It looked like this on Instagram:
Quick turnaround. 4 minutes. Made me think of Milkshake Duck:
But "Red Wine Supernova" came out in 2023. It begins "She was a playboy/Brigitte Bardot/She showed me things...." The reference to Bardot is not obscure, but in your face, line 1. Chappell Roan has been trading on that famous name for 2 years.
Bardot has openly expressed the ideas that got her accused of racism since 2 years before Chappell Roan was born. (Bardot published "Mon cri de colère" ("My Cry of Anger") in 1996.)
How is it that no one told Chappell Roan that Brigitte Bardot was something more than a sex object until Roan made herself part of the story of Bardot's death?!
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Pop music is dead. Mostly.
And Chappell Roan is who?
Don’t know, but know for a fact it has tattoos, piercings and a thirst for mediocrity.
The West’s discrimination/bias hysteria is now outright suicidal. Who didn’t know that importing Somalis was importing a trash, pirate, fraud culture? Somalis are expert con artists and scammers, and Western women, in particular, are easy marks. Suicidal empathy.
Ms. Roan is just another idiot lib who can’t read or think. She’s either bi or a lesbian. Islam does not approve. Islam also doesn’t listen to her music.
A ‘musical talent is stupid’ blog theme sprouts anew this morning…
"How is it that no one told Chappell Roan"? Roan has her own agency, however young and ignorant she may be. She, not "no one" else, is responsible for what she says, markets and profits off. She postures against Bardot, so now she is redeemed to her many similarly aged and ignorant fans.
I wish Chappell Roan misfortune, ill health, and misery.
Not to worry! Today we are blessed with movie stars whose looks are not threatening to our dates, well unless our date is male, and who toe the party line rigorously! Who says that we are not making progress!
Didn’t Bardot know that she was supposed to be “France nice”?
Great example of People magazine level insight from a pop tart who was only assumed to be a fool until she opened her mouth to confirm it.
Never heard of Chappel Roan until now. Your blog, Ann, has certainly introduce me to many things I may have missed in recent popular “culture”. Now that I know what a spineless, ignorant nickel rocket Chappel is, I’ll be satisfied to never hear of her again or of anything she may be in the woke world of entertainment. You’re correct that she inserted herself into the story of BB’s passing because it’s ok to kick the dead to demonstrate your self-righteousness to other woke knuckleheads. If Roan had a smiggin of Bardot’s courage,to stand up and speak her own mind, she might have been worth listening to. Until that day arrives, if ever, I’ll just tune this liberal lackey out. I hope others will too.
Bardot is famous for tits. It's not unusual that a tit-bearer has a "thing" that you have to pretend to take seriously and natter about. It's a consequence of the spread of literacy or whatever counts as literacy in the arts. Anyway it gets you more pussy.
Nobody much sings the praises of Blanchot ("The Space of Literature"). No tits, no pussy. Astounding scholarship but that doesn't count for much.
This is the second female singer I’ve had to Bing this morning and it’s not even 7:00 a.m. I sure hope I know the subject singer in the next post!! lol
rhhardin said: “Bardot is famous for tits”.
I come here for high quality commentary. This is not it. Typically a number of commenters fall into this category. What they write is normally seen in a middle-school boys restroom. Classy.
She was a gorgeous woman that wanted to keep her culture alive how dare she
Islam is a stupid religion. Stupidity is bad enough, but Muslims have made it evil. Civilization can coexist with stupid religions, even thrive. Young Earth creationism is stupid, yet its adherents are at least moderately civilized. Islam is the exception, mostly because of Muslims.
Yah it’s fun to make fun of him- so childish. Then again propagating what’s in the NYT every day isn’t the intellectual exercise it once was. Then, if you’re paying attention, yo notice the supposed highbrow conversations emanating from the comments here end up proving him right, over and over since the brilliance here obscures that observation…
So from now on we should all assume that Chappell Roan's lyrics are essentially meaningless because she is ignorant.
Just another emo chick
"You’re correct that she inserted herself into the story of BB’s passing because it’s ok to kick the dead to demonstrate your self-righteousness to other woke knuckleheads."
No, that's exactly wrong. She inserted herself into the story of BB's passing because she had, 2 years ago, written the name Brigitte Bardot into the lyrics of one of her songs and she saw an occasion to make the event about Chappell Roan, as if her millions of fans were going to sit up and take notice because a person named in a Chappell Roan song has just died.
