{"id":15437,"date":"2021-10-31T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:46:44","slug":"little-mix-opens-up-about-jesy-nelsons-blackfishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/little-mix-opens-up-about-jesy-nelsons-blackfishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Mix opens up about Jesy Nelson&#8217;s blackfishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publicizing their collection \u201c<strong>Between Us<\/strong>\u201d, the group <strong>Little Mix<\/strong> spoke to Stella magazine about the controversy of \u201c<strong>blackfishing<\/strong>\u201d involving former member <strong>Jesy Nelson<\/strong>. The trio said they broached the subject with her in a very educational and friendly way.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>We&#8217;ve been handling it the best way we know how, and we&#8217;ve helped each other out in this situation. We don&#8217;t want to talk about [Jessy&#8217;s Boyz] video or be critical, but one thing we&#8217;re going to clarify about the blackfishing situation is that Jesy was approached by the group in a very friendly and educational way<\/strong><\/em>\u201d said Jade Thirlwall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LMsources\/status\/1454732487481970696\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LittleMix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LittleMix<\/a>\u2019s Stella Magazine interview is out now! The girls talked about their situation with Jesy, how does a girlband survive in the 21st century, sexism and misogyny in the music industry and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Read the full interview in the thread below. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bKet8uXHRm\">pic.twitter.com\/bKet8uXHRm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Little Mix Source (@LMsources) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LMsources\/status\/1454732487481970696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>The blackfishing happens when white people use makeup, hairstyles and costumes to look black or blended. Jesy Nelson was criticized for this in the video for \u201c<strong>Boyz<\/strong>\u201d, her solo debut, and said that <strong>Leigh-Anne Pinnock<\/strong> had already broached the subject with her also in the video for \u201c<strong>Sweet Melody<\/strong>\u201d. <strong>Nicki Minaj<\/strong> came to Jesy&#8217;s defense. In the interview, Leigh-Anne also commented on the case.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>Capitalizing aspects of blackness without having to endure the daily realities of black experience is problematic and harmful for people of color. We absolutely believe that it is not okay to use harmful stereotypes. There is so much to say about this subject that it is difficult to summarize in a catchphrase<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, she pondered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>In an interview with <strong>Vulture<\/strong>, Jesy explained her point of view.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201c<em><strong>The entire time I was on Little Mix I never got any of this. And then I left (the group) and people suddenly started saying that.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t on social media at that time, so I let my team (handle it) because that was when I had just left<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>But I mean, like, I love black culture. I love black music. That&#8217;s all I know; that&#8217;s what I grew up with. I am very aware that I am a white British woman; I never said it wasn&#8217;t<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publicizing their collection \u201cBetween Us\u201d, the group Little Mix spoke to Stella magazine about the controversy of \u201cblackfishing\u201d involving former member Jesy Nelson. The trio said they broached the subject with her in a very educational and friendly way. \u201cWe&#8217;ve been handling it the best way we know how, and we&#8217;ve helped each other out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":15438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-pop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}