I have had a few days to recover my natural bouyant temperant after learning of the sad news that Sisqo had been evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house. Now the dust has settled it is time to see what can we learn about this great short man.
One thing is for certain. The tall men in the house: Vinnie Jones, Alex Reid, and Jonas, felt threatened by Sisqo. It was clear that the hard nut footballer, the dimwitted cagefighter and the very bland DJ saw in Sisqo a man with whom they could not compete on level terms.
In the eviction hearing last Friday, Vinnie came straight in the diary room sat down and said: “Sisqo.” He clearly didn’t even see the need to explain himself. Sisqo out. And who can blame him? Since the infamous nutgrab on Gazza back in the early ‘90s, Vinnie has always had a problem with creativity, and seeks to quash it whenever it comes within his grasp.
Alex was equally direct. “Sisqo is a threat.” He saw the man behind the classic hits Thong Song and Unleash the Dragon as a man who could take the Celeb BB title. No doubt Sisqo was a threat to his idea of masculinity: namely, to fight in cages for a job and crossdress in his spare time.
Jonas, whose music I have no knowledge of but who seems to be nice-but-dim, also wanted Sisqo out. Jonas is above six foot, and I have no doubt hanging round with a short R&B legend like Sisqo did his head in after a few days.
Out in the real world, having a cursory glance at popular opinion on youtube and other centres of the most up-to-date thinking, Sisqo has widely been acknowledged as a legend, a lover (particularly in Switzerland). Of course he has divided opinion: the short man always will.
No doubt he will now need to go into some sort of detoxification after three weeks in the company of Vinnie Jones, but after that process is complete I hope he reassumes his position at the top table of R&B music. Peace, Sisqo!
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Short man Sisqo enters the Celebrity Big Brother house
Scanning the list of names served up for the annual reality hell of celebrity Big Brother, I was absolutely delighted to note that Sisqo had entered the fray.
I am a massive fan of Sisqo. His hit, Unleash the Dragon, was a marvellous mix of swing beats, soul vocals and swagger. The follow-up, Thong Song, rightly became an international best seller. The chorus, concluding with the line, “that thong, th-thong, thong-thong,” remains a popular refrain a decade after it hit the charts.
It was the sort of line I would expect from that other R&B great, R Kelly. But, on reflection, that level of insight is impossible for a man of R Kelly’s height, standing as he does somewhere over six feet.
Thong Song was clearly the work of a short man, what with his eye level being that much nearer to thong level. A quick survey of the net puts Sisqo’s height at anywhere between 5’ 2” and 5’ 5”. As the upper figure is the singer’s own estimate, it can be safely discounted.
The video for the Thong Song is a wonderful thing. How splendid it is to see our man in the back of a drop top, regulation honeys at his side, and Sisqo’s feet swinging high above the car’s floor. Peerless.
Of course, a man of this size and talent is undoubtedly going to find himself at the centre of attention in the Big Brother household, even with men of the calibre of Another Level’s Dane Bowers in his midst. And so it has proved.
Sisqo has made friends with the youngest and most beautiful woman in the house, Ronnie Wood’s ex, the Russian cocktail waitress Ekaterina. The sniping from the press at a small man trying to make his way in the world has started early.
The Daily Mirror's 3am girls, never ones to pass up a cheap insult, have tagged the R&B superstar, ‘short man syndrome Sisqo.’
Now, why might that be? Is this because he is rich and successful…and short? Is it because he is making a play for the lovely Ekaterina? Or is it mindless bigotry of the type not allowed in print against people of different race or sexuality?
The man behind the Thong Song surely deserves better. We will be watching.
http://www.3am.co.uk/alex-reid-breaks-jordans-rules-on-celebrity-big-brother/20566/
I am a massive fan of Sisqo. His hit, Unleash the Dragon, was a marvellous mix of swing beats, soul vocals and swagger. The follow-up, Thong Song, rightly became an international best seller. The chorus, concluding with the line, “that thong, th-thong, thong-thong,” remains a popular refrain a decade after it hit the charts.
It was the sort of line I would expect from that other R&B great, R Kelly. But, on reflection, that level of insight is impossible for a man of R Kelly’s height, standing as he does somewhere over six feet.
