No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New Video
Gwen Stefani dressed up like a Native American stereotype in the clip for “Looking Hot.” People got pissed, so they took it off YouTube and Vevo.
No Doubt’s video for “Looking Hot” was only on their official YouTube and Vevo channels for a day before they pulled it due to complaints about their appropriation of Native American imagery. A fan uploaded the video to Daily Motion, so you still check it out, and wonder why they figured they’d get away with this “cowboys and Indians” stuff in 2012.
They released this message on their website to explain themselves:
This is actually the second recent pop video to feature a white singer dressed up in stereotypical Native American drag. Lana Del Rey wore a headdress in the baffling, extra-long clip for her new single “Ride.”
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- Goroz Skinny No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... and thinks it’s Fail & Win
- Arie Tharp No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... and thinks it’s Ew, Trashy & Fail
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ImJohnsirz 6 months agoYou guys should look at the Facebook comment section. People are RAGIINNNGG! I’d say that is a troll well done.
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- hermitina thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is Fail
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- Swtrktekt thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is WTF
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- pbayuk thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is WTF
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- whalane thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is Fail & LOL
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Montebello 6 months agoOh please… It’s not like they’re making fun of Native Americans. They’re making fun of Old Westerns and that’s it. I feel like the U.S.A. is one of the most racist countries but they try not to show it then they are afraid that any reference to another culture will reveal their “inner” racism.
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primavolta 6 months agoAlright. For a very long time, after all the colonial fun-times, governments in Canada and the United States spent a lot of time trying to get rid of the cultures of First Nations people - forbid them from wearing their clothes, participating in their cultural and religious ceremonies and practices, speaking their languages, etc etc. Residential schools were built to alienate children from their families and communities, abuse them and turn them into adults who existed halfway between the so-called “white” world and their own communities, often scarred by years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse. In Canada, at least, all of these contributing factors have resulted in First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities being overrepresented in poor health, suicide, crime, alcoholism and drug abuse, etc etc. A lot of people I know are very racist toward First Nations people, although of course they would deny this. For this reason, I think it comes across as extremely dismissive and arrogant for very rich, privileged white women like Gwen and Lana to bastardize whatever First Nations culture they think they’re playing dress-up as. Too many people have this idealistic, mythical view of how they WANT First Nations people to look and act, while being venomous and dismissive toward the contemporary community. Just a whole lotta contradictions and hypocrisy.
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- gueuled thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is Fail
- Alejandra V. thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is Fail
- jonathans48 thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is Oh Dang!
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Glitterbabe 6 months agoBut Weird Naked Indian Dude in Wayne’s World isn’t offensive? My mom researching our history after discovering we have Native American in our bloodline, becoming obsessed with the culture and hanging pictures of Natives on our apartment walls…offensive? Please. No Doubt has never been out to push buttons or be offensive. Sometimes you have to look into the intention of those who made it, otherwise every little thing anyone does could be claimed as offensive.
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- Vixenly thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is Oh Dang!
- smorgasborddd No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... and thinks it’s Win
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smorgasborddd 6 months ago
My culture is not a costume for you to wear. It has special meaning to me.
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- ljwagner04 thinks No Doubt Pulled Their Offensive New V... is Fail
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franciscah 6 months agoDoes this mean that is forbidden to dress up as an Native American? You really are full of racism or religion complex… making a storm in a teacup for nothing.
You are still millions of milles way from actual modern countries. Grow up!!! -
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zombiegirl12 6 months agoAs a native, i’m glad they are finally talking about this being offensive, and yes those kid costumes and the 50 movies are inappropriate. The worst is disneys peterpan… ” what make the red man red…halla walla gum drop”
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david0296 6 months ago
I’m not sure how this differs from any current movie that features cowboys and indians. Is it not okay to pay homage to the Westerns of the ’50s? I didn’t see anything offensive. Historically, did cowboys NOT capture indians and tie them up or throw them in jail? So what’s the deal now… it’s automatically offensive if a white person pretends to be an Indian in a music video? (To those comparing this to black face, don’t be ridiculous. The intent is not the same.)
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R. W. 6 months agoOk, I understand how this is can be offensive, but why are we singling out this video? How about the countless videos that mock religions? And really are construed to be nothing but offensive, ig Madonna, Gaga, etc. Our society is clearly picking and choosing who we can offend
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