If you know me, you know I'm a reader. Since 4 years old I've been reading everything from cereal boxes to my mom's old textbooks. In addition to reading everything, I read everywhere too. So you can understand my devastation this past weekend when I realized I'd left my current novel at home while on a family road trip to my cousin's graduation celebration. The only answer was to buy...tabloids
Just so you know what I consider a tabloid, it's pretty much any mag that features exclusively celebrities and isn't fashion based. If it claims to have tellalls or exclusive insights from routinely unnamed sources, it's a tabloid.
We all know how fake the majority of tabloids are, but that does not stop us from reading, does it. I can tell you I don't stop. Because it's entertaining. These magazines are more fiction than fact so it's like reading a novel, only you don't have to image what the people look like and the entirety of the story is about a page and a half long at most.
Also, let's not lie to ourselves, we all have thought at least once that it would be a little bit awesome to have a bunch of people care about the outfit, makeup look and hairstyle it took you hours to perfect. To have people super invested in you romantic relationship since it's all you want to talk about. To have people from all over dying to go to that little cupcake shop you love with the sweet owner and amazing customer service because little Ms. Ethel could use the business. But what a lot of us forget is that for all the times where you're happy and could gush about the highs of your life for hours, we have just as many lows that we want to sweep under the rug and never talk about. And what usually happens when we don't talk about our problems and people really want to know about it? Rumors happen! Nasty, ugly rumors that take whatever situation you were avoiding and amp it up with a tons of lies that make the story more interesting. That's why when I read unpleasant things in tabloids I take them with a grain of salt. I mean it's just another short story after all.
So dolls, do you read tabloids? And if you do, do you take them seriously or not? If you don't comment I'll just tell everyone that your pregnant by your boyfriend's best friend who is also half werewolf and that every room in your house is wallpapered with pictures of Kim and Kanye's Vogue spread. It's a better story anyway. :) -Buttercup
May 7: @EsterDean is one sexy black woman. Better yet she is one sexy woman. Period.
I closed at work on May 6th, and when I got home that night I went through my twitter. Anna Kendrick told everyone to go listen to “Get My Dough” by her Pitch Perfect costar Ester Dean. Now, Ester and I go way back ever since her Chris Brown collaboration “Drop it Low”. I have been waiting for a full length release from her since 2009. Needless to say I listened to it, and loved it. Which, is why I tweeted what's above.
So, five minutes later when I see there's a notification on the WWP twitter account, I assume it was one of our lovelies favoriting a tweet or maybe we got a new follower. I didn't know that the fabulous Ester Dean was going Tyler Oakley on the world, trolling for people saying fabulous things about her.
*_*We Wear Pink*_* @wewearpink13 May 7
My reaction to Ester Dean favoriting my tweet; #Yassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
I don't think I overreacted to celebrity recognition. I only tweeted one thing about it and only told everyone I ran into about Ester Dean retweeting me. I even told my waiter. She said to me “Do you want anything else”. And, I was like “No. I just wanted you to know that Ester Dean retweeted me.”
She gave me this blank stare. She had no idea who that was and she was only a few years older then myself and I am the baby of the We Wear Pink family. In that moment I realized people didn't know who Ester Dean was. That is why I am here to set the record straight.
As a multifaceted singer, songwriter, actor Ester Dean is one of the fiercest women on the planet. I put her on the same pedestal as Beyoncé. And, even though she doesn't wow me, I'm not dissapointed like “Who the f**k are you?” Many of our other social pyriahas I need to go away when I compare them to Queen Yonce. Think Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Lorde. Although, they may have some discernible talent by themselves in comparision to Grammy, Academy Award nominee Beyoncé they might as well jump out a window now.
Ester Dean on the other hand might need to take some prescriptions for her mild depression, she's never going to start cutting herself.
Now Ester Dean has been on the outskirts of relevancy for a long time. Writing music for some of the biggest names in music including Usher, Chris Brown, Flo Rida, Pussycat Dolls, Christina Aguilera, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, andBeyoncé.
Most of her hit singles have come when Rihanna performed them “Rude Boy”, “S&M”, “Where Have You Been”, and “You Da One”. And, the more ironic “What's My Name?” Until Pitch Perfect there's little belief that anyone knew her name, despite voice rolls in Rio, The Lorax, and Ice Age.
Pitch Perfect was her first main stream recognition. During one of the mashups in the movie where she sings the hook to “S&M” (Na, Na, Na Come On) was not an accident. The writers knew she had written the song and that she'd sung the hook for the song when it was on the radio. That's right, Rihanna didn't sing the part of the song that actually drew us in. So, the American public has been subliminally aware of Ester, they just haven't had a name. Once, you pick up on the nuances of Ester's voice you'll see that she adds background vocals to a lot of Rih Rih.
Now, I said a lot of her hit songs came from when Rihanna sang, but that doesn't mean she hasn't had some bangers with other singers. She did “Super Bass”, “Firework”, and “Turn Me On” to name a few.
That hardly means that other songs she's written haven't been just as fabulous. For some reason people decided maybe they shouldn't release Katy Perry's “Peacock” (Which is far superior to “Firework”) and after Femme Fatale went platinum Britney Spear's record label didn't have time to release the lyrically questionable, but still utterly fabulous “(Drop Dead) Beautiful”.
Since, early 2013 Ester Dean has reportedly been done with her album tentatively titled Story Never Told. Why it hasn't been released, I don't know. She might be waiting for when Pitch Perfect 2 wraps up to release it so, when she's on Jimmy Kimmel she can be all “Yeah, so the movie's great. But, my album. It's basically perfect and all you bitches should buy it.”
This bitch for one will be buying it. In the meantime I suppose we'll just have to settle for “Get My Dough”.
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You may recognize the female rapper Sabi as one of the failed female rappers from last weeks Throwback Thursday. With lines like "I'm steaming like a pot of vegetables" I can't imagine what went wrong.
Can you think of any other singer songwriters on the cusp?