SALLY HOLMES
Iggy Azalea is no stranger to wardrobe malfunctions. When you wear tight pants and are a noted fan of the booty drop, a split seam or two is par for the course. "I feel a wardrobe malfunction coming on," the singer told us with a wink when we ran into her at an event in September. And, though she appears to be fine living on the edge when it comes to her malfunction potential, she did not, it seems, feel her latest wardrobe blunder coming on this weekend, or at least not in time to stop it from happening.
At a bar mitzvah in Los Angeles, the singer was apparently performing "Booty"(the cruel, cruel irony) when her pants split, exposing, well, her booty/booty-adjacent area. And she doesn't seem to notice.
But maybe the most striking thing about this incident is how horribly, cringe-tastically, shiver-inducingly relatable it is. Iggy Azalea is all of us.
Have you ever split your pants? No? Maybe just a little? Well, I have. Where Iggy Azalea has mastered the booty drop, I have commandeered the plop—the unselfconscious, totally nonchalant art of sitting on the ground using gravity in lieu of muscles to get me there. Once, while employing such a move—specifically when I was attempting to sit on the floor to consume a Seamless delivery/Chinese food feast, picnic-style, with friends—my jeans split. I, unlike Iggy, noticed immediately, in part, because there was no background music playing to accompany my signature, seam-splitting move, so the resounding riiiip was heard by all. But also because I felt it—as that denim gave way, I felt a dropping in the pit of my stomach and I let out a guttural noooooo. Or at least my brain did, who knows, it was all very dramatic. My friends laughed, I died a little inside, and then I ate my Moo Shu chicken grudgingly as I mourned the loss of my favorite jeans. And it wasn't even a big deal. I was with my friends, not performing in front of shmancy 13-year-olds. I got to finish my Moo Shu chicken (I mean I'd already split the pants...); Iggy had to keep on singing and dancing and flashing.
"I'm sorry, I'm not over Iggy's pants ripping," Danielle Prescod, ELLE.com fashion editor said nearly two hours after watching the video. "It's happened to me somany times." Danielle, Iggy, it's happened to us all. And we feel for you.
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