[maimy]

Hee. I damn near spat peach sorbet on my poor sweet ole dog's head when Caridee got called out almost last, said, "Thank you for believing in me," and Tyra said, "... Jade?"

*Cue flashbacks of Jade saying the same words about five different times*



I am still missing the magic of Anchal. I don't see a model.

Proud of Miss A.J., though - she and Melrose earned their praises this week. I'm not sure how much I care about Melrose in terms of rooting for her, but she did look quite good in her shot on the runway. I do dig A.J., though. Unlike Bre, who for some reason the judges still imagine can walk, that girl can strut.

[girlygirlgag]

Yeah, what is UP with her? Daughter of Momma Frumpenstein

I think it is a combo of adjusting to life being able to eat solid food again (I do NOT think she is heavy, chubby, or anything, I think her bod looks FAB, but she is definitely bigger than she was when modeling) and the resurgence of BAD EIGHTIES FASHION.


I know the youngsters think it is rad right now, but having lived through the eighties and seeing it REAR ITS UGLY ASS HEAD AGAIN, they were NOT good times for clothes.

If stirrup pants and shoulder pands come back, I am writing Homeland Security, for I believe those items equate domestic terrorism on my eyes and brain and heart.

[wombat]

Yeah, what is UP with her? Daughter of Momma Frumpenstein

[girlygirlgag]

I think Mz Jay is one of the most UNATTRACTIVE persons I have ever laid eyes on. His fashion sense is ick, he looks like an ugly cartoon version of the wicked step sisters on Cinderella, and the snarky things he says about beautiful women make me want to punch him.

If he was not on this show, I would be happy. I like Tango Jay though. His orange skin is glowy, like nuclear waste.


Tyra needs to get it in check. She is starting to look all LaBelle with the big hair wigs, and televangelist wife get ups.

[chachaheels]

I've heard that there is some kind of writer's strike for this show, and consequently there is an abundance of idiocy (like Tyra's strident bad acting on the first show, and that elevator challenge last show) this cycle.

But I think torturing the models is just stupid. Why should they do an obstacle course in 6 inch heels or fetish shoes? Why are they supposed to "survive" being treated like human waste, and just come up smiling and pleasant? There is nothing--NOTHING--fierce about that kind of bullying and submissiveness.

And I'm noticing the clothes seem to suck this time around, too.

But, yeah, I'll be watching it this evening, just as I said.

[wombat]

I get kinda sick of the "mean queen" thing, from him or anyone, but I must say he looks good this season. I like the long hair he was sportin' the first couple of episodes--but then, I am a long-hair-on-men fanatic.

I see from the previews that they're back to torturing the models. Be in pain! Be sick! Can you walk in heels? Can you? Well, how about if you walk on this?! Ooh, you fell! Did you smile when you were getting up?

So, now that they've mixed fashion with "Fear Factor," they need the third element--make them sing. Oh, and may as well add the "voting off the island" feature. Whoever gets the sorority blackball that week suffers penalties.

I can make fun of this show a lot, but I wouldn't miss it.

[chachaheels]

You do have a point, Maimy!

I'm all excited about the show tonight because I want to see what Miss J. sports next.

[maimy]

Miss Jay is six-five. I didn't know either, until this season. Someone said something about how incredibly tall he was at some point, and Wikipedia confirms he's a big-ole giant. P'raps this helps to forgive those skinny birdy legs?

I love his Doris Day look. It's so unflattering and inexplicable. Hee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Alexander

[chachaheels]

Miss Jay is 6'5"? I had no idea. Maybe because I was so puzzled by the Louise Brooks bob he was wearing with his pull on skirt and knot-front shirt--he looked like Doris Day in that movie where she was busy making ketchup out of this summer's tomatoes while people drove their Oldsmobiles into her swimming pool.

But he can definitely be witty.

[maimy]

I know what you mean, Wombat - it happened to me AGAIN last week, and I was all, like, "UGGCHHHH! Do I have to get extensions, a dye job, or punishing dentistry this time??"

(It was punishing dentistry. Fangs are very in this year.)

I actually dig the Jays, because I can't believe for a second Manuel's not winking at the camera every time he does one of his patented eye-rolls at the camera over someone's temerity, and I just dig the fact that Miss Jay is 6'5". Walkin' on twigs, to be sure - and a hairstying disaster more often than not - but he seems able on occasion to laugh at himself first, and I always appreciate that in a person.

[wombat]

I just hate it when someone finds me at a mall and puts me up in los angeles, does my hair, flies me to Thailand, and puts me on TV. How dare they?!!! They suck!!

[chachaheels]

I don't even know if I remember even a smidge of that knowledge being imparted...it was more like, "In this photo, she looks a little piggy with those nostrils--she's got to be careful about that!"

