Seriously, they're doing all kinds of crap to make a black show with a white woman as the protagonist... to make the show more palatable to white audiences, I presume? But having a black person as a side character (not the star) in a white TV show or movie is "too PC," I guess. Okay. Sure.
Just have a black protagonist.
It's edgy.
Say, do you hear that? It's the sound of the Reaper.....
Yeah, seemed very weird when I first starting seeing commercials. Seemed like they're supposed to be a R&B group like Destiny Child, TLC, etc when was there ever a top white R&B singer or even pop group setup like them? Looking at the casting of Empire, almost all light/golden people, I'm not surprised.
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Sugababes, early Eternal had Louise, Vanity / Apollonia 6...
Spice Girls (!), All Saints...
There's a lot of white singers who've done R&B/hip-hop tracks, though I guess they are rarely exclusively marketed as "R&B singers"...
Spice Girls (!), All Saints...
Big difference between those pop groups and RnB/Soul groUps like SWV, Xscape, Zhane, En Vogue, etc. Which the girls on the show are clearly modeled after.
lol Lee Daniels obviously wanted to appeal to greater white audience which is his prerogative but it's dumb because I'm still sure the audience will be majority black.
The creator of the show explained that he wanted the lead to be a white girl that both whites & blacks could embrace cuz he feels a need for racial healing. I'm an actress and can tell you that the breakdowns during casting wanted a white lead from the start. He wanted a white girl with a different upbringing that made her more sensitive with a half black sister and wanted to make the black girl rich to turn racial biases on its head. For once the white girl is not the rich girl with the black girl as the poor one. Watching the pilot now. I love Queen Latifah and enjoy stories like this, but I hope Star learns to respect herself more & not be so desperate for fame. All the girls I know who do this for the fame or money go down the wrong path. I also wish I could hear their actual voices. They are so autotuned.
shareHe wanted a white girl with a different upbringing that made her more sensitive with a half black sister and wanted to make the black girl rich to turn racial biases on its head. For once the white girl is not the rich girl with the black girl as the poor one. Watching the pilot now. I love Queen Latifah and enjoy stories like this, but I hope Star learns to respect herself more & not be so desperate for fame. All the girls I know who do this for the fame or money go down the wrong path. I also wish I could hear their actual voices. They are so autotuned
Lee Daniels seems to think this show will somehow help heal race relations in a post-Trump America.
In response, someone on Twitter said "Lee put a Rachel Dolezal wig on a white girl and said I'm breaking down barriers"
"What race are you? If you don't tell me I'll just...assume the worst."
@Chocolate
Uh, what? It's just a show. And, yeah, there are white and other non-white people who have grown up in black communities and are simply comfortable being around black people because of that. Nothing weird or strange about it---there are whites, Arabs, and Latinos like that in Detroit, for example.
Uh, what? It's just a show.Um, Lee Daniels is the one who said: "I felt that the country, instinctively, I thought, needed to heal. And I thought that this white girl is so fabulous that black people will embrace her and white people will embrace her."
And, yeah, there are white and other non-white people who have grown up in black communities and are simply comfortable being around black people because of that.Did I say there weren't?
What's even more laughable is Daniels said he wants "white people to feel good about being white."
shareYeah, apparently the struggle for black/Asian/Native American representation is over. Now white people are the ones who need help feeling good about themselves. I guess the decades upon decades of seeing themselves on TV screens and the cover of magazines wasn't enough. Being handed all the best movie roles, including ones that were meant to be ethnic, wasn't enough. Appropriating minority music and fashion trends, then repackaging them for white American wasn't enough.
But hey, at least they have a black man eager to give them more of the spotlight
"What race are you? If you don't tell me I'll just...assume the worst."
Lol, exactly! He just wanted pander to white people. But as someone else has already pointed out, the majority of viewers will probably be black.
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