DakutiusMaximus said:

Saw a pic the other day of the Flip My Hair Smith-Pinkett girl with sporting Janelle's do but I'm not gonna spend the time to go find it.

one like this?

RKJCNE said:

Seriously?

If a woman puts on a suit or puts her hair up towards her forhead she is copying Janelle?

Yes because they do this only in the last year....don't say you don't see this but this is probably because a lot of stylists like Lagerfeld of Chanel, Dolce and Gabbana took her as a muse for their new collection....

but I don't like see her style on everyone because it's her own style....this is what I wanna say...

RKJCNE said:

Seriously?

If a woman puts on a suit or puts her hair up towards her forhead she is copying Janelle?

No other female artist is wearing the tuxes though.

Sorry Cindy I'm gonna have to disagree.

Until I see someone with both a pompadour and a tux I'm not gonna be one of those "oh she copped that from so and so" remind me of when people were accused of copping off Gaga lol

Timmy84 said:

RKJCNE said:

Seriously?

If a woman puts on a suit or puts her hair up towards her forhead she is copying Janelle?

No other female artist is wearing the tuxes though.

In fact no other female artist was wearing tuxedos in recents years except Janelle...THIS IS HER SIGNATURE LOOK...now everybody with the tux and the pompadours...

Timmy84 said:

Sorry Cindy I'm gonna have to disagree.

Until I see someone with both a pompadour and a tux I'm not gonna be one of those "oh she copped that from so and so" remind me of when people were accused of copping off Gaga lol

Ok...your opinion... for me it's not a case....

And, Alcia was wearing her hair like that, way before Janelle....

shorttrini said:

And, Alcia was wearing her hair like that, way before Janelle....

Really? I didn't know..sorry for that...

cindymay said:

shorttrini said:

And, Alcia was wearing her hair like that, way before Janelle....

Really? I didn't know..sorry for that...

Like I was saying before, there is no such thing as, original. Everybody takes something, from everybody else.

shorttrini said:

cindymay said:

Really? I didn't know..sorry for that...

Like I was saying before, there is no such thing as, original. Everybody takes something, from everybody else.

And that's not even a bad thing...

Timmy84 said:

shorttrini said:

Like I was saying before, there is no such thing as, original. Everybody takes something, from everybody else.

And that's not even a bad thing...

Nope....It isn't. I look at it as, they paying tribute to those before.

shorttrini said:

Timmy84 said:

And that's not even a bad thing...

Nope....It isn't. I look at it as, they paying tribute to those before.

Right and if one so happens to cop a look from someone who JUST came out it's no problem either lol

Timmy84 said:

shorttrini said:

Nope....It isn't. I look at it as, they paying tribute to those before.

Right and if one so happens to cop a look from someone who JUST came out it's no problem either lol

Unless it is done by the record company to sell records. I don't care what anybody says, Def Jam totally ripped off FeFe Dobson's look, when they were "re-imagining" Rihana.

shorttrini said:

Timmy84 said:

Right and if one so happens to cop a look from someone who JUST came out it's no problem either lol

Unless it is done by the record company to sell records. I don't care what anybody says, Def Jam totally ripped off FeFe Dobson's look, when they were "re-imagining" Rihana.

The record company definitely play a hand in some artists' careers like that.

Now doesn't this make Janelle the one who stole other people's look? Or does it not count sense you like Janelle more than them?

Stop trying to take down other singers just cuz you like Janelle more than them.

RKJCNE said:

Now doesn't this make Janelle the one who stole other people's look? Or does it not count sense you like Janelle more than them?

Stop trying to take down other singers just cuz you like Janelle more than them.

I said in recent years...I know of Annie Lennox....but she's not recent... for the tux...

In the 80's Annie and Madonna did that I know...

But I only noticed a significant increase of women in tuxedos and pompadours after Janelle...really....this year...

cindymay said:

RKJCNE said:

Now doesn't this make Janelle the one who stole other people's look? Or does it not count sense you like Janelle more than them?

Stop trying to take down other singers just cuz you like Janelle more than them.

I said in recent years...I know of Annie Lennox....but she's not recent... for the tux...

In the 80's Annie and Madonna did that I know...

But I only noticed a significant increase of women in tuxedos and pompadours after Janelle...really....this year...

I think Janelle was inspired by Rachael the android in Blade Runner for Cindy Mayweather and also for the hair in all sincerity....clearly not inspired by Rihanna...

[Edited 9/18/11 17:36pm]

I see Janelle as carrying the torch in tribute to those who influenced her musical and current fashion style. Not as someone trying to re-make the wheel...

Janalle is a unique rose in a wild forest fire.

shorttrini said:

Timmy84 said:

Was ANYTHING original anyways?

PLEASEEEE.....Those who believe that there is such a thing as Original", is fooling themselves...

Exactly. but the first lady of tuxedo wearing is......

Marlene Dietrich

kewlschool said:

shorttrini said:

PLEASEEEE.....Those who believe that there is such a thing as Original", is fooling themselves...

Exactly. but the first lady of tuxedo wearing is......

Marlene Dietrich

Ms. Dietrich rules.

cindymay said:

This is only the hat but Beyonce has clearly found another person to steal ideas from after Michael Jackson,Diana Ross, Tina Turner...

I'd say both of 'em got that hat from Liza Minelli, who got it from her mother, who got it from some other female entertainer before her, who got it from some man.

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WaterInYourBath said:

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Ms. Baker rules as well.

WaterInYourBath said:

cindymay said:

This is only the hat but Beyonce has clearly found another person to steal ideas from after Michael Jackson,Diana Ross, Tina Turner...

I'd say both of 'em got that hat from Liza Minelli, who got it from her mother, who got it from some other female entertainer before her, who got it from some man.

Pretty much! And Judy wore hats often lol

cindymay said:

DakutiusMaximus said:

Saw a pic the other day of the Flip My Hair Smith-Pinkett girl with sporting Janelle's do but I'm not gonna spend the time to go find it.

one like this?

Yeah, kinda but the one I saw looked a little bit more rounded than this one.

The poem on Lady T includes the humble lines, "You and I are no more or less than each other--small fragments of the Master’s imagination."

On Starchild she writes, "No one’s new or innovative except the creator who puts all thoughts and blessings in our hearts and cerebrums in the first place."

The "woman in a pantsuit" style was popularized by Katherine Hepburn, so if anything, everyone is copying her, and she was copying the men's suit style, so she can't even get all the credit.

Besides, I doubt Janelle is salty because she's not the only person in the world to wear a pompadour hairstyle and a suit. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and there are more important things to fret over.