Not only have I been absent of my writing duties to you, my loyal reader, I have also been absent of my responsibility as a pop culture consumer. 6 weeks after the Grammy Awards, I finally took the time to lookup the performance that I’d heard so much about: MIA performing while 9-months pregnant.
After watching the video, I went through my typical logical progression of thoughts:
- I wonder what the doctors said when she said she wanted to perform.
- I wonder if her back hurt from bouncing around.
- I wonder if the child is now the coolest child in popular music history without directly performing [the Nirvana Baby comes across as kind of a weiner].
- I wonder if anybody thinks her outfit looks like…
And the Google quest began and ended like many a deflowering - within a minute and with great satisfaction. The keywords toad mario mia grammys netted: Fashion MIA on M.I.A. at the Grammys… and the following Photoshop job:
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While I am extremely appreciative of not having to fire up a graphics editor, I couldn’t disagree more with the author of the post:
“The polka dots on her belly, derriere, and each of her breasts did not look good.”
The writer? The owner of a maternity clothing store. While I appreciate that she does have an opinion (as she well should), I am a bit stunned that the best she could do was “did not look good”. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I thought the outfit was great and could be logically validated - anybody that watches BET After Dark knows that black and semi-transparent is wholly appropriate when in the midst of rappers.
Done and done.
NOTE: The title neither a typo nor temporary bout of Dyslexia. See the awful joke here.
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