My favorite thing about her was that Old Navy commercial drama, where Old Navy used a Kim K. lookalike, and then Kim sued them for millions of dollars for doing so, somehow settling out of court. THEN the lookalike started dating Reggie Bush, one of Kim's ex-boyfriends!! WOW!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
saying Old Navy used a Kim K. lookalike is kinda unfair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Molinaro
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
I hadn't seen anyone post about Kim Kardashian on facebook in a while, but this crossed my fb today from a retired relative. It's always the retirees for me. Do you guys experience a similar demographic or are there younger, more fresh-faced Kardashian haters out there as well?
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11053551_10152756807356395_5052940419969469363_n.jpg?oh=89ed73f182aaffc15e947a1e82143c45&oe=5612BF34
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
the general disdain for KK seems to attach to everyone/thing around her--on my FB there was a lot of grumbling from people that they'd have to be supportive of Caitlyn Jenner even though they hated her and her family so much.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
he had three top 40 hits before the sex tape, and had been on a few sitcoms. not exactly a superstar but he had been around.
also sampled on Burial's most well-known track
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
lol that's amazing xxp
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
the general disdain for KK seems to attach to everyone/thing around her
also heavy crossover with people who hate Kanye because of his ego, and post idiotic memes like this:
http://i.imgur.com/nExEtbg.jpg
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
xp: I know, right. It's come down to 50-year olds vs 35 year olds. Wait, just fact-checked that and Aniston is 46.
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
Aniston is 46.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
As indicated by the origins of this thread, it's fairly easy to ignore the extended Kardashian clan if you're not actively exposing yourself to the forms of media that celebrate their existence and you maybe just, like, check out the candy or something while in line at the grocery store. Kim K doesn't exactly enrich my life in any way but I ain't mad at her. PS I am a man.
― Turn That Pout Inside Out! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
http://img1.owned.com/media/images/2/0/1/1/20113/apparently_kanye_west_is_trying_to_become_a_comedian_540.jpg
― nose, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
keeping up with the kardashians tends to play on a loop at my gym (seriously does E! have any other shows?) so I've seen quite a bit of the show, but with no sound, so from reading only body language i have determined that Kim is the smart and sensible one.
― ryan, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
"I'm still not entirely sure who is james hetfield.."
As far as I can tell the lamest thing she's done is wear fur. I don't know her & don't really want to speculate about her worth as a human being; I know we're supposed to hate rich people but really I don't care. Maybe I'd be actively annoyed by her if I lived in southern California. I'm more inclined to direct my ire at the people who leaked her sex tape.
is it really that much of a leap to believe that the tape was leaked on purpose? esp given that she watched paris hilton turn into a major celebrity exactly the same way, this seems like...not the craziest conspiracy theory.
― iatee, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/x-files/images/f/f6/Trust_No_One_tagline.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070529000016
― j., Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
The sex tape would never have been released unless Kardashian and Ray J both signed contracts and got paid. Everyone whose sex tape is released by a company has signed paperwork and accepted payment. There's a second Pamela Anderson tape, featuring Bret Michaels, which has never been released because neither of them wants it out there.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
really? KK sued the company, right? Was that just a ruse?
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
what usually happens is that they sue then come to an agreement (since the tape is already out there they might as well make money off of it)
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Melissa Smith, better known by her stage name Melissa Molinaro,[1]
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f6/f3/9b/f6f39b95d46824f3ae324781d99b89a9.jpg
― goole, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Am I supposed to know who the guy LOLing at Kanye is or why people know all about him, if indeed they do
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
The other thing about being famous for being famous / Kim K not having a specific industry is that it's usually people with an existing career who make it to that plane, because it costs a lot of money.
And it's different when you start from the money, because a) class except no-one ever talks about class and b) there's a different attitude to people when they're being rich with their money vs being rich with ours. People still have to buy Kanye's records, or go see Dakota Fanning's films. Kim doesn't need our attention, she could just go back to being incredibly rich, and that drives some people nuts.
