Pom Pom Squad has a new album out tonight that everyone should go listen to, while we’re on the subject!
Right, but you could do the same side by side photos with.... Bring it on or like, any cheer related movie show it campaign
yeah, the pins and the long gloves, i'll give them that. but everything else is kind of a stretch, honestly. i just searched "sad prom queen pose" in google images, and it pulled up a few other similar looking photos. so yeah, pom pom squad didn't invent "sad prom queens" or whatever. but it is pretty interesting if there really is someone from her team that follows pom pom squad. guess it depends on how much of a say that person has and stuff, i guess.
Also, the photo above the gloves one is from 2019, not Sour, so that really kills that reference point
The gloves and the hairpins, sure. But the serial killer lettering is all a lift from the Mean Girls burn book anyway. People get way too intent on being a “detective” with this shit.
Two very common Pinterest and creative direction aesthetics. We've seen cheerleaders in music videos/album artwork for my entire lifetime. Also needs more love:
Who wants to go through Pom Pom Club's promo materials and do side by sides with all their references and influences?
I totally thought she was riffing on Carrie and Jennifer's body along with her early 00s inspiration so like bring it on and mean girls. But idk who pom pom squad is. Some of the pics do have a v similar aesthetic. But she posted a pic of Carrie recently so I thought she was taking inspo from that
Don't have a take on the controversy, but the PPS album rules and does remind me of this album except the reverse of the punky/ballad split.
Yeah I agree it’s much more likely Olivia is pulling from the pop culture pieces mentioned here than it is that she/her team are explicitly plagiarizing a small indie artist. However, if someone from Olivia’s team really does follow PPS, I kind of get the suspicion given how uncanny a couple of those images are.
Live Through This is a beauty pageant not a prom so she has no basis for her argument , in addition to it being gross to attack a child especially one who's a WOC
I hope Olivia has a good support system because now that she's the big new pop girl these sort of things will be happening to her all the time, warranted or not. Sucks that it happens like clockwork anytime a new young pop girl is on the rise