# It's official: There's a new skank queen in town **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130 "2002-10-27T17:57:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/21 "2002-10-28T03:25:57Z")
Same problem here. I am in Mac OS X with the latest everything (RealOne downloaded a few weeks ago) and it won’t work. I’m on broadband, too. Not that I am desperate to see this video, but I’d like to see what all the fuss is about, and no way am I going to watch any MTV in hopes of seeing the video. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/22 "2002-10-28T03:31:32Z")
Same problem here. I am in Mac OS X with the latest everything (RealOne downloaded a few weeks ago) and it won’t work. I’m on broadband, too. Not that I am desperate to see this video, but I’d like to see what all the fuss is about, and no way am I going to watch any MTV in hopes of seeing the video. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/23 "2002-10-28T04:09:55Z")
I don’t know, Courtney Love is still around… I live right nextdoor to Christina’s hometown. I’m in Allison Park-she’s from Wexford. Yuck yuck yuck. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/24 "2002-10-28T05:35:31Z")
It isn’t really worth watching. It isn’t even that dirty. I mean I’d heard about it and I expected it to just be a video of her getting gang banged or something to warrant the comotion. As it stands it is just mildly off putting how skanky she looks in it. While I’m not a fan of skank there are some who wear it well, Eliza Desku for intance. Christina is definitely not one of those who wears it well and she ends up looking just plain unappealing. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/25 "2002-10-28T18:32:26Z")
She’s covering the same territotu Prince covered 15 years ago. The problem is that Prince did it much better. I don’t have a problem with her “skankiness”, but the song is pretty crappy. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/26 "2002-10-28T21:50:26Z")
Eh. I thought the video was raunchy but okay, and the song is no big deal – catchy in its way. I don’t care for her music, old or new, but I can admit that she has a strong voice and more raw talent than Britney. The Rolling Stone article, however, just irritated me. She was snotty to a waitress, made a big deal about how she’s changed, her inner pain, blah blah blah. I always read these articles about apparently vapid pop stars in the hopes that there is some depth or real personality. They never fail to disappoint. Why do I care when I don’t even like the damned music? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/27 "2002-10-29T00:13:22Z")
Just a question to you all: If it had been a guy, say Justin Timberlake - would your reactions had been as strong? Or is it just that nice WASP suburban girls aren’t supposed to be that way? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/28 "2002-10-29T00:25:00Z")
Is it just me and my heterosexual female eyes, or is that a really unattractive picture of Christina Aquavelveeta on the cover of the Rolling Stone? Haven’t these girls ever learned the lesson that to tease and tantalize you can’t put everything out on display like that? They look about as sexy as anatomy book pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/29 "2002-10-29T00:39:27Z")
I thought the RS cover was pretty hot. And if you think that’s “putting everything on display”, then I think you have a very odd definition of “everything”. I would at least include nipples with “everything”. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/30 "2002-10-29T01:26:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \* > \*\*Just a question to you all: If it had been a guy, say Justin Timberlake - would your reactions had been as strong? > Or is it just that nice WASP suburban girls aren’t supposed to be that way? \*\* Oh, good, i was wanting to be called a sexist dude. If Justin Timberlake was squirming around in the mud i would stab my eyes with flaming daggers and immolate myself to try to burn the images from my brain. And since when are WASPs latino? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/31 "2002-10-29T02:55:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \* > \*\*Just a question to you all: If it had been a guy, say Justin Timberlake - would your reactions had been as strong? > Or is it just that nice WASP suburban girls aren’t supposed to be that way? \*\* I’m pretty sure if it had been Justin Timberlake, to quote the OP, I wouldn’t have given a “fried rat’s ass.” My old runnin’ buddy **Tars Tarkas** is correct as usual, Christina ain’t a WASP. Posted by **Gundy** : “Why do I care when I don’t even like the damned music?” Yeah, I have to ask myself the same question. :Shrug: Maybe simply because at one point, this one had a chance to rise above the ordinary. IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/32 "2002-10-29T03:06:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Gaspode \* > \*\*Just a question to you all: If it had been a guy, say Justin Timberlake - would your reactions had been as strong? > \*\* There are guys in the music biz like that, they call themselves “thug rappas.”:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/33 "2002-10-29T03:42:12Z")
What is a WASP and since when was Christina a latina? Didn’t she have to learn Spanish to make her Spanish album? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/34 "2002-10-29T03:48:59Z")
What is a WASP and since when was Christina a latina? Didn’t she have to learn Spanish to make her Spanish album? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/35 "2002-10-29T03:56:36Z")
Christina Maria Aguilera’s mother is Irish and her father is Ecuadorian. Nothing WASPish about that. I heard she did need a little help with her spanish album. She is American after all. **W** hite **A** nglo- **S** axon **P** rotestant. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/36 "2002-10-29T03:57:44Z")
She’ll be skanking it up on Letterman tonight (10/28). ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/37 "2002-10-29T05:16:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by featherlou_ > **Is it just me and my heterosexual female eyes, or is that a really unattractive picture of Christina Aquavelveeta on the cover of the Rolling Stone? Haven’t these girls ever learned the lesson that to tease and tantalize you can’t put everything out on display like that? They look about as sexy as anatomy book pictures.** Nope. My decided non-heterosexual female eyes had the same reaction–“_that’s_ hot?” ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/38 "2002-10-29T06:39:12Z")
I found myself oddly entranced by the video … her overwhelming dedication to skank is bewildering and amazing. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/39 "2002-10-29T06:56:17Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Cisco_ > > Just don’t tell Britney yet. I’m waiting for her response (in the form of an even dirtier video, 'cause you know that ‘Dirty’ was just a reply to ‘Slave for you’.) Oh for sure. I was basing my coments solely on a feeling I’m getting in the pit of my stomach. ALthough Britney’s Slave video looks relatively similar to Christina’s Dirty video, they have two totally different feelings to them. Slave, I think, has a shock feeling to it (same as Madonna) but Dirty has a “But I can be risque/skanky too!” feeling to it. This just seems like a move that an artist would do when they can feel the end of their career while Britney’s was a move based solely on Market research. I hope I’m making some sense here. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130/40 "2002-10-29T07:57:24Z")
Aguilera’s real background has nothing to do with it. It’s the image she projects. And since the Mickey Mouse Club, she was a wholesome WASP suburban teen. Now that same person is trying to project a VERY diferent image and I’m thinking this is causing the moral outrage. And no one (except Tars Tarkas) has answered how they would react, be it a male going the squirming in the mud. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-official-theres-a-new-skank-queen-in-town/134130.md?page=3)