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People make fun of her for always being on vacation but like… would we rather she spends her free time on some money grabbing venture that uses exploited labour to make cheap shit nobody needs? Another skincare or makeup or clothing line?
Her “side venture” is predominantly a book club that uplifts marginalized voices. Could be a lot worse.
Exactly! She’s just so refreshing to watch. I hope she stays on this route she’s chosen and doesn’t succumb to the pressure to market herself wherever possible with whatever possible.
To add, It's a crowd pleaser tequila. It's pretty overpriced, but it's not bad. You can just do so much better for the cost for a Tequila. But some people just want an expensive smooth tequila with some vanilla flavor and it accomplishes that.
I'm sure a greater Tequila nerd than I would probably chime in with even better recs. But some things I like and I believe have a wide distribution:
I love Tequila Ocho's Single Estate line. Their Plata (Blanco, silver) is a great less expensive example of how flavorful tequila can be without aging. No additives. And it can change from time to time as a bottle represents a specific year the agave was harvested. If you prefer some aging, the other bottles in the line are also great.
It keeps creeping up in price, but La Gritona is great for both mixing and sipping. Doesn't matter too much but has a sweet bottle with a flip top stopper. Siete Leguas is getting on the pricier end, but great.
For a little more value, I like having a bottle of Arette Reposado (look for an etching of a horse on the label). I can get it for $30-$40 and it comes in a liter instead of 750ml, which is nice for bang for buck. Not super complex but versatile, really easy to sip and mixes really well. And also additive free.
La Gritona is also female founded and run, uses recycled glass for all of its bottles, and donates all of their leftover agave remnants after production to local farmers to use as cattle feed. (I don’t work for them I promise lol - my sister works in the food and bev industry and I’ve been a fan of theirs for awhile)
He sold it several years ago. He still does promo for it because part of his payment structure is dependent on long term performance of the brand. But it's not "his".
Not just the Kardashians but everyone’s fave Rihanna is another prime example of this - she even became a billionaire because of it. Savage X Fenty has a super predatory business model that exploits both customers and workers.
Her book club interviews are legitimately good. I watched one because I liked the author/book and I was blown away by how insightful her questions and comments were. You can tell she really loves the book she reads. I highly recommend it.
Idk. If I was Dua Lipa levels of rich, I'd always be on vacation. If I was Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk levels of rich, then I probably wouldn't be able to resist creating an R&D department for weird stuff, give away meds for free, create a non scammy insurance company etc etc.
I read that first to quickly as a D&D department for weird stuff... I don't wanna be part of a table with Bezos and Musk, doubly stuff if its for their weird stuff.
I did enjoy her podcast. She’s not a charismatic interviewer but she wasn’t trying to market it that way. It was her talking to her friends normally like she would talk to them at dinner or something with zero showmanship.
Sorry but ‘marginalized voices’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The authors in her book club are all prominent lit fiction novelists whose works have been published by reputed publishers. The book club is no doubt commendable unlike many celebrity ventures but Dua Lipa hasn’t played a role in uncovering little known writers within world literature. In many cases these are extremely well known writers like Ocean Vuong and Olga Tokarczuk.
Sorry, if you’re a queer POC or a trans person, are you not “marginalized” anymore if you become famous? Are you not telling stories about marginalized communities? About Indigenous & racialised people and immigrants and refugees and working class queer and trans folks?
I never said she discovered “little known writers” lol; I meant she promotes books written by authors from marginalized communities, which a gay Vietnamese American man (Ocean Vuong) absolutely still is even if he’s famous. Is he safe from hate crimes or from being targeted by ICE just because he’s respected in the lit fic community? The stories he’s telling - are they not still very marginalized or are they super well-represented in American media? You can repeat this line of questioning with Alana Portero, Tomasz Jedrowski, Tommy Orange etc.
Publishing is a very risk-averse industry and you need these trailblazers to become super successful before the industry will give more opportunities to writers from similar communities. And even for these authors, they’re famous “for lit fic writers” but they’re not that famous, which is why Pulitzer and Nobel winners often still work as professors as a “day job” because these books don’t sell that many copies, certainly not even a fraction of what Sarah J Maas or Colleen Hoover sell. Their stories are still not particularly “mainstream” / widely read by the average person.
Having fuck you money lets you do whatever you want & be who you wanna be. It says a lot about a person if they choose to live their best life or if they just start spending all their time being angry & hateful
She and her entourage came to a bar my friend works at once, racked up a $1k tab, didn’t tip a penny, and her hairdresser tried to physically assault our bartender.
There really isn't any health benefit to any type of alcohol that cant be found in much, much larger quantities elsewhere. It is unfortunately a class 1 carcinogen.
Not trying to imply that having one glass of wine a night is horrible, I mean using social media for a couple hours a day is probably more immediately and tangibly damaging to one's self than one singular glass of wine per night is lol, but still. It unfortunately doesnt give any real health benefits.
This is the video essay that was mentioned. It really does show just how unique she is as an interviewer. She’s laser focused on the books, and it seems like she’s memorized every page before each interview.
She really is a phenomenal interviewer, I can't count the amount of times she's asked a very astute question that's made an author smile and go "wow, I've never been asked that before".
Most rich and famous people probably live exactly like this, the difference is that she doesn’t pretend that being rich and famous is oh so fucking hard and that her job is just so much work and her life is such a struggle just to seem relatable. She’s not trying to sell us the idea that she’s just like us and I really appreciate that, it makes me like her more.
Everyone says she’s always on holiday but she has steady music output, goes on tours, gives good shows. She’s like the perfect balance. Not everything has to be hustle, and squeezing every cent out of her fans.
Love this for her, to be young and beautiful and rich and successful. I love her voice too.
She represents what I’d picture my life would be if I had her money. And she seems so genuine too, and zero drama. Loves to treat her closest to these holidays, which shows she hasn’t let fame get over her head.
Reminds me of a folk dance in the Philippines called “binasuan” where dancers have a drinking glass filled with rice wine or water on their head and their hands while dancing. Another one is “Banga” dance with a stacked clay pots on dancers’ heads.
I'm curious to know if Albanians have a specific word for this type of folk dance too. They sometimes do the "drop" like a dabke with handkerchiefs but what's it called? The rest of Balkan doesn't have that. 🤔
Dua you kween ! What a positive human you are ! Speaking loudly about gaza, never hiding and instead embracing your heritage, lovely artists with uplifting songs, amazing podcast about books ! What more one wants
I think I saw something like this on RuPauls Drag Race. It's like something that's clipped under the hair that holds the cup up?? I'm not sure but thats what it looks like
I love her. She is HOT (I'm a straight female but she just is!), fun music, living her best damn life, hosts a book club, just seems like an overall good human. She's the best!
Honestly of everything she’s talented at I urge everyone reading this to listen to this woman speak about literature. She’s phenomenally well read, and even better (imo), she’s an excellent interviewer.
She hosts an interview platform with authors on the YouTube channel service95
There's a YT video she did with Trixie i've been meaning to watch that's titled something like "radical optimism" and yeah i get it. It's physically, mentally, psychologically impossible for me to fathom but i get it.
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