Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power BBC1 • 13 May 2021 • 9PM
 

This powerful one-off documentary follows pop star Leigh-Anne Pinnock as she confronts her experience as the only black member of Little Mix, and as a black woman in the music industry.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09fy1qy

On tonight

Will give this a watch tomorrow. Love little mix

Noticed it listed when scrolling through channels, is this a one off documentary? .

One thinks shes the victim of the group because she’s too black
One thinks shes the victim of the group because she’s too fat and ugly
One thinks shes the victim of the group because she’s too slutty
One thinks shes the victim of the group because she’s too weird

Yeah, just finished watching it and really enjoyed it.

Keisha from Sugababes was done dirty by her management.

literally

they are pro-victims with dreadful music

of course a black woman speaks out about her experiences and two white men come to belittle her.

Typical tubb

She's not claimed to be "a victim of the group", she's discussing racism in the industry and society in general.

Yet there you always are to comment.

Something tells me you're not their target audience.

They'd know if they'd decided to watch it instead of coming here to exhibit the racism spoken about in the documentary by dismissing that there is a blatent problem in the industry.

Seems all the little mix group are jumping on the documentary bandwagon.

Black women and POC have always excelled in the music industry I thought, black women in particular are some of the biggest selling divas of the 80s and 90s (Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson for just two examples but there are so many)

She earns millions, living her dream, dating a footballer and yet she’s life’s victim

I’m sure usersince has stated he is black before, or was that a lie?

Well then, never mind the actual experiences of WOC in the industry because "Douglas thought". :joker:

Money, dreams and a footballer... the three things you need to avoid racism.

at the end of the day we are all misfits in some kind of way if you look hard enough in an attempt to play the victim.

I think its pathetic to dwell on it and try to seek sympathy from people who live standard lives, a lot who are on minimum wage, when your a successful multi millionaire.

exactly, honestly girl should thank her lucky stars shes in the position she is.

I think it's pathetic you're continuing to comment on something you haven't watched, as evidenced by the fact you haven't a clue what it was about. Makes you look very foolish.

If you're more offended about people talking about racism then you are about racism itself, you're part of the problem.

No one is offended :laugh:

Just think she’s copied Jesy to make a documentary as it worked out with Jesy. Feel like if the documentary was about bullying she’d have done that instead. Just grabbing cash where she can

There is certainly offense. Screaming about how they are professional victims and their music is 'terrible' just because a black woman spoke about racism reeks of people being offended by the discussion of racism. A bunch of white men downplaying her experiences and victim blaming because they don't want to hear is them being offended by the discussion of racism.

Who is screaming, yourself, Amy and marsh seem the most bothered in this thread?

It may look that way to someone with limited reading comprehension, yes.

Its just another Bandwagon to jump on. If you have any kind of objection to it you must be Racist...

Yes it does seem that way rusti, everyone in the world is guilty and an “ist” except these few people on TIBB it seems :laugh:

Why is some popstar making a little TV show causing such ire :joker:

I don't care about Little Mix so I only saw the beginning after Dragons' Den, but if she wants to use her fifteen minutes to talk about whatever she wants, why shouldn't she? If she were to egregiously misrepresent things or blatently lie then she'd be called out for it, otherwise who cares? She can go on about what she wants, as far as I'm concerned, unless she calls for violence, which I somehow doubt she did :laugh:

What reason would people have to object to a woman speaking about her own experiences of racism in her industry? By all means, tell us.

I might have to watch on catch-up, I'm glad they've highlighted the mistreatment. I remember watching a YouTube vid Keisha did about her experience.

That's an invention.

White man with no connection to the music industry tells black woman in the industry herself that she's wrong about the racism in the industry she is discussing is not "an objection", at best it's a foolish attempt at baiting and at worst an offence taken at the discussion of racism rather than the racism itself.

But, yeah, you don't like the forum members disagreeing with him so that makes it a bandwagon. Why even bother coming into the thread?

To be fair, while "bandwagon" might not be the nicest way to paint it, it's certainly become a "hot topic" recently. Some dude passing away in police custody after swallowing a bunch of drugs being knelt on sparked the issue, and she might not have got the show made.

I'm glad people like Leigh-Ann , Keisha, Alexandra Burke etc are speaking out against racism. I don't understand why people have issue with that.

Yes, because the George Floyd situation invented racism. :rolleyes:

As for the struck out sentence, you're an idiot.

It didn't invent it, but it turned into the big talking point of the year.

And you think racism hasn't been a major talking point before and wouldn't be again? Ok.

"sparked the issue"

how do you get "invented racism" from that?

:conf:

Also just calling people names is playground tactics, Josy already posted about this type of post only today.

Because it's highlighting race issues which the racists hate to see. It's really that simple.

Another one who didn't watch it.

George Floyd "sparked the issue" of racism in the music industry? Ok buddy.
George Floyd brought it to YOUR attention it seems. Not that you'll pay attention.

I genuinely don't understand why anyone came here to slate a young black woman talking about how she's been treated within the industry she works in.

It's horrible to see anyone demean her experiences and it's very telling about how toxic this forum has become with racists and trolls being left to cripple it.

Care to answer, Rustic?

Lmao white people having an issue with a black girl speaking about race issues that she deals with daily which white people will never know how that feels. Just because she is successful doesn't mean she doesn't get comments. Actually watch the documentary

I never said I had a problem with the content of the documentary...
IMO they would have had more of an impact on these issues had they raised them 2/3 years ago at the height of their fame......but the money they were making was obviously more important than their mental health at the time.
I hate racism and I hate bullying and I empathise with what they had to endure..both her and Jesy but why wait until now to bring it to light. People are having to endure bullying and racism all over the world but don’t have the platform they do and don’t have their wealth as some sort of comfort...because it is a comfort.