Black Is NOT The New Pink

People claim to be over the whole "Barbie-Doll", America's Sweetheart, bubblegum.pink Graduation Princess stereotype. You know, the whole female repressentation of the ninties, with star figures like Britney Spears, Melissa Joan Heart (a teenage witch, OMG!!!!) and Jessica Simpson (Who E! painted as a girl whose delayed hit in popularity was due to her firm belief in herself and her reluctance to sell her body in the form of a "Seaxy and Innocent" and then "Downright Naughty" series of images that pop stars like the mentioned Brittney and Christina Aguilera went for, and then goes and gives General Lee a much needed bath... With her boobs... In a bikini). We are to believe nowadays that the punk is back, darlin', and that the bad girls wear leather bracelets, black cargo pants and loose ties. The new Courtney Loves, ladies and gentlemen! The new millenium is all about the Goth and the Punk and black, black, black!!! We know revere Good Charlotte, My Chemical Romance and the eyeliner is for both girls and boys. All we have to do to grow up is use spikes and dye our hair.

Don't get me wrong. I did dye my hair red, and I use too much eyeliner. My favourite XMas move is Tim Burton's nightmare before Christmas, I do listen to GC and MCR and think that Danny Elfman should be involved in every movie's soundtrack. I hold Johnny Depp up high with the greats, and I do dress in black and wear leather in my arms and neck. But, unlike the rest of the young adult world, I do it because I like it, and it goes in character with the rest of my life. I listen to Nessum Dorma, Lacrimosa, Evanescence, Nightwish, something Corporate, some Operas and Classic. I read Gothic Novels, as well as classics and some romances (I'm a chick, deal with it!). I'm pessimistic, I like the colour black, have a thing for baroque paintings and wished I could decorate my room with them. But it's what I don't do that better defines me with respect to the people I want to call out today: I don't secretly watch Kelly Clarkson, go nuts over Clay Aiken, watch Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff and think that Lana Lang is the most perfect female role model in the world. Not even when she switched from her sickening love for pink (Could she be any pinkier in Season 1, 2 and 3???) to her "new matured persona" in black. Black is NOT the new Pink.

This is what's wrong with the World. Avril Lavigne saying she is Punk, not Pop. That she can play the guitar (Never seen her play that thing, just smash it around...) and wears ties and black boots because she is not Preppy, or Poppy... Have you actually heard your songs baby? I guess not, because they sure scream of Pop. I think that sometimes I can hear The Hansons "Beebopping" in the background, or Justin 'crying a river'. Spooky.

Don't get me wrong again. I have nothing against pop, if you like it you should listen to it. I sometimes do, but I'm aware it's Pop. I don't dellude myself into thinking that because the singers have extra mascara and are blending in with the black backgorund of the stage they are not singing Pop. The Nineties hit is the New Millenium's guilty pleassure! We are all mature and 'over it', and we put black clothes or mature themes over it and call it whatever we can come up with: Rock, Goth, Punk... Think again.

I'm against people who want to pretend to be something when they are singing and listening to something different. I'm sick of Hilary Duff trying to dress punky to desguise her bubblegum pink lyrics. Of Ashley Simpson dying her hair and screaming "She's not Jessica". Let it be, fellows. General audience, be proud of who you are, don't think it deminishes you in any way. In the 90's I had to struggle to be what I wanted to be without caring for judgement, and now everybody is like me, and yet they aren't. I'm against posers, but I get that they want to be accepted, and now dark is in, and fairy-princesses are kinda out (thank the Lord...). Don't try to desguise it, because black is starting to look grey. You are ruining it for the people who really feel it.

I didn't ruin Pop, don't screw up Dark. Black is not the new Pink, deal with it. And no, Paris, this isn't Hot.