Adina Fohlin controversy

 

Right after I did my blog post about model Adina Fohlin I heard about this so called controversy. Adina recently appeared in a 30 second commercial for Swedish beauty and skincare company Apoliva. In the video Adina sings (or lipsynchs) a little folk song while getting pummeled by rain and snow. The tag line is something along the lines of ‘made for Swedish weather’. Unfortunately for Apoliva, Swedish consumers hated the ad. They find it horrifying. There’s even a Facebook group for people who were horrified by the ad. All of which make me love Adina. She is not in any way a conventional beauty. In the ad she does look downright creepy. She is different from other models. She is unique. She has epic cheekbones with a large, square, masculine jaw. Her eyes are disproporiatately small, but very intense and compelling. She has a face that should not be beautiful, but is. She looks like, well, herself.  I am rooting for her to be the toast of the town. Because with all the girls on the runways who look like they were not born but molded by Madame Alexander, what we really, really need to see more of is girls like Adina whose beauty is made by God.

 

Black Dog

Planty, how whipped are you that she took your car?

I usually am against anything that’s popular, but you know what – rulez iz made 2 B broken. This is Black Dog. I have nothing to say. It’s just too brain-meltingly awesome to even try to talk about. Just shut up, head bang, and enjoy it.

I consider it a great blessing that I’ve been lucky enough to see Robert Plant sing Black Dog. The Black Dog he sang at Bonnaroo with Alison Krauss is very different from the original Black Dog, and I know you can’t improve on perfection, but bear with me. What was in the 70 basically a dumb sex song with really great guitar, now makes sense on a whole new level. Coming froma an older, wiser Robert Plant, it gains a whole emotional perspective that it simplu never had before. Look at the video above. Plant is a sex bomb. No woman in her right mind would leave him and take his car. But coming froman old man – suddenly it’s a love song. A loss song. A some-gold-digger-took-my-car-and-went-t0-Hollywood song. It’s a new dimension. Just for the record though, Plant is still hot!

  

Also at Bonaroo, Lez Zeppelin, an all girl LDZPLN cover band.  The video here doesn’t even start to capture how hard those girls rock! They blew it away! The singer in particular, sounds just like the real thing. They were amazing and they put on a great show.

Give it up for the LEZ!