Belinda Carlisle says Dua Lipa is ‘embarrassing’ for ‘sexualised’ performances

No lies detected.

I agree totally that acting like a slut onstage is not empowering, it's embarrassing, and Belinda is right to say so.

Uh-oh, the Albanian mafia's gonna come after her now.

Imma big fan of Dua Lipa and she certainly isn’t any more provocative than any other pop star - probably less so. Certainly not shocking!

And I’ve met Belinda- sat a a restaurant with her while she passed around the issue of playboy she had just posed for.

[quote]Imma

Not another word was necessary for judgment.

Imma Sumac

Oh please, if Belinda wasn’t the chubby girl when the GoGos first made it she would have totally played up sexy. She certainly did when she slimmed down and went solo.

Camille Paglia did a bit on this saying that all these girls think they’re Madonna. They think they’re being empowered but the sexual revolution was already won. They’re not doing anything daring or relevant. They’re wannabe strippers who then turn around and cry that the public sexualizes them and doesn’t take them seriously.

Camille Paglia is so wise!

Dua Lipa is her example?

Ima Hogg

I don't understand the question and I refuse to answer it.

Moralizing about sexy female popstars...what is this,1987?

And Dua is the best example she can even come up with? LOL!

I love Belinda but didn't she go out in public wearing a garbage bag as an outfit pre-1986?

I doubt anyone she is criticizing has gone down to her level there.

Belinda has a valid point to expres for sure. It would be easier to accept tho' if Carlisle wasn't such an absolute bitch and pseud-diva. The Go-Go's could be literally cleaning up in America if she would agree to tour, but she feels the need to put out her shitty cover songs produced completely without actual instrumentation - all the instruments are her recent releases are studio-produced effects. She envisions herself as self-actualized, fulfilled woman, but she really is, has always been, and probably will always be - a bish! :)

Says the woman who posed nude for Playboy…

She posed for Playboy!? How scandalous!

Some of you sound like spinster librarians.

The point is that showing sex is tiresome, it's not even remotely edgy or interesting anymore. Your music sucks, so show your pussy or ass hairs on an album cover. Yawn.

And who's name would you like her to mention? The last great pop stars are Beyonce and Taylor. None of these new twats are memorable now, much less five years down the road.

I forgot Gaga as well

Pop music has been a fucking cesspool of mediocrity for the last ten years.

What about the female rappers? Gyrating and humping on stage ...cmon!!!

Sure, everything has become tiresomely pornified this past decade or two. But it's rather bitchy of Belinda to single out one female performer when, in fact, it is if not most, then at least many of them. The Go-Gos and Belinda's solo career were of a totally different era and the pressures/ influences of that time were not the same.

Well, R16 has certainly stated her opinion!

She's just fucking jealous!

old whore!

married to james mason's son

Eight years before Dua LIpa was even born, Tawny Kitaen was writhing around on the hood of a car in a Whitesnake video.

Dua Lipa was not the first rock video slut. Far from it.

And as R18 has pointed out, rap videos have bitches and hos doing far raunchier things than Dua Lipa has ever done.

Why Ms. Carlisle has decided to single out relatively tame Dua Lipa is beyond me. Belinda must be going senile with age.

R2 "Uh-oh, the Albanian mafia's gonna come after her now"

AND Rita Ora's dad.

[quote] I agree totally that acting like a slut onstage is not empowering, it's embarrassing, and Belinda is right to say so.

Notorious for BEING a slut offstage, she likely knows what she's taking about but she lives in a glass house.

I get what she’s saying but singling out Dua Lipa comes off as an old bitter has been throwing rocks. I wish she had been more general in her critique and chosen to uplift and mention current women in music who she thought who were going against sexualized imagery.

I'm not a fan of Dua Lipa by any means but this comes across as "Old woman yelling at clouds." I mean, weren't The Go-Go's known as being quite debauched off stage? I vaguely recall some story of their gross out contests where they would lick toilets at rests stops.

It’s not about being sexual it’s about how embarrassingly they do it now.

R7, Camille is a kook but she's correct there. What exactly are these women fighting for? It was flat-out embarassing reading some of the reviews for WAP, acting like Cardi B empowered women in developing countries to have sex for the first time.

Pop music has been pretty basic in the past 10 yers or so. Are we really that surprised that the way it's packaged is also basic?

She must have confused one Albanian singer (Dua Lipa) for the slutty on (Rita Whora).

*one

What's embarrassing about Dua Lipa is her 3-note range.

R33 and those concert receipts that just don't add up!

R34 What do you mean?

R35 I don't want the mob knocking on my door thanks!

“Who?”

R37 I don't know anyone of that name

Belinda's covered up in her latest video just out a few days ago...

R33 Belinda isn’t much better.

BC has been sexy in her videos but nothing skimpy until her Playboy spread =

[quote] The last great pop stars are Beyonce and Taylor.

And you lost me right there.

Is she talking about Dula Peep?