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AMAZIAN OF THE WEEK! LPGA Tour Champion Michelle Wie
Name: Michelle Wie
Age: 20
Occupation: Student and pro golfer
After becoming the youngest player to qualify for an LPGA tour event at age 12 and turning pro at 16, only to have her career declared “over” by age 18, Michelle Wie’s finally won her first LPGA tour title. Wieeeeeeeeeee!
We’ve been tough on Michelle Wie in the past, particularly when she became better known for her bratty tournament shenanigans than her game, but her win this weekend at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational suggests that the former child prodigy who always wanted to compete with men may have grown up and sacked up over the last few years. Certainly what Wie had to say after her win can be taken as a good sign:
“I think that hopefully life will be a lot better (after this), but I still have a lot of work to do.”
“I still have a lot of work to do”…that’s music to our Hardass Asian Ears!
[AP: At long last, Michelle Wie gets 1st LPGA Tour win]
Filed under: Asian Golfers, Golf, Growing Up, Hardass Asian Expectations, Hawaiians, Korean-Americans, Michelle Wie, Michelle Wie First LGPA Win, Michelle Wie Wins, Punahou School Alumni, Stanford, Winners
ROCK OF ASIAN: New Album from Maia Hirasawa! GBGvsSTHLM
Our love for Maia Hirasawa is longstanding, and it hurts us that her new album, GBGvsSTHLM, has only been granted a Scandinavian release.
(But hi! That’s what makes the Internet so darned fun. We can buy imports with just a click!)
With GBGvsSTHLM, Hirasawa displays the beautiful benefits of maturation, somehow trumping her debut effort (Though, I’m Just Me) by adding a distinct polish to her quirky confidence. The payoff is an album that is both strong and sophisticated; ballsy, yet thoughtful and restrained. In short, it’s womanly.
Don’t worry, growing up doesn’t take the fun out of everything. “Hush Now” opens the record with her signature girlish tone, and “The Wrong Way” will satisfy those desperate to hear a successor to “And I Found This Boy.” But a duet with Nicolai Dunger, called “Come With Me,” actually begins to crack Hirasawa’s brightly-colored shell, allowing us her vulnerable side and, ironically, her inside voice.
Should you need any more reason to be excited at this point, allow me to share the video for the new album’s first single, “South Again,” which has all of the freshness of a hip hop track tucked into a folksy, classically-touched ditty:
Like growing up, it’s futile to resist. Give in!
xo, jRu!
Filed under: Album Releases, Beautiful Ladies, Duets, Folk Tunes, GBGVSSTHLM, Growing Up, Ladylike, Maia Hirasawa, Maturasian, Nicolai Dunger, Scandinaviasians, Swedes
ROCK OF ASIAN: Asobi Seksu
Asobi Seksu (which draws its name from a Japanese term for “casual sex”), an NYC-based duo perhaps best known for their loyal conviction to the genre of shoegaze, have stepped up their game. The band’s latest release, Hush, does quite the opposite of what its moniker declares–twelve tracks of newly-emboldened layers that aren’t nearly so modest or lingering as previous albums (How apropos, then, that the first track on the LP should be entitled, “Layers.”)
It’s almost as if we’ve witnessed the maturation of a pretty young woman: We met her at 20, pretty and promising, the wistful and baggage-free version of everyone we already loved and admired. And now she’s turned 30–with the same gentle soul, starry-eyed spirit and tissue-light temperament. But she’s real now; she is her own person and far more confident, edgier, and weightier–and somehow, now so much more alluring.
Filed under: Asobi Seksu, Casual Sex, Edge, Growing Up, Hush, Making Changes, Maturasian, Modesty, New Releases, Shoegaze, Tinkly Voices
Zaxy Buildup and Vanessa Hudgens
So Zac Efron gets photographed during the UK premiere of 17 Again with gross, waxy buildup in his ear, and as a result, is pelted with Q-tips during his next LA outing. Kind of hilarious!
But here’s what sucks. The person that suffered the brunt of the Q-tip attack was none other than Efron’s lady, Vanessa Hudgens…
Come Over Ear!
Except: we ladies can help you fellas buy jeans that don’t look like they were obtained at a 1992 Gap. We can help you pick out shirts for work. We can give you cologne for Christmas, introduce you to Kiehl’s men’s products, request that you shower regularly, and quickly size you up before you walk out the door.
But we can’t be responsible for your waxy-ass ears. Boys, that was yo’ mama’s job. And if you’re old enough to screw/drink/smoke, now it’s yours.
Filed under: Celebrity Couples, Cleaning Up, Earwax, Growing Up, Hygiene, Mothering, Negative Attacks, Paparazzi, Q-tips, Shame by Celebrity Proxy, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron
No Longer a Wie Lass
We suppose you can’t fault Michelle Wie for being ambitious. Coming off a much-discussed disqualificasian for not signing her scorecard at the State Farm Classic Saturday, the 18 year-old golfer will be playing with the big boys next week in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. It will be Michelle’s eighth time playing on the PGA Tour.
Frankly, we’re worried. A year ago, after she bailed on a few tournaments, we wondered if Michelle wasn’t fast becoming the Anna Kournikova of golf. A whole lotta sizzle but no steak. And now that she’s an adult, no one’s impressed anymore by her merely showing up. We love to see a woman competing against men, but girlfriend’s got to brang it. Otherwise, it’s just another tired old–yes, old–bid for attention.
Filed under: Anna Kournikova, Child Prodigies, Golf, Golfers, Growing Up, Michelle Wie, Playing with the Big Boys, Sack Up, The LPGA Tour, The PGA Tour