CR's interest in BB seems to have been simply that BB was quite beautiful and she, CR, made the mistake of assuming that a beautiful woman is here on earth simply to be beautiful. She never checked, even through the story of BB's activism had been around for many decades.
Bardot's main interest was animals. Her attack on Islam began as a defense of animals.
How is it that no one told Chappell Roan that Brigitte Bardot was something more than a sex object until Roan made herself part of the story of Bardot's death?!
She comes from a generation that is incredibly shallow (even though they pretend not to be) and very incurious.
I knew of Bridget Bardot. When Althouse posted the "Goodbye to", I looked her up and realized I never saw any of her movies. However, what I did know of Bridget Bardot was she didn't she away from her political beliefs. Then again, I never knew of French actors that have.
I never heard of Chappell Roan until 10 min ago. And looking her up, I know why.
If you regret things, then you're casting aspersions on who you are now.
rhhardin said...
“Bardot is famous for tits.”
Ackshually she started out protesting the killing of Canadian seals for fur and branched out into other forms of animal abuse from there. Birds were way down on the list.
Leland said...
I never heard of Chappell Roan until 10 min ago. And looking her up, I know why.
Ditto.
could someone list (or, at least, mention) some of the "insane shit" BB stoof for?
1. I find nothing wrong with Bridget Bardot's political statements. To distance oneself from BB because of them is petty and misguided.
2. I looked up this Chappell Roan person. The lead photo on the Wikipedia page is most unfortunate.
Why was all of this not "obvs" to the outraged class when the song came out in 2023?
Be careful not to besmirch a generation for the actions of a creepy musician. The youngsters I know of her age are quietly and elegantly getting things done, starting families, accomplishing the human imperatives. Leftie NYT screeds aren’t a factor…
Meanwhile, Gov Waltz from Minnesota has EXPLICITLY Stated:
"It's Racist to be upset about Somali Fraud!"
he continued, saying; "HATE WHITE PEOPLE INSTEAD!"
I haven't kept up with any teenage entertainers for the past, oh...decade or two. I have no idea what Chappell Roan is, does, or if it's even a woman or a beta boy. And I intend to keep it that way.
What I don't understand is why every low-knowledge teen or adult-with-teen-brain gets air time and discussions about their every burp.
"Milkshake Duck." Is that like Bass-O-Matic?
And, come to think of it, Chappell Ronan looks like a drugged-out Laraine Newman!
"WOW! That's terrific bass!"
"Fandor said...
Never heard of Chappel Roan until now. "
Pink Pony Club is a pretty good song and probably her most popular. Though I forewarn you, it corrupts the youth more than Socrates.
I didn't know who Chappel Roan is either, but I know trailer trash when I see it. I blame the modern legacy media for these assaults on our intellect. Bardot was attacked by the fashionistas of fabulism for daring to say what was on her mind and pretty much spot on target, and for possessing more moral integrity than some dope that couldn't be bothered to look it up before she blurted out a song.
Ann, thank you for the correction. But, she was still kicking the dead no matter what Roan's rational was. Respectfully, Fandor
The diverse bigotries of Diversity (e.g. racism, sexism, etc). Abort, sequester your burden and conceive no more.
BB’s belief that mass migration has not been a salutary development for the west is universally deplored by the cognoscenti as “racist”, but now widely shared by most…yet she is to be asterisked and introduced always as a “controversial figure”. Have you noticed anyone qualifying Rob Reiner because of his “controversial views” that conservatives should be purged from the earth? Truly Reiner uttered a lot of hateful garbage.
Chappell Roan - another consumer of the social grooming.
What is she again, Gay? Trans? Too bad she's a clown, but that's what you get from singers.
Bardot was big on animals. She was called Antisemitic because she attacked Jewish Relgious Butchery of animals. SHe didn't like Muslims for their mistreatment of animals. And of course didn't like Islam's attitude toward women.
She was also a patriot. And didn't want France to become North Africa with better cooking.
people have their own ideas and notions - until the corrupt left come along and tell you those ideas are out of bounds.
Obey! Conform!
It's laughable because the very Islamists Roan is now lining up with - would kill her.
BB spoke her mind as an individual and a women.
