I just want to consider the housing crisis, the waste crisis, the management crisis and the climate crisis, or Vogue Comes with a legitimate question. “Can we talk about the bizarre Labubu birthday tail of Madonna?” Damn, yes, completely forgotten.
Last year Madonna ate another cake in November with the inscription ‘Fuck Trump’. Now she received for her 67th birthday, according to Voguea cake with “a life -size, bubble gum pink Labubu” and the inscription “Happy Birthday Madudu. ‘ On the basis of these two cakes you can determine what question the year 2025 dominates: are people bad and detestable or are they sweet and sweets?
As serious newspaper readers, we have gained a sharp picture of the non-qualities of humans this year. We are aware of war, displacement, threatening destruction of the universe, catastrophe, apocalyps, collapse of civilization and the dysfunction of leaders. All in all excellent discussion material. A television program asks me if I want to come and talk about hatred. “There is make -up.”
In addition, there is the Labubu side of the culture. A Labubu is a doll that was designed in 2017 by an artist from Hong Kong and who has recently become a collective object in Europe. A little Labubu nowadays costs a power. The plastic thing is a member of a family of monsters, but it is considered cute and adult people get him for their birthday.
Madonna presents us with her cakes a well -arranged dichotomy. On the one hand you have types like Trump, “a convicted criminal, rapist, hypocritical”, Says Madonna. Griezels who walk around freely for incomprehensible reasons. Fuck theme. On the other hand, you have funny harmless people who celebrate life with Campy pink trends, monstrous, cute and ironic at the same time. Congratulations Madudu!
Nevertheless Vogue Even right. Can we talk about that birthday cake? For “Labubu Mania is not an innocent entertainment,” writes India Times. In their zeal a rare variant of the Labubu pop to get hold of, customers hit each other on their heads in rows in front of the stores. And researchers who study the social impact of market behavior indicate that the countless toys of polyvinyl chloride burden the environment and threaten health.
This spring, Labubus may have infiltrated the Paris Fashion Week, NRC May she have bombed into Product of the Week, Lady Gaga and Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana from Thailand may have bought one one, but as soon as the hype is over, the krengen end up with their output packaging on garbage dumps’ where they are lying for centuries and chemicals and microplastics in ecosystems, ” writes One stop ESG. Okay, enough, the point is clear.
Of course Madonna is quite understandable. It is tempting to concentrate your attention on psychopathology, on perpetrators, rapists, others, bad people, and not on the sillings in everyday life. Yet our own behavior also has its shadow sides and an investigative journalist who delves into modern forms of slavery that we as consumers look at situations ‘under our own nose’.
It is quite difficult to admit that exploitation takes place in this prosperous country, writes Sarah Haaij in de Volkskrant. But employees are really operated considerably on large parts of the labor market: in the hospitality industry and the food industry, in distribution centers, in cleaning, construction and care. “We know that something goes wrong in the enlightened greenhouses and gray block boxes along the highway,” writes Haaij, but many consumers don’t really keep it busy.
Haaij writes this in response to revelations about abuses at a gym where prosperous citizens ‘in Lululemon-leggings and alo-scrunch shorts’ work on their condition. But the problem of toxic consumerism is raging throughout society.
As serious newspaper readers, we can know that 58 percent of Dutch truck drivers in the past year have considered to resign due to excessive work pressure, since they should transport all kinds of nonsense from the distribution centers to the stores for a short time.
In short, the catastrophe and the apocalyps are not separate from the Labubu. The collapse of civilization, the imminent end of the universe and the election of Donald Trump all come from greed and a bubble gum pink indifference for each other’s destiny. This is by no means a new insight, and not such a very deep insight, but an insight that you have to pronounce occasionally. So thank you Madudu.