Pharrell's "GIRL" Album Cover Controversy: Nonissue or Nah?

[T. Sanford]

so the IC have multi dimensional, 3d human being posters now?

aight

 

[jay83]

these the same hoes that complain bc theres black women in rap videos...then complain bc theres not black women in videos

"women aint happy unless they aint happy."

 

[CapitalB]

all i know is i still got a thing for that black bitch in the "frontin" video.. smmfh

 

[S2J]

all i know is i still got a thing for that black bitch in the "frontin" video.. smmfh

Oddly enough...she married a white dude. Per my lady, by way of LSA... NH @ me repeating that shyt

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

Skateboard P preaching that real.

 

[Dr.Chemix]

Not even that serious...

 

[Colin$mackabi$h]

these the same hoes that complain bc theres black women in rap videos...then complain bc theres not black women in videos

"women aint happy unless they aint happy."

So real, it had to be posted again.

 

[taeboo]

I don't see the big deal. *shrugs*

 

[Copper]

I don't see the big deal. *shrugs*

He's disrespecting every black woman that ever lived

He hates his mother

 

[1of1]

Trivializing the real struggle

 

[MR.CJ]

black women>>>>>>

 

[HustleThaDon]

these the same hoes that complain bc theres black women in rap videos...then complain bc theres not black women in videos

"women aint happy unless they aint happy."

Quoted for trillness

 

[QZA]

Dark skinned women, I love y'all

 

[HafBayked]

People cry about any damn thing....its an album cover not an American history book.....if he wanted to be between two snow bunnies riding an ostrich wit Hilfiger overalls and Keds on, thats his choice....im mad he even explaining himself....

 

[blackrain]

all i know is i still got a thing for that black bitch in the "frontin" video.. smmfh

When Lauren London first blew up I had to rewatch the Frontin video because I had noticed her. I was stuck on the dark skin girl lol

 

[goldenja]

if I was Asian id be PISSED

 

[vageneral08]

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.27695/title.pharrell-disappointed-by-g-i-r-l-cover-art-backlash

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 kill…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.
https://twitter.com/dreamhampton/statuses/438728529274871808

Black Ladies, is this really an issue? Does it bother you when Black singers/rappers use white women and lightskinned women in their art?

This nigga gotta be blind as fuck

 

[BEAM]

I can understand why some would take offense to this; Because it is supportive of a very obvious and disheartening trend.

Tbh, this is coming off as the same type of shyt racist fashion designers say when they fight to maintain the right to "express their creativity how they wish" by not including any ethnic women on the runway.

Three out of three of those women are light, intentionally. It's bullshyt, tbh.

 

[_Lefty]

these the same hoes that complain bc theres black women in rap videos...then complain bc theres not black women in videos

"women aint happy unless they aint happy."

Food.

 

[Copper]

I can understand why some would take offense to this; Because it is supportive of a very obvious and disheartening trend.

Tbh, this is coming off as the same type of shyt racist fashion designers say when they fight to maintain the right to "express their creativity how they wish" by not including any ethnic women on the runway.

Three out of three of those women are light, intentionally. It's bullshyt, tbh.

meh