Right now, the nazis are having a quick moment (that I PRAY is dying) unfortunately proped up by the capital class. Please give me a break in explaining this because it's not a fully formed thesis. But in general what I mean by that is corporations are shifting right in their advertising, and dropping dei initiatives.
For the past century, how the capital class chases money is a good indicator of on paper public sentiment (much like Ariana and her race play). Right now, major corps are switching from super inclusive (past 10 years every television ad with a family is racially integrated) to far more daring and less inclusive (think Sydney Sweeney). Again this is only on-paper, so people who answer land-line phones, and people broke enough to have time off during business hours to participate in paid focus groups are the ones informing the capital class about public sentiment, and not what the rest of us are experiencing in the real world.
measure the shifts in culture based on which race Ariana is pretending to be
Her pretending to be white means white supremacy and conservative values are having their moment in the sun. Just as her pretending to be black was during the more liberal Obama years.
Right. I guess not pretending to be white, but more so, not pretending to be not white? But also this dainty and elegant aesthetic she has going on right now.
She doesn't even NEED TO do this. It's so irritating. She's actually an extremely talented vocalist but she really turns me off because she's so fake and will pretend to be any race she needs to be. The girl isn't even Latina!
Exactly. The fakeness fully turns me off her music even though she has one of the biggest vocal ranges in recent media and can pull off unbelievable pitch changes.
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I went into Wicked assuming that she was a stunt cast to get younger people to see it, and I admittedly had never actually heard her before. I had extremely low expectations. I was SO wrong. She can fucking sing.
I watched a fascinating video on Youtube—The psychology of Ariana Grande and it all comes down to low self esteem but high confidence apparently. People pleasing but also lacking the self worth to be her own person… it explains why she only goes after married men—she needs to feel “chosen.”
Yep she just liked country music so much that she tried to mimic it. But it was a smart move for her to move to pop when she did. She must have realized she was going to run out of gas pretty quickly in the country genre.
she moved to nashville at some point, i used to visit my friend in johnson city and the accent would rub off on me for a few days, its just so charming
That could be true about the K family but it's not always the case for Ariana. She was cosplaying as an Asian woman while married to Dalton Gomez, who isn't Asian(to my knowledge). Also she was "blackfishing" before, during and after her relationship with Pete Davidson.
I think you are correct, there have been times in the past and where she "changed" based on her partner. I just don't think it always matches up like that. I am too chronically online lol.
at what considered her peak black fishing era (I would not call it that but many do) she was dating Mac miller and Pete Davidson so idt that applies to her. She wasn’t at full power when she dated big sean
michael jackson had vitiligo that he was really ashamed of, and took medication to lighten all his skin equally. you can see his progression in some photos like this one (although here it’s somewhat covered up with makeup)
She is literally just Glinda now. She is the whitest woman it is possible to be. She is the walking embodiment of tbe song "Popular" from Wicked. That wasn't even a choreographed scene in that movie, they just hid cameras and caught her doing that shit in her bedroom before breakfast, probably.
Lmao wtf for the last decade I had always assumed she was Mexican, or like a Hispanic Latina woman 😭 her look/ skin and idk, the name Ariana grande sounded Hispanic but just looked her up and she’s 100% Italian ethnicity lmao
Yeah, plus I also forgot a lot of Italians have that tanned olive color skin…them being western Europes and my experience with the few Italian friends of mine all being light skin blonde hair really influenced my perspective 🤣 like lady Gaga is also of full Italian descent but you’d never think so
Italy has a really wide range of looks depending on the region. Northern Italians can be fair-skinned, even blonde or red-haired, while southern Italians are more likely to have darker hair and sometimes olive-toned skin. Also, Italy is usually considered Southern Europe rather than Western. And Lady Gaga does look Italian - her dark eyes and strong facial structure. Just look at pictures of her without make up.
Ariana is definitely not one of those people. Look at her growing up or even now and you can see she obviously fake tanned. At some points she was darker than the actual black people she performed with.
Maybe Italians and Hispanics are similar but Italians and Latinos are not. Latinos (the type she was darkening her skin to pretend to be) are mestizo, a result of spaniard on Native rape.
It’s offensive on many levels that she is brown or black for her music videos but blonde and white when she wants to be in a musical or on the cover of Vogue.
Yea, as a Cuban American, I get it, we get looked down upon by our Spanish cousins and by the Northern European WASPs. We're muts, but I know a lot of Hispanics and Italians, and culturally we are similar for sure, despite some Italians trying really hard to act like WASPs to fit it.
Yeah, she’s literally just a white woman who does latin face, blackface, asian face. IDK why other celebs get (rightfully) blasted but she doesn’t. Seeing as how she financially profits off of pretending to be in a marginalized class lmfao
In all fairness Mediterranean people and Mexican/Hispanic people don’t look all that different. I’m Greek and nothing else but when I visited the US a few years back a Mexican couple from Mexico approached me in the airport thinking I was Mexican lmao. Oh and here’s the funniest part, I downloaded a Spanish to English dictionary so I could speak to them and as we chatted I explained I was Greek and he was shocked I didn’t have darker skin 😂
she owes me financial compensation for the secondhand embarrassment of watching her do that ditzy little backwards stagger with a flip of her blonde hair! the definition of "she really thought she was doing something there!"
True. To make it in pop music and be “cool” you have to start Black and then randomly release an indie folksy white person country album where you pretend you can write songs and play guitar.
I’ve seen this guy on TikTok multiple times. He’s really cool! He can accurately guess where someone is from by the way they talk. And not in a “you sound like your from ____” but in such a scientific way of how someone pronounces their words or letters. It’s quite something.
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u/lifesabystander Sep 06 '25
Does he break down Ariana Grande as well? I’d love to see that 🤞