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By Lateefah • 11 years ago

“Enough singing,get your clothes off”

Last Sunday saw the closing ceremony of the Olympics for 2012, which took place in my hometown England, East London. The Closing Ceremony although heavily criticised by some for lack of consistency  was a success in my eyes, full of great performances representing British music, Culture and fashion in its best form, with acts such as Oasis to One Direction hitting the stage and even an appearance from the Top models themselves Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. However nothing was more breath taking than watching Emeli Sande’s performance of “Read all about it” the song which she originally featured on alongside a British rapper called Professor Green. As usual during the closing ceremony I was on twitter most of the time looking at everyone’s reactions to the performances, and I noticed a few guys  commented on Emeli Sande’s dress sense quoting them:

“Emeli Sande has a good voice but she always covers up has she even got a figure”

another one said “Emeli Sande is so shit why does she always wear these outfits like she is going to church”

and my favourite one “Emeli sande perfomace would have been better if she wore something a bit sexier, at least give us something to look at”

I noticed over the duration of her performances these tweets started getting retweeted by a lot of teenagers preferable males. Now am fully aware that we are all entitled to our opinion, but when Jessie J came out half naked everyone loved her ...
By Lateefah • 11 years ago

“Living Young,and Wild and Free……well if your a man!”

Going to College parties in the middle of the summer is just protocol for most teenage girls and boys my age. I can assure you no matter what country your from College parties all contain the same coinciding elements of free alcohol, Loud Music and dare I say it Horny teenagers! But it seems that as we teenagers all grow into young adults we show slight tendencies of immaturity not knowing when enough’s enough or when its time to put that can of beer down and think with your head.As younger girls we are taught and to a certain extent unintentionally forced by our parents and society to uphold this imaginary stereotypical generalization of all females being reserved and sophisticated, basically boring!

So when a female is seen outwardly going against this stereotype its viewed negatively ...

Going to College parties in the middle of the summer is just protocol for most teenage girls and boys my age. I can assure you no matter what country your from College parties all contain the same coinciding elements of ...