Comments on: Video: Gorilla Zoe ft. Yung Joc - Juice Box http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/ YOUR MOM'S FAVORITE BLOGGER Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:27:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: skateboardlover http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19141 skateboardlover Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:10:27 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19141 The reason this crap continues to happen is...we allow it. I stopped buying hip hop CDs and watching videos a long time ago. The music is digusting. I can't listen to it with my daughter. the images on the videos are hypersexual and materialistic...not mention BORING. it's time for a change. I am tired of hearing about strippers, bling, and sex. can someone make a song about love, marriage, investing, and being happy? Songs my family and I can dance to with hearing the f' bomb every other word. is that too much to ask? The reason this crap continues to happen is…we allow it. I stopped buying hip hop CDs and watching videos a long time ago. The music is digusting. I can’t listen to it with my daughter. the images on the videos are hypersexual and materialistic…not mention BORING. it’s time for a change. I am tired of hearing about strippers, bling, and sex. can someone make a song about love, marriage, investing, and being happy? Songs my family and I can dance to with hearing the f’ bomb every other word.
is that too much to ask?

]]> By: 2bme http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19115 2bme Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:11:54 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19115 wow this is creative(rolling eyes)....wonder how much it set them back..a buck 50? wow this is creative(rolling eyes)….wonder how much it set them back..a buck 50?

]]> By: NC_NYer http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19098 NC_NYer Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:50:47 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19098 Ummmm - ladies.... I think what the record labels/artists/video directors are trying to sell is a fantasy, not represent a reality - if that were the case, then the women wouldn't be sugar slim, either. Just like on TV when you use a certain deodorant, drink a certain beer, drive a certain car, wear certain clothes, or use a certain razor - suddenly, beautiful, long-haired women (white, black, latino, or "racially ambiguous") suddenly show up at the end of the commercial or end the print ad. ANYWAY...this brings up an interesting point. Have any of you ever watched commercials on TV that have black families? Especially those with a young child or children? The company doesn't matter - KFC, McDonald's, Chrysler, even Little Debbie. I want you to STUDY the children. Why do they ALL look like Corbin Bleu? To me, those kids never look "black" enough, either. They all looked mixed with curly hair in what is supposed be (I imagine) a lightly teased mop of curly hair. Where I live, I don't see kids like that. Not that I have a problem with them at all - they are beautiful children and that's all well and good. I specifically remember a change the billboards I saw for the (former) UPN show, Kevin Hill (which starred Taye Diggs as a lawyer who suddenly becomes a father). The first ads I saw featured a baby that looked like Taye spit her out - brown-skinned, and black, short and very curly hair. The later billboards (and finally, the baby that starred in the show) looked a light lighter, with a different hair texture. Shouts to Ki Toy & Buffie...at least they are representing the dark-skinned sisters... Ummmm - ladies….

I think what the record labels/artists/video directors are trying to sell is a fantasy, not represent a reality - if that were the case, then the women wouldn’t be sugar slim, either. Just like on TV when you use a certain deodorant, drink a certain beer, drive a certain car, wear certain clothes, or use a certain razor - suddenly, beautiful, long-haired women (white, black, latino, or “racially ambiguous”) suddenly show up at the end of the commercial or end the print ad.

ANYWAY…this brings up an interesting point. Have any of you ever watched commercials on TV that have black families? Especially those with a young child or children? The company doesn’t matter - KFC, McDonald’s, Chrysler, even Little Debbie. I want you to STUDY the children. Why do they ALL look like Corbin Bleu? To me, those kids never look “black” enough, either. They all looked mixed with curly hair in what is supposed be (I imagine) a lightly teased mop of curly hair. Where I live, I don’t see kids like that. Not that I have a problem with them at all - they are beautiful children and that’s all well and good.

I specifically remember a change the billboards I saw for the (former) UPN show, Kevin Hill (which starred Taye Diggs as a lawyer who suddenly becomes a father). The first ads I saw featured a baby that looked like Taye spit her out - brown-skinned, and black, short and very curly hair. The later billboards (and finally, the baby that starred in the show) looked a light lighter, with a different hair texture.

