TIME And TIME Again: The Very Obvious Bleaching of Ariana Grande
There’s something oddly familiar about this.
It was a day or two after an online discussion last month in which I’d participated––a casual chat on Ariana Grande’s May 28, 2018, TIME Magazine cover — that I finally realized what bothered me most about it.
Well, aside from the very obvious fact that the image was bleached out to make the typically quite tan pop singer’s complexion look much more pale (or lighter) for the cover than it was in the actual proof photo.
A few people who participated in the conversation were equally bothered, while others were unfazed. One of the latter participants, in fact, was vastly more bothered by the fact that Grande, a woman of Italian descent, appears to use “cheap self-tanner” in order to look multi-racial.
With an estimated net worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 million dollars, it could be argued without much effort that whatever Grande does to sustain a perpetual butter pecan complexion, it probably ain’t cheap. Hell, she could charter a plane to lay on a beach in Cuba every weekend if she wanted.
Moreover, unless the singer has actually made some demonstrably false claims to be multi-racial or something other than just Caucasian— as have a handful of white…
