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I’m so proud of Leigh Anne. As a black person I love how she shared and talked so openly about her experiences as well as doing her research and educating herself and realising her privilege being a light skinned black girl . A really great documentary !

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I do love Leigh and won't ever doubt that she's genuinely suffering from being known as 'the black one' and there was definitely those microaggressions in the X-Factor/DNA eras in terms of her styling but that segment with Emma Willis where they picked 3 fans to choose a favourite was a reach. In that case someone is always going to miss out if there's 4 girls and 3 fans. I've already saw people pointing that out on social media and it's pretty fair.

Idg why they even asked 3 fans of a 4-member group in the first place who their favourite member is, to air on television? That's just ridiculous. Also, I feel like that (from the sound of it) was the moment for her that made her first question everything that had happened before. I mean, she's not wrong? All throughout their journey on XF she was most commonly placed last in rankings of the group or very rarely anybodies top pick and labelled as "the one who couldn't sing" etc.. it was all obviously building up and she'd been conditioned to keep it all in and not question it.

 

I'm surprised they didn't mention about articles confusing her and Jade (no, I don't mean the recent one with the Metro when filming was all done etc..), but other than that I really liked it. I thought that entire talk with Keisha, Alexandra, RAYE & Nao was a big moment. Proud of her for standing her ground against the label too and fighting for that meeting, but it's frustrating that she had to fight for it when all she wanted to do was talk to them about it all.

I’m so proud of Leigh Anne. As a black person I love how she shared her experiences as well as doing her research and also realising her privilege being a light skinned black girl . A really great documentary !
Oh yes! This whole section was really interesting and I was really happy to see her talk about it after seeing those kind of comments when she posted the video.

The shaved side of her hair has always been an issue for her, I remember she was uncomfortable with it in the VT on X Factor and it’s been talked about in a number of interviews. I’d have liked it to have focused a bit more on how they styled/marketed her in the early days as it does feel a push towards ‘urban’ whilst the others got to be pop. I’m sure the hair stylist wouldn’t have been black. I’ve never fully appreciated in the Wings video that her backdrop was graffiti whereas Perrie got flowers and Jade bow ties.

 

It felt similar to Fifth Harmony where Normani was pushed to the front of the more R&B style songs, definitely in the brginning e.g. Bo$$ despite not being the lead in the song itself.

 

It’s those sort of themes that felt were being touched on, particularly in the artist group part, but it would have been interesting to push it further.

 

Definitely interesting to see her push her label though!

Also, a large proportion of backing singers in TV performances and concerts/festivals etc are black, yet the amount of leading black pop stars is so disproportionately small.

Brilliant documentary, really sensitively done - for example I agree about the fact she recognised her privilege being lighter skinned. But she still made it pertinent to her and raised all the issues that needed to be raised, I love that she included darker skinned people, other light-skinned people, got so many different perspectives and raised the issues that needed to be raised on all accounts, I loved the bit with Keisha and Alexandra in particular and getting their accounts compared to and added to Leigh's.

 

I love that she is standing up to the label too and that she pushed to get some answers, I know that not everyone would do that. Leigh is brilliant :wub:

Leigh came across so well. Great to see her wanting to spearhead change at her label and on a broader scale with the foundation. I also also found that natural, honest conversation between her and the other ladies in the industry really fascinating and heartbreaking to watch. They deserve so much better!

 

(on a completely unrelated note her house is absolutely gorgeous!)

This was emotional and an important documentary. It’s horrible what she, and the other featured artists, in the documentary have had to go through.

 

Hopefully more changes will start to occur in the label, the industry and society at large

I learnt more watching this as I never really noticed the privilege that lighter skinned black people also have over darker skinned black people. It was very brave of Leigh-Anne to talk about this and question her own privilege over others. It's really shocking as a whole and more needs to be done to address this issue. Hope she gets the recognition she deserves like Jesy did.

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