Jermaine Stewart Word is Out video

Fairy Tails: It's clear that "The Word' was that Jermaine slept with that rich woman's husband - the man who the song addresses, and accuses of being loose-mouthed. There was no sexual tension between Jermaine and that older, wealthy white woman, who at best approximated a sugar daddy (again gender bending, but we all know how folks like to capture fairies as pets).

He went to dance rehearsal and stomped-out the scandal with his team, who had seen all the brash tabloids. The kept looking at him like: Whatcha gon' do! Then, they went to earn their keep, dressed up in suits - like many other working people dress up in some garb - and they played straight.

It was sensational when that rich broad walked in with her fur, giving him the evil eye. The question is, the open question left in the video/song is what now? What do you do with what seems to be an emotional roller coaster, concerning a figure, a man in this triangle, who is not even seen in the video. The lover, the husband of that rich woman, is not seen at all on screen despite having the finger pointed right at him, though metaphorically we see him at least once. The absent phallic figure contested here between Jermaine and the woman giving him the evil eye. And where'd she get her money anyway? He appears in abstentia in the scene when Jermaine walks down the Champs-Élysées. He walks forward, addressing the camera face-to-face, while looming overhead is the grand Arc de Triomphe hovering wide behind him. Sitting next to the lyrics "," the phallocentric structure framed both the star and their triangle's relationship. Watch and enjoy. You betta work!

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