(1) SWINTON vs. (2) KATY PERRY
BRAD PITT: I'm confused.
SWINTON: I'm SWINTON.
INTERN GEORGE: I'm DEBONAIR.
BRAD: Don't you want to know why I'm confused?
SWINTON: Isn't that just the way your face usually looks, sweetie-love?
GEORGE: Oh, SWINTON. You are a card.
BRAD: No. I mean, I don't get this contest thingie you're in, SWINTON. You are not fugly. You are AWESOME. I mean, you look like some kind of Greek goddess in this mustard dress you're wearing. Even if it IS mustard.
SWINTON: Because I am SWINTON, dear boy. I succeed where others would fail.
BRAD: Then why do you keep winning these vote-y things?
GEORGE: I think I can explain. After all, I do work there. See, Brad, there are all kinds of fug: tacky, cheap fug; outrageous, attention-seeking, ridiculousness; BORINGNESS -- like your ex-wife. And, actually, your current lady, sometimes, too; and, finally, the wacky avant garde sort of shenanigans that our dear SWINTON gets up to, with varying degrees of success. After all, even SWINTON doesn't always look that fantastic. BEHOLD:
SWINTON: Even I bore me here. At least I look comfortable. And, remember this one? Snoozeville.
SWINTON: I YAWN.
BRAD: At least you were warm.
GEORGE: See, Brad? Even the great SWINTON can not be SWINTONY at all times. Although her archives are a treasure to behold. Embrace them.
BRAD: But, how am I supposed to decide how to vote, then? She's all SWINTON and the other one is all....the other one.
SWINTON: Vote SWINTON, Brad.
GEORGE: Hey now! No electioneering, SWINTON.
BRAD: Won't you be insulted if I vote for you, SWINTON?
SWINTON: You ridiculous little man. Don't you think I understand that sometimes a vote in Fug Madness is a censure, and sometimes it is a celebration? CELEBRATE ME, BRAD.
BRAD: Shoot, does this mean I should have voted for myself?
GEORGE: Not everything is about you, Brad. We need to move this along to the next one. Ahem, Katy? You're up:
KATY PERRY: Yes, you. RIGHT THERE. VOTE FOR OBAMA! I mean, me. Vote for me. ME!!!
BARACK OBAMA: Please leave me out of this. I have a lot on my plate right now. I don't have time for your foolishness.
KATY: Sorry! SORRY! Anyway, listen, I know you all love SWINTON, but COME ON!!!! LOOK AT ME! ME!!! ME! LOOK AT ME!
KATY: Can you REALLY vote against THIS? I'm not wearing it on stage. I WORE IT TO TRL!!! I am INFLUENCING THE CHILDREN....to wear lacy hot pants!!!!!! ME! I DID IT. ALSO THIS:
KATY: How many rompers DO I HAVE? I KISSED A GIRL! AND I LIKED IT! Look at my archives! I AM AWESOME!!! ME ME ME ME ME MEEEEE! ME. PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEE!!!!!!!
GEORGE: All right, this has been fun, but it's time to vote. Everyone, please consider the overall work of each woman this year, and keep it clean. Vote early, vote often, and, as far as my return to ER went, YOU'RE ALL WELCOME.
Katy. She's the fuggiest fug I ever did fug.
Katy Perry all the way. SWINTON at least has some talent.
SWINTON ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!
I choose to celebrate life and outrageous fashion, and therefore, I choose SWINTON.
It pains me to do this, but SWINTON's fugulous fashion can only carry her so far. Katy Perry MUST BE CENSURED. Vote Perry!
yeah but, yeah but... SWINTON is on the red carpet, pulling out her finest and best and taking 3 large steps beyond fashion forward, while Katy is at TRL and copying pin-up looks from decades ago. Retread. SWINTON is the future of fug.
Katy Perry wins this, hands down... she's trite, dull, and desperate in her efforts to be edgy, 'different', and cute. Tilda Swinton just... works it. Even when it's nuts, it somhow doesn't count as 'fug'.
SWINTON! Don't let those boring outfits fool you! Remember the Rat Cat Hat?
Put the WIN in SWINTON!
To vote SWINTON is to give the crown of fugly an aura of respect that might make previous winners feel justified in their fugliness. We could see relapses. Poor pathetic imitators.
SWINTON is forever queen, but I'm not sure that the world would be best served by her anointing. It is thus that, whilst swearing undying love for SWINTON, I must vote for Katy.
Could she not have some sort of special honorary title bestowed upon her instead? Great Grand Goddess of Fug does roll off the tongue rather ...
this dialogue was one of the best yet, girls! their expressions in the group photo are SO funny!!!
good thing "there is no charge for awesomeness."
SWINTON FTW because she is the Fabulous Fairy Fugmother.
SWINTON is weird but elegant and interesting. Katy's clothes are actually effing ugly.
now if it were up to me katy would win for fug-est attempt at pin-up girl chic...i voted for her all along...but...my girl SWINTON is queen goddess fugmeister bee...so she got my vote...SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON
also there must be SWINTON vs SOLANGE!! make it so...please god yes make it so
The Perry fugs well for a newcomer, and it is almost unfair to pit her against the well established figure of pure AWESOME that is SWINTON. SWINTON deserves further recognition to her contribution to fug, but Katy has brought fug thick and fast this year.
I can't vote against SWINTON, but those hotpants almost pushed me over the edge....
SWINTON! Her fug is not so much, "Look at ME!" as it is, "I don't care what you think, minions."
Yes, I went for Katy. For SWINTON'S fug is just to chic, to extraordinarily awesome...it is just to fabulous to crown as fug supreme.
Katy craves, desires, NEEDS the attention while SWINTON laughs in the face of external validation.
SWINTON is a divine goddess.
Katy is utterly pathetic and fugly so.
I have ingnored you, young Perry, this entire competition. But in honor of SWINTON'S greatness I succumb to your fugliness and cast my vote for you.
I was wrong before, SWINTON is right. It IS a celebration!!!!! FTW!!!
SWINTON!
She is a goddess. She is Fug. She is the Fug Goddess. And Intern George loves her - that should be good enough for the rest of us.
Ms. Perry, step away from the spray tan. NOW young lady. And don't you dare make a face. Work harder if you hope to achieve the SWINTONESS of SWINTON! (You should only dream of such Swintonness!)
SWINTON! FTW!
Respectfully submitted,
-Magno
SWINTON!
Thank you Intern George! I never had the courage to vote for a fugger I actually liked!!!! I only wish I had this courage to vote for the ever spectacular Posh!!
Fug Girls: Best. Dialogue. EVER!
Still SO conflicted though... vote for best, classiest awesomest fug ever? Or for true, down-and-dirty, shameless attention-whoring fug?
ARRGH!!
I knew this one would be close.
It's going to come down to "In your face, I don't give a fug, fug" vs. "attention whore fug".
I saw SWINTON will take it.
Oh dear God... I can't CHOOSE! I adore SWINTON and cannot stand Katy Perry. My vote will either censure or celebrate and I can't decide!
SWINTON, please forgive me if must censure Katy Perry. Your FUG is everlasting and above us mere mortals.
It's entirely too early for me to consult a vodka martini for assistance, too.
SWINTON SWINTON SWINTON- And I still champion the SWINTON tee- goddess reign supreme!
All this choosing and deciding is making me so very weary. Katy "ME ME ME" Perry is one of the fugliest fugs who ever fugged. But I simply cannot stand to look at another picture of her. SWINTON, however, is endlessly fascinating. Sometimes she looks amazing, and sometimes she looks a mess, but she's never tiresome. SWINTON wins my vote.
I am VERKLEMPT over this one! Yes, SWINTON needs to be given a special title and put (on a pedestal) in a Hall of Fame. She cannot compete against mere mortals ever again. It's SACRILEGIOUS.
I have GOT to calm down...
God, how I hate Katy Perry. She tries too hard and has nothing to say.
Dude. KATY PERRY FTW. Her "LOOK AT ME!!!!" attitude is fugly enough on its own.
Ok, here's the thing: I love SWINTON as much as the next gal - but the thing about SWINTON is she has a "style", and while it is bizarre and a little cracked-out and eccentric (to say the least), it still works for her. It is what has made her SWINTON, after all.
Katy does most of her weirdness for the stage - which I usually have to let slide to a certain degree. However, there is a certain level of cheapness to her outfits that seems inexcusable, to me. Plus: eyeballs on the boobs.
So - way to go, KP. You won my vote against the formidable SWINTON.
Oh, halp! I'm with Brad, now. I don't know whether to celebrate or to chastise. I'm all befuddled.
Ms. Perry is fun, but she does the same thing everyone else does.
SWINTON is unique. She sets the fug trend. Despite the fact the fug girls picked out her tamest efforts.
SWINTON is above the fug, even if she does dress fug sometimes. She is ABOVE it.
Katy, she's down wrestlin' in the mix!
Let's not give that romper-wearing twat more attention than we have to, please.
