Pay attention Me Out: Protecting Our Maximum Unpopular Hunger Evaluations

Some crave items are merely common. No person may slightly debate the overall hotness of society like Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan, Janelle Monae, or Prince Naveen from The Princess and the Frog. (What? We can lust after cartoon characters, too.) Those other people simply glance excellent, and there’s incorrect level in seeking to downplay that. Nonetheless, relating to crave, there’s incorrect confidential formulation. Eurocentric good looks requirements be damned, there is not any actual science to provide an explanation for what will get us going or what offers us the ick. We similar to what we love — even if it doesn’t create sense to any person else on the earth. Even if it doesn’t in point of fact create sense to us! Blame it at the pheromones. 

In party of Unbothered’s first ever Thirst Week, a couple of courageous (very courageous) souls have amassed to get candid about our most questionable crushes, the society with faces that would possibly not slightly attraction to the mainstream however nonetheless get us sizzling and troubled all of the similar. Be warned: those debatable takes space from atypical to downright irregular, however we’re letting our freak flags fly freely. We all know that the sector may now not straight away agree, and that’s k — extra for us. However ahead of you pass judgement on, simply listen us out…

Unconventional Weigh down: DJ Jazzy Jeff as Jazz on The Unused Prince of Bel-Wind

“Season 1, episode 25 of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Hilary gets a job as the assistant to Queen Latifah’s character (the first of two Queen Latifah’s characters on the show) who treats her like shit. At one point, Jazz stands up to defend her, riding for his girl and standing up to the boss. I remember at that moment being like, You know what? Jazz is kinda cute! He was begging — begging! — the whole series to be with Hilary. At certain points, it was a problem because he was bordering on being an incel. There’s no defense of that, but we love a man who begs. One thing I’ve always been attracted to is the man who can’t get enough of his girl; he just wants to be around her, kiss her feet, and bow down before her. And Jazz knew how to do that. He also had a little bit of that Dwayne Wayne, A Different World vibe, and I love me some Dwayne Wayne. If Hilary had just given him a chance, I know Jazz would’ve been a doting boyfriend.” 

“He’s also so cute! I feel like nobody saw Jazz’s cuteness because he was always beside Will Smith, but he’s got, like, a Lakeith-Stanfield-skinny-Black-man je ne sais quoi, and I was into it! Actually, one of my high school crushes looks a little like him — nerdy Black guy with glasses — and personality-wise, as far as begging and I’m-just-happy-to-be-in-your-presence energy, and that’s 100% the time my husband is on, so I definitely have a type.”

Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Deputy Director, International

Unconventional Weigh down: Shrek (Sure, that Shrek).

“I feel like y’all haven’t really seen him like I have, but I didn’t start feeling this way until adulthood. I was rewatching Shrek — because it’s very much a childhood movie that I loved and it always makes me feel very comfortable and nostalgic — and I was like ‘Wait, hold on.’ I understand Fiona better than I ever have because I feel like as a child, they made Shrek out to be ugly, but that was very Eurocentric thinking. It was giving, white supremacy. I could see why Fiona would like him, and why she would give up her entire life as a princess to be with him. He has real estate, he takes care of his kids, he’s tall, he’s wide, he can chop wood, he’s loyal to his friends and family, he’s funny, he’s a hard worker. He doesn’t depend on anyone, and I like how he’s confident on his own.”

“Shrek 2 is where I really developed this taste. But I think in that one, he turns into a white man? I’m not sure of that direction…I like to pretend I didn’t see that, because when Shrek goes into human form, it’s like, ‘My God. That is not who I thought he was going to be.’ So I was very happy when he went back to his ogre self. Then as soon as I started realizing my feelings, I started dating men who are kinda… like Shrek. A lot of my exes are not gonna like this one, but I feel like they  look like him a little bit. They definitely had ogre vibes.”

“I know this is making me sound like a furry, but Shrek is a COC — a creature of color — and I really do respect him. He was being silenced a lot in the movie, but he always stayed true to himself. Sure, he has his faults — he does stink, and his teeth could be worked on sometimes, and he’s mean and a little bit crude — but I do think he could work on that. It’s nothing that if I was in that movie, I wouldn’t be willing to fix.”

Jessika Hardy, Assistant Manufacturer 

Unconventional Weigh down: Paul Giamatti, however particularly as Chuck Rhoades on Billions

“First of all, Billions opens up with a very risque sex scene between Paul Giamatti’s character Chuck Rhoades and his hot wife (played by Maggie Siff), and I was into it. Listen, it was giving dom-sub. Chuck is this district attorney who works for the US government and goes after white collar criminals. He has this big powerful job trying to take down these greedy rich people, but then the guy gets home and asks his wife to step on him with heels. So I’m like, Who is this man? I think it’s just the power his character has. Also, Chuck really respects his wife as an equal; she is very much his equal if not his superior, and he acknowledges that, which I find very attractive.” 