Shouts to Ki Toy & Buffie…at least they are representing the dark-skinned sisters…

]]> By: Smokie http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19031 Smokie Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:06:45 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-19031 Sister Toldja Says: HOWEVER, I think that the bigger issue is thw way these women, regardless of complextion, are represented in videos. Lets see all the Black and Latino sisters (and the others, if they MUST have them, LOL) treated like women and not like pieces of meat. ------- Yeah, very valid point. Are these women really clamoring for video h o spots? I don't see us complaining about the different hued black women who are news reporters, commentators, and such. The LSLH chics don't have those jobs on lock at all. Sister Toldja Says:

HOWEVER, I think that the bigger issue is thw way these women, regardless of complextion, are represented in videos. Lets see all the Black and Latino sisters (and the others, if they MUST have them, LOL) treated like women and not like pieces of meat.

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Yeah, very valid point. Are these women really clamoring for video h o spots?

I don’t see us complaining about the different hued black women who are news reporters, commentators, and such. The LSLH chics don’t have those jobs on lock at all.

]]> By: miesha@FindEntertainmentNow.com http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18987 miesha@FindEntertainmentNow.com Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:42:29 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18987 again there are dark women in the video or darker should i say BUT i say again that who cares. i don't care what these men think beauty is i hate that women are portrayed this way in the first damn place! go ahead and use all white or latin women...please keep us out of it. women are shown as objects of beauty and sexual pleasure and fantasy by the media and it sux! again there are dark women in the video or darker should i say BUT i say again that who cares. i don’t care what these men think beauty is i hate that women are portrayed this way in the first damn place! go ahead and use all white or latin women…please keep us out of it. women are shown as objects of beauty and sexual pleasure and fantasy by the media and it sux!

]]> By: Sharonda http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18984 Sharonda Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:18:06 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18984 Plus I don't see many black women in the videos now. Plus I don’t see many black women in the videos now.

]]> By: Sharonda http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18981 Sharonda Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:14:47 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18981 My friend likes this song.This cathcy and annoying all at the same time. My friend likes this song.This cathcy and annoying all at the same time.

]]> By: atownquarter07 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18961 atownquarter07 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:25:59 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18961 OMG!!! I just realized that the girl in the pink bikini licking that popsicle went to high school with me - and is STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL!!! Wow... OMG!!! I just realized that the girl in the pink bikini licking that popsicle went to high school with me - and is STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL!!! Wow…

]]> By: AlwaysSweet http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18948 AlwaysSweet Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:04:52 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18948 cosign with Sister Toldja. I think the real issue should be how these women are portrayed in these videos. What real woman: light skinned, dark skinned or otherwise would want to be in these videos? cosign with Sister Toldja. I think the real issue should be how these women are portrayed in these videos. What real woman: light skinned, dark skinned or otherwise would want to be in these videos?

]]> By: Sister Toldja http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18945 Sister Toldja Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:48:12 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2008/03/28/video-gorilla-zoe-ft-yung-joc-juice-box/#comment-18945 Well, as a "LSLH" chick myself (though I did trade my waves for dreads, lol), I am consistantly digusted my the disproportionate number of light-complexioned, "racially ambigous" and non-Black women in Hip-Hop videos. Alas, the media is still telling us that the "Attractive" Black woman is light and the "macho" Black man is dark. It ain't hard to tell. HOWEVER, I think that the bigger issue is thw way these women, regardless of complextion, are represented in videos. Lets see all the Black and Latino sisters (and the others, if they MUST have them, LOL) treated like women and not like pieces of meat. Well, as a “LSLH” chick myself (though I did trade my waves for dreads, lol), I am consistantly digusted my the disproportionate number of light-complexioned, “racially ambigous” and non-Black women in Hip-Hop videos. Alas, the media is still telling us that the “Attractive” Black woman is light and the “macho” Black man is dark. It ain’t hard to tell.

HOWEVER, I think that the bigger issue is thw way these women, regardless of complextion, are represented in videos. Lets see all the Black and Latino sisters (and the others, if they MUST have them, LOL) treated like women and not like pieces of meat.

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