Alicia looks superb…….
but i got a question why everytime i come on here thiz stoopid advertising shyt popz up? itz annoyin ALL HELL!!! any1 else know wat im talkin bout?!?

I love both Alicia and Cosmo, but she is quite the hypocrite. If you’ve ever read her poem book, “Tears for Water”, she has a poem called “Cosmopolitan Woman” in which she says that she would never been on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. My, how things change.

I’m pissed about the Lebron photo shoot. Tasteless. What is their motivation?? First it was TO with Nicolette, now this. No, I’m not a bitter sistah. But It’s not a good look. I guess if Lebron made $0-$30,000 a year, this picture would be evidence in a court case.

Why is Janet always suffering from the flu? She is always sick.

Janet Jackson cover pic is spectacular!!!! ;p

Thats something Alicia wont usually wear but SHE’S BANGING!!! I LOVE AK!!!

RESPECT, To LBJ and I Love Giselle!

Love Janet’s cover. Janet’s always been very artistic in her videos and pics and is a leader in that field.

Love janet hope she feels better because hernew CD is really good.

Alicia is looking finally like a feminine woman, you would never guess she was a dyke by looking at that cover. Oh and Lebron looks more like King Kong with the white chick. Love Janet but its time to retire.

Shit they all look good!! Janet’s is fucking fierce…
And LeBron’s looks like he’s gonna toss Gisselle’s ass somewhere…
Alicia’s is hella hot
Bey better watch out…Alicia could take whatever Rihanna left behind of mag covers…

That Janet Cover is Hot as hell, UNLEASH ON THOSE B*TCHES MS.JACKSON!!!

janet looks sooooooo fierce on that cover! i love it!

I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mines. I was wondering why have the media and television found that its more interesting to pair a black man/actor with a white woman/actress or black woman/actress with a white man/actor. Not that anything is really wrong with this. But we haven’t really got use to black on black love, fully. Yes we have seen it here or there but this have been going on for quite sometime now. We love each other too. Even though I do know every race have their beauty, I love mines as well.They have more interracial couples on television programs than black couples. We don’t really have any black programs on tv as much as we use to. I don’t get it. Just wondering. That’s why I don’t really watch tv as much as I use too. I don’t really relate to much of the programming.

@85 I soooooooooooo agree with you 100%, even as far as the epitome of Black beauty is a female who is biracial. I mean come on now we have so many beautiful sisters out here and we have so much Black love out here and they make it seem like it doesn’t exist anymore.

I agree Angel! LeBron looks ridiculous on tht Vogue cover! Couldn’t put my finger on it but when I saw this I knew something was off…then on another site the blogger sd it reminded her of King Kong and tht whole myth thing (I didn’t want 2 get deep w it, but she hit the nail on the head 4 me)!

Janet looks…we like her usual freaky self!

A. Keys looks nice I just wish I knew what those headlines sd!

I love Janet’s BlackBook cover! Very avant-garde, and just downright FIERCE! She’s wearing the hell outta that patent leather dress. Go ahead, Miss Jackson! I ain’t mad atcha.
Alicia Keys is a very pretty girl, but she just doesn’t have that “OOMPH” in pictures. That’s something that you either have (i.e., were born with), or you don’t. Nice pics, though.
The cover photo of LeBron and Giselle is, well, interesting. I don’t think that’s the best picture that could have been taken of either of them. They’ve both looked much better in other photo shoots.

Most beautiful woman in the world. period!

of course, I mean Alicia Keys.

Have you guys ever seen LeBron’s Black Enterprise or Fortune magazine covers? Do you see his suits then?

This is the “Shape” issue he couldnt be in a suit for the shape issue could he?

you guys are looking way to far into the typical black man thing, we sound like angry black people who are pissed at everything!!! he is the 3rd man on the cover ever is anyone happy with the progress people like LeBron, Jay-Z, Oprah etc.. are making for all us?

I love that LeBron is the THIRD man and FIRST BLACK man to grace VOGUE but that is a hideous cover! That’s not Andre’s work!

