This is what fashion designer and critic Emmy Collins wrote about Mercy Johnson’s look above..,,Read below
Okay, so I got this from a reader this morning, “ehen small aproko
…Emmy, I saw pics of Mercy Johnson looking tacky on other blogs and they
tagged her sexy. I confuse o” My understanding of the mood of the
author of this comment was that of someone gob-smacked by either a
blatant lie or blatant ignorance.
Mercy Johnson looks so cheap here that if cheap were to be animated
today, it would most definitely not want to be associated with Mercy
Jonnson. Yes, she seemed so hideously dressed in that hideous dress
(haha, playing with words, na me biko). I don`t even know where to start
or end, the N3k tejusho dress, akpola shoes, the “mgbekerish” pose, the
walls behind her(background), foot mat, et al, yet some blogger deemed
it appropriate to tag this picture right here “sexy”. Kai, sexy don
suffer ni. Abasi mbo, Chineke no n’eluigwe, Oluwa! What did we do to
deserve this?
Okay, I know what we did. We became too hypocritical. I can imagine
cheap (I mean animated version) blurting out words like – “abeg, abeg, I
know say I cheap, but no be like that nah,kai! No put me near that
cheap looking woman, biko” – when compared to Mercy Johnson in this
ensembles of hers. On a very positive note, we should all be thankful to
the almighty God/Allah that she didn`t venture putting on those sunnies
in her hands, because if she did, kai, egbe for gas, lol.
More often than not, I wonder if these sort of classless half-baked
celebrities that we are bedevilled with aren`t God`s idea of punishment
for all the iniquities we commit against him daily. We have “afọ anu”
celebrities that are ineffective in all spheres of life, be it politics,
fashion, etc. Tell me a Naija celebrity that has influenced any fashion
trend? Perhaps just about 2% of them have pet projects, except when
they surround themselves with cameramen while visiting motherless babies
homes. In another clime, these are supposedly the innovative bunch, but
it’s sad that the last word a well meaning and well-informed individual
would use to describe any Nigerian actress or actor today is
“innovative”. How did we get here? It has become a nonsensical game of
‘please find out where Genevieve or Omotola has visited, me too I wan go
there nah and make sure all the blogs will post the pictures’.”
Well, you guys know what I think about this image, what do you think?
Okay, Mercy, here is the deal. If you gonna be showing your mansion
in Ajah, shouldn`t you be spending some dosh on your style as well?
PS: I concluded a long time ago that some bloggers must be on some
cheap crack if they are gonna be seeing white and calling it black. I
will only do my best to call them out when I can afford the time.