SWINTON, you have my vote.
i fugged a fug, and i liked it. SWINTON is gold, but perry... that broad is a FOOL of fug if i ever saw one.
SWINTON may be high art and all that, but PERRY is HIGH!!! She gets major kudos for failed creativity. Vote PERRY!
We are defining Fug here, people. We are adding the new classification of Fugtabulous, Fugtastic -- that level of outrageousness where you can't rail against it, you can't protest, you can't even protect your retinas from its incredible wrenching glory. You just have to go with it.
SWINTON!
SWINTON is not fug. She just needs MASCARA.
CAN I HAVE A VELVETEEN SWINTON FOR CHRISTMAS?? Katy Perry I never want to see you again. Bye bye.
I had to vote for SWINTON. Katy Perry totally dresses that way for attention, where as SWINTON actually is attempting to dress well. Plus, I think her complete lack of makeup and severe hair style should count for something as well. Lipstick, SWINTON, lipstick!!!!
Oh Lord, how I love me some Intern George and Brad, but I digress. George and Brad both love SWINTON and Katy Perry named her cat after herself. 'Nuf said.
SWINTON is a one-woman Fug Royal Family.
Katy is just a peasant who yearns for attention, and if we don't give it to her she might take her rompers and go home, which would be fine by me. More SWINTON!
Whoever wins this match-up will win Fug Madness. No one is as extravagantly obscure as SWINTON, and no one can beat the level of pathetically desperate fug which Katy Perry attains.
This is the big one!
ug this is just silly at this point, in no way does Tilda Swinton on average dress worse than Katie Perry, Beyonce, Lilly Allen or Spiedi
Enough of this Swinton business...she is a concept that people are smitten with but she is elegant and somehow pulls it off! I don't care what she's wearing. Ok, I'm still stinging that Beyonce didn't win that last round...fug times ten! So I'm rooting for Katy to win this one. Swinton is in a league all her own..mmm...new bracket next year? LOL
Ms. Perry is fugly, yes, 'tis true, but SWINTON?
SHE IS TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FUGLY.
Embrace the future of fug! VOTE SWINTON.
This is excruciatingly close, and surely Perry is the fuglier of the two.
Would SWINTON ever wear a hot pink leopard print lycra catsuit? NO. I think I have made my point.
I just realized that Katy Perry is like a trashy Dita Von Teese. The look, for the most part, is completely stolen. There is nothing interesting or original about her. SWINTON is like, I look at her once, I look at her twice, she is like a flashing light in a tunnel of darkness. I am bemused, I am befuddled, I feel like a preadolescent all over again. SWINTON and Bai for the final!
I THOUGHT I would go SWINTON all the way, but seeing that ghastly rick-racked romper again just made me nauseous. KP FTW.
SWINTON
Bless her soul, talented, unique, unpredictable.
SWINTON! Love her.
La Fuggers, thank you for having Intern George point out the nuances of the fug range. I think it is critical to understand it can fall into many categories. HOWEVER, I must implore people to vote Katy Perry over SWINTON for the mere fact that SHE ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE HELL!! Without fail I say! And SWINTON, well she can end up in the Well-Played category.
PLEASE VOTE KATY PERRY!!!
xo,
Justine
Katy Perry may be the princess, but Swinton is THE QUEEN OF FUG!
Katy Perry is quirky on-purpose look-at-me-fug. Swinton seems like she thoughtfully selects outfits that perhaps she really does think are lovely, and just happens to have really really bad taste. I vote for Swinton for Unpurposefully Fug.
I am a SWINTONite, based on the principle that we should not reward fame-whore hacks with any more attention. SWINTON genuinely represents the people of the fugpublic with her benevolent fugness, and good social programs.
Vote SWINTON, vote often.
SWINTON t-shirts! Get on it, Fug Girls!
Go get her, SWINTON! Eat her for breakfast and spit out the remains!
Inspired.
By what though?
Martini's? (what kind?)
Or lack of sleep?
Regardless, I lmao.
SWINTON, despite a beautiful face, an elegant body, TONS of presence, and couture clothing still manages to look dowdy, clumsy, and awkward EVERY TIME. The clothing doesn't fit, the colors are stuporously wrong for her, and nothing expresses her or enhances her. She is the essense of Fug.
Katy is just a trite, trashy, pin-up girl wannabe. Ugg. Boring.
I had to go with the celebration vote on this. Go SWINTON! Also, that picture of Obama is hilariously perfect.
Celebrate! SWINTON!
The Gods told me to vote SWINTON. See? She's already wearing a crown! Or a hat. Or a building. --with her delightful mustard toga.
God, I love that shiny pantsuit on SWINTON, and I love the way she wears it, like, "Hey, earthlings, just touched down to do this premiere, then I'm taking the lunar module home!" Her fug is delectable, delightfully quirky, not annoying or unsightly. Never EVER would SWINTON wear a boob eye dress, or pants of any hot nature. I vote KP, not necessarily for the win, as I believe that will be Solange or Awfully O'Day. Fug on!
I refuse to acknowledge Katy Perry's desperate pleas for attention, even if her attention-grubbing is insanely fugly. Swinton shall reign supreme!!
katy for the win!
Kodos to Katy for trying and holding in there so long, but Swinton fugs supreme.
After thinking about this all weekend, I think the Fug Girls need to have TWO events each year. I submit:
Fug Madness: held in March during NCAA March Madness, to crown the fugliest of attention-whore-y-icky-ugly-gross-tacky fuggers.
AND
Fug Pro Bowl: held in February after the Super Bowl, in which the ARTISANS of FUG who embrace their fuggery (SWINTON, Bai Ling, Juliette Lewis) compete.
What say ye, Fug Girls?
i've read that SWINTON's MUA always focuses on her skin because it is so pale, glowy, and Scottish, or something like that. ah, here's the quote from Wiki:
Of Swinton's au naturel appearance, friend and sometimes stylist Jerry Stafford remarked, “This is skin born of the Scottish highlands, so why hide it? Why the hell put foundation on it and all this garish lipstick?” [15]. Btw, here is a photo of her with makeup: http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2008/09/tilda_swinton?currentPage=1
SWINTON is fabulous fug. Therefore we should celebrate her and for once, let someone beat her.
Because Katy is the annoying kid who acts out for shock value and quick hits to her myspace page, the one who's saturated in the it's-all-about-meeeeee culture, screaming "look at me I'm so precocious and adorable and just plain darn CHEEKY! So pay attention to me! Please? ... Wait, don't go ... I have a gimmick and I sing! Don't confuse me with the Pussycat Dolls, I am cute and twee! LOOK AT ME PLEASE WON'T YOU ..." It's just sad and a little bit sickening. Just ... eww.
SWINTON for the win!
Am I the only one who thinks SWINTON looks like a female version of the Oscar statuette in the first picture?
At any rate. I find this matchup less difficult than I thought I would. I see the fugtastic images of KP, because she truly is a fug, but then I realize that there is no way she can compete with the gloriousness that is SWINTON. Last year Bai was crowned as the Fug Madness champion because though her looks were insane, they worked for her completely. In some way, I think we all love Bai. Similarly, SWINTON is insane, but it works, and we all love her at least a tiny bit. Logic prevails.
SWINTON FTW.
I want the tee shirt too! I can just imagine wearing it around my conservative town and making cool friends who actually know who SWINTON is.
But, I actually really liked the outfits they showed on SWINTON. Maybe a bit boring, but there's something to be said for dressing appropriately for the occasion and appropriately for your age - something SWINTON has down.
Ms. Perry, on the other hand, does neither, and although I secretly want her rompers to be my swimsuit this year - they do not belong on any runway.
But, it was a sad, boring weekend without the fug madness...so glad it's back!
I celebrate the glory that is SWINTON!
I voted for Katy Perry. SWINTON is not fugly so much as she is on another plane too surreal and exalted to be understood on our low, grubby level. Katy Perry, on the other hand, is wearing lace hot pants.
I hadn't voted for her until now, but I have to go with SWINTON. I'd rather support the elegant high-brow FUG than the tacky fame whore FUG. Plus, I want to see a SWINTON v. SOLANGE showdown.
Celebrate FUG! Celebrate FASHION! Celebrate PERSONALITY and SPIRIT!
WHY AM I SHOUTING!?!
Perry's fug is plastic!
SWINTON is DIVINE! LA SWINTON FTW!
SWINTON is a goddess. FUG goddess, and all around goddess. Katy is another boring attention whore. Yawn.
Take time to re-read the W article from September about the SWINTON: http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2008/09/tilda_swinton
She must be our Reigning Queen.
One more thing - I'm with you Amy - a FUG BOWL in February would help me get over the post football season blues (I'm from Texas - we like us some football - and some big hair and a lot of make up, but I digress). FUG FEBRUARY!
Please, SWINTON of course! Katy is all for showing...
Come on, SWINTON is just getting the sentimental vote. Her clothing is eccentric. Katy is seriously fug.
OK, I voted for the Goddess Swinton. Katie is strictly kiddie fug only.
Katy Perry is clearly the fugliest of the two, but SWINTON gets the sentimental vote. She's just so DELIGHTFUL!
