vulnerablemarilyn:





Marilyn photographed by Andre de Dienes
Sort of annoyed with everything surrounding Nicki Minaj’s song Marilyn Monroe….

I may get unfollowed by a couple Marilyn blogs that follow me, but oh well because all the hate that this song is getting is RIDICULOUS. Now first whether or not you like Nicki Minaj as an artist is irrelevant other than the fact it will probably already make you not like the song. Also i do realize that she did in fact use a fake quote, but with A LOT or almost every quote site that has Marilyn quotes on them all say pretty much the same quotes including the ones that are fake so you can’t blame her. Blame whatever or whoever she got it from because if you are not a Marilyn enthusiast most people are not gonna go out of there way to back check something like that. Most people will just assume that it is correct, which granted is not good because you should always check, but if 9 out of 10 websites are saying it is true and there is only 1 that says no then most people will go with the 9 other sites. Majority rules in most cases. The other thing that annoys me is that some Marilyn blogs don’t like how it will get people who probably didn’t care about Marilyn before then to begin to like her. I say if that song is what makes them become a fan of Marilyn then i am happy as long as they become a true fan and not just a fan or her beauty etc. I mean none of us were born loving Marilyn, there was something that made us like her. Most of us, not including myself, probably at first only liked her for her beauty untill you found out that there was more too her. Me personally i didn’t care about her beauty or anything at all. I knew who she was and she wasn’t ugly, but that was not the reason i started liking her. I started liking her after i read 2 bios about her in 9th grade and even then and now i still don’t care about that part of Marilyn. This is not to say that she isn’t beautiful because she is gorgeous and it is not to say that she is a bad actress because she is a fantastic actress, but even now i have only seen 6 of her movies and that is in the past couple months. This is because i care bout her emotionally or on the inside. I care about the woman that only came out when she was alone in her room. I don’t care about the blonde hair, boobs, movies, model. I dont care about any of that honestly i care about who she was inside and the struggles she went through her entire life. Now this bring me to my last annoyance. Some blogs seem to get mad at the things Nicki says in the song in relation to Marilyn. For Example Nicki says, “Its like all the good things, They fall apart like…Like Marilyn Monroe” and she also says, “Take me or leave me, I’ll never be perfect, Believe me I’m worth it”. Now i personally do not see anything wrong with either of these statements because the truth of the matter is MARILYN WAS NOT PERFECT. She may have tried to make people believe that she was or that everything was ok but she wasn’t! Emotionally Marilyn was not ok. I don’t care how much you try and make it sound not so bad. but it is what it is. It doesn’t make her a bad person. It makes her human. Marilyn had up’s and down’s in her life and in her career. So for someone to call themselves a Marilyn fan and by any means tries to make it even remotely sound as if Marilyn had it all together now that is not a true fan to me. Now was she a great actress and model yes she was, but she was also a damaged human being and honestly i have and always will love her for that and not so much Marilyn the movie actress/ Model/ Singer. This is because i can relate to that girl. I can relate to her struggles and her feeling that she may have had while in some of her relationships. I can relate to that. So Nicki was basically saying that i have my good days and bad days. I have my ups and downs. I am not perfect, but i am still a good person. I have my days when i feel all alone and i am low and i have my days when i am on top of the sky and everything is ok. So basically she is asking “is this how Marilyn Monroe felt”? Did she have days that she felt really low and did she have days where everything was going right. I can respect that question because she most likely did have those days and moments. Nicki Minaj is a VERY VERY VERY intelligent individual and i mean this in no relation to ANNNY of her music!! She is a very intelligent person so i am sure that a lot of thought actually went into this song. And to me the thought is all that counts.

closetotheexitdoor:

Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable by Eve Arnold.
ourmarilynmonroe:

Contact sheets of Marilyn Monroe by Philippe Halsman, 1947
vulnerablemarilyn:

Marilyn photographed by John Florea, 1956
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