Posted on 08/29/2021 1:58:25 PM PDT by Mr.Unique
Olivia Rodrigo knows the impact she has on fans of color, revealing in a new Q&A that she herself once believed only white girls could be recognized as true pop stars.
When “Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang asked the “Brutal” singer how her Filipino American background factors into how she approaches her career, she said it’s “something incredible to think about.”
“I sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, ‘I’ve never seen someone who looked like me in your position.’ And I’m literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it,” Rodrigo, 18, said in the V Magazine feature.
“I feel like I grew up never seeing that. Also, it was always like, ‘Pop star,’ that’s a white girl.”
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Diana Ross and the Supremes ???
Billie Holiday.
Selena? J Lo?
Selena? J Lo? Beyonce?
Good grief.
She is lighter then I am.
POC my foot.
You have never heard of Ella?
Plenty of Filipina singers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Filipino_female_pop_singers
When I was her age. Diana Ross was a pop star. Dionne Warwick was a pop star. What a moron! The cultural ignorance ignorance is deep with this one.
Oh, . . . I am not familiar with the work of Olivia Rodrigo.
“I sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, ‘I’ve never seen someone who looked like me in your position.’ And I’m literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it,” Rodrigo, 18, said in the V Magazine feature.
And the “stuff that never happened” file grows just a little bit more.
That is so laughable.
People pay her to lie and be a prostitute.
Obviously never heard of Lea Salonga. Maybe she should do a little research into Filipino singers.
I thought she was white?
Yeah - because a- we had no non-white rock/pop stars before 2020.
And I NEVER saw any ads or television shows or educational programs from the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s or even 00s that said non-white people could be whatever they wanted, never saw any American black TV shows or American Hispanic TV shows.
No no a it’s just so impossible for a … no talent hack… like her to get heard before she could race sleep her way to the top.
Me too, and i’m white. haha
Such has been going on in America since Bessie Smith and before. Maybe she means Pop Stars in the Phillipines.
She has that heritage. Although China, Japan and Thailand have their own VERY wealthy Pop Stars of either sex.
She is an idiot. What about (Filipina) Nora Aunor, a star for decades. Singer, actress etc.
Olivia Rodrigo once thought only white girls could be pop stars https://t.co/XMY6UWRIJY pic.twitter.com/OsH1bl5zbL— Page Six (@PageSix) August 29, 2021
Anything to stir up division and hatred in this country.
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