Celebrate the SWINTON! Katy Perry & her rompers of terror are no match for mustard Greek goddess-chic!
I cannot vote against SWINTON. She is too awesome.
I can't believe how close this one is!?!?!?! So many people I know have SWINTON for the WIN! (While I, personally have a Beyonce/Solange showdown, I think Swinton belongs in the final four.)
I think Laura R's suggestion of a division into two fug-offs is FANTASTIC. The tension between fugly attention-whoredom and fugly goddessdom is evident at this point. There's fug, then there's a whole 'nother glorious stratosphere of fug. Apples and oranges. It is an insult to SWINTON that she even be put in a category with Katy Perry; there is no comparison.
I am all for a Fug Superbowl next year! SWINTON would look fabulous in monster shoulderpads.
All that and an Obama cameo! Who could ask for anything more?
Anyway, I voted for Katy Perry. I cherish and adore SWINTON, but she at least dresses like a grown-up; her biggest problem, and I say this as a fan, is that her head is small in proportion to the rest of her, and when she dresses to flatter her amazonian proportions, she often looks like a dress walking around with a head tacked on as an afterthought. (Also, mustard isn't really her color.) Katy Perry, on the other hand...wants our attention. Badly. And just for today, I gave it to her.
If SWINTON doesn't take this, it's the last time I fug!
SWINTON!!!
SWINTON!!!
SWINTON!!!
She's an avant-garde actress, for god's sake. She worked with Derek Jarmin. SWINTON for the win, for all time!
Due to Fug Madness, I have already forgotten SWINTON's actual first name.
However, Katy Perry is true tacky-cheap-ridiculous FUG, while SWINTON is more kooky-avant garde. I had to vote for Katy.
P.S. Is the winner's statuette still going to be SWINTON on that magazine cover?
Sorry guys, I'm voting Perry. Swinton might have an unfortunately large collection of burlap sacks, but she's never harassed my eyes with Hello Kitty and hotpants.
There is no originality in the Katy Perry fug. It's always something short up top that bares the arms and shoulders and most if not all of the leg, attempts some kind of cute statement, and fails. So in desperation, girlfriend adds a pump. (Not even a good one.)
And I pity KP for the ironic use of our serious President's image on her tragically stupid body. Boo! to the queen of trash. Boo!
She's dumb. She's haphazard. Were she ever to find herself standing in SWINTON's place -- between Brad and George -- she'd probably strip off what's left of the little she still has on.
Meanwhile, SWINTON carries herself with such pride and happy heedlessness, irrespective of her ridiclous getups. Give her credit for this: it's got to cost a lot to have a velvet pantsuit made. Who'd know about this? Elvis?
And it's got to bother the nanny when she goes in and finds that SWINTON has brought down her blue bedroom drapes for her latest last-minute red-carpet look (add a bracelet and some crazy suede platforms and you're DONE, son!)
Now THAT is creativity, in the true sense of the fug. A romper is just a romper, especially if played more than once.
There. I dissed a girl, and I liked it...
Sweet Jesus, how to vote on this one??? Until now, I've been with SWINTON all the way. And yet, Perry is formidable. She is the $4.95 all-you-can-eat buffet of inadvisable combinations to SWINTON's fine dining. Do I vote for the woman who can wear a toga and look as classy as a Screwdriver served in a highball glass, or for Perry, the banana split of fug? And yet, SWINTON in her dress suit combo with orange sprinkles and blue M&Ms collar brings to lurid dessert dressing - ala Perry - a new level of FIERCE. WHO TO CHOOSE????
I must agree with previous posters who note that, as much as we love her, pushing SWINTON through will lend too much prestige to the title. Therefore, I must vote for the supremely obnoxious fug of Katy Perry.
SWINTON is avant-garde, not fug. Also, her clothes are often completely bizarre, but they're never insanely inappropriate.
Katy Perry is both insane and inappropriate. Like Beyonce, she's 100% faux-fabulous. Superfug.
I'm a little horrified the race is so close... refusing to wear pants is easy, being SWINTON is an art.
We are here to celebrate the tragically original FUG, not a carbon copy of a copy of a mall punk/Sanrio junkie.
SWINTON lives FUG, and remains true to herself the entire time. And she does it without giving a damn about what we think. That is the purest form of FUG. Is it still FUG if there is no paparazzi called to photograph it? Yes, and its name is SWINTON.
Kate Perry is a cheap, attention-seeking yawnsmobile. SWINTON is the Rolls Royce of fug. Vote SWINTON!
my vote is for katy perry. she's legit fug, and has absolutely zero talent. SWINTON, however, is a wonder to behold. her kooky outfits, althought sometimes fug, sometimes blah, speak on a greater level.
This is such a tough one. Initially, I had my doubts about the rightness of SWINTON even being included in Fug Madness, because her fug is so extraordinary, I felt like she didn't belong among the common pantslessness and sideboobs of her competitors. I have to say I voted for SWINTON in the knowledge that if she wins, it will be for the great new REVOLUTION OF FUG which she has brought to GFY.
That dialogue was just fantastic! All these random photos and yet it all just works, made me laugh out loud at work!
I had to vote Katy. I appreciate Swinton for what she's doing, but I don't appreciate Katy's not-hidden attempts to get my attention.
SWINTON could curdle Kate Perry with one glance. I think she is getting taller. And taller.
Famewhore Fug = K. Perry = WIN!
Swinton is an artist and methinks they are exempt from praise or censure fashion-wise.
SWINTON for president!!!! katie's little face dress would be more fabulous if it had the likeness of SWINTON on it...
This was SO hard!!!! Katy's rompers are horrible.
I just had to go with celebrating SWINTON. She's awesome.
I also want to see a Super Bowl of FUG and Fug Madness. Awesome idea! More work for the Fug Girls, I suppose, but wouldn't it be delicious?!?
You nailed it, my vote for SWINTON is a celebration. I don't want her to change. Katy Perry is deeply annoying and she dresses like Betty Boop on acid, but she's essentially a boring person with boring songs. She doesn't deserve any more attention, good or bad.
Listen, anyone who does a performance piece called "The Maybe" where they lay in a glass box unmoving for 8 hours a day for a week (in galleries in London and Rome) proves they have the fortitude to take this FUG game to the extreme! SWINTON!
I actually cannot believe how close this is. SWINTON REIGNS SUPREME! If we vote for KP then we'd just be giving in to her attention seeking ways, SWINTON at least should get the chance to reign over ALL.
Swinton would be less fug if she had eyebrows. But at least katy is kind of cute in her fugliness, whereas ms. swinton is just kind of scary (and eyebrow-less)
Forever SWINTON. Her fugliness is of an innovative and trail blazing kind.
Is one an optimist or a pessimist? Does one believe their cup to be half full (SWINTON) or completely empty (Katy Perry)? Will good always prevail (SWINTON) or evil devour the world whole before the apocolypse (Katy Perry)? If we want our eyes to feast and nourish we will join the army that fights for the side of gifted (if strange) artistic expression. If we want to lay on the sofa and let our corporate sponsors tell us what is interesting, we'll eventually let Katy host Entertainment Tonight. RAGE FELLOW WARRIORS!
Celebrate SWINTON! Love SWINTON! Katy deserves no recognition for her sophomoric, classless fug. Yes, fug with a lowercase "f".
This was the hardest yet! I almost went for Katy, but in the end it had to be SWINTON - Katy is fugly just to get attention, whereas SWINTON is effortlessly fugly - fugly with style! (Is that a contradiction in terms? Not sure).
What I'm hoping is that, if Katy gets ignored enough, she'll go away - like in The Simpsons episode with the giant advertising logos. I'm sure losing Fug Madness is a first step...
I truly hate to vote against SWINTON and i'm hoping the votes turn out for her because she truly is her own wonder of the world but Katy's hot pants attire is a force to be reckoned with in this round...
Best Fug Dialogue ever!
It's gotta be SWINTON for the win.
I refuse to consider the alternative!
SWINTON is a mighty force, but Katy Perry is tacky and often lacks pants.
Another commenter said that SWINTON's outfits show no personality. Really? There's a very clear trend here and just because the personality shown is very austere doesn't mean it ISN'T one.
Okay. My fellow warriors have persuaded me. Over the carousel, over the bananas, over the boob-eye bodice, I choose life. I choose SWINTON.
The best thing happened to me by following all the jumps. I found out that Zooey Deschanel has a music CD out there.
I was completly torn by this. It came down to seeing one picture of Katy in a perfectly lovely dress. It only proved your spot-on ME-ME-ME LOOK AT ME! She's dressing this way for attention. SWINTON is just being SWINTON. Pure. How can you not vote for her? LONG LIVE SWINTON!
"SWINTON is a goddess. FUG goddess, and all around goddess. Katy is another boring attention whore. Yawn."
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. SWINTON!
hm. this really is a case of two different fugs. i could censure. but i choose to celebrate. SWINTON.
SWINTON. It's the make-up that bothers me. Either it's there, in a massive ick way, or it's nothing in a way too clean scrubbed way.
