10:12 pm - 09/05/2012
Hipster hookup! (*vomit*)
Girls creator Lena Dunham has been seeing Jack Antonoff, guitarist of the indie rock band Fun., sources tell Us Weekly.
"They're trying to keep it a secret," explains a Dunham pal. And the NYC-based actress/writer, 26 -- who has described her love life as a string of "multiple gay ex-boyfriends" -- is already collaborating with Antonoff, 28.
The pair recently made a video for The New Yorker together, and Dunham "has asked to use Fun. songs on Girls," notes a source. "Lena's crazy about the band," says a pal. She also wore a dress designed by his sister, Rachel, on The Colbert Report May 3.
Despite hectic schedules, says an insider, "they have a good time when they can get together!" (does she show him her hijab and explain how it makes her a fundamentalist?)
Fun.'s hit song "We Are Young" was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 charts for six consecutive weeks in March and April. Their follow-up "Some Nights" has spent 27 weeks on the Hot 100 chart. The group is nominated for two awards at Thursday's 2012 Video Music Awards. Antonoff shared a photo with MTV on Monday of his favorite memory of attending the 1997 VMAs as a young child.
"I was in that age where it was very cool to ask everyone for pictures," he explained. "I go up to Fiona Apple, and this is like 10 minutes before she gives her iconic speech. I ask her for a picture, and right as the camera snaps, she gives me this wet, like almost a little bit of tongue and full-lip kiss on the cheek." (bow in the presence of Queen Fiona)
Dunham tweeted the cute story and pic Monday, writing, "Best thing that's happened yet in America." (as opposed to what?)
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And just because it mentions Fiona Apple
One of the guys from Fun. is dating a tryhard racist
Hipster hookup! (*vomit*)
Girls creator Lena Dunham has been seeing Jack Antonoff, guitarist of the indie rock band Fun., sources tell Us Weekly.
"They're trying to keep it a secret," explains a Dunham pal. And the NYC-based actress/writer, 26 -- who has described her love life as a string of "multiple gay ex-boyfriends" -- is already collaborating with Antonoff, 28.
The pair recently made a video for The New Yorker together, and Dunham "has asked to use Fun. songs on Girls," notes a source. "Lena's crazy about the band," says a pal. She also wore a dress designed by his sister, Rachel, on The Colbert Report May 3.
Despite hectic schedules, says an insider, "they have a good time when they can get together!" (does she show him her hijab and explain how it makes her a fundamentalist?)
Fun.'s hit song "We Are Young" was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 charts for six consecutive weeks in March and April. Their follow-up "Some Nights" has spent 27 weeks on the Hot 100 chart. The group is nominated for two awards at Thursday's 2012 Video Music Awards. Antonoff shared a photo with MTV on Monday of his favorite memory of attending the 1997 VMAs as a young child.
"I was in that age where it was very cool to ask everyone for pictures," he explained. "I go up to Fiona Apple, and this is like 10 minutes before she gives her iconic speech. I ask her for a picture, and right as the camera snaps, she gives me this wet, like almost a little bit of tongue and full-lip kiss on the cheek." (bow in the presence of Queen Fiona)
Dunham tweeted the cute story and pic Monday, writing, "Best thing that's happened yet in America." (as opposed to what?)
SOURCE
And just because it mentions Fiona Apple
Im not saying its not a problem, indicative of our ENTIRE media..but why pick on Lena in particular.
I personally feel like we should be rooting for her as a young female in a male dominated industry. She's in a unique position, one that I am sure isn't easy.. why pick on the race issue in this show when SO MANY other shows don't have minority characters either?
If someone says they can't write black people because they don't know how, then that's bullshit. Do you think the writing room of the Cosby Show was full of exclusively black writers? She went to school and college with poc, she's been called out on that bullshit excuse by people who knew of her during that time in her life.
Edited at 2012-09-06 04:36 am (UTC)
& sorry but when i was growing up, when someone said they watched "friends" they were laughed at. i didn't growup in a house that catered to white programming on TV, if you would've told me when i was 11 that most sitcoms on TV were black (fresh prince, family matters, martin, livin single, good times, thats my mama, different world) i would've believed you. i got so many different perspectives of the world through POC eyes, its not TVS job to tell you what to watch, you have the option to watch whatever you want. the finger is always pointed at the media, like people let TV and all that shit indicate whats really out there. if you watch a million woody allen movies & you yourself are from NY, it doesn't matter, you know NY isnt whitewashed. who cares its woody allen or whoevers view, he or anyone else doesn't have to cater to a specific demographic , like wtf
lol this again
So yeah, she is a racist. She perpetuates micro-aggression against POCs. Period.
Added commentary about "racism": http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71
Edited at 2012-09-06 01:21 pm (UTC)