Thong Song was clearly the work of a short man, what with his eye level being that much nearer to thong level. A quick survey of the net puts Sisqo’s height at anywhere between 5’ 2” and 5’ 5”. As the upper figure is the singer’s own estimate, it can be safely discounted.
The video for the Thong Song is a wonderful thing. How splendid it is to see our man in the back of a drop top, regulation honeys at his side, and Sisqo’s feet swinging high above the car’s floor. Peerless.
Of course, a man of this size and talent is undoubtedly going to find himself at the centre of attention in the Big Brother household, even with men of the calibre of Another Level’s Dane Bowers in his midst. And so it has proved.
Sisqo has made friends with the youngest and most beautiful woman in the house, Ronnie Wood’s ex, the Russian cocktail waitress Ekaterina. The sniping from the press at a small man trying to make his way in the world has started early.
The Daily Mirror's 3am girls, never ones to pass up a cheap insult, have tagged the R&B superstar, ‘short man syndrome Sisqo.’
Now, why might that be? Is this because he is rich and successful…and short? Is it because he is making a play for the lovely Ekaterina? Or is it mindless bigotry of the type not allowed in print against people of different race or sexuality?
The man behind the Thong Song surely deserves better. We will be watching.
http://www.3am.co.uk/alex-reid-breaks-jordans-rules-on-celebrity-big-brother/20566/
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Calling all short men
I suppose by doing this blog I’m trying to work out what it means to be small.
So I’ve started gathering evidence of the short man experience. Google news alerts for the key subject matter: Sarkozy, Ricky Ponting, Jamie Cullum, Aston Merrygold from JLS.
I’m putting my bait out there to see what pops up. The first alert I received under “short men” was an article in the Los Angeles Times about malice in South Korean society. A Seoul college student, appearing on a popular TV show, stood up and said that “short men are losers.” Uncalled for, unjust, and unpleasant. But an internet campaign of led by short Koreans forced the student to withdraw from Facebook, apologising profusely as she went. Good stuff.
A fellow called Mohammed posted a plaintive open question on Yahoo: “Why did God make me short?”
Firstly, I’m staggered that someone should throw such a personal question out over the internet to see what random responses come back.
Typically, I suppose, he gets a mix of anti-islamic nutjobs, anti-short man jibes, anti-religious nutjobs. There is some support from women saying, don’t worry, at least you aren’t disabled or have AIDS. (I agree, being short is less bad than having AIDS.)
And then there are a couple of small chaps, putting an arm round the shoulder of Mohammed. Another guy who is really struggling with being small. He concludes that he wouldn’t wish being small on his worst enemy.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100102011607AACJ0ub
This is some heavy stuff, and I’m only just scratching the surface of this short man thing. The average-sized world really lays it on thick for the smaller chap. I’m here to get the small man to push his chest out, thinking of all the greats out there: Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino. And of course the R&B superstar, Sisqo, making his entry into the Celebrity Big Brother house…
So I’ve started gathering evidence of the short man experience. Google news alerts for the key subject matter: Sarkozy, Ricky Ponting, Jamie Cullum, Aston Merrygold from JLS.
I’m putting my bait out there to see what pops up. The first alert I received under “short men” was an article in the Los Angeles Times about malice in South Korean society. A Seoul college student, appearing on a popular TV show, stood up and said that “short men are losers.” Uncalled for, unjust, and unpleasant. But an internet campaign of led by short Koreans forced the student to withdraw from Facebook, apologising profusely as she went. Good stuff.
A fellow called Mohammed posted a plaintive open question on Yahoo: “Why did God make me short?”
Firstly, I’m staggered that someone should throw such a personal question out over the internet to see what random responses come back.
Typically, I suppose, he gets a mix of anti-islamic nutjobs, anti-short man jibes, anti-religious nutjobs. There is some support from women saying, don’t worry, at least you aren’t disabled or have AIDS. (I agree, being short is less bad than having AIDS.)
And then there are a couple of small chaps, putting an arm round the shoulder of Mohammed. Another guy who is really struggling with being small. He concludes that he wouldn’t wish being small on his worst enemy.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100102011607AACJ0ub
This is some heavy stuff, and I’m only just scratching the surface of this short man thing. The average-sized world really lays it on thick for the smaller chap. I’m here to get the small man to push his chest out, thinking of all the greats out there: Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino. And of course the R&B superstar, Sisqo, making his entry into the Celebrity Big Brother house…
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