I am through giving any further attention to Ms. Perry. WE GET IT KATY. YOU LIKE FRUIT, COLORS AND HAVING YOUR PICTURE TAKEN! (oh, and making out with people wearing Chapstick) Cease and desist!
No one can out-fug the genius of SWINTON.(except maybe Solange...)
I so am for SWINTON for the win! She is the epitome of joyful fug awesomeness and must be celebrated!
Katy Perry is an amateur nutjob. SWINTON is a pro.
...okay, I voted for SWINTON only because I could not deal with seeing Katy fucking Perry one more time. After all, the greatest insult is not winning Fug Madness, it's that you were even nominated at all. (Unless you're SWINTON. Or Posh. Or Bai.)
45% of fuggers (as of this posting) are more masochistic than I.
Katy would kiss a girl not because she liked it, but because it would sell records. SWINTON would kiss a woman (note word choice here) for FASHION. And ART. And because SHE DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN.
I know in case of awful fug I should vote KP.
BUT: I want SWINTON to win as a celebration of Fugawesomeness.
Also because I want GFY have a visit of the great mustard-coloured goddess to claim her prize.
Yes! THANK YOU George for that ER appearance!
SWINTON!
Only because I'm tired, oh so tired, of Katy Perry!
This was almost impossible to decide.
Clearly SWINTON! is all that is fabulous and exotic and KP is tacky and gross.
I almost voted for KP, but then I took a look back at the archives like all good Fug Voters do and laughed so hard at SWINTON!'s taupe tuxedo that I had to vote for her, even though that was years ago and I heart her.
"...and sometimes it is a celebration."
Indeed!! Yet, I can't help agreeing with those who argue that SWINTON is in a plane unto herself. How can her majestic fug even be compared to that of mere mortals?
Perhaps we have this all wrong...instead of being IN the competition, would it not be more fitting that she preside over it all from a throne-shaped cloud in Fug Heaven where the winner could then prostrate themself before her greatness and kiss the ground she walks on.
I am voting SWINTON because she's the only I've ever seen who's face looks bald. Plus, she is super FUG and we won't know who Katy Perry is in a couple of years anyway. Long live SWINTON!
I am voting SWINTON because she's the only person I've ever seen who's face looks bald. Plus, she is super FUG and we won't know who Katy Perry is in a couple of years anyway. Long live SWINTON!
Sigh. This was so difficult. I going to need at least one margariata and a lie down with cucumber slices over the eyes to get over the fact that I didn't vote for Katy Perry's Eye of Sauron get up. But ... I am helpless before the Power o' SWINTON. The woman is a Megalith of Fug. Cue the apes and the Strauss playback ...
I must protest--again--against voting for SWINTON. She's BEAUTIFUL, TALENTED, BRILLIANT, and ARTISTIC. To some people, she's "fug," but then some people like to watch Spike TV and eat Cheese Whiz. SWINTON is NOT fug. I love this blog, but I will be totally disappointed if SWINTON wins. Let's remember what "fugly" means:
f**king ugly
And SWINTON is NOT fugly. Please please please do NOT vote for SWINTON!!!
I'm voting for SWINTON only because I don't want to acknowledge Katy Perry's existence anymore. She may be fuglier, but I just want to pretend she isn't there in order to help speed her descent into complete obscurity.
Long live SWINTON!
Between the fantastic and the absurd!
Even though Katy Perry fills me with loathing and bile, I had to vote SWINTON...If only so there are more chances for me to bask in her glorious fug.
BEST DIALOGUE EVER!! glad intern george finally got to put his 2-cents in, and what a gloriously sexy 2-cents they were.
As much as KP makes my blood boil in her onesies, I can't not celebrate the glory of SWINTON. she's like a magical being from another world, with fashion sense that we can't even being to comprehend. How lucky are we she chose our planet?!
3 CHEERS FOR SWINTON! SWINTON FTW!!
Swinton. Definitely Swinton. You can't deny the amazing fugness. Katy Perry who? psh, she does things only for shock value but $10 says the girl throws on Gap jeans and a tshirt everynight when she gets home from her gigs...whereas I truly imagine Swinton...roaming around her house...wearing ANY outfit she has worn this year...YES. And that, my friends, makes her truly awesome.
Stop being such kiss-asses for the Fug Girls! We know they love The Swinton, we ALL love The Swinton, but she (The Swinton) actually pulls that shit off sometimes! And THAT is what makes her so AWESOME, but not so fugly. My GOD, that KP dress with the eyeball/boob dress alone is enough to win the whole shebang!
While I also worship at the Fug altar of all that is SWINTON, I could not bring myself to vote against the merry-go-round skirt. KP stuck her legs through a carousel and wore it on stage. In public. This must be rewarded/censured/acknowledged in some way, even if it is only with my one measly, useless, futile vote. Or maybe several of them, if I want to take the trouble to refresh the browser a few times.
And just as I requested Intern George explained my Tilda-SWINTON-voting logic at last. Viva la FugGirls.
lol at Obama guest starring here ;D
(erm I still voted for Perry, she annoys me to the very bone and the fact that some actually think she's a great, kinky, quirky dresser is just... too much!)
sidenote: how great would it be if we could comment on every post :))))
Swinton! Because Katy will not understand what a win means in her case.
I had to go with Katy Perry. She's so new on the scene, and her fug so obnoxiously in-your-face, that it needs to be noted. Swinton, on the other hand, has a lustrious career of awesome fug. I don't want this to be one of those occasions where the winner is a courtesy win (a la Kate Winslet at this year's Oscars). Katy honestly had some of the fuggliest fug of all this year, and it was EVERYWHERE. She's annoying as all get out, but Katy ftw!
This was the hardest one. I absolutely love SWINTON, but Katy is truly fug. Love Obama's interjection there!
This is a tough one, and I'm still deciding because it seems like even the most opposed comments make really good points. I have SWINTON for the overall win, but the more I see of her, the more she's like a Cate Blanchett for me: sometimes her clothes are absurd, but she has such a regal expression and posture that she often pulls it off in a way that makes it not fug at all. Katy Perry, on the other hand, makes me want to puncture both my eyes and eardrums...what to do? what to do?!?!?
On a separate note (and apologies if its already been said and I missed it), but for performers like Katy Perry, I don't understand why some readers are up in arms about costumes being considered as part of the fug. I admittedly have no actual knowledge of what goes on in designing concert ensembles, but I have to believe the performers (especially when they become major names like Beyonce) have a fair bit of say in what they wear, no?
Viva la Fug Madness!
A celebration of SWINTON is a celebration of LIFE, people. Katy Perry's fug just reeks of desperation. VIVA LA SWINTON!
I considered voting against SWINTON, but when it came right down to it, I just didn't have the courage:
http://www.hotflick.net/pictures/000TBC_Tilda_Swinton_015.html
Plus, Katy Perry sucks.
Well, La Perry for the win. No doubt. No questions. As plain as "I wear fug clothes and I like it".
Ladies – I vote for YOU! The dialogue, the pictures (plural) of Intern George, the inclusion of the president! This was the best post ever! I voted for Perry only because really, she has got to be stopped… SWINTON is tragique, Perry is just tragic.
It pains me that it is not Beyonce vs. KP; Beyonce would mop the floor with KP.
Sigh. I said it before and I'll say it again. SWINTON is far beyond this competition, she is untouchable. Mere mortals such as these cannot compete with her. It is an insult to her to even be named in this earthly contest.
I can scarcely believe I went with KP on this one--I am still reeling. But yes, the carousel skirt. To clack about onstage in a plastic Fisher Price playset just...I don't...gaah. It came to this: I look at Perry and think "oh, stop it right now, missy," and then I behold SWINTON (because you must behold, not just look at, her) and am given to shout "NEVER STOP, SWINTON, NEVER. You just keep on being our fabulous TREASURE."
I do still want her to be the trophy, though. And maybe she could receive some kind of emeritus/lifetime achievement award? Like when they hand out Irving Thalberg's little bald head at the Oscars?
If this were a competition of fug celebration, Posh would still be a contender. SWINTON is awesome, but Katy Perry is actually FUG.
I've said it in an earlier post: SWINTON looks like a pre-rafaelian painting, especially in that mustard dress.
Kathy Perry on the other hand... I sigh in her general direction.
CELEBRATE SWINTON.
Fug madness gets harder game by game and year by year. As much as Swinton's bold fashion choices delight me, I had to vote Perry - Swinton sometimes manages to look beautiful and she always has a regal air. Perry on the other hand, always looks like she was dressed by a six year old that dreams of being a hooker.
thank you for the explanation of fuggery. i feel the same way. and AWESOME fug trumps tacky fug any day of the week and that is why SWINTON is going to take this, no problemo. on that battlefield she is undefeatable. and i still want that rainbow dress.
also the barack obama cameo CRACKED me up, nicely done ladies. :D
I'm glad your post brought up the many faces of fug. To me, SWINTON embodies celebratory fug, while Perry epitomizes the ugly attention-seeking fug I hate. Had to choose life and vote SWINTON, but if Perry wins I will likely vote her nasty ass all the way to the top. For gross fugliness, she can't be beat.