“I recently found like-minded individuals on Instagram Threads, and there were 300 likes on a tweet that said, ‘Apologies, but Paul Giamatti can get it.’ So yeah, I found my people. I know I’m not alone, but I also understand that it is a surprising pick because he’s an older than white man who just isn’t the beauty standard for men. For me, attraction has always been about way more than physical appearance. It’s about the energy you’re walking around with, how you carry yourself. That’s all way more important to me than how you look. I’ve been known to have a crush or two that’s unconventional, but it’s because of their energy. And I gotta say…Chuck Rose in Billions, he’s got big dick energy.” 

Christa Eduafo, Social Content material Strategist

Unconventional Weigh down: Marc Anthony, particularly as Detective Nick Renata on canceled TNT line HawthoRNe

“I won’t lie and pretend to be the least bit ashamed of this ‘questionable’ crush because I literally share the same taste as Jennifer Lopez: it’s Marc Anthony! (Always ‘Marc Anthony,’ never just ‘Marc’.) He may be all 5 foot 8 inches (Google, are we sure?? It’s not an issue, but that seems…generous) and like 165 pounds soaking wet, but there’s something about the man that’s had me looking respectively for years now. My Great Awakening probably came about a decade ago, when I started belatedly watching the gone but never forgotten gem of a hospital drama, HawthoRNe, starring Jada Pinkett Smith. It was your standard hospital show — wild medical cases, sex in supply closets, breaking the Hippocratic oath — but when Marc Anthony joined the cast in its second season, we really started cooking with grease. He played Detective Nick Renata, a prickly lawman who mixed business with pleasure after being assigned to investigate protagonist Christina Hawthorne’s (Pinkett Smith) sexual assault. His character obviously didn’t join the show under the best terms, but everytime Marc Anthony came on the scene, he made an impression. A very good impression.”

“Rumor has it that this was Jada’s first entanglement; there’s a whole conspiracy theory about how the show was supposedly canned prematurely because there was some…coworking that neither J.Lo, Marc’s then-wife, nor Will Smith were comfortable with. I might have not been on Jada’s side with the whole August Alsina thing, but this alleged entanglement, I can fully understand and get behind. On the show, Marc Anthony had such a powerful aura about him, like a man who was about his business and was always going to take care of whatever (and whoever) was his. There was just something about the timbre of his speaking voice on the show — don’t even get me started on that SINGING voice in real life! Have you heard “You Sang to Me?!” — the sharpness of his bone construction, the piercing depth of his wide-eyed stare, the damaging (however by no means horrifying) power he stalked round with. I used to be moved, to mention the least, and when HawthoRNe unexpectedly wrapped upcoming its 3rd season, I really by no means recovered. It needful me. And on lead of that, we will’t even flow the freaking display any place, so we need to lodge to fancams of HawthoRNe clips on YouTube to reminisce at the greatness that was once Nick Renata. TNT, you’re going to disintegrate!”

Ineye Komonibo, Tradition Critic

Unconventional Weigh down: Shad Moss, aka Lil Bow Wow (emphasis at the “lil”)

“I used to go hard for Lil Bow Wow when I was younger — like, I wrote fan letters and everything. The moment when I knew this was my man, my man, my man was when he first came out with “Puppy Love” and was once enjoying basketball with Solange within the track video. I in point of fact felt like I may’ve (and will have to’ve) been within the video. Next, when he did “Like You” with Ciara? I in truth felt jealous. “Basketball?” With Fabolous? Panty. Shed. I didn’t have my wave aversion to shorten males on the presen, so Bow was once in point of fact my shorten king. We have been like 13, so we clearly didn’t know the rest about love, nevertheless it was once the braids, the jerseys, the saggy garments, the shoes for me…it was once the whole thing. He was once the whole thing.”

“Bow Wow’s not really that unpopular of a crush, especially when he was the most poppin’, but I remember my friends clowning me like, ‘Sandy, you love this boy, but he’s so short!’ And people used to say that he looked like a cute girl with his braids (problematic, I know), but I saw the vision. I’ve since grown out of that stage — I’m trying to lower my height requirement to like, 5’10”, however I needless to say received’t be checking for a shorten king ever once more, and he by hook or by crook didn’t develop a lot upcoming that — but when Bow’s paying for a generation, I may have to look what’s up.”

Sandy Pierre, Branded Execution Supervisor

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