Snark where snark is not needed, but practical advice is.

Another example of practical advice would be imparting the information that if you allow yourself to be filmed urinating into adult diapers, a pretending to urinate on a bed, or creating any association between yourself and voluntary or involuntary incontinence, you likely won't be chosen to represent Cover Girl.

But maybe you can't blame someone if they'd think that was obvious.

[wombat]

Now, if they had a show where they took some time -- on screen as well as off -- to show the part of modeling that IS skill and not just submissiveness, suffering, sexiness, pretty-perfection-by-birth, the-latest-fashions-and-stylings-hung-on-you -- that would be SO interesting.

As it is now, you get a few dribs and drabs of these things, like, if you tilt up your chin turn to the side so the camera doesn't show giant nostrils.

A real, practical exploration of putting your 3 dimensional self into 2 dimensional space... interesting.

[anna k]

In the last season, the girls bitched about one of the girls being discovered in a mall, saying she was just picked and didn't really care.

Naomi Campbell was found in Covent Garden by a scout. Naomi had been a ballet dancer and appeared in a couple of music videos, so she wasn't new to modeling or being photographed.
Kate Moss was found in JFK airport at 14.
Christy Turlington was found horseback riding at 14.
Claudia Schiffer was found in a dance club in Germany.
Cameron Diaz was found at a dance club in Hollywood at 16.

Not that nobody pursues modeling, but these women were all "discovered" and took the active route to become models when they probably hadn't thought of it before.

[chachaheels]

They had a "Canada's next top model" show here a while ago (it just finished up, actually, but not like I watched it) and apparently they had an actual model give the girls usable tips (about how they can control the effect of shadows, how they use up the space in a frame, how best to move to show off clothing, etc etc). Stuff you'd think they'd be doing on this show with the neverending Jays and Tyra and the other professional "fashion" people. Hopefully Heidi Klum will be more like this in the German version.

Nope, Onna-Otaku, those extensions were just poorly done. Some of the hair colours are not suitable for some of the girls they stuck them with, either. I think the twins are improved by the red colour they got, but I think Brook looks mousy and juvenile with her brown hair, and Melrose looks like a glob of hyperthyroid putty in that blonde hair. Also, the one they keep saying is too manish did not need to have an even more manish, more jaw extending, Oxford Man hair cut (Jaeda?).

But I am getting a good laugh out of Tyra's wardrobe, however.

[Onna-Otaku]

The jays make me smile. I don't really like them, they're actually kind of annoying, but I still find it endearing I guess. somehow.
Wombat, i think that is such the juxtaposition (I probaly totally used this word wrong, but I'm trying to improve my vocab, so sorry) in modeling that makes me find the show so interesting. These girls are under, in a hierachy way, the designer, the director, the photographer, and sometimes even the make up and hair artist, yet they have to act like they own the world in their pictures. That also makes me laugh.
Chacha, I agree about those extensions. Maybe she isn't taking good care of them or something? because they shouldn't look that bad.
jenn, they have Heidi Klum host "germany's next top model" I wonder if she'd be any better, though?

[wombat]

I don't get how they scold them for having even the slightest BIT of non-submissiveness, yet expect them to be confident, outgoing, and "fierce!"

Since when do those qualities jell?

[chachaheels]

I don't "get" Ms. Jay, either. I consider him and the other J (who I think of as "Orange Jay" from Montreal) as "patronage appointments".

Why the hell am I even watching this show? But, here I am. I'm finding Tyra's presence in this show to be overwhelming (just the thought of sleeping in a bed under a wall mural sized Tyra image, in a house full of Tyra images...nightmarish).

I'd love to see Anchal take this--but I know in a few minutes, Tyra will start to harass her about how fat she is. Like, next show. And the twins being "hot" in that "homely" way (someone did say this on the first show, yes? My memory's correct?) that makes me laugh. But they do photograph extremely well.

I know the girls were idiots to cry about their makeovers, but I sympathize. Every hairdresser, Frederic Fekkai or not, always does a hideous number on me and I've loathed them since I was a tiny girl child. I go in expecting to have some damage done...and then I go home and salvage what I can, and carry on while it grows out. If I were a model, I'd do the same...knowing that these new "looks" are so temporary, especially in that business.

Still, I loved Orange Jay's lecture about how the girls were insulting Frederik Fekkai for his "genius" hair work (you mean like Megg's scraggly, ratty extensions?) and, "eventually, insulting Tyra".

[freckleface2727]

altho he doesn't bug me that much, I never did get what the big deal over him way- and have you ever really LOOKED at his legs?
skinny little bird sticks perched on stiletto's.

[girlygirlgag]

I hate Mzzzz Jay... Queens are so 2003. Seriously, I have seen him walk the run way, what is the big poop there?