Oh no! Leftist conformists hate that.
Kristy Lee was paying attention during the Two Minute Hate. Chappell Roan, not so much.
We are all an older bunch. But this Roan character is popular with the youths.
Also popular with the youths - conforming to "correct" obedient social grooming.
Social leftists think they are the center of the universe.
In The Pretenders song Message of Love, Chrissie Hynde name checks Bardot, too. Hynde also is about 180 degrees out from BB politically. And aesthetically. Not that Hynde isn’t hot; she’s just plain-girl hot, like you know she’ll actually do stuff with you.
I don’t know if Chrissie Hynde issued any statements on Bardot’s passing. CC, JSM
Social leftists think they are the center of the universe.
National Socialists certainly did. Democratic, too.
Milk is made by mother for her ducks after sipping Bordeaux and shaking her booty. But never a Chianti, Planned at Umbrella Corporations.
john mosby said...
In The Pretenders song Message of Love, Chrissie Hynde name checks Bardot, too. Hynde also is about 180 degrees out from BB politically. And aesthetically.
Had followed much the same thought and landed on animal rights.
Now that I know what a spineless, ignorant nickel rocket Chappel is, I’ll be satisfied to never hear of her again
As I mentioned in a previous post about her, she got a lot of grief for refusing to endorse Harris and telling her fans to research and think for themselves instead of voting for someone just because a celebrity endorses them. Not spineless at all in that case. Unfortunately, dealing with that may have made her more likely to cave to pressure on this instead of making her stronger. There's only so many fights you can fight.
Hynde is all cool by me.
In "A History of Rock in 500 Songs," Andrew Hickey has a "Disclaimer" in which he makes clear that a substantial proportion of the great musicians he chronicles are and were horrible people, including murderers, rapists, racists, drunks, wife-beaters, etc., and that while he references these issues he does not purport to make moral judgments on the quality of their music. Ms. Roan is perhaps unaware that she stands on the shoulders of a long line of musical giants who may not be moral exemplars. Bardot was not a musician, but the same applies, in spades, to the silver screen.*
*I am not certain that Ms. Bardot's beliefs are in that category.
They have the consistency of a wet noodle
“Quick turnaround. 4 minutes.”
Barely quick enough. You can tell it was a rush job—the first “shit” was blotted out but the second was missed. The cancel SWAT team was already pounding on the door.
I wonder if it occurred to Chappell Roan stop and think maybe there's a lot of other shit she doesn't know.
Love the strength of Ms. Roan's convictions.
Also the rush to pillory Bardot.
High-quality people for this brave new world.
When I went off to college in 1957, I ended up in a
West (by God) Virginia college town , which had an X-rated theater that attracted the attention of young men. When BB films arrived, seats were not available until the late, late show. Brigette was the most beautiful, semi-nude woman that I think I have ever seen.
I cannot recall any condemnations of her lifestyle or her political viewpoint that surfaced back then in the U.S. among the Silent Generation's men-folks, who endured the Great Depression, fought in WWII and Korea, and somehow survived the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.led by "Tail-Gunner Joe" and his gangster-lawyer, Roy Cohn.
"PARIS, Dec. 24 [1997] (JTA) — Brigitte Bardot, France’s former screen icon who now devotes her life to animals’ rights, is facing charges in court of inciting racial hatred for writing that Muslim immigrants are polluting French society."
Hmmmm.... so. They admit, that if Muslim immigrants are polluting French society, that can reasonably be expected to incite racial hatred.
I'm guessing Chappell Roan learned about Brigitte Bardot in her gay bar and it probably wasn't in the context of animal rights or political beliefs or even abortion. It would be interesting to know how many Gen Z "Zoomers" knew of Brigitte in any context (not many I'd guess) and how many knew of her cancellation (even fewer).
If you regret things, then you're casting aspersions on who you are now.
I don't get it - are you saying that the act of regretting is so reprehensible that regretting something reflects badly on your present self, because your present self is so weak (or something) as to question any of your past actions? If so, I don't agree. Do you really have nothing you regret having done?
Or is this the usage of "regret" that isn't tied to morals or ethics - the adventurer who vows "no regrets" even if one of her adventures kills her? That's different - but I don't see how it applies to Chappell Roan or Brigitte Bardot.
