Flava Flav’s Women–of Questionable Taste?

Flava Flav’s Women–of Questionable Taste? by Roxanne McDonald

So the final girls in contest for The Flavor of Love are [and/or were] questionably ill-fit, or underrated, or unexpectedly perfect for the man who has mad skills, mad amounts of money, and a mad need for a true partner.

Krazy is not a negative kind of crazy but a likely contestant for American Idol who missed the audition calls and figured Flavor of Love would do.

Bootz is beautiful, tells it like it is, and continued to stay in Flavor’s favor, despite how she has refused to sleep with him until marriage (theirs or ?), though she finally had to learn her “time was up.”

Buckeey is [or was, boohoo] the top to Flav’s occasional bottom. In the bowling alley on their date, as they kiss and embrace, Buckeey commands him to grab her booty, and as he does as he is told, admits to her he loves a woman who tells her man what to do. She didn’t make time the way she should have, fighting with Krazy till she pushed a bit too far and too hard.

Delishis is not

as aggressive as Bootz toward her man (or as antagonistic with the other girls), but she holds her own and he shows authentic affection for her, just as she shows real motives for being there.

 

And New York is, well, out of control. She over (or under) dresses, over drinks, smokes, overexaggerates, overdramatizes, and…you get the idea. She is hell-bent on landing her true love, who just so happened to boot her ass out in the last season, and she is glad to start fights, engage in fights, and set others up for fights.

At the same time, Flava Flav is growing on those of us viewers who first might have discounted the whole Flavor of Love endeavor, and in his picked-out hair or non-pimpster/ganster outfits, seems a decent guy who isn’t all that bad looking or bad acting.

And watching and listening to Flavor critique his final beauties is as enjoyable as watching the final candidates for Flava Love brawl to the near death.

In one of the latest episodes, Buckeey and Krazy go at it, for example. Krazy is chatting with New York on the veranda, which is a good fifteen or twenty fight from the ground floor. As they chat, New York secretly soaking up the info and intending to use it in her own favor to win Flavor Flav, Krazy mentions Buckeey’s name. The topic has to do with who is “real” and who is here for the wrong reasons, and Bucky, overhearing only her name, comes out to confront.

And confront she does. She shoves Krazy so hard that Krazy barely avoids being catapulted over the balcony side onto the manivured lawn and hard rock walk below. You won’t get this kind of “real” intensity, “real” derision”, or “real” hatred on any other dating reality show.

In the meantime,

Flav is on a date with Deelishis.

 

In a close moment, discussing the friction in the house, ahem, she apologizes to Flav that she and Bootz are not getting along. Or is it Buckeey? I think it’s the Buckster, banging her way against every other female head in the house. Anyway, Flava tells her, very seriously, that she does not need to concern herself with apologizing about getting or not getting along with the other girls and that she need only focus on him.

He then tells the camera that he had to pour on the love and get that girl to come around, for, he adds, she is quite possibly a “keeper”.

New York is laughingly pretending to separate the rivals back home when Flav returns and approaches. He makes out with New York for a minute while the others continue to seethe and spit. He then goes to one of the B’s, eventually gets the “truth” from New York, who has told him they both were pushing but that Buckeey was the aggressor, and who has plans to kill her off this week and get rid of Delishis next.

At the clock/elimination/you-know-what-time-it-is ceremony, Buckeey is in fact booted, as the others smugly smirk or outright grin.

Krazy may be there for the exposure. She is absolutely gorgeous. Buckeey may be there for the adrenaline rush, thinking she has been chosen for a kind of extreme sports meets dating show TV. And Delishis and Bootz may be the only real deals in da hawz…. But New York is very, very clever, street-wise, and cunning, and is getting all she can out of BOTH the camera time and the time with Flav. SHE knows what time it is, in HER world.

Mind you, I am NOT casting a verbal vote for New York, here (though Flav does dig her and she is wicked smart, using language in registers above that of the others, etc.). I think Bootz is the one with the most redeeming qualities, the most dignity, and the clearest conscience – though sadly enough, she wasn’t fully appreciated for her purity and all….

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