"It's a proving ground of competitive femineity."Īccording to Rush consultant Sloan Anderson, the ranking system is based on the fraternities. "Rush is a social ritual stratification, bar none," Elizabeth Boyd, author of Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South, says. (Example: Zeta Tau Alpha, Phi Mu and Alpha Deta Phi are considered the most desirable sororities, per the doc.) While there's no official ranking of the sororities at University of Alabama, it's widely accepted that there are top-tier houses. (If you have to ask, you miiight not want to know.) It's just this beast because Greek life is everything at Alabama."īut it's not all #OOTD videos and pledge parties as the documentary exposes the darker side of fraternities and sororities, including the racial division, the pressure young women face both internally and externally throughout the pledge process and- gulp-the secret organization known as the Machine. "I remember when we were going through recruitment at Georgia, we would all be looking at what Alabama was doing," coach Sloan Anderson says. In a statement to People Magazine, Bell said, “ never abused my ex-girlfriend or did so many of the other things Melissa falsely claimed on her TikTok video.Following the explosion of #BamaRush on TikTok in 2021, Max's new documentary Bama Rush gives viewers an unprecedented look inside the sorority rush experience at the University of Alabama, following four potential recruits leading up to Rush Week in August 2022.ĭirected by Rachel Fleit and featuring current sorority members, Rush consultants (Yep, it's a real job) and academics, Bama Rush explores why Greek life in Tuscaloosa has been able to capture-and hold onto-the interest of people around the world. At the pinnacle of it, he drug me down the stairs of our house on Los Feliz. It then turned to physical - hitting, throwing, everything. “And when I say verbal abuse, imagine the worst type of verbal abuse you could ever imagine, and that was what I got. It wasn’t until about a year when the verbal abuse started,” she said. She continued, “I moved in with him, I was singing. In her TikTok video, she said in part, “I’d like to start out by saying, I don’t really care if anyone believes me, as this is my story and my life, and something that I went through. It wasn’t until recently that I actually realized that abuse isn’t something that all women have to go through.” The TikTok star, who goes by Jimi Ono, posted the accusations to her Instagram story. In August, Bell’s ex-girlfriend Melissa Lingafelt went public with accusations that Bell was verbally and physically abuse during their relationship. However, the meme did not have a caption, so he did not say this explicitly. The meme seemed to indicate his own awareness of his shift from catering to American audiences, to catering to Mexican audiences. In November 2019, Bell shared a viral meme, customized to his current situation. His Instagram shows that he’s been referencing himself as Drake Bell as recently as a November 1 Instagram post.īell has indicated a general awareness of his shift in focus, though. However, he only started referencing himself as “Drake Campana” this November. Bell’s social media reveals that he’s been singing and writing in Spanish publicly for over a year. The timeline for Bell’s shift to his new persona, “Drake Campana,” isn’t entirely clear. It sold 2,000 copies in the first week, according to Billboard 200. His last English language album was released in 2014, and received a poor reception. He was born in Newport Beach, California, to parents Robin Dodson and Robert Bell. He also hasn’t clarified if he made a legal name change as well, or if this is his new stage name.īell is not Mexican. Though Bell has changed his social media accounts to “Drake Campana,” his last name is still visible in his profile, likely so he doesn’t have to create a new handle, thus requiring him to lose his existing following.īell has not given a public statement explaining the name change.
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