Four Questions about Prasad Romijn

Prasad Romijn is a professional model who starred as a boy saddled with a psycho girlfriend in the Ava Max music video.  That was his first acting role, and there is very little else about him on the internet.  I had to do some digging to answer these four important questions.

1. Is he the son of actress and model Rebecca Romijn?

No.  Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell have twin daughters.

Besides, Rebecca grew up in Berkeley, California, and Prasad was born in Boulder, Colorado on September 10, 1998.  Here he's on the football team at Nevin Platt Middle School.

Romijn is a Dutch name, not very common in the U.S., so they may be distantl

Prasad got into modeling through his mother.  He moved to New York in 2017, shortly after he graduated from high school, and started racking up the fashion gigs.

The top photo, for instance, is from Teen Menswear Magazine.  I can't figure out what article of clothing he's supposed to be modeling.

2. Is he Hindu?  (Prasad is a Hindi name).

There's a Ty Romijn, no doubt a father or uncle, on the faculty of  Taoist Institute of Education Acupuncture in Louisville, Colorado, so Prasad has some  Eastern mysticism in his background.  But he seems to be more of a material girl.

He owns his own jewelry and clothing company called Nihmor (which I can't find online), and is "CEO of a PR and marketing company."

Plus he can hook you up with the "coolest homemade jewelry in Malibu."

Here he's got $250k of bling on his body, and is ready to "body y'all."

Urban Dictionary defines the verb "body" as "to murder."  I assume he's being metaphorical, as in "drop-dead gorgeous."

3. Does he have any nude photos?

None on his instagram, facebook, or twitter pages.  But with professional models, the beneath the belt gifts are not particularly relevant anyway.  You're supposed to be looking at the face and the bling.

4. Is he gay?

I couldn't find any references to boyfriends or girlfriends, or any references to gay people at all, but I've never heard a gay person talk like a 1990s rapper:

"Every other restaurant in New York sucks. Dig in at my homies restaurant."  (It's Baby Brasa, organic Peruvian rotisserie, owned by Peruvian celibrity chef Franco Noriega).


 

And here's a flier for his "aggressive" 20th birthday party: free food and wine, RSVP required.  Held at Esther and Carol's Restaurant in the Bowery, actually owned by Kevin King and Cordell Lochin, named after their mothers. Not a gay couple, not in a gay neighborhood.

Finally, dig this flier for the same party.  There's a mostly-naked girl in his lap (I had to crop the naked parts).

Definitely straight.

See also: The Top10 Pop Songs

The Top 10 Pop Songs: Beefcake and Gay Icons

Yesterday I discovered that the most popular country-western songs involve rather gym-deficient white guys asking girls for dates, discussing their girlfriends' hotness, or crying in their beer after their girlfriends dump them, with gay people nowhere to be found except in a few homophobic tweets.

But maybe pop music is similar.  I haven't really been paying attention to it for a long time, but back in the day, "girl!  girl! girl!" reigned supreme, and no one ever acknowledged that gay people existed, not even Sir Elton John (I remember when rock was young: men and Suzie had so much fun).  It would only be fair to look up the top 10 pop songs on Billboard's list, andsee if they are just as bad as the country-western crooners.

1. Jonas Brothers, "Sucker":  I'm a sucker for you.  I'll follow you anywhere, even if it gets me in trouble. 

No "girls! girls! girls!"  Gender not specified.

The Jonas Brothers are proud to be gay icons.  In 2013 they appeared on the cover of Out magazine.

See: The Jonas Brothers: I Wanna Be Like You

2. Sam Smith with Normani, "Dancing with a Stranger." A duet, with boy and girl parts.  We broke up, so I'm dancing with a stranger.  Jealous?

Ok, that's rather heterosexist, but Sam Smith is gay, and Normani recorded "Love Lies" with Khalid for the gay teen drama Love, Simon

3. Ava Max, "Sweet but Psycho."  She's crazy, but boy, tell me you don't love it.

The music video stars Prasad Romijn as the pretty boy being poisoned, tied up, and chased with a butcher knife by the psycho girl.

Ava Max is gay-positive.  She tweets: "Thank you for having me at the iconic G-A-Y heaven in London.  I love you!"

4. Post Malone, "Wow."  A rap song.  Most of the lyrics are obscure, but the gist is that he's rich and famous: "I got a hunnid bands ($100) in my pocket, so when I come in the room, people say 'wow.'"  

Gee, I've had a hunnid bands in my pocket lots of times.  Nobody cares.

No romances in the song.

Post Malone is mentioned in online articles about rappers who support LGBT people, so I'm concluding that he's gay-friendly.

5. Ariana Grande, "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored."  Self-explanatory.

The music video stars Charles Melton (top photo) and Ariel Yasmine as the couple Ariana is trying to break up, and ends with a girl-on-girl kiss, which according to an article in L'Officiel, left many gay fans "confused and disheartened," fetishizing lesbian sexuality without providing a meaningful narrative for the gay experience.

But Billboard has an article on 10 times she was a gay ally.

6. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus, "Old Town Road"  This is Lil Nas's first published song, a country-western-rap hybrid, so what is it doing on a pop list?  The lyrics are obscure, but I think it's about how rich and famous he is: he's riding a horse onto old town road because he's tired of his life of "bull riding and boobies."

Lil Nas is rumored to be gay. Wow -- a gay black country-western singer.  How many more barriers are there to break?.

Billy Ray Cyrus is pro-gay.

7. Taylor Swift, "Me."  Boy, there are a lot of girls out there, but I'm the only me.

Taylor Swift is a gay icon.  According to the NewNowNext website, she was expected come out as gay or bi in April 2019, but instead she released "the gayest non-gay music video ever."  She does sing in male drag in pastel colors, and she and pansexual Brendan Urie do find a rainbow-colored skyscraper, but it's still about boy-girl trouble.

8. Ariana Grande, "7 Rings."  A parody of "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music, but instead of simple pleasures, she likes Breakfast at Tiffany's and bottles of bubbles/ Girls with tattoos who like getting in trouble.

No boys mentioned.  The music video shows her surrounded by girls.

9. Khalid, "Talk":  Let's talk about our relationship.  Gender not specified.  He states that he doesn't use pronouns in his songs because he wants them to take the point of view of the listener.  The music video shows him trying to talk to a girl, but then there's a boy there, then a whole group.

10. Halsey, "Without Me"  We broke up, and now you're regretting it, aren't you?  Gender not specified, but the music video shows her kissing a boy (Will Brandt) a lot.

Halsey is bisexual.

Results:  Wow, talk about diversity!  Male and female, black and white. The themes are similar to country-western: 7 relationship problems, 1 "things I like," and 2 about how rich and famous the singer is.

Heterosexism: Counting only the lyrics, only 5 of the 10 songs specify heterosexual romance.

Beefcake:  3 of the 5 male singers (counting Billy Ray Cyrus) have presentable physiques, but most of the female singers perform with hot guys.

Gay Content:  None in the songs, but 10 of the 11 singers are gay allies!

I don't think we're in Alabama anymore.

See also: The Top 10 Country Songs