Pharrell's "GIRL" Album Cover Controversy: Nonissue or Nah?
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Upon releasing a full album stream and the cover art to his upcoming album, G I R L, Virginia singer/producer Pharrell Williams was met with a great deal of backlash on social media due to the cover art for G I R L, which features Pharrell standing beside three women clad in white bathrobes.
Those expressing their distaste with the cover art to G I R L have cited the fact that the cover does not include any women of color. In response to the cover art backlash, Pharrell expressed his disappointment before revealing that one of the women featured on the cover is in fact African-American.
“You know what really disappointed me is that, man, they jumped the gun,” Pharrell said while speaking with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club. “Because the one I'm standing the closest to is black. She's a black girl from like Wisconsin that I used to date like over ten years ago, or twelve years ago. And it’s just that that just must suck for people to just look at something and to assume that they know what's going on. And if they just bothered to listen to my album, they would know that my album was an ode to women, period. And the one thing that I’m trying to ? …The one thing I was just trying to help and aid in changing is this crazy statuesque standard of you gotta be white, waif and thin for you to be beautiful.”
Among those who voiced their opinion on Pharrell’s G I R L cover art via Twitter were journalist dream hampton and Jamilah Lemieux, senior editor for Ebony magazine.
Black Ladies, is this really an issue? Does it bother you when Black singers/rappers use white women and lightskinned women in their art?
Upon releasing a full album stream and the cover art to his upcoming album, G I R L, Virginia singer/producer Pharrell Williams was met with a great deal of backlash on social media due to the cover art for G I R L, which features Pharrell standing beside three women clad in white bathrobes.
Those expressing their distaste with the cover art to G I R L have cited the fact that the cover does not include any women of color. In response to the cover art backlash, Pharrell expressed his disappointment before revealing that one of the women featured on the cover is in fact African-American.
“You know what really disappointed me is that, man, they jumped the gun,” Pharrell said while speaking with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club. “Because the one I'm standing the closest to is black. She's a black girl from like Wisconsin that I used to date like over ten years ago, or twelve years ago. And it’s just that that just must suck for people to just look at something and to assume that they know what's going on. And if they just bothered to listen to my album, they would know that my album was an ode to women, period. And the one thing that I’m trying to ? …The one thing I was just trying to help and aid in changing is this crazy statuesque standard of you gotta be white, waif and thin for you to be beautiful.”
Among those who voiced their opinion on Pharrell’s G I R L cover art via Twitter were journalist dream hampton and Jamilah Lemieux, senior editor for Ebony magazine.
Black Ladies, is this really an issue? Does it bother you when Black singers/rappers use white women and lightskinned women in their art?
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Black people are so pathetic sometimes.
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Why did she drag Chokwe Lumumba into this??? R.I.P.
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why aint you post this in the powder room if you wanted the ladies opinion.? He pharrell so I aint surprised in the least.
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...what???? Please tell me this is a joke.
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Prince woulda done the same thing.
Nobody woulda noticed. -
Chokwe Lumumba aint have nothing to do with this. RIP
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I GOOGLED Chokwe Lumumba... WHAT IS THAT POSE TO MEAN?
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I actually see the gripe but let the black n brown bytc---queens make this argument.
B/c dream hampton...bytch you light skin!!!!??!
Light skin people be the most reverse-color struck mfers out there. Dnt be feelin black enough n overcompensate. I.e. @empress_ (hey boo)
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MoneyLuver wrote: »Black people are so pathetic sometimes.Allah_U_Akbar wrote: »Prince woulda done the same thing.
Nobody woulda noticed.
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Dumb ? tried to be profound by tellin people to google a black leader she prolly just found out existed a week ago
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But 'Come Get it Bae' go hard tho...
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Pharrell like that exotic thats all. I bet if the white girl wasnt on there, ? wouldnt be a problem smh.
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I honestly couldn't tell which girl was Black.
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idc.......
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Allah_U_Akbar wrote: »Prince woulda done the same thing.
Nobody woulda noticed.
nah.. they wouldve noticed..
they jus woudve kept they muthafuckin mouth shut..
speakin on Prince!!? who does that!!? -
Am I the only one that thought the girl closest to him was black right away? Lookit the curls in her hair above her forehead. She sure as hell doesn't look white.
On a side note special interests groups are annoying. I'm waiting for the blonde lobby groups to start protesting this thing because there are no blondes represented on the album cover. Petty nonsense. -
Prince the ?
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ain't his wife black as ? though? if not she look blacker than paula patton does. Rocketman Williams, tho.
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On a side note special interests groups are annoying. I'm waiting for the blonde lobby groups to start protesting this thing because there are no blondes represented on the album cover. Petty nonsense.
Exactly what I was sayin before. Nowadays it's cool to act like you've had it as bad as the black guy all ya life. -
Nigguhs don't have nothing better to ? about.
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Seriously? Ain't no asian or brown chick on the cover either, who cares??
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who gives a ? ???
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Seriously? Ain't no asian or brown chick on the cover either, who cares??
Just wait until the Chinese and Indian special interest groups hear about this. -
had there been three black women on the cover these deep space skinned hoes would be whining about "disrespecting black women by using black female image on a album with the word ? in it"
These black feet ? is gonna find something to whine about if its the last thing they do. And it will be. Because its the ONLY thing they do.