The Janet cover is fly…

Alicia was showing so much promise with her style but her people dropped the ball with this ‘fit

Alicia looks cute, and Janet J. is pure hotness!

Keri Hilson’s album is coming in May which will include the first single which is “Return The Favor featuring Timbaland”. She has stated the first single should be out in end of March.

lebron looks real good i saw him lasy nite i also saw him when he came to okc when the hornets were here they played them the next day anyways we were in the club and i just remember him leaving he was with melo MAYBE but um o he had on this green like camo suit everybody was on them his crew cuz there in the back in the vio lounge but i was just chiklkin at thw bar

COME ON VOGUE..WHY NOT MAKE THE MAN CLASSY AND WHY IS THE MEDIA CONSTANTLY SHOWCASING BLACK MEN WITH SNOWBUNNIES…..UGHHHH

Lol everyone looks nice!

#91
Oprah is making progress for us…a freaking BASKETBALL PLAYER AND RAPPER are doing absolutely nothing for us…they’re merely ENTERTAINERS. Come on, now…didn’t you see the Cosby’s? lol The parents were professionals, the family friends were Jazz musicians and dancers…nothing is wrong with that (though I’d hardly consider Jay Z’s music real music) BUT the whole point is do something that requires thought… Jay Z’s money makes itself, now…He rapped about asses and we loved it and he became a millionaire and now he puts his name on clubs and businesses and they make millions because a millionaire is involved. And, Lebron was blessed to be 10 ft tall…he’s got athletic ability…great…but there’s nothing in that I can see that’s relevant to the black experience. He shoots, he scores…yay…

Again, I was joking about the jazz music and dance…I love art… But Jay Z is no artist…he’s a guy who can string a few rhymes together…quite literally a “smooth talker”… There’s hardly anything revolutionary in incessantly talking about your money, your street cred, and your beautiful bitch. Now, is there? As for Lebron…like I said, athleticism is noble enough trait…but I’d hardly call a dude who spends his every waking moment dreaming of fitting a smaller circle into a bigger one a trailblazer. No… they’re not Oprah. Oprah gets paid to chat…that is a bit self-indulgent, but she worked her way there, honorably…and that’s the point…

I wonder what Alicia talked about in Cosmo cuz I know it wasnt sex.

They should had Lebron with his shirt off since its the shape issue.

I’m sorry but Alicia Keys is SO ugly to me! If u look @ her hard enough, she does look like SHREK! And what’s worse than an ugly butch with a lazy eye?!!

As a Brasilian myself, I just wanted to say that Gisele is just one of the many shades and shapes Brasilians come in…If you have never been to Brasil, imagine a place where you have white, black, chinese, italian. morrocan “brasilians” all born in the country living in the same neighborhood…its like NY, Chicago, Miami…a melting pot of ethnic cultures combined with the brasilian traditions and values….its amazing,,,I give Gisele props for doing her thing in the modeling world and I also think they could have taken a better picture of her (not her best) …she still on Vogue and in that industry that is a HUGE accomplishment for them both..so give credit where it is due….one love

Dang! Look how big LeBron is compared to Gisele lol!

Alicia looks gorgeous as usual!

And I’m feeling Janet’s cover! Scream girl, Scream! lol

Alicia looks nice & natural, don’t see that to much these dayz.
and Janet Looks fierce i like the cover…

Alicia lookz good just lighter than ever. Almost white.

i feel that vogue are trying promote their ‘cosmopolitan’ image… fair enough… but placing one of the worlds most famous athletes on the cover AND PLACING HIM IN SPORTSWEAR… shows a serious lack of understanding, almost belittling the guy and his international appeal. they are introducing him as a sports player… based on the assumption that nobody knows him, and that he needs to be ‘explained to the world’ via a basketball kit and basketball… as a basketball player.
as a journalist myself, it feels like a 1dimensional gesture, as vogue is essentially a fashion mag…. so not only should the cover guy look stylish,,,,, he should be a reputable or undiscovered style icon. why are andre 300 / kanye / will i am, so on so forth not on the cover?…. because they undermine stereotypical depictions of black men….. they are not sports players, gang bangers, p.i.m.p.s or fundamentally….PROPS.
im not accusing vogue of being a racist publication,,,, by no means…..its a beautiful magazine and has influenced my own career greatly.
i simply believe that they (as seemingly ’spontaneous and shock inducing trend setters’) have an unfortunate inclination to conform to convention in other areas…. not the best idea.