All I can say is, laughing so hard I'm not sure which button I voted. BEST. POST. EVER.
I'm hoping SWINTON wins, sees this, and then puts on some fugging eyeliner.
COME ON TEAM KATY!
Tilda Swinton gets a lifetime pass from me for inspiring Derek Jarman; she could show up in an outfit concocted from roof tiles and the cotton left over from pill bottles and she'd still be brilliant and clever and glorious.
Katy Perry is just an annoying, lace-trimmed thorn in the side of talent.
It would have been tough, hadn't I honor my principles:
Fuglisciousness over censure.
Colorful energy over tacky dullness.
Yes, one must congratulate Ms. Perry for her success at playing an old hand with such vulgar brio, with such tastless creativity (the eye-dress!!!!!!)
But Swinton is a (fug) GODDESS - and she is a genius. Go Swinton, we believe.
Oh Fug Girls, you really outdid yourselves on this post. Can't...stop...laughing...Will...read...over...and....over....
This is ridiculous. Katy Perry is far fuglier than Swinton.
SWINTON reigns supreme as ultimate crazy ruler of the universe, but Katy Perry is fugly--really really fugly--and I feel that she deserves to win an award dedicated to those who reach the heights of fashion horror--heights that she has reached and then surpassed. SWINTON, however, deserves simply to be honored. If she wins this contest then the award might need its name changed.
CELEBRATE SWINTON!!!
Intern George really did explain it well. Bless Interne George.
Is it possible/legal for the Fug Girls to manufacture a t-shirt with "CELEBRATE SWINTON" on it in, say, electric blue letters over mustard? Because that would BE fug while CELEBRATING fug. I don't know. I just think it's what the world needs right now. I know I would buy one. Get the economy moving!
we must remember the gloriousness of bai ling in last year's contest. her fug was much more of the SWINTON-esque. something slightly ethereal and FANTASTIC about her creations and her band-aids of prophecy and hope. please keep in mind the true meaning of fug madness. it is not to give honor to those who would make a mockery of the fug. it is to CELEBRATE the genius of the true fuggers!
SWINTON WILL REIGN SUPREME!
For me, SWINTON is ART, and not FUG. She is also capable of looking what we mere mortals and non-arty types might consider both normal and good. Perry has done neither of these things. She is the fuggliest.
SWINTON!!!!! i love how the onion dome in the background looks like a perfect little hat perched on her head.
This was truly SWINTON's year. Next year, I'd like to see Katy Perry wear one of her crazy outfits to Jamba Juice, the Jimmy Kimmel show, or an Oscar Party (one of the good ones - Clive's doesn't count), and then we'll have a contender on our hands.
SWINTON FTW!
SWINTON is the awesome. Katy is the fug. Come ON, people!
The look on Obama's face was totally Bish, Please. XD
And I voted for SWINTON because as someone said above, Katy Perry's look is low rent Dita von Teese while SWINTON's is completely her own. Sincere and artsy fug over derivative and shallow fug FTW.
SWINTON should NOT win this, people! Is this a contest of FUG, or of awesome? Sure, some of the choices are odd and less than pleasing, aesthetically, but Katy Perry makes me cry tears of blood as I wonder where the world has gone to and why she's famous for her catchy but HIGHLY OFFENSIVE (and not in the funny way) songs.
UGH. All I have left to say is if you voted Aubrey O'Day over Courtney Love, but are now voting SWINTON you are being a hypocrite and I will not stand for it! NOT AT ALL.
Intern George has spoken. How can one ignore the wisdom, the truth, the adorableness of Intern George? Thank you, Intern George and Fug Girls, for providing clarity to those of us who were torn because of our fervor and adoration for all things SWINTON. Now we know that it is NOT a betrayal to vote FOR SWINTON as FUG; it is, INDEED, a CELEBRATION of SWINTON-NESS!!!
GOOD GOD people how can SWINTON only be ahead by a 55-45 margin???? It should be a 100-0 margin!
SWINTON FOREVER!
Please understand the implications for voting for Swinton:
If KP wins, we will most likely have a Katy Perry/Lady GaGa fug-off for one of the final spots. Can you imagine!!! It'd be fantastic! (But we'd all have to wear at least 3 pairs of pants to make it more comfortable around those 2...)
I'm sorry, but I have to vote for KP. Swinton is a treasure just like Posh. To say they are fugly is to truely not understand their genius.
Not to mention that KP wears some really bad stuff.
Hummingbird is right - the real winners here are Heather and Jessica, for the most sublimely stitched-together Fug Dialogue ever.
Thank you guys, for everything!
This is causing me some existential angst. I'm all for Swinton winning so long as it is made perfectly clear that this is a celebration of her awesomeness and not a censure of her fashion sense.
I would just like to echo what is already being said: Katy Perry is FUG. Swinton is AWESOME. Therefore, I voted for Katy Perry, since this is a "fug" contest, not an "awesome" contest.
I voted for SWINTON just because I'm sick of looking at Katy Perry's untalented ass just because she's an idiot. LONG LIVE SWINTON!!!!!!!!
Oh dear... I actually kind of like the Obama dress! o_O
SWINTON is pure all-shall-love-me-and-despair class fug; Katy Perry is cheap-little-tart fug all the way and thus, in theory, the fugliest. But SWINTON's magnificence scorns cheap-little-tart fug and triumphs supreme.
Er. Or something.
Not unlike the last presidential election, we must rise up and vote for what we want, instead of against the forces that work against us and try to exploit the differences among us. VOTE SWINTON. (And, if someone would make a VOTE SWINTON t-shirt, I'd buy that).
Katy wore Obama's face on her shirt. Now I must cast my vote for the awesome that is SWINTON. Make of that what you will.
I only voted for Swinton because I secretly think she is actually a MAN!!
Now look, this is simply a battle between two extreme states of fugness --- the SCREAM versus the WHISPER.
Katie's human fug that screams
"Look at me, I so freaking cute! Look at me, look Look LOOK AT ME-E-E-E-E!!!!!!!!"
Versus
SWINTON's inter-planetary fug that whispers,
"BEWARE, little human beings!!!! If you look at me, I will cut you with laser beams shooting from my eyes. I MEAN IT! Do NOT look at me!!!!!!"
Sorry Katie, but I am afraid to cast my vote for anyone other than the Queen of Outer Space.
I don't get it. Swinton may be a little odd, but when you are dealing with a frame the height of hers (and it's not like she can cut herself off at the knees) stuff is just going to be long. And thank goodness it is, when compared to the opposite... as seen on Katy.
You must vote Katy Perry. Swinton is couture- Perry is FUG
I love and adore SWINTON as much as the next, but seriously...
KATY. PERRY.
She wore a horrible shaped dress that had EYES in the boob area. And ACID WASHED JEANS. And you know she's jealous that Lily Allen got the decapitated Bambi dress before her.
SWINTON is a national treasure and a book of secrets. Katy is not, and needs to REALIZE what she has done and be PUNISHED. Maybe seeing herself up against Solange will teach her a lesson.
(although I must confess that I want her carousel dress for Halloween next year!)
C'mon people! This is a vote of love! Katy Perry sucks. She can't knock out SWINTON! This is about ART!
Fug Girls, the dialogue was hilarious. You girls make this thing so much more fun with your clever posts.
SWINTON FTW!!!!!!
FUGTASTIC SWINTON. I look forward to what she will do next and that is why she must be celebrated. Katy Perry is nothing special there I said it.
Was Swinton wearing a snuggie in one of those photos?
Here is my problem - SWINTON is a master - clearly, she chooses what to wear, what to play, what to do. The woman puts the awe in awesome. KP? Come on, those little outfits don't even approach fug mastery - some PR college-summer-intern-flak in a cubicle somewhere (a cubicle dismantled when said flak returned to Flak U.) came up with hotpants as a "concept" for La KP. It's faux-fug.
Thank you, THANK YOU, SWINTON and Intern George, for easing my existential misgivings. All is clear now... go Fug Girls!
SWINTON takes all! SWINTON FOREVER!
SWINTON is a wonder. Her fuglight cannot be quelled by a mere flash in the pan such as Katie Perry (though KP does rock some catshit crazy togs). I venture to say that we will not remember KP 20 years from now - except as a segment on a VH1 One Hit Wonder compilation show. SWINTON is destined to be the the haute couture version of Sally Kirkland (without the increasingly pathetic shows of dessicated cleavage, natch). SWINTON is pure fug on a level that cannot be matched.
SWINTON FTW.
Swinton is transcendent fug. Lesser people dare not speak her name.
After looking at history of 2008 SWINTON, I have decided that she has made it almost like a genre of clothing (we can't call it 'style' of clothing). Whereas... Katy always looks like a cartoon vomited on her. In concert or on the street, I can't condone that. VOTE PERRY!
