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Mariah celebrates anniversary of 'Obsessed' revisiting #WipeItDownChallenge

Jun 19, 2021 10:46

Just for laughs... from last year's lockdown when all I did was wipe tings down 🧽😂 #HappyAnniversaryObsessed pic.twitter.com/EAgqlZZJpA
- Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) June 16, 2021
( Oh, why you so obsessed with me (boy, I wanna know) Lying that you're sexing me (when everybody knows) It's clear that you're upset with me )

celebrity social media, anniversary / birthday, mariah carey

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genbu_no_miko24 June 19 2021, 02:20:18 UTC

Hollaback Girl was aimed at Courtney Love for comments she made about Gwen.

" She remarked how the album was missing an "attitude song", and she recalled a derogatory comment that grunge musician Courtney Love had made about her in an interview with Seventeen magazine: "Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed."[4][5] Stefani responded to Love's comments in the March 2005 issue of NME: "Y'know someone one time called me a cheerleader, negatively, and I've never been a cheerleader. So I was, like, 'OK, fuck you. You want me to be a cheerleader? Well, I will be one then. And I'll rule the whole world, just you watch me"

And just for nostalgia the Cobra Starship parody version

Uh huh holy shit it's about time you get off my dick!!

bonitabonitaa June 19 2021, 02:25:20 UTC

Gwen really got the last laugh with Hollaback Girl. Not only was it a hit at the time, but it's still being referenced today with that banana's line. Iconic.

genbu_no_miko24 June 19 2021, 02:28:05 UTC

Yep! And funny enough not many people even know its aimed at Courtney or probably don't know who she is so possibly even more a victory?

itsme_eloise June 19 2021, 03:08:32 UTC

that video with the Japanese dancers (whom she used as living accessories), wearing cornrows and an afro, in a low-rider with her own face inserted into Latino iconography. what a cursed turducken of racism.

genbu_no_miko24 June 19 2021, 03:09:40 UTC

Won't argue there! She got away with a lot!

pikapika217 June 19 2021, 04:13:57 UTC

revisiting Hollaback Girl RN it's EVEN MORE apparent that the Old Navy song she released with Saweetie was trying to recapture this phase but we've MOVED ON GIRL! Also, the appropriative shit she used to get away with??? DARLING!

Also-also, when I think of this song I also remember the 'America's Best Dance Crew' performance to it that, surprisingly, is on youtube in decent quality LOL -

afrosamurai1089 June 19 2021, 08:25:09 UTC

Nostalgia got the better of me and I clicked play on this Gwen music video. Only to find an opening scene of Gwen speaking Day 1 Duolingo Japanese to the Harajuku girls who were dressed "urban" for the day. This trifecta of appropriation just defeated me and I couldn't make it past the first few seconds.

Amazing how much mainstream society let her get away with this.

pseudonygma June 19 2021, 17:40:45 UTC

It didn't help that her target demo couldn't tell the difference between cultural appreciation vs appropriation. And I'm saying this as someone who loved her whole L.A.M.B. era. I was just happy to see more Asians in mainstream media and didn't understand the amount of gate-keeping there is keeping them from them furthering their careers beyond being Gwen's dolls.

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