greetings from london uk

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Janet usually bring with the photoshoots, but we’ve seen this before. Dominatrix-over sexed-Janet is so tired. She looks desperate to me.

Alicia’s like a completely different person now. With every album I’m less and less interested in her. I don’t think she’s cover girl material though. She’s not all that pretty or interesting to me. Who really wants to read her interview? She should just stay behind the piano.

I love Giselle lol. No she’s not the prettiest girl, but most models aren’t pretty. She has a great body for a model, she’s really tall and thin but she’s shapely. She’s got a good look. I don’t see the issue with Lebron’s cover, I think it looks fine. He would look like a monster regardless, he’s just not attractive.

@102

Why are you talkin’ that bulls**t for, lol? Blacks in Brazil are being oppressed and oppressing themselves due to their lack of self-knowledge just like they are eveywhere else. I’m from New York and it is a melting pot of different cultures here, that all predominately stick to their own race unless they have to come in contact with each other in the corporate offices. In those cases you can often cut the racial tension with a damn knife. Whatever you are you probably don’t even know what happened yesterday; much less your own history, you’re so caught up in romanticizing nonsense.

99 you sound like a very angry upset person. you think Jay Z and LeBron dont work very hard? you think what they get is just given to them? does everyone else agree with 99?

if so i believe you are very mistaken!!!! and the progress i am talking about is simply being taken seriously by ALL people not just black people or sports fans or rap fans. LeBron was on the cover of Fortune with a 3 piece suit on does anyone know what that even means?

#109
First of all, I am not angry, just bored… And, secondly, you’re impressed…okay. Rap, Basketball, universal appeal, and three piece suits, was it? Yeah…well, I don’t care…still doesn’t seem meaningful…because how does it help us? Is just entertainment…it’s minutia. Oprah, on the other hand, worked hard to get into SCHOOL and worked hard in school to get an EDUCATION…You seeing a trend? SCHOOL, SCHOOL WORK, EDUCATION… these are the things black kids should want to do because even if he/she discovers he’d rather follow some alternative course, all the knowledge he’s gained is surely never wasted. And, some might argue that it is only in learning about the world that one comes to know himself. No matter the end, the means are worthwhile themselves. Now, I can hardly say the same for basketball and ebonics set to music.

Alicia Keys + big 4head + greasy crooked smile + lazy eye = light skin Shrek

I love the janet cover!

alicia looks good too.

all these covers are boring

Again making too much out of a cover. Its a cover about shape.

#110

you dont get it at all. its bigger than basketball and rap please understand this!!!! these are black men who through basketball and music are doing things that they never let black people do!!! dont you get that? and they are doing it and portraying US (black people) in a very positive way.

you sound like you dont like hip hop or Jay Z or LeBron or all the above

Alicia looks amazing

Lebron look like his usual self

Janet is scaring me

Something looks a bit off with that picture of Alicia but I can’t place my finger on it. Kinda like they one a step too far with the photoshop touch ups. Wy do magazines make black celebrities look whiter and whiter as they get more and more popular? (I know in alicia’s case she’s mixed but whatever.) But this reminds me of photos I’ve seen of Halle Berry and she was beyond even high yellow! What’s the deal?

they want him to look barbaric. not classy. they would never do some ish like that to brad pitt. c’mon.
janet- hot mess
alicia- amazing. love that dress.