For me, it's a simple formula:
Swinton = Weirdly awesome
KP = Fugly, fugly, fugly attention-whore!
I cannot vote for someone who actually rocks their weirdness in such a cool way half of the time (the other half of the time, yes, it's scary, but still...). KP, on the other hand...
why is SWINTON winning?!?!
katy perry wore a fish dress & dressed up like the chiquita banana girl!
has all this been forgotten?
OMG, this is EXACTLY what we need (from Amy):
"After thinking about this all weekend, I think the Fug Girls need to have TWO events each year. I submit:
Fug Madness: held in March during NCAA March Madness, to crown the fugliest of attention-whore-y-icky-ugly-gross-tacky fuggers.
AND
Fug Pro Bowl: held in February after the Super Bowl, in which the ARTISANS of FUG who embrace their fuggery (SWINTON, Bai Ling, Juliette Lewis) compete."
because I cannot -- I CANNOT -- compare SWINTON to fame-whore fuggery. It just isn't fair.
Come ON y'all -- Katy Perry is so BORING! Yeah, she's fug, but SWINTON is an artisan of fug!
Screw you, Perry! you bore me with your lame-o hotpants and fake eyelashes.
SWINTON FTW!
I want the SWINTON t-shirt but I voted for Ms. Romper Room. They exist on totally different levels, and SWINTON isn't fug as much as she's just...awesomely, mesmerizingly majestic? It's like comparing a small pile of oily rubble to Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The writing on this post is the reason that I come back to this website ALL THE TIME. Well, and for the delicious fug.
I have no idea which of these loons will get my vote. I'm similarly torn between celebration and censure. HELP!
Yesterday my friend wore a gingham romper. With a wide black belt with a large white platic flower buckle. And Tights.
I blame you Katy Perry.
Here is the thing. Swinton is a delightful goddess, giving fug a good outlook and socially acceptable meaning while Katy... well. You know.
You know, the Fug Pro Bowl really is genius. It helps to divide the different kinds of fug into two camps so that we aren't voting for our favorite/least favorite KINDS of fug, but for the PERSON who shows the most dedication to his/her particular brand of fug. Great idea!
If we could just convince Heather and Jessica....
:-)
I really, really hope we get a SWINTON v. Solange showdown. Epic!
SWINTON forever. I want to see her outfits FOREVER, and no mere tacky-hot-pants-wearing chanteuse can usurp her from her rightful place! That would be like some dude with a scraped elbow upstaging a cinematic five-car crash with mushroom clouds of flame. Just injust.
You are so right that there are many types of fug. SWINTON is not the "oh honey no" type of fug, but rather the SPECTACULAR, GLORIOUS kind, which soars far beyond "bad" and into YES.
That was my problem with Bai Ling versus whoever she was against who I don't even remember: totally different kinds of fug. Her opponent's outfits were "worse" (non-awesomely fugly), but the outfits of Bai Ling cannot be dismissed!
Perhaps future standoffs should be divided into separate fug-categories (boring, tacky, ridiculous, SWINTON), lest the Bai Lings be upstaged and the frumpy not given their due.
Keep on rocking forever, SWINTON. I'd nominate her for a lifetime achievement award, if I didn't so desperately want to see the whole rest of the lifetime.
It's unfortunate that Katy Perry is in this category with Swinton. I'm all about Swinton. Bitch is crazy. BUT I think she dresses like she does because she's one of those I'm-arty-and-I'm-going-to-show-that-through-my-clothes-I-don't-care-if-you-like-it kind of people.
Katy Perry dresses awful, BUT, she thinks it looks good. She prances around saying "I always end up on the worst dressed lists, but I don't care! I'm having fun" etc.
So while Swinton is her own brand of crazy, I was hoping Perry would win this year.
i confess, my true feeling is that katy perry is fuglier. but i feel compelled to vote swinton always. its just mandatory. like voting for erica kane as the queen of daytime tv even though zarf was clearly tops. the power of the swinton complels me, the power of the swinton compels me.
The SWINTON must be celebrated!
To me, true fugery is about delusion so deep it is incomprehensible to most mortals. It is about looking at something on the hanger that is beyond the pale, and yet putting it on. It is looking at yourself in the mirror in these clothes you have choosen, and then stepping outside and being photographed in all of your Fug glory, and having every other person in the world become aware of the awe-inspiring depth of your delusion.
I see some things that the SWINTON wears, and see that it could have, perhaps, looked decent on someone with different coloring or body-shape. Or, some of the clothes might be Fugly, but at least them look quite comfortable. Some, of course, she only pulls off due to her own coloring and Goddess-like height and slimness. I can slightly see and understand her point of view and vision. On the other hand, I look at the eye-boob death stare dress, or, in one of the most extreme statements of fugliness, the purple acid-wash jeans, and I am agog. I cannot follow into the depth of bad taste and madness that one most possess to put your hands on such items and then pull them onto your body.
KP's fug mentality eludes me, puzzles me, shocks and alarms me in ways that SWINTON only makes me shake my head and consider her trying to hit avant guarde but missing the mark of sublime by looking washed out or ill-fitting.
Katy' just juvenile. She dresses way worse than SWINTON - even when TS is bizarre she's wonderful. I voted for her so I could see more more more!
SWINTON is a celebration of FUG she doesn't wear it lightly but she wears it well!
I haven't voted for Swinton yet (I also can't bring myself to type her name in all caps since I don't find her to be, as they say, All That) and I can't do so here. Swinton is...um...unusual but she retains something almost regal, even if her choices in attire are boring or ugly.
Katy Perry personifies desperation fug and that wins out in my book every time.
Katy Perry is a one-hit wonder that no one will remember 2 years from now. SWINTON is timeless!
I feel as though Katy Perry is much fuglier. Swinton is batshit crazy, but in such an elegant, amazing way that I have to respect her for it. As opposed to Katy Perry who is just very tacky and annoying.
I've seen just SWINTON for so long I actually forgot her first name for a good 3 minutes.
Katy Perry BUGS. HARDCORE. I cannot feed her desperate pleas for attention with the delicious title of Fug. She would embrace it and cherish it as a source of cultural relevance and it would upset me greatly.
SWINTON it is.
The very thought of Katy Perry with her broken-ship-foghorn of a voice and her retina-searing clothing winning ANYTHING, let alone our wonderful Fug Madness, gives me hives....
SWINTON's Fug is a celebration of all that is good, bad and downright fabulous about a life dedicated to the Fugly Arts. SWINTON seriously has elevated Fug to an art form.
SWINTON IS timeless, SWINTON MUST be celebrated. Long live Queen SWINTON!!!!!!!!!!
Well excited that she has her nose in front!
the president looks none too thrilled to be sandwiched between those heinous fugtrocities worn by katy perry, and is probably even less thrilled to be gracing her torso in the first one.
Dear Fug Girls- This was the best write-up ever. You are my heroes.
Fug-girls you have read my mind! A vote for SWINTON is a celebration of SWINTON! SWINTON makes my heart beat faster and my posture improve. SWINTON is the MSG in my noodle soup, the scattering of fried shallots on my vietnamese baguette. Unlike KP, SWINTON improves with her fug rather than making me want to shove a knitting needle in my eye. Yes, SWINTON even has the power to prevent self harm. Ladies, your mission is clear - a vote for SWINTON is a vote for betterness.
God, I can't believe that SWINTON even overcomes my natural cynicism...
I refuse to give Katy the attention she so obviously desires. SWINTON all the way. Katy needs to fade to black.
At first I didn't know who I wanted to choose, because they embody such different fugs. But then I read the big question : Whose fug reigns supreme? and that just settled it for me. SWINTON, por su puesto, because Katy Perry is not supreme at ANYTHING. She doesn't even annoy me that much. Haha, take that, you semi-irritating drip!
SWINTON is a goddess. 'nuff said. Git 'er done.
Oh my GOD I never thought the day would come when I would vote for Katy Perry instead of SWINTON but it had to be done! Barack Obama's face says it all.
You know, I do get the thing about SWINTON being an artist, an artist of life, her own muse (than which there is no greater art), but I don't think she is actually commenting on fug, and many of her choices for clothing-as-art fall ludicrously short of the inspirational mark. Ludicrously. She is too artistic to beat the laugh-out-loud horror of Solange's fug, but she can certainly whup a little girl who, off-stage, is merely Looney Tunes.
Man, this is tough. Courtney up, ladies! (as in the beautiful Courtney Paris, not Courtney Love, who, come to think of it, could stand to Courtney up herself! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/SPNA16DDVU.DTL see second comment, at bottom)
SWIN-TON! SWIN-TON! SWIN-TON!
C'mon people! I had to vote SWINTON because I think she actually thinks she looks good! Katy on the other hand, does it to get in the fashion pages. She knows she's fugly and embraces it.
Can't wait for the Fabulous Four, the Terrific Two and... the Supreme SWINTON. She is the epitome of fug, all the rest mere tackly underlings.
Had to vote Swinton. COuldn't support Obama; can't support a girl who wears him on a dress...
