This week at Room Service, Iman hosted a fete celebrating the release of Trace magazine's annual edition of BLACK GIRLS RULE! (which I lay in wait for every year!). TRACE (one of my FAVORITE mags- next to PAPER and PULSE) does an annual salute to the accomplishments and strides that black women in every industry have made and continue to make. As it is partly a beauty publication, the images they present on the cover and on the inside pages convey just how beautiful, regal and strong women of color have always been- thus the running exclamation BLACK GIRLS RULE! This year, they have the usual bevy of lovelies accompanied by some new notables; Kinee Diouf graces the cover- who along with Ajuma Nasanyana have taken the baton that Alek Wek has passed to them and continue to defy European standards of beauty simply by being unapologetically African dark-skinned babes while booking MAJOR fashion shows/campaigns. Also, while not necessarily dark-skinned, Zoe Kravitz makes her debut as a black girl to contend with. All of this thanks to Iman's guest editting of the edition. I can't say it enough: BLACK GIRLS RULE!!
But now onto what is on my mind this week in pop culture- which incidentally involves how (mostly) Black Girls are Ruling ...
1- Kelly Rowland collapsed onstage early Sunday in Lagos, Nigeria, where she had been performing. Was it really because of dehydration, or the fact that she just found out that (in the first two weeks of its release) she's only sold 140,000 copies of her "Ms. Kelly" CD? Does ANYBODY believe she can make it bump "Like This"?
2- Shouldn't Lindsay Lohan, in her latest post-rehab era, leave her hair short for a more sophisticated look?
3- Speaking of getting her "grown woman on", aren't we happy that Mary Kate Olsen is stepping out on her own and joining the cast of Showtime's runaway hit, "Weeds"?
4- Her American television debut "Victoria Beckham: Coming to America" has been torn to pieces in the press; its been called "an orgy of self-indulgence", "relentlessly self-promoting" and "vapid and condescending". Isn't that what we want in a guilty pleasure-cum-reality show? Even though she never really beeped on THE REAL RE-EDIT's radar before, after watching the show I have to put it out there: With her quick wit and self-effacing naughty/ haughty British lass persona, isn't "Posh" the most MAJOR thing going right now?
5- Speaking of "an orgy of self-indulgence", et. al...Even with all the hype, did anyone really care about Eva Longoria's wedding?
6- How brave was it for Tammy Faye Baker to appear on Larry King Live this week?
7- Now that Foxy's getting beat up left and right, Remy Ma DEFINITELY slated to do some time for aggravated assault and with Eve as her only real competition, aren't the stars lining up for a Lil Kim comeback? Isn't it time for her to capitalize on those 200 songs she wrote while she was in the big house?
8- Speaking of comebacks, when is Erykah Badu going to release at least ONE of her rumored THREE albums she's been working on? And didn't she ROCK "Love Hangover"- her tribute to Diana Ross at the 2007 BET Awards?
9- While we're on the subject of rocking the 2007 BET Awards...didn't Bey turn it out, giving the best performance of the night in $100,000 Balenciage leggings? How inappropriate were those "Robo-ho" comments?
10- While we KNOW that Eva "The Diva" Pigford doesn't have a sex tape, wouldn't that seem like the next logical step after her recent "Kylie Minogue meets Pussycat Dolls" stiptease act at a gay ball? (No, THE REAL RE-EDIT isn't going to post the video- partly because its made its rounds on the blog cycle...but also because the footage isn't of great quality!)11- Is Iman passing the "must-book black girl" title onto the modeling world's newest "it" girl, Chanel Iman?
FLASHBACK...Let's devote this flashback segment to Ms. Kelly- back when she could do no wrong in her solo career. Although her management team faces a different kind of "dilemma" now, remember when she and Nelly topped the charts with this "Dilemma"?
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