Cosmo. It used to be the bible, in my youth. If you were cool, you had to have Cosmo, Playboy, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair on the coffee table. My girl friends and I would take the quizzes while making lumpy margarita's in my crummy blender, all of us dressed like the Jersey Shore kids. So, this brings back memories. I'm sure girls still do that, but, I never learned anything useful from Cosmo, except that every new issue was cause for a chick party. Now Lady Gaga is center stage wearing what Celebitchy calls granny panties and what Cover Awards calls "a peach-colored lingerie-like contraption." Fine with me. Next time I hang out my big girl underpants I won't put them on the center line. I'll proudly hang them out front and sing a Gaga tune. I'll have to go look one up, because I am old. So old that now when I "sex up my eyes" it means putting on my bifocals. And around here it's "buck naked", Cosmo, not "butt naked".Cosmo..screwing with women's heads since 1886. And nothing has changed.
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haha...whats weird in the last issue they had a poll taken of men and they listed "beige underwear" as very unattractive. Men hate it. So, I don't get this cover at all. Nobody appears on there in there panties anyways. Its usually the typical Cosmo pose. I love gaga tho. She rocks!
roxanne
gaga was asked how do girls stay thin? Her answer "They don't eat".
She was then asked "What do you look for in a guy? Her answer "A BIG dick".
Thats gaga. Whats not to love? She tells it like it is. No bullshit.
rox
isn't "buck naked" a slavery term? I'm thinking it is. Probably why they didn't use it.
i loved cosmo growing up, but then they forced out helen gurley brown and it was never the same!
i like lady gaga when she sings acoustically....she really does have a 'voice' that doesn't need autotune and numerous computer generated enhancements....
You mean Cosmo and Rolling Stone before they turned into People magazine? I cannot believe RS. I read it in the hippie dippie days when it was like a newspaper instead of a glossy mag. It jumped the shark years ago when they put Britney spears on the cover. Sad.
Buck named refers to the color of buckskin or the slang term for bottom, bucket. I looked it up.
Rachel, yep. I just saw a new RS in the doctors office yesterday, what a buncha clap trap it is now.
Congrats to Cosmo for making Lady Gaga look almost attractive.
There is one guy, Matt Tiabbi who has written, IMO, some awesome articles for RS. If you google his name and "The Big Takeover" or "The Great American Bubble Machine" you'll see why I love this guy. But other than Matt, I agree with Rachel.
I like Lady Gaga, and if you need a tune to sing while hanging up your granny panties, try "Bad Romance" or "Poker Face".
Bad Lady Gaga joke, courtesy of my 17-year-old son:
How do you wake Lady Gaga when she's sleeping?
Answer: You "Poker Face"
My son has had a subscription to Rolling Stone for some years now, but even he is over it. He told me recently not to resubscribe for him when the issues run out.
Maybe it's me but Idk I could care less for
lady caca as we refer to her up here she is
just tooooooo much ! All sizzle and no
steak will leave u awfully hungry. Not my
cup of tea at all. Cosmo was in it's heyday
when HGB ran the show but now it fey. Kiki
It's buck naked here as well, DD. How stupid are they?
Hey Nancy: I am really old (approaching 60). I go way back to Ralph J. Gleason (original with Jann Wenner) and Jann was fat and married to a woman then. I think he is now married to a man, or was a few years ago. Anyway, we were really pissed off when they put David Cassidy (!!) on the cover in the 70's. Remember the picture stopped right at his pelvis with a little pubes showing. Anyone old like me remember this?
When did they star putting men who tuck on the cover of Cosmo?
I don't know much about Gaga. I have heard her songs and most seem OK to me. I don't know that I would go out and buy them. She seems to "be" a gimmick--I don't know if she is her own creation or someone else's. Is she a Madonna want to be?
Speaking of Madonna---Pat, did you get those old photos I sent you?
i always said that every issue of Cosmo was the same, only the titles of the articles and the ads were changed.
I do remember doing the quizes. They were fun.
I like Cosmo! It is trashy and fun. Many womens' magazines are a bit snooty-talking about "the 5 kinds of friends you should have" and that kind of shit. Cosmo doesn't run that kind of crap, they run funny stories instead and lots of celebrity trash. They are a bit hung up on stories about rape though. Look at that cover, another "OMG if you don't watch out you're gonna get raped" headline. Rape is a serious issue and not something you should use just to get peoples' attention every single issue.
I like Lady Gaga, her music is awesome and she actually has talent, unlike "singers" like Britney Spears. Her song "Paparazzi" is one of my favorite songs.
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