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Unless you’ve had your head down a rabbit hole for the last while, you’ll know the current flick that’s exciting emo tweens* is Twilight. The first in a vampire saga that’s really far too similar in a lot of ways to the whole Buffy n Angel thang to claim the originality so many are bestowing on it, and kind of horribly badly written too (not to mention the theatrically appalling Muse being thanked in the credits for each book, shudder), Stephenie Meyer is certainly no Anne Rice. I’ve still read it though – and all three subsequent books. Plus I was strangely looking forward to the film debut, too. Cos I’m a sucker, obviously. Yes, pun intended.
But while none of that is news, this is: there’s now a Twilight fragrance. A glossy red bottle is adorned with silver leaves, and it’s all very pretty indeed. Oh – and rather like something we’ve already seen. Yes, why yes, what it most closely resembles is indeed Nina Ricci’s Nina, (above right) slap-bang down its distinctive shape and shiny adornments.
Man, oh man. Seems originality is really not something closely valued by anyone connected to the Twilight empire, eh?
*emo tweens, no hysterical comments hatin’ on me if you please. I’m allowed to have an opinion contrary to the party line. Oh and Edward is swit swoo, by the way.
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Yea Edward did look pretty hot!
havent seen it yet! read the first two books over christmas…and afraid the film will be a disappointment…really enjoyed the first book in particular.
Hee – this reminds me of a conversation I overheard between two girls on how Edward would have been hotter if he hadn’t been so, you know *pale* in the film
Boozy I really liked the first book as well.
It wasnt as good as the book, they couldnt fit in all that detail but they did a pretty good job!
I am almost finished the second book, i think they are very well written and i am completely hooked! I was never in to the buffy/angel thing at all!
haha, hasn’t been so pale!? Whoever heard of a st tropezed vampire!?
if you dont fancy reading the books/watching the fillum check this out for a synopsis – quite funny
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/317176.html
on a beauty note, i lOVE the Nina perfume..boyf got me the gift set or christmas..tis so fresh..
ams – hahaha, amazing!
ams – brilliant!! hahah
I’m not surprised! My little sister loves these books, and the only other books she’s ever read is the Harry Potter series… 
might give the books a blast not to keen on seeing th efilm yet though,
oh yea and i wish emo would f**k back into its box. be a punk.
or go back to being proper braid/burning airlines/rival schools emo. When the name meant something.
Ha – I liked the synopsis. And as a huge Buffy/Angel fan, they were a whole lot cooler than Edward and Bella by the sounds of things.
never heard of any of this. as usual i must have my head firmly in a bucket!
admin i’m afraid you’ve lost me there braid/buring airlines? i thought emo was shortened down from emotional? anyway they are stil a bunch of self obsessed ejits. but who am i to judge!
tcup – yep but it has its roots in post-hardcore. It was a genre in the 90s in the states when a softer, more melodic and emotional side of the hardcore scene emerged and those bands like braid and burning airlines and bluetip typify it. But like anything it got appropriated elsewhere and now bears no resemblance to the scene that sprang it. Much like punk, really. And now I think I shall drag out my Ted Leo albums and give them a listen!
Yeah, they totally ripped off the Nina Ricci bottle. I wonder how they got away with that? Even better than this is the Twilight ‘dazzle dust’ you can buy from Hot Topic. Twilight is taking over the world, I tells ya.
I’m completely in love with Edward, btw.
twilight dazzle dust! what, so we can all sparkle too? Amazing.
DREADFUL film. Without the bit of Muse in the middle I’d have fallen asleep. The deep and meaningful staring across the carpark for the 10th scene in a row was beyond tedious. Like life itself. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaan. See you at the Central Bank. Where everybody knows your (emo) name…
^ lol! But Edward is GORGEOUS!