I refer you all to the following scholarly article that explains why SWINTON is not truly fug-- she is more beautiful/ugly = bugly
"The beautiful and the ugly are one thing: The sublime another"
http://www.jstor.org/pss/656359
Therefore, though it pains me, I think I shall vote for katy
I SWEAR, I thought "I Kissed A Girl" actually came out several years ago? Did I miss something?
SWINTON stands astride the Perry like a colossus.
Sounds kinky.
i voted for katy cuz she puts the "f***ing ugly" in fugly.
Had to vote SWINTON this time.
SWINTON = seriously wacky fug
Katy Perry = childishly stylized freakshow fug
But, I predict it will be SWINTON v. Solange in the finals....with Solange taking it all. She's got whacktastic fug AND (as Laura at 4:10 put it) 'oh honey, no' fug.
Sorry - that was Emily at 4:10!
Must vote SWINTON... like Everest - because she is there. But the fugly debate troubles me. Clearly, SWINTON is in a different league from Katy, Solange, even Posh. Yet how can one not vote her. And so... 'I grow old, I grow old... I will wear my trousers rolled' (TS Eliott).
ejg - all I have to say is that you've used a JSTOR reference. My world is now complete!
The original 'I Kissed a Girl' was written by Jill Sobule in the 90's and the video had FABIO in it! So Katy Perry can fug off! Swinton at least has the creepy factor going for her; Katy is just lame!
Katy is fuglier, at least SWINTON is entertaining and doesn't seem forced. She just IS.
I celebrate SWINTON!
positive thinking wooooo
Anne B.
Well played Madame!
"I dissed a girl, and I liked it..."
Well played indeed.
I'm still hoping that ignoring Katy Perry will make her go away. And Swinton could come to your house and mess you up if you don't vote for her.
Whew - that was close!
I have to confess, I think Katy Perry is fuglier. However, I can't NOT vote for SWINTON. I mean, I secretly kind of want to BE SWINTON. Especially with the velvet men's suit, which I feel sure has lots of pockets. If I have an opportunity to vote for SWINTON, for ANYTHING, I have to take it.
Also, I strongly second the suggestion for a mustard-colored CELEBRATE SWINTON shirt with blue lettering, except I think the blue letters need to be in SEQUINS. I would totally buy that.
I second (or third, or whatever) that we name SWINTON Grand Goddess of Fug, but I could never cast a vote for her when faced with the many fug escapades of Katy Perry. I guess I tend to favor obvious fug over SWINTON's more subtle shenanigans.
Just please keep putting up photos of George. He is so pretty.
I understand the case made through that hysterical dialouge, but I still can't see SWINTON winning a title won by Bai Ling last year. SWINTON is not fug.
I second the idea of giving her a special medal
whoa. this was way more difficult than i expected. and the voting is way closer, too. it finally came down to the fact that katy perry is trying way too hard and needs no more attention. so i voted for swinton even though i think she's amazing, but clearly fug as defined by intern george. this post was great all around.
Francis is exactly right... SWINTON reigns supreme!
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This should have been the top 2!
I'm sorry, but to be Fug Queen you have to be *awesome* in your fug, however you understand it. Solange might get there, but Perry doesn't cut that mustard for me. Swinton FTW here.
See? SWINTON makes people happy!
Joyful Uplifting FuG should always reign supreme!
VIVA LA SWINTON!
Much as I long for a SWINTON figurine to grace my mantel, I had to go for KP.
The candy-like, cavity-causing abundance of neon. The frequent lack of pants. The ruffles and sequins. The BOOB EYES! the OBAMA TUNIC!!
I'm sorry SWINTON. Please don't smite me in your mustard-goddess wrath.
there is no way I can allow Katy Perry to win at anything. ANYTHING.
Swinton.
No question
Katy has a sadly flat bottom. She shouldn't keep presenting it.
I prefer a jutt-butt.
Katy is boring. SWINTON,it's like she gets her clothes from another galaxy....
I just can't deal with the thought of Perry winning ANYTHING. If Swinton wins, it will be a celebration of awesomeness more than anything, but there's nothing wrong with that!
Just . . . no more Perry. Seriously.
Oh my GOD, Katy Perry, if you keep presenting your ass like that, someone is going to think you are a cat in heat. Give it a rest.
SWINTON is glorious and I choose to celebrate her. Thanks for the best dialogue ever, guys!
Katy Perry dresses the way she does to get attention. SWINTON wears whatever the hell she likes and the rest of the world can just step off. I love this woman. Long live the SWINTON!
I think therefore I SWINTON.
Truly, Katy Perry is more hideous, tacky and abominably fug than SWINTON could ever be, even on her dullest day. But I love SWINTON and I must EMBRACE THE SWINTON.
SWINTON must win because she is truly magnificent. A vote for her IS a vote of celebration.
Sorry. Katy Perry's offenses are so flagrant... I suppose she wants our attention, but she deserves some NEGATIVE attention, just like a little child...
...She must be punished...
La Swinton, on the other hand, knowing that she has a magnificent clothes-hanger of a body, has made a choice to display avant-garde clothes. Some of them are not fugly, they are f--ing fugly!, but they are ARTISTIC RISKS, CHOICES, or EXPERIMENTS. La Swinton does not seek the fashion limelight for its own sake. She is in the service of Fashion.
Crapwear? -- Perry!!
I had to go SWINTON, simply because she does not keep drawing attention to her flat, flat butt. Stop encouraging me to look at your pancakey nothingness, Katy Perry.
Such stimulating debate going on here! I, too, was lost in quandary as I pondered the choice. My vote has usually gone to the person whose pictures are more likely to cause a "GHACK! What the HELL is she WEARING?!" moments, which in this case would certainly be Katy Perry. But in my mind, the standard set by last year's winner cannot be brushed aside. Ergo, I am on Team SWINTON. (At least until she comes up against Solange Knowles. There is something really wrong with that girl.)
This time, I choose to vote as celebration and not as censure.
SSWWIIIINNNTOOONN!!
I....I can't NOT vote for SWINTON! Even though it's a contest for fugliness, I find she's just too awesome and must be celebrated!
I...cannot decide whether to censure or celebrate. I abstain.
I am completely distraught that Katy Perry isn't winning this in a landslide. The very first comment on the page says it all: The fuggiest fug I ever did fug.
Of course, I'm one of the few loyal readers who doesn't *get* SWINTON. I have very "meh" feelings for her and really don't think she should even still be competing at this point. I had her out in Round 2 on my personal bracket.
Whatever. I disagree with 55% of you and Katy Perry wins this in a landslide... in my mind.
I refuse to vote for Katy Perry for anything. Unless it is for who should never again be photographed. Ever.
Also, I think it should be remembered that SWINTON's first name is TILDA. Which is another kind of awesome.
Honestly I think Katy Perry is uh fuglier but SWINTON wears so many delightfully bizarre things that I feel I must vote for her. Katy Perry is clearly an attention whore, whereas SWINTON is just... like that. I feel this is, uh, better.
It's like Morpheus said in "The Matrix": "There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path."
SWINTON....is THE ONE.
The 1st time I noticed SWINTON was at the Oscars (for Micheal Clayton). She was wearing a Hefty garbage bag. I remember thinking WTF! But she didn't look embarrassed or wrong, she OWNED that Hefty bag, she reveled in it! Deep respect, lady.
Kate is wayyyy fuglier but she's just a mere child, barley famous, with poor (very poor) taste. SWINTON, on the other hand, well, she's simply a professional fugger, the fug creme de la creme. Such FUGness, such poise, such confidence! It's impossible not to vote for her.
All hail SWINTON the Queen of Fug!
I voted for SWINTON due to her awesomeness. I consider Katy Perry to be another Phoebe Price in that we shouldn't feed her any more attention. It's just playing into her hands! No more people! PLEASE!
I don't know... I surveyed Perry's archives and had originally thought I might have to betray SWINTON by voting for Perry... yet there's something about this girl - her fug is all the same. It's shiny and brightly coloured and less wacky than pretending-to-be-wacky and also she wore a CAROUSEL as a dress. For some reason, that puts her out of the running for me. I do not care for your manufactured fug, Perry, and must vote instead for the one who is genuinely wacky.
What makes people think that Swinton ISN'T every bit as attention whorey as Perry?
Anyone thinks she dresses that badly when heading to the shops? NO she's normal and dull as dishwater off the red carpet/away from functions.
She picks out the stupidest, fugliest thing some tragic "designer" (honestly these people don't "design" anything they grab a dress pull a sleeve off here, add some pointless chunk of material here, vomit on some random colours and then charge the cost of a small house for something mostly made in a sweatshop) comes up with ALL FOR ATTENTION
I refuse to ever vote Swinton for anything...which meant I had to vote for Perry, now I'm angry.
OOO the mustard was pretty. But I vote SWINTON all the way!
I'm conflicted. I don't want SWINTON to think we don't love her. Clearly, all awards, prizes and accolades must be hers. But if she wins, can you make it really clear how wonderful her fug is? That it's the great and awe inspiring sort of fug, not the literal fug that makes the world a slightly worse place, but Fug that makes us feel braver and bolder.
