Beauty & Brains: Kimya
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“I want a girl with extensions in her hair/ bamboo earrings, at least two pair.”
Who can forget LL Cool J’s legendary ode to ‘round-the-way girls? At one point, rap music videos were filled with them—beautiful women who still managed to seem accessible. Women who you might actually be able to approach if you saw them walking down the street or at a club. But the girl next door types from rap videos of yesteryear are a far cry from the super-stacked beauties of today—so much so that they’ve taken on a new title of their own: video vixens.
They tend to have perfect hour glass measurements, flawless make-up, and sex-appeal that oozes off of the TV screen and magazines. A lucky few have even finagled their video appearances into complete branding opportunities, profiting from public appearances, calendars, and websites. These women’s bank accounts are being to look as stacked as their bodies.
But what some see as a celebration of womanly form (who can’t appreciate a well-sculpted body?); others see as flat out degradation. For many, it’s considered a giant step backwards for women across the globe. For the critics, ‘objectification’ seems to be a more appropriate term for what happens for these vixens than ‘appreciation’. It doesn’t help when scenes such as Nelly’s infamous booty-crack-credit-card-swipe in the "Tip drill" video are becoming the norm. The women are wearing less and jiggling more…but most women within the video vixen field insist that it’s a source of empowerment.
This week DX caught up with bourgeoning model Kimya to get her opinion on the video model industry, the stigmas associated with body models, and why many people are ‘confused about what socially acceptable is’.
Read more on Kimya here................
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/brains-beauty/id.102
Who can forget LL Cool J’s legendary ode to ‘round-the-way girls? At one point, rap music videos were filled with them—beautiful women who still managed to seem accessible. Women who you might actually be able to approach if you saw them walking down the street or at a club. But the girl next door types from rap videos of yesteryear are a far cry from the super-stacked beauties of today—so much so that they’ve taken on a new title of their own: video vixens.
They tend to have perfect hour glass measurements, flawless make-up, and sex-appeal that oozes off of the TV screen and magazines. A lucky few have even finagled their video appearances into complete branding opportunities, profiting from public appearances, calendars, and websites. These women’s bank accounts are being to look as stacked as their bodies.
But what some see as a celebration of womanly form (who can’t appreciate a well-sculpted body?); others see as flat out degradation. For many, it’s considered a giant step backwards for women across the globe. For the critics, ‘objectification’ seems to be a more appropriate term for what happens for these vixens than ‘appreciation’. It doesn’t help when scenes such as Nelly’s infamous booty-crack-credit-card-swipe in the "Tip drill" video are becoming the norm. The women are wearing less and jiggling more…but most women within the video vixen field insist that it’s a source of empowerment.
This week DX caught up with bourgeoning model Kimya to get her opinion on the video model industry, the stigmas associated with body models, and why many people are ‘confused about what socially acceptable is’.
Read more on Kimya here................
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/brains-beauty/id.102
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