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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...
All the hype with Black Panther and pretending like it was the first comic book move that had a black actor as the star.
One problem though it totally ignores Wesley Snipes in Blade from twenty years earlier.
Richie Valens!?
(Ricardo Valenzuela)
They apparently don’t make “pop stars” like they useta......
Demonrat liar.
You mean I had to read the article? Isn't there a rule against that? :-)
Yeah, but they’ll let you slide if you do it sparingly.
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