{"id":106947,"date":"2019-08-22T01:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/22\/jayde-adams-the-ballad-of-kylie-jenners-old-face-review-a-pop-at-pop-feminism\/"},"modified":"2019-08-22T01:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:01:23","slug":"jayde-adams-the-ballad-of-kylie-jenners-old-face-review-a-pop-at-pop-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106947","title":{"rendered":"Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner\u2019s Old Face review \u2013 a pop at pop-feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Bristolian standup\u2019s blunt good sense is deployed to optimal effect in taking fashionable feminism in the Instagram age to taskAfter several shows in which showbiz and song featured as prominently as standup, Jayde Adams doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s being taken seriously enough as a comedian. This year\u2019s offering sets out to fix that. Having not read a book in seven years, Adams has been boning up on feminism. The glam couture has been swapped for a black turtleneck, uniform of the earnest. The Bristolian is not impressed by fourth-wave feminism \u2013 or by how Beyonc\u00e9 and the Kardashians represent it \u2013 and is here to take it to task.The Ballad of Kylie Jenner\u2019s Old Face \u2013 good title \u2013 is certainly a departure from her previous work, if not the great leap forward some have perceived. (The pop it takes at Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s feminism is reheated from previous shows.) Adams pours cold water on the progressive claims made for pop culture icons, arguing they conceal the more radical work being done elsewhere. Perhaps \u2013 just perhaps \u2013 Jay-Z grabbing his wife\u2019s backside onstage isn\u2019t really advancing the gender equality cause, while Adams posits a very droll analogy for the attractive actor Jameela Jamil writing a book about body positivity. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/aug\/22\/jayde-adams-the-ballad-of-kylie-jenners-old-face-review-a-pop-at-pop-feminism\" target=\"_blank\">Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner\u2019s Old Face review \u2013 a pop at pop-feminism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Bristolian standup\u2019s blunt good sense is deployed to optimal effect in taking fashionable feminism in the Instagram age to taskAfter several shows in which showbiz and song featured as prominently as standup, Jayde Adams doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s being taken seriously enough as a comedian. This year\u2019s offering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}