Please and thank you.
Wow, close.
Yes, what Lavender said!
SWINTON!!
Understand that a vote for you is a vote FOR you!
Whereas all my other votes for are votes AGAINST.
You dig?
To be honest, Katy Perry is the fugliest of the two - at least Swinton is just fabulous, avant-garde wacko-ness "I play by my own rules, not yours, PEASANTS" sort of thing. But I can't imagine this contest without her... so a vote for Swinton it is!
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Agree with Katy retread comment. Try Hard, Die Hard, Fug Hard - in all the wrong ways for all the wrong reasons.
Swinton, however, is sublime and truly talented in her fugarama. I vote for Kudos, so Swinton it is.
The Retread will just blowout before long.
Swinton reigns supreme!!!!!
Fug girls, awesome dialog, funny comments.
Can't wait for final
SWINTON!! That first pic of her is so amazing.
SWINTON! Awesome like the depth, breadth and width of the universe, rather than Perry, who is amwesome like when stoned people say, 'wouldn't a hot dog be awesome right now'.
i voted for katy perry. she just doesn't seem to pull off ''fug'' like swinton does. and i mean, c'mon it's SWINTON, we all know there are alternative motives here. katy perry is just trying to be cute/sexy and she fails miserably in my eyes.
This is so difficult because I had a dream last night. A dream... about SWINTON.
I was at a fashion show (of sorts) and she shared with me all her wisdom. It was quite literally, awesome. For one brief, shining moment I actually understood the logic that goes through SWINTON's head - and lemme tell you, it was magic.
I worry about my mental health now that I'm actually dreaming about Fug Madness.
OK. SWINTON is not ART. There. I said it. OUT LOUD. :p
Her choice of clothes always seem to be a size too large & they are bizarre--which is why she, of course, wins my vote. That woman is gloriously insane & it is true--we are all just her minions. SWINTON ftw.
(Is it bad that I was so concerned about how close this one is that I had to come back and vote more than once?) No More Katy Perry EVER!
I kind of feel that a vote for Katy Perry is a vote for giving her more attention, which is clearly what she craves by the oil tanker load. I worry that if she wins it will just encourage the wearing of even more romper suits and sequined fruit. No one wants that.
In contrast I could look at SWINTON's wierd manly frame and what she puts on it all day. It's fascinating. I think she might actually be an alien being.
ALL HAIL SWINTON.
It has to be Katy. I readily admit that I really enjoy some of her stage costumes -- they're odd and cheeky -- and I can never say no to a sequined Barack Obama dress. (Some wrongs just become right.)
Tilda really looks like crap most of the time, even when you factor in the avant-garde, but. I can never vote against SWINTON.
It's me - need I say more.
yours in fuggitude,
SWINTON
Wow, she really does look like a goddess in that mustard dress. I cannot help but vote SWINTON. But to be fair, I think she needs to be retired from Fug madness after this year.
Y'all - - - it HAS to be SWINTON. Katy Perry is just common and cheap and trashy. Anybody could pull that off. (And sadly, many do) SWINTON's brand of fuggery is unapologetic and unique and EFFERVESCENT! Don't think of 'fug' as a BAD word in this. Think of it as a distinction. A setting-apart, if you will. A dress with Obama on it? YUCK. And uninspired. Dressing like Andy Warhol at the Oscars? DELICIOUS.
"Don't you think I understand that sometimes a vote in Fug Madness is a censure, and sometimes it is a celebration? CELEBRATE ME ..."
Amen, SWINTON.
Best. Banter. Ever.
Fell off my chair!
Cheers to the fug girls!
OK, OK, I get it. Katy Perry is fug personified. There is nothing she wears (almost) that is not deeply, deeply fugly. I GET IT.
That being said, I still voted for SWINTON. Because she is SWINTON! And if SWINTON doesn't win this whole thing, then there is no decency in the world of fug.
I literally held my breath to see where the voting was, and squealed when I saw it favored SWINTON. =D
COME ON KATY! Though I love SWINTON (who doesn't) she actually pulls some of this stuff off (like the mustard dress).
Katy...well, better wearing those clothes than publicly tearing them off I guess.
But only just.
gotta go Katy on this one. SWINTON, while amazing, at least has a modicom of credibility. and i get the feeling she does it on purpose.
ms. Perry on the other hand, is just a Fug-asaurus!
I love how President Obama is all, like, "People, I'm tired. I have to go to Belgium or someplace, and I'd rather be at home squeezing the auto makers until they pop. And while I look sharp in whatever suits my handlers hang in my closet, I think my wife shops at JCrew, so I don't really understand all this 'fashion' talk. Please just don't ever make me look at a photo of a girl with hearts on her ass-cheeks again. Thank you, America, and good night."
I've been inconsistent in my voting since this thing started because I wasn't sure whether this title is an honor or a censure. So I've been putting a lot of thought into this (WAY more thought than these pesky pivot tables I'm supposed to be doing!) and this is what I've personally decided:
I believe that the word FUG means, well...f***ing ugly. This site shows us people wearing things that make us think "Ew. What were you thinking? You look ridiculous." Mostly, we think that. Sometimes we think "Wow! That's really bizarre! But I think I like it." People like Posh, Bai and SWINTON provoke the second reaction because of...well, I'm not sure I can put words to the feeling. It's a personality thing, an attitude. Or, like Juliette; she makes me smile because she's just so darn likeable to me. (Also, I could watch 'Natural Born Killers' over and over and over and still love it so I have a lot of room in my heart for Juliette anyway.)
I think that fug is NOT a laudable acheivement. Fugees should be shamed by the label. If I laugh derisively or say 'ew!' then it's fug; if I feel awe and say 'wow!' it's not. So, to me, the Fug Madness winner should be the worst of the worst, the epitome of jaw-dropping f'ing ugly sartorial choices. I now regret some of the votes I've cast and I'm sorry to see that SWINTON has taken this round. Tilda Swinton is NOT fugly but oh my lord Katy Perry certainly is.
Katy Perry dresses like she does for work reasons. Who would pay attention to her if she didn't dress so tarty-trashy? She is an in-authentic fugger. She fugs for crass reasons, and her fug "style" is no better/worse than Lady Gaga's or Phoebe whatshername.
Tilda Swinton dresses like she does because it's a part of who she is. She is THE authentic fugger. Her fug delights as much as it does anything else. One wouldn't want her to change, and would be disappointed if she ever showed up to something looking normal. But we would still notice her even if she did, if only to lament what could have been.
If Katy Perry showed up to something looking normal, not only would I not be disappointed, I would not notice her at all. Her fug is the only thing remarkable about her.
My vote goes to SWINTON.
I choose to celebrate Swinton. Well put, fug girls. Also, in that first pic of KP? Is it just me or does she look like the Bizzaro Reese Witherspoon???
Katy- keep your inappropriately spelled first name and your cookie-cutter fug to yourself. This is a Fug battle of epic mystique- reigned over by the likes of Bai Ling. You are not worthy.
SWINTON.... ahhhh SWINTON. You are a revitalizing highland breeze over the shriveled cockles of my scrawny pop-culture hart.
Yes! She has total Reese face!
Well spotted, Erin!
Katy Perry looks frighteningly like a guy about pee on the wall in her second photo -- It's a shock to me, but it's Katy coming out on top in this contest.
It was so hard. Swinton just seems so above mere fuggery. Like she is a Queen, and we are all her court jesters.
Katy Perry is just a mess. But we've seen her look before on others. More than once. No originality at all.
I had to vote for Queen Swinton. However, if it gets down to Swinton vs Solange, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Listen folks, Swinton is doing her "old hollywood" thing and that's "her thing". Seriously, she is as tall as a giraffe and pale as a ghost, she doesn't have many look options. Perry on the other hand is young and cute and has tons of options yet brings the fug time and time again and is probably completely unaware. How anyone could vote Swinton over Perry is beyond me.
SWINTON rules my world.
Beautiful and strange.
I voted for SWINTON mostly because I wish for KP to fade into obscurity as quickly as possible and any amount of attention just delays that.
Perry is trashy, trendy, and forgettable. Swinton looks so much like an alien that it adds a layer of creepiness to anything she wears. She is a bizarre, fascinating creature. Admit it, it's super easy to picture Swinton frying Katy Perry with laser beams shot out of her eyes, then swiveling her head around like a lizard's and continuing her reptilian stroll down the red carpet. She is the Grand Poobah of Scary Awesomeness. SWINTON FOREVER.
If the voting really represents who is fuglier, it is Perry hands down. I guess the danger, and I will grudgingly say beauty, of this voting is that it can be interpreted in different ways. Some seem to vote for the one who is actually more stylish. Frankly, I would love to see Perry win this whole thing because she is fashion puke.
:((((((( this one is hard. but 'I YAWN' made me giggle. but perry dresses like my old roommate who seemed to have a closet full of rompers, and SWINTON is just...eccentric. i don't KNOWWWW!
I just want SWINTON to win.