This is my younger sister's "Barbie" chain and hair extension! She is in love with Nicki Minaj which led her to beg my mother to buy her this necklace and hair piece. I think she secretly wants to be Nicki Minaj :) When she wears both accessories she turns into such a diva. Amazingly she doesn't feel like a clown when she wears so many colors at one time. I think the point is to express individuality when she wears this but how do you feel so individual when you're one of the many people wearing red hair and a "Barbie" chain? I wonder if Nicki Minaj called Barbies fake would girls still wear this same chain? What will she promote next?
-Marquita <3
I think what Nicki Minaj is showing with the barbie necklace and pink hair piece is not individuality. What she is doing is copying another person, which is making her "followers" do the same thing. That for me, is nowhere near individuality. Yes I agree with the question that if Nicki Minaj calls barbies fake, all the girls would stop wearing what she wears. That will make them get what new outfit Nicki Minaj is gonna wear.
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I am very familiar with Nicki Minaj and her Barbie chain because i see it everywhere.This picture reminds me of how many girls i see who's wacky and creative style was inspired by Nicki Minaj.I find it funny that her younger sister is obsessed with Nicki Minaj because it's the exact same way with my younger sister.She knows Nicki Minaj from her childhood,to what she's planning on doing in the future.It actually freaks me out sometimes how much she knows and wants to find out.
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I think that the hair piece and the necklace only shows individuality towards Nicki Minaj because barbies are fake and so is colorful hair pieces. I don't think any girl today would want to portray themselves as being fake!
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In our class discussion, one of the questions that came up was that if a person adopted an element of someone else but made it to fit them uniquely, is that still considered following. Many people said that it was and it was not original because it was copped off. I disagree with this completely because I think trying to set precedents and always doing something new is ridiculous. Many people say that Nicki Minaj has no talent and relies on gimmicks that no one has ever seen before. They also say she sells out and all the little girls following her does not make her original anymore. I think it’s a really pointless argument because being an individual or being unique does not actually exist. It is just an idea, a concept, something someone made up. To think that you are special and amazing in this day and age is arrogant. Almost everything anyone has done has been done. Everything after it is just a product of inspiration. I do not think people who try hard to be unique and original are true to themselves because they are just conforming to other peoples´ judgments and expectations. If people were truly happy and comfortable with who they are, they wouldn’t care about other people being fake or trying to look like someone else. You can’t be original because originality doesn’t exist. It’s like the idea of rights. Where do they come from? Who made them up? The best thing to do is just be you, and everything else will follow. It’s rude telling someone they’re fake because no one is fake, they’re just changing. Just be yourself because”being someone else is a waste of who you are.”-Kurt Cobain
ReplyDeleteOne of your questions was "how do you feel so individual when you're one of the many people wearing red hair and a "Barbie" chain?" To answer this question, I don't think that just because girls wear the Barbie chain and colored hair like Nicki Minaj that they're not being individual. While they may be trying to mimic her style, I don't think its possible to be an exact copy of someone's style. In our society, just about everything we do - the music we listen to, the way we dress, and even some of the things we say, derive from something or someone else. If everyone who does something that someone has done before them, that would make everyone on Earth a "copycat". Since this is not the case, I believe that it is very much possible to take something that someone wears or does, and put your own spin on it to make it your own. This is done be default, since its nearly impossible to do something exactly like someone else.
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One of the main question that was constantly discussed about Marquita's post is " how do you feel so individual when you're one of the many people wearing red hair and a "Barbie" chain? Honestly you cant really be individual if you have and wear the same thing that other people wear and have. However, I feel you can become different due to the fact how you incorporate
ReplyDeleteyour own style into it. For example, Mahogany told me her role model is Rihanna and she likes her style. She also told me that she has a pair of pants that Rihanna have. Though she may have the same pair of pants as others she incorporated her style into that makes her different from others, such as cutting the pants, adding jewerly to it, whatever. By doing that she becomes isolated from other people who not only whore the same pants Rihanna did but the same style.
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I agree with the people who said uniqueness is not really being unique but an idea. No one is really unique because individuality is the eye of the beholder. A girl can be unique in someone's eye, but weird in another. Individuality is something we should question because these days it's about being unique and individuals. But are we really individuals for trying to be indeviduals? For all we know, we can all be NOT unique. We might be trying to be someone were not(unique) just because every one else thinks being unique is unique.
ReplyDeleteI believe that if Nicki Minaj started calling Barbie's fake and stopped promoting them that people will stop wearing these accessories. I say this because people began wearing this items when she did. If she were to stop and insult them it would insult the people wearing it. Not only will they be a little upset but they will also stopwearing them. They might begin wearing the new thing that Nicki Minaj does just so they wouldn't feel bad or out style.
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