Earlier this year, Pharrell
Williams caused an uproar after he released his G I R L album cover art, and was first blasted for not featuring a
black girl on his cover, and later colourism when it was revealed that there
was a black girl featured, but she was of a light complexion.
Yesterday, in an effort to bite back at the backlash, he
released the cover art to his newest single “Marilyn Monroe,”
replacing the blonde, iconic bombshell with a black woman.
This comes weeks after Pharrell
revealed to Oprah that he was
bothered by the backlash seeing as though a black girl was used, and somehow
she wasn’t black enough:
I went on to explain that she is African-American and I used
to date her and it must suck to be a black girl of that color because you’re
being questioned if you’re black enough. Her dad is black, her mom is white.
Here’s my thing. Why are we having this conversation? See, this is what I
didn’t want to happen because you make an issue about first I didn’t have no
black girls on there. Then, it instantly turned into they’re not dark enough.
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