” as a negative, since she’s flaunting the end stage of being skinny. You can’t critique something you’re the personification of and trying to paint as normal. “Couldn’t hurt to lose a few pounds” is exactly the deadly lie anorexics tell themselves because of the delusional thinking fueled by their disorder.

      But it’s clear to me by now that you’re not engaging in good faith.

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• FrowingFostek@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like women critique the physical appearance of their peers much more than men do.

  Sure, men prop up this system of oppressive beauty standards but women ultimately sustain and engage with it.

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