Except of course she does need our attention - people who genuinely don't need it do not as a rule host reality TV shows. So there's a weird control-at-her-behest thing which leads to some ugliness. Also, sexism and.. racism? I think there's a thread around here with Lex vs DJP on whether Armenian counts as white.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
xp it's David Bowie.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
xxp no. no one knows who he is or all about him.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
(some of these Thoughts may have been mechanically recovered from previous Thoughts about Paris Hilton, but you could probably tell)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
you guys ARE UNFORGIVEN TOOOOOOOO
― Nhex, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
only Canadians know all about him
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
"She does what she likes"
Tired of ppl using this to justify behavior. It's a wholly meaningless phrase. Everybody does what they like.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
I bet Bowie is a Kanye fan
― frogbs, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
The sex aspect of the sex tape makes people completely unable to form cogent arguments
She's not famous for fucking ray j on tape, she's famous for being beautiful — and there's a tradition of both women and men being famous for being good-looking that goes back probably centuries
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Antinous_Ecouen_Louvre_Ma1082_n3.jpg/1024px-Antinous_Ecouen_Louvre_Ma1082_n3.jpg
the KK of his day
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
She's not famous for fucking ray j on tape, she's famous for being beautiful
I'd never heard of a sex tape until this thread tbh
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
there are people who are famous for eating hot dogs really fast.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
i've been known to watch the kardashian show on occasion. i don't like it or dislike it, but the most interesting thing about kim, for me, is that she is by far the dullest figure on the show. kris, caitlyn (formerly bruce), khloe, scott, and the younger siblings are all way more dynamic and the plots of most episodes really deal with them. kim and to a lesser extent kourtney are more like spectators of the action. they have conflicts with each other and the other characters but they always seem emotionally flat, the kinds of people who will say "i am so angry right now" in the same tone that they would say "i am so happy right now."
anyway, i think there is something to kim's dullness that makes her both intriguing and infuriating to america. even in her own reality show she isn't really there. i'm sure she is more interesting than she is letting on (everyone is) but on the show she presents herself as a total blank slate. imo.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
Anyone know if she ever commented on the political situation in Bahrain? I'd imagine she was just saying the landscape itself was beautiful but some said she was praising the regime too. Is this true?
I was half expecting Jodorowsky to wed Kim and Kanye like he did with Manson and Dita.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
^ a man
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
"i'm sure she is more interesting than she is letting on"
SHE IS SECRETLY INTERESTING
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
speaking of which
http://www.aux.tv/2015/06/paris-hilton-might-be-a-vintage-radio-enthusiast-and-a-nice-person/
― goole, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
I love that
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
And Scott, I didn't mean that Kim is likely more interesting than the average person, just that I think she is deliberately suppressing her personality in order to be seen as an icon/ambivalent metaphor for our cultural moment rather than a person
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
Her affect is just so flat. She talks s o s l o w. It feels like a performance.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
just that I think she is deliberately suppressing her personality in order to be seen as an icon/ambivalent metaphor for our cultural moment rather than a person
question of her 'blankness' was the subject of the papermag article/ interview with the infamous nsfw photos
nb nsfw
http://www.papermag.com/2014/11/kim_kardashian.php
― drash, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
huh, i hadn't read that before. thanks drash! This piece is very well written, i like the writer's prose style
― Treeship, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
I only read kk nsfw sites for the articles
― irl lol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
The sex aspect of the sex tape makes people completely unable to form cogent argumentsShe's not famous for fucking ray j on tape, she's famous for being beautiful — and there's a tradition of both women and men being famous for being good-looking that goes back probably centuries
she's not 'famous for' the sex tape, but it was a publicity coup that turned her into a public figure.
― iatee, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
shes famous for being hot and having big tits and a huge ass
#lockthread
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
she's actually the American Putin, got big via behind the scenes coup, stayed popular by successfully manipulating the media / taking her shirt off
― iatee, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
Kissed boy like kitten.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
but can she wrestle a bear
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
This is so OTM. I really like the first two seasons of KuwtK before the fact they're super-famous and super-rich starts having visible effects on the way they live their lives (as in, it changes: the privilege at work is obvious from the start). The dynamic is fascinating. Scott using "Patrick Bateman" as a pseudonym in an early episode also makes me wonder just how self-aware the different characters ("stars" seems false in this context) of the show are.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Also I can't believe nobody has posted Kim's amazing* one-off venture into pop music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHp7sq1Tzn0
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link