Blonds are out?

[frogy]

I've been thinking about something I'm sure other celebrity blogs have pointed out already, but I don't follow any of them closely enough to know for sure. But...

Blonds are out.

When I was in middle school, every popular female singer was blond. Britney, Christina, Jessica (Spears, Aguilera, Simpson)- all blond. Mandy Moore was blond too.

A few years later there's Hilary, Lindsey, and Ashlee (Duff, Lohan, and Simpson). Hilary's blond. Ashlee started as a blond, and has been jumping around. Lindsey started as a redhead, then blond, brunette, blond, I think in that order. But, at this point she's been consistently blond for a while.

A smidgen of a step outside the cookie-cutter and we get Pink and Avril (Lavigne, ugh, kill me now, or better yet, kill her now). Both blonds.

Even Paris and Nicole are blond. In fact, that's about the only talent they have.

But, there's a new pack of celebrities led by Miley and Vanessa (Cyrus and Hudgens) that are dark brunettes. I guess celebrity stylists can do anything, but they don't have the color hair that's a set of highlights away from being blond. They're true brunettes.

And so are all three of the girls pegged as the next 'it' girls- Selena (Gomez, Disney TV show: Wizards of Waverly Place), Demi (Lovato, Camp Rock), and Miranda (Cosgrove, Nick: iCarly).

Ashley Tisdale could be the exception that proves the rule.

Even the less famous girls of the moment like Katy Perry seem to be brunette. Who knows how her career will play out, but 'I Kissed a Girl' was in the top 10 iTunes downloads for the week, and I saw the video for that song no less than 4 times this weekend on some combination of VH1/MTV/Fuse.

So, I'm making the call- Blonds are out, brunettes are in. Or, else I just don't watch enough MTV anymore to know better.

(Of course, this doesn't consider traditional tv. Ensemble casts on broadcast networks seem specifically chosen to have two hair-colors. There's the tall, pretty blond and the shorter, and the not-supposed-to-be-but-way-prettier brunette best friend. Gossip Girls is cast with with OC clones. Maybe if they were standing next to each other I could tell Mischa Barton and Blake Lively apart, but really, if Blake's acting career doesn't go well, she could get a job as a Mischa Barton look alike. Rachel Bilson and Leighton Meester look less identical, but fill the same role.)

Comments

[rossetti.livejournal.com]

chiming in, for network tv i watch: emily deschanel on bones has light brown hair, tina fey is all sorts of dark luscious brunnette, cote de pablo as supersexy ziva on ncis, um, and now i'm realizing how lost i am without my tivo. i KNOW i watch other stuff!!

oh! sarah connor chronicles! both dark haired.

ugly betty?

[frogy.livejournal.com]

I watch exclusively cable, and almost exclusively reality tv. When I think about it, it's actually kind of terrible.

[edgiko.livejournal.com]

They also seem to be filtering more from Disney now. I know Disney was a launching pad for some, but its really becoming a launching pad now for young entertainers more than it has been.

[frogy.livejournal.com]

Yes and no. Britney and Christina were both Disney kids. As were Hilary Duff and Lindsey Lohan. I didn't mention her, but Melissa Joan Hart was first from Clarissa Explains it All and then Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Just from my own experience, I also think it's that less people had cable/these channels 10 years ago. I remember not having cable tv, and we didn't get the Disney channel until way after we got regular cable.

[x--kes--x.livejournal.com]

Interesting take. Just wanted to point out though, that Miley usually has blond hair when she's dressed up as Hannah Montana.

[frogy.livejournal.com]

I know I've only seen a handful of Hannah Montana episodes, but in the ones I've seen, she usually spends less than 5 minutes an episode as Hannah, and in some cases it's closer to one minute. From what I've seen the show is primarily about the Miley character.

[runner-bean.livejournal.com]

Blake Lively is a real person's name? Not a sesame street character?

Now if fake tans can just fall quickly out of style...

[frogy.livejournal.com]

Blake Lively

She's terrible, so there's no real reason to know who she is.

[runner-bean.livejournal.com]

She's kinda icky looking. I didn't look closely enough to notice her age, but it she supposed to look like she's 30?