“We can act like wild animals?….”
“One day we got so drunk, I thought I heard God speaking to me…”
A peoples ability to control how and when they are represented is an indicator of the kind of power that they have in society.
In light of that, lets discuss this commercial.
First of all.
1. Philip Borgious pointed out in his book, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, the irony of Black and Latino children who live in New York, what is known as urban/hip hop culture that is then sold back to them and others by US corporations. Yet these same children are incredibly poor in one of the richest cities in the world.
I ain’t playing.
The first example of this that comes to mind is the term, or notion of swag. What negro child came up with this, what does it mean that corporations are using the notion to sell…Shit..I don’t know…deodorant now.
I wrote Pharrell swag kinda heavy in I think 2007? So um, yeah.
Riddle me that.
This is what I thought of as I watch this Proenza Schouler commercial.
2. When will we get to tell our own fucking stories. And why is Black girls subjectivity/point of view being co-opted for clothing corporation? They don’t have shit else other ways to sell their clothing? (I know why, I’m being rhetorical).
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When will this negro Harmony Korine (Director of Kids) tell his OWN story? #ummp.
Watch the videos and count the tropes.
Black girls guzzling 40’s?
Poverty Scene’s.
Country Black Girl voice narration.
Black girls saying “We animals.”
Acting a fool.
The men behind Proenza Schouler talk about the origins of the commercial here. I WANT TO HEAR FROM THE GIRLS. Not them.
***Drops the mic. Sashay’s off stage in leopard catsuit and yellow ballerina flats. Yes. I get down like that.
Thoughts?
Why Proenza ‘nem trafficking in Black girl narratives to sell they shit?
Honestly, I want to know what THE Black girls in the commercial think about the commercial AND what do Black girls in general think. #ummhmm.
I’m not even sure the Proenza Schouler guys even buy what they are saying in that video.
Korine’s film is lame & anger inducing.
i tried to not be mad at this video. i played it twice before i saw that korine made it. hm. but then i heard the dudes from PS speak and that was that. i was mad at the girls for signing on because i ain’t really expected anything different from privileged, wealthy white men, anyway. but the girls… i’m curious about their motivation(s). i’ve complicated their reasons to appease myself, but i’d LOVE to hear it straight from the girls’ mouths.
“and do black girls in general think?”
mm. damn, girl.
also “commercial” is such a KEY word here. it touted as a video, as if it just stands alone and serves no other purpose. glad you’ve made the distinction.
“also ?commercial? is such a KEY word here. it touted as a video, as if it just stands alone and serves no other purpose. glad you?ve made the distinction.”
Well this is the future of everything.
Corporations expect to co-opt artists to shill their shit because artist have built in followings + a vision.
In many ways I find social media to be a space where corps can data mine for info that they can use to sell their shit to us. Well, not US, but the Chinese as they are the rising global middle class buying force. Peace to Fordism.
#IaintPlaying.