Doesn’t that LeBron Cover remind you of King Kong cluthing his blonde haired blue eyed token? C’mon Bron Bron, You gotta say no sometimes

Not feeling that Lebron pic AT ALL. Lebron is straight up perpetuating a stereotype (that of the brutal, wild savage) that helped enslave, lynch, and murder hundreds of THOUSANDS of our black men for centuries… and I’m just supposed to be content because he made it onto “massa’s” magazine?! Take that weak shit somewhere else.

This is 2008 y’all, get the hell outta the plantation. Despite whatever “pride” we may feel covering VOGUE, if it’s a negative image, it’s a negative image, period. We have to continue to demand respect and dignity. The more and more we let shit go, even if it’s small things, the more people feel it’s okay to be racist.

Alicia looks so pretty!! Girls is doing her thing!!! I can’t wait until her tour comes to the states! I’ll be there, FRONT ROW CENTER!!!

Alicia Key’s cover is plain and boring, but she looks beautiful.

Lebron’s looks alright. can’t believe he’s on Vogue. NICE TWIST!

JANET’S COVER IS FIERCE!!! PUTS THE OTHER COVERS TO SHAME! I LIKE INNOVATION AND THE OUTSIDE THE BOX FEEL TO IT! WORK THAT SHIT J!

@86 i completely agree with you that the media consider the biracial women
as one of the most beautiful women in the world Alicia Keys,Keyshia Cole even Beyonce because her mother is of cerole descent so you know there’s white in her family. and especially my baby Halle. what about Gabrielle Union Sanaa Lathan,Nia Long, Angela Bassett. Sure they’re called beautiful but not to the same level these other women….. oh why don’t mariah carey acknowledge she’s half black?

………..oh and rihanna

@ 53…..Please not I said hiphop and R&B clubs. I pretty sure she get played at pop clubs/gay clubs because the gay community loves Janet. But, here in FLA she is not in rotation.

Wow at these comments lol

Well Alicia keys looks nice on the cover

Janet looks Fierce

Lebron? I’m not feeling the cover either. I want to ask everyone a question in here. Would you guys feel the same way of Giselle was black? Would you guys then say he is perpetuating a stereotype? Just a question although I feel what everyone is coming from.

I agree Gisele does NOT look good in this photo.
Alicia looks GREAT! I just got tickets to her concert in Atlanta, SO EXCITED! Get it Alicia!
That Janet cover has been everywhere! CL, you late on this one!

GOOD goo-a-lee woo-a-lee ms keys that “thang is juicy” [your picture]. BACK THAT dump truck up, and dump it on me, bacc k it up and dump it on me “ANYTIME”.

#129 Please STFU!

#130 just as soon as you stop being rude sweetness

I, too, despise that LeBron cover. King Kong was the FIRST thing that popped in my head. It’s not a coincidence that a lot of other people did to.

We can complain to each other…but what does that do? Hit up VOGUE and let them know. The email address is talkingback@vogue.com. It don’t take nothing to just copy and paste your message and send it to ‘em

I also posted a comment on their message board @:

http://boards.style.com/t...essageID=72922&#72922.
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Alicia is HOTTTT…

That Vogue cover is RACIST as hell!

i’m not sure i like the janet cover. i took a class about advertising where i learned that the media often portrays minority women, especially black ones, as animals. by having her in a cage, i think the picture is just proof of that. it’s definitely creative and artistic, but i wonder if it means something more…

ALL I WANT TO SAY IS LOOKING NICE .AND ALICIA KEYS SHE IS GREAT BUT I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU .YOU CAN SING ALSO I CAN SING LIKE YOU.BUT I LIKE THE SONG(LIKE YOU NEVER SEE ME AGAIN)ALSO GHETTO SONG.

i understnd dat lebron shot was 2 show his body but his mouth dnt hav 2 b open lik dat
he dnt look lik dat wen he play ball…………lol…….. A.shot its iight same o same o….lol… janet difference i lik…………..but need 2 mak dat face

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they should go out but janet might be way to freaky and she might try to ty alicia keys up and rape her

is you out of your mind janet cause you know you can go to hell right but i understand how you feel but beyonce look better don’t you think i do even if you don’t

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