While the start of the new year for most people usually means promises to cut the sugar or toxic friendships out of one’s life, it’s hard to know if celebrities themselves make their own resolutions. For some, it’s hard to tell since most people in the spotlight tend to already have hot bodies (and flaunt them), and some may very well be so self-absorbed that they feel they don’t require a resolution, they’re already perfect. Well, we beg to differ, so here are our resolutions for them that we strongly suggest they consider.
1. Miley Cyrus
While we love the fact that she feels she has never been more herself, the new Miley has made one too many faux pas since her rebirth. During a performance in Mexico, she used the country’s flag as a makeshift paddle, which a dancer promptly used on her fake, oversized buttocks. There is definitely more than one thing wrong with that sentence, which is why we suggest Miley’s resolution be not only to educate herself on respecting culture, but also to learn to love her own southern booty.
2. Iggy Azalea
While we’re on the topic of cultural appropriation, our resolution for the Australian rapper would be to ditch the fake accent she raps in, which some people have cleverly dubbed a “blaccent”. While we’re not denying she can rap (though her freestyle is questionable), she isn’t fooling anybody when she sounds one hundred percent Aussie in interviews. Though some may argue that this is her real rap voice, she’s been known to be conveniently uninvolved in politics involving black people, a culture she tries so hard to be apart of, proving she’s no stranger to utilising only the best parts of the culture to get by.
3. Selena Gomez
Though we’d love our resolution for Sel to be to stay at least a hundred miles away from Justin Bieber at all times, I’m sure she’s heard this suggestion a million times and given up on it. After all, she does admit in her newest single “The Heart Wants What it Wants” that “[we] might be right but [she doesn’t] care,” so we’re just going to keep our fingers crossed on that one. However, our favorite Disney beauty might also need some schooling in respecting culture, as a recent trip to Dubai produced a controversial photo of her in a mosque, breaking one of the most obvious rules: no flashing skin. Which leads us to our real resolution for her: take a break from social media, because it seems the allure of the perfect photo for Instagram has people doing things without thinking clearly.
4. Harry Styles
2014 was a big year for the One Direction singer, with the band boasting countless awards ranging anywhere from their music to their bromance. However, there was one award he didn’t manage to snag, and that would be the British Style Award, an award he did win the year before. So why didn’t he win it again? While some may attribute it to his interesting choice of wearing fedoras at night, it is undeniably the fact that his shirts no longer seem to have buttons. While nobody really minds a peek at his toned chest, he’s starting to look a little too much like Fabio.
So, there you have it. While these celebrities do not stand alone in their mistakes, they are some with the most influence and power in the media, and so it would be wise to make themselves as good as a model citizen as they can (Harry Styles not included, as we’re hardly serious about his resolution. We love his reign in fashion.) We know they’re not perfect, hell, we aren’t either, but when they know people are watching, it wouldn’t kill them to think a little.
