America’s Next Top Model Blog

1. Why did the get rid of Atalya instead of Stacy Ann? Yes, I’ll give them that Stacy Ann had a better photo… this week. But with her voice, could she ever really be a Cover Girl? I don’t think so. I hate that as much as Tyra et al try to make it about being High Fashion, it’s still about who can be the best Cover Girl… and then who can be the best High Fashion Model.

2. We all knew Kimberly was going to be cut first anyway, thanks for saving us the trouble. Good thing they took 14 girls this season instead of the usual 13.

3. I’m going to try a real quick hit rundown…

Aimee - Okay.
Allison - Sarah Silverman
Amis - Lisa++
Anya - Meh
Atalya - Peace out
Claire - Julia Stiles… but not
Dominque - Draggish
Fatima - Serious
Katarzyna - Not really America’s Next Top Model
Kimberly - Beauty Pageant
Lauren - Brittany clone
Marvita - Growing
Stacy Ann - Peace out… oh, right, well, maybe next week? Hopefully…
Whitney - Plus size who could maybe actually win it

4. How come Fatima just assumes Marvita is a [not-actual-quote]stupid, black American girl[/not-actual-quote] until she finds out that she’s been raped and molested, and then all is good? I mean, I know she’s been through a lot, but as Marvita points out, you can just be nice to people like “Hey, what’s up?”

5. I had Claire, Marvita, and Anya on my Top Model Fantasy Team this week. Not bad picks considering I made them before I saw even the first episode where they narrowed them down to 14. I think I’m going to stick with them for next week too.

I have another blog where I write about fantasy basketball. So, of course I was excited to find a site that is running a Top Model fantasy game. I considered writing one myself for several cycles, but never had the inspiration to really do it. I’ll be picking my Next Model Team Fantasy Team shortly.

The new model bio page doesn’t really make it easy to get all the models names… I’m going to go in alphabetical order, but if I miss someone, I blame the CW for not just having a list of the models. And, there’s 5 models whose names start with A!

If my calculations are correct, Aimee is first. Aimee is an 18-year-old Hostess from Spanway, WA. Actually, according to Google Maps, it’s Spanaway (yeah, I had to look it up), and it’s a suburb of Seattle.

Ah, the Model Portfolio page has everyone listed in alphabetical order. In her photo she’s working the skinny jeans, but I’m not sure sure about the top. From her video, though, she looks like she could be pretty fierce, but at the same time, soft enough to play well into the Cover Girl angle. I’ll be interested to see how tall she really is; she looks like she’s got height from the picture, but there’s nothing in there to give any sense of scale.

Overall, I’m going to say, for right now, she doesn’t look hard and/or edgy enough to be the winner. Nothing unique enough about her to go all the way.

You like how I’m so judgmental after looking at 2 pictures and a 12 second video? Ha!

(Here we go again!)

I was aware that Cycle 10 was starting on February 20th, but didn’t realize until last night that Feb 20 is only a week and a half away! Time to get excited for the new season! And with nothing to do on Wednesdays this time around, I can devote my full attention to ANTM. Hopefully it’ll be worth it this time around, because Cycle 9 was definitely one of the lesser Cycles of ANTM.

I hope to pump out some quick snap-judgment reviews of the model hopefuls over the next week and a half, but if you look at the posting dates for this blog… well… we’ll just have to see…