Inauthenticity! More than just Tyra's frightfully stupid/awesome entrance as the Goddess of Fierce -- all the contestants have been virtually recycled/cloned from the previous cycles (or else I'm just too lazy to think of any new archetypes for them to inhabit). The way I'm seeing this cycle, the show has stopped being a simulacrum of the modeling industry; instead, it's a simulacrum of past seasons of the show. When in doubt, get meta, I always say.
A mathematical rundown of Cycle 12's clones, after the jump.
Sandra: Terrible walk that she thinks is hot + African + immediately proving Marvita wrong about Africans being nice = Fatima - orange hair.
London: (Really, really ugly style + that stupid headband + annoying + THAT HEADBAND) ^ Jesus = Amis + any of the other Christers from past seasons.
Aminat: 'fro = YaYa. (Which is to say, the Angela Davis 'do is a constant and will always resolve to YaYa, which makes me racist.) (And if Tyra so much as touches the 'fro -- they're doing makeovers already next week? -- I'm going to cry.)
Celia: Pronounced eyebrow ridge + platinum blond + pale as hell + crone's face = Michelle (Cycle 4) - scabies + Melrose + Stifler.
Isabella: Cheekbones + short blond bob + nice smile - epilepsy = Kherington. (Bold move, Tyra, copying another reality show!) (Even Nigel thinks so when he described her photo as being "more like dahhhnce than anything.") (True fact: when Kherington auditioned for SYTYCD, I thought that ANTM would be a more suitable reality show for her.)
Kortnie: "weird" spelling of "Courtney" = Kortni. (Tyra be cribbin' SYTYCD.) (But seriously, who's Kortnie? I don't remember her.)
Fo: ("Blaxican" + hippie) / Vietnamese rice noodle soup = Jael - "Blewish" - nosestud + twee + commercial + freckles/facepoop + CUTE + ADORABLE + DELIGHTFUL. (Really now, she's so cute I'm getting hungry just thinking about her.)
Hooray for Eyeballs, then, because even if Allison is old internet news, she's at least bringing something we've not seen on ANTM, not to mention the lolz. Even if you're not mesmerized by her witcheyes, you have to admit that she's got perfect timing and delivery.
Also, THEM EYES.
I can't stop looking at them -- they're like if you cross Homeric sirens with black holes and enchanted boobies.
Actually, when she's eating or thinking about food, Allison is nearly as cute as Fo.
One bit of authenticity, then I promise to be fake as hell again: I had a nosebleed the morning after the premiere, so Allison, heh heh, you know where you can find me.
So, to sum up the girls...
Isabella, I'll admit, seemed like an exceptionally nice person. After Sandra pitched a fit about the girls talking too loudly while she was trying to sleep, Isabella interviewed, "Sandra is a conflicting... force in this house, and I really hope she tones down whatever she's got going on." Almost anyone else, in that moment, would've said that she'd hoped that Sandra was going home, but Isabella took a path that's a lot more positive and constructive -- which makes her one nefarious mustache short of being Kherington's evil twin.
Besides, someone who brings a cute stuffed elephant to a jaded and cynical and preposterous show like ANTM is all right in my book.
We see that this kitchen is stocked everything young women need to eat: a giant bowl of candy, and mustard.
Indie rating: Mirah - "Generosity"
3 comments:
I thought I would watch this season of ANTM just because I watched the others, especially since the bitchiness-that-will-persist-almost-until-the-finale was a real downer...
But I really liked most of the girls - even London, whom I thought I would hate. The girls I didn't love I didn't hate, either - they mostly fell into the "could be (love, later)".
Isabella - her only minus was looking like Kherington. The thing she said about Sandra and... everything - she seemed so nice.
The list goes:
Isabella Falk, love
Celia Ammerman, love
Aminat Ayinde, could be
Tahila Brookins, love
Kortnie Coles, love
Nijah Harris, nice
Allison Harvard, njek
London Levi, love
Sandra Nyancoka, njek
Natalie Pack, could be
Fo Porter, love
Jessica Santiago, could be
Teyona Stewart mnjeh
hay i really am a fan of Allison and London,but Allison is awesome and i hope Allison won the competition,
Ag:10
Name:Aanii
Hmm. looks to me like your really jealous person. how would you feel if someone dedicated whole blog broad casted to the general public talking smack about you?
Btw, who the cares how you look on the outside? because at the end of the day honey, the people with the ugly personalities lose.
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