Yes, Admin, Twilight dazzle dust – so you too can sparkle like Edward!
http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/product.jsp?FOLDERfolder_id=2534374302028384&PRODUCTprd_id=845524442193019&bmUID=1229042985652
I’ve read a fake synopsis of the movie that was hilarious. Whoever heard of vampires that don’t burn in sunlight? What a load of toss. I’m very anti-twilight in a totally unfounded way – I refused to watch teh movie and won’t read the books. Despite having read practically every other vampire romance thing in the last few years…
laineyg – I like vampire muck as well, read twilight a couple of years ago and thought it was rubbish, but a mate of mine persuaded me to read the rest of them, so I did, just to satisfy myself mostly that I thought it was pretty poor. And I don’t *detest* the series, but it is incredibly limited in many ways, and not worthy of the hysteria. But a bit like HP, if it gets people reading who don’t normally, then that’s a good thing.
love the book, the film and of course the gorgeous robert pattinson, but even in my twilight obsessed state i can see that this is bit too far!
It’s very like the Delices de Cartier bottle too.
betty – yeah I wonder which came first? All I know is that they both launched in 06.
Admin – Yay!!!! deffo with the original emo, totally love rival schools in particular!
As for twilight well its all been done before but such is the way of things.
Anything vampire related usually suckers me in too.
movies awful, the hype is ruining it even more. why is everyone so obsessed. guna try the books..
Kirstie I’m not very positive about HP from a literary point of view either I have to say – the early ones I found not very well written – sacrilege I know, but well, I’m an adult and I read books all the time including a lot of fantasy so forgive me for not being captured by a kids book about wizards… Many of the vampire series have declined over time (LKH for example, disaster since about book 6) but Mary Janice Davison’s Betsy books are fab, chick lit where the chick just happens to be a vamp – they’re funny. Though I’m dubious about her taste in chews. I’d recommend those for people considering twilight unless the angst appeals…
Twilight is for kids as well, isn’t it?
I don’t think Twilight is for kids tbh. Stephenie Meyer wrote it for teens/young adults and there are some mature themes in the fourth book(which is pretty disappointing compared to the other book) They are brilliant books and I think they are amazingly written compared to a lot of books around these day. And the fact that it’s getting people to read is really great
But adults can like it too, just like alot of adults like HP(which is amazing too.hehe)
^ That birth scene in the fourth book turned my stomach!
penny – the name of the child in the 4th book was so totally and utterly SHITE that I think that was when I admitted how rubbish I thought the lot were. Renesme? OH PLEASE.
^ I know. It was awful! By that stage, I was just reading to see what happened at the end. The last book is pretty shite!
I am totally obsessed with the series but wont be running out buying the beauty products…..me thinks Im a tad old for all that malarky
I LOVE THE BOOKS! OH MY GOD! But I have to say I was majorly let down by the film. And a perfume is taking things a wee bit too far.
Penny- and they say that normal child birth is bad.hehe
Renesme was a bit…….gooey and cheesey, but SM wanted a unique name, so it certainly is unique.hehe.
I think it’s good to imagine that the 3 book was the last in the series and that the 4 never happened..
I love the nina fragrance, really sweet, feminine and deliscious ! Twilight is probably the same juice repackaged . . .
Sorry Deirdre, I meant to say teens or not adults, though everyone in school counts as kids in my book
Which made a mistaken nightclub choice very traumatic over Christmas!
haha. That sounds like a good story! Ah well doesnt matter although I was getting a bit afraid of little ones read Twilight.hehe
oh my
I completely missed this post due to the flu.
I did get hooked on the books and did find myself a bit into Edward despite what I felt was his ‘obsessive control freak issues’. I wouldn’t have rated them as works of art or anything but I did find myself curious to where she was going with it and as a result read the four books one after the other.
And I did find the religious allegory a bit heavy.
Fourth book was rubbish and I hated the freak kid character.
I think I liked Edward better in the first book when he had the potential of a ‘dark side’ – will he kill her or won’t he – but she completely ‘killed’ that as she went on in the series and I found his character getting duller by the minute.
But hey – who can resist a nice piece of eye candy despite his flaws – its fiction after all!!!!
DD
oh and another thing – what is all this emo crap – in my day it was called goths!
DD
twilight isn’t emo at all.