New York Talks Herself Right out of Flava’s Favor
New York Talks Herself Right out of Flava’s Favor by Roxanne McDonald
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We saw it coming, the mouth from the south (or north) made one too many blunders in front of “her man”. |
New York’s (Tiffany’s) presence on The Flavor of Love was unnerving to the other girls vying for Flava Flav’s love. Her comments and cocky, hoity toity attitude drove everyone nuts, despite how they made for great TV. And as many of us suspected (or hoped), her coo-coo manner was revealed to Flav, making him decide that her time was up.
As one betting on Delishis, I still was delighted by the progression of New York’s mania, misanthropy, and mealy mouthing.
She was creative in her slams, was tendentious in her duplicity, and gave us all a few thrills when she would do her commentary to the interview cams, announcing her superiority, denouncing the rights of other women to be in da house, and posturing as the ultimate Flava babe.
New York gave us some most incriminating dialogue. My favorites include, for example, how when she was preparing for her final night with Flav (in the final episode, “Flav Belize in Love”) and was gathering her purse and smokes and whathaveyou to walk out the door, she zinged [to Delishis], “I left my razor on the sink so you can shave your mustache….”
Whether these nasty comments were for the camera and audience’s benefit or not, many of us found ourselves first laughing (out of shock, I imagine) then hoping that the gentle and dignified Delishis would “win”. Not that Delishis couldn’t hold her own: at a breakfast or lunch in the shared housing quarters the day before, New York started in with her holier-than-all other girls shtick, trying her psyching out strategies, saying how she took such great pleasures in abusing Delishis, in taking out her aggressions and anger on her. New York also pointedly remarks how she is there because she authentically loves Flav while Delishis is there because, New York insists, she is a “money-grubber”.
Delishis very calmly responds that New York must not know about her baby’s father…who has “money on top of money on top of money.” This of course does not work to shut New York up, maybe because she doesn’t get what Delishis is implying, and so she continues to harass and harangue. So Delishis just calls her Whitney Houston—which does seem to at least slow the mouth down for a bit.
Worse, though, is when New York is on her final date with Flav. She first probes for info on his date with Delishis the night before, saying how since Delishis had not come home she must have spent the night with Flav. She demands the truth, and tells him she has the inalienable right to be informed, how she is the one who will “plan their life,” and how she will decide this and not tolerate that, etc, etc, boss boss this and future that….
And more than once does Flav recoil and tell New York that wow, she is acting like her mother.
Big red flag there, and New York knows it. She wants to resist his comparisons to the looney toons histrionics of the matriarch, but wise one that he is, knowing that children often repeat the parents ways and all, he lets New York know, finally, that time’s up.
Does she really learn her lesson? Uh. No. In a bastardized psycho version of the elimination ceremony of the bachelor/Bachelorette type reality shows, New York steps right into the now flustered and angered Flav’s face and starts screaming about why he brought her back, why he did and said and yell yell scream insult hurl invective and stomp.
And that’s why, New York. That’s why….
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Delishis is so right for Flav.
As for new york she is down right nasty and so is her mother.
lookin like some kid of monkey actin like shes da queen or something. Michelle is so rude to everyone and to top it off new york has her own show now. Thats not right man.
I don’t understand why Flav let New york back she is just a big sucky like her mom.
Comment by mmeekis — January 17, 2007 @ 5:06 pm