she just doesn't understand why adele spends the whole time sitting. now that i've seen it i can have another conversation about how fat phobia works and about how this particular form of domination forms part of the foundation of the pop music industry, informing our desires, our ways of understanding what pop singers are attractive and, in an industry completely built on surface, completely ignorant notions of beauty, what pop singers' songs will be smash hits, climbing the charts, moving units, making fortunes. adele, white fatty girl, has the black blues woman appropriated cross between etta james and aretha franklin in the sixties voice DOWN. she's got the chops and the pop machinery behind her. but she doesn't have the anorexic, bumping and grinding, teenaged school girl bod topped off by the glossy come hither lips of pop music's favourites. the voice and the whiteness combined can make money. but what to do about that pesky fat body that just will not go away. no worries. we'll shoot her sitting down in a dark coloured figure obscuring dress. the viewers will focus on her expressive voice and even more expressive face and the song will be a hit! i'm sure that's how they worked it, thought about it, envisioned it.
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