Peter Som has canceled his showing at the Fall/Winter 09 Fashion Week. I really did gasp when I read about this because Peter Som is one of my fave designers. In my lament, here are some of my favorite looks from the past few seasons:

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Jim Carrey’s ‘Yes Man’ is racist and stereotypical. It never fails to surprise me when people come across yet another mainstream Hollywood film that is fully blatant with their stereotypical portrayals of non-white Americans. It also never fails to surprise me that when the issue is brought up, there are always people who try to defend it in the name of “entertainment” or in the name of “comedy.” I also hate people who say things along the lines of, “But what about the white characters who got stereotyped against?” as if that is in itself an appropriate answer to the stereotypes used against minority races. Yes, stereotypes are all unnecessary and there is always a smarter way to pen your humor, but at the end of the day, while there may be stereotypes of white people, the protagonists in the movies are still white. We sympathize with the white characters, the white characters are the heroes, and the stories are about the white characters. Ethnic characters are used predominantly as supporting characters to further a story and to further the white characters’ development/journey.

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SNSD’s MBC Comeback – “Gee.” The song’s grown on me after a few listens and while I won’t actively look for an mp3 of the song or put it on any playlist, the performance of the song is cute. Plus, I think the music makers over at SM are trying to take note of JYP’s practices of creating a song with a singular chant-y chorus line that’s easy to repeat and thus easy for the masses to remember. “Tell me, tell me, t-t-t-tell me…” -> “Gee gee gee gee, baby, baby baby…” “Gee” is another one of those sickeningly sweet bubblegum pop songs, but at least the tempo is quicker and thus it seems to go by faster. And you can hate SM’s music for all you want, they always still manage to insert ways to showcase their singers’ vocals no matter how un-challenging a song may seem. It might not look it, but the song is a hard song to perform live because of how much jumping around the girls do and Tiffany, Jessica, Seohyun, Taeyeon, Sooyoung sing very smoothly. Even if they look like they’re struggling to breathe and sing at the same time, they can do eet. (The song also did help me finalize my decision that Yoona and Hyoyeon can’t sing for shit. Sunny has a really odd face voice, but she can still sing. Yuri has to keep practicing, but she ain’t helpless.)

(Be grateful this wasn’t another post on Hanadan. Those will resume in two short days when the new eps air, hee.)

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