I don't keep up with, and I don't know much about, American entertainment. Hollywood, or American pop music. As most of it doesn't appeal to me at all. American music is great, but I don't particularly like the pop music.
I haven't even heard of most of the people that seem to be so famous. I could tell you about the members of AKB48. But nothing about most popular American musicians. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is my kind of pop music.
I also don't understand the praise that pop singers in the United States get. I thought it was their music that was supposed to matter? Are they supposed to be models, too? Shouldn't the music matter most? I don't pay attention to what people look like in most of the music I listen to, because music is more important. The guys in Visual Kei are sexy, but their music isn't fun to listen to, most of the time.
The Hollywood and Western model aesthetic isn't attractive to me at all. Ai Kago is more attractive to me than all of Hollywood. It seems like they all have to have extremely European or white features, too. There's few black women, and usually they have light skin, or have their skin lighted to be "presentable". Which is totally racist. And they also never seem to have black hair, either. You don't see Afro-textured hair, it's always straightened up. And you see even less Asian women and men than black women. It seems like in the industry, blonde white women, with extremely stereotypically European features, blonde hair, blue eyes, square-ish face, a long nose, get featured. I understand that there's more diversity than ever. But it's depressing that "beauty" in Hollywood, seems to be another blonde white woman with a long nose.
Not that Asian and African cultures aren't racist. But seriously. The American pop music industry seems really really really white. To where even the people that aren't white are held to white standards. I don't find it appealing.
And this isn't to say there's any real beauty. Beauty is subjective. But I don't think this should be the standard of "beauty". It's beautiful to some people, but not everyone. And shouldn't be the standard of beauty which people of colour are judged negatively against.