My daughter brought Roan to my attention because she thinks she sounds a lot like Kate Bush, of whom I'm a (lukewarm) fan. I can kind of hear it. Also because she is doing female drag, and we all enjoyed RuPaul's Drag Race together back when Ru wouldn't allow a trans person to compete on the show because drag is performance and trans is theoretically not.*
* I can see my way clear to enjoying a trans drag performer. But in order for that to happen, for me, the trans person cannot consider his or her drag look or manner to be his or her everyday presentation and persona.
Wince: "Had followed much the same thought and landed on animal rights."
Thanks for sorting that out. I dimly remembered something about Hynde and animal rights, but then I remembered her leather pants, so I thought those two can't go together....CC, JSM
First rule of statutory construction: Know your subject and read the whole statute.
--- telling her fans to research and think for themselves instead of voting for someone just because a celebrity endorses them. Not spineless at all in that case. [Mary Beth]
Not spineless? Very brave of her? Not a tough stand to take, is it? Uninspiring. These kiddos cave to the puritans out there in, well, minutes.
So, Gadfly, totally off topic but as a native West Virginian I have to ask what WV city had an x-rated theater in 1957. And where did you go to college.
Yeah that was nearly plausible
I always love to hear the stories about tail-gunner Joe McCarthy, and what an odious Republican Senator and character assassin he was on all those otherwise-innocent Hollywood reds. Because those stories always, curiously, seem to omit the fact that it was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that did all of the nasty wet-work, the blacklisting and the Hollywood 10, and was almost completely run by House Democrats. It's always portrayed with a Republican signature. Curious revisionism, that.
The only time lefties were made accountable for their bad judgement huac did some good work may have overstepped their bounds
Mostly in the private sector (but they cant stop screaming about it)
"Bardot ultimately fell from public grace in the 1990s when she began to share far-right political stances and anti-immigrant views"
Oh noes!
'No one' told this person (artist?) that Bardot has a recently checkered past is a testament that people put their wacky thoughts on the internet first, then wait for the fallout. Woe betide anyone who actually expresses an idea to another living person!
Chappell Roan
Your mind is blown
Grab your phone
And conk your dome
--- What I don't understand is why every low-knowledge teen or adult-with-teen-brain gets air time and discussions about their every burp. [Temujin]
Yes, couldn't agree more. Althouse seems enthralled by their celebrity. The good news is, as I tried to say in a post just the other day, there is so little seriously bad news that every bit of fluff and nonsense gets media attention. That is good, since it means that there is so little on the bad-news side of the ledger. Just catching up with the Minnesota Somali fraud, covered for years by PowerLine and almost no one else, is the only story I can think of, offhand.
Would it could remain so peaceably trivial.
Not just Chrissie Hynde with a reference -- before the Pretenders, there was:
"The telephone rang, it would not stop; it was President Kennedy calling me up. He said 'My friend Bob, what do we need to make this country grow?'
"I said, 'My friend John, Brigitte Bardot. Anika Ekberg. Sophia Loren. Country'll grow.' "
Far-left political stances rhat are transhumane, anti-native, Diversitist, and dream of redistributive change schemes.
--- Althouse seems enthralled by their celebrity.
A postscript. That's a generalization. In this case, AA had a specific point to make with this story, and the discussion has focused on it.
Taylor Swift held out for a lot longer than 4 minutes, but even she caved to the leftist bluenoses eventually. Uninspiring.
"I'm 27 years old, and I don't know anything except what TikTok and Instagram tell me."
I dont taylor would cancel a gig too much fuel at stake
--- So, Gadfly, totally off topic but as a native West Virginian I have to ask what WV city had an x-rated theater in 1957. [StevenWilson]
Huntington is my guess, for a couple reasons including its painfully checkered economic history; and that would mean Marshall College/U. Otherwise, Morgantown and WVU?
Prof, just thought of something: Why not give this the "celebritneys" tag? CC, JSM
Not spineless? Very brave of her? Not a tough stand to take, is it?
She got a lot of heat for it and didn't cave, so, yes, I think that was a tough stand to take.
gilbar said...
"could someone list (or, at least, mention) some of the "insane shit" BB stoof for"
Here's an example from 1996.
“There are more and more Muslims in France. These people come to live here and they don’t respect our laws,” she said. “I am only saying out loud what every one thinks quietly.”
She was both a vision and a visionary.
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