Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Turkish Bratz


I know you liked that last Turkish Pop video so much, I decided to share another one…
It's fascinating to me to observe how Western ideas of feminine beauty and sexiness have been co-opted by Turkish culture. Observing Gulsen I see so many Turkisms: the was she cocks her head, the movement of her hands, her perfect hair and flawless, heavy make-up. But then she adopts hip grinding moves and Daisy Mae shorts that she can't quite pull off; there is a reserve there from raunchiness. That the languid singer knocks out a Western looking hunk is also pretty interesting, given the preponderance of violence against women in Turkey...
But you know I only present the classiest stuff on my blog!
kisses

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this what they mean by globalization? Love your blog....:D

ms. v. said...

Are you looking forward to Eurovision? 'Cause I am!

kloeamongtheturks said...

Oh Anonymous, and I love you for loving my blog.

Ms. V--haven't watched it, although my kids would probably be totally into it, when's it on? Is Turkey in the running this year?

Anonymous said...

Yes it is, and I think its a really good song! If you want to listen to the individual entries (about 43 countries are taking part this year), go to Eurovision website.

(By the way, this is a different anonymous person!)