![]() ![]() Performing Unconditionally at the AMAs she glorified Geishas appeared as “Katy Patra” for her Dark Horse music video and in Birthday she donned a Jewfro as a bar mitzvah DJ. Products from Katy Perry’s Prism are filled with distasteful material. While the natives execute a seemingly ritualistic dance, it’s almost as if Horan is mocking them with his “white guy” moves, ignorantly unable to learn or take part.īut 1D isn’t the first group to co-opt cultural images that hold the potential to piss people off and the practice is especially common in pop music. The pale Irish lad performs Western dance moves, wearing traditional tribal clothes, while positioned in the center of about a dozen men wearing similar outfits. But Niall Horan dances with an African tribe and Zayn Malik is sandwiched between two sumo wrestlers, using these ethnic groups as props all in the name of “expression.” Harry Styles twirls with ballet dancers, Louis Tomlinson hangs with zoo animals, and Liam Payne directs a marching band, which are all innocent enough. Throughout the 5-minute video, which isn’t actually directed by the Matilda but was done by Ben Turner, each band member dances and separately sings their sections of the pop hit with different cultural images. “Today, we bring life to the desert.” Devito as “director” wants to enliven the remote environment by destroying One Direction’s inhibitions - and apparently their common sense, too. ![]() “We’ve come to the most barren place on earth to create,” the actor dramatically declares. While attempting to make a groundbreaking work of art with a great director - the one and only Danny Devito - all in the “name of art,” One Direction has instead created a music video rife with cultural appropriation.įor the British boys’ new music video for their single Steal My Girl, which was released on Friday, the band called on the “greatest director of his generation” to take their work to a new level. ![]()
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