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Nepo Grandbaby Slammed As “Talentless” For Complaining About Luxurious Life In Song Directed By Mom
Eighteen-year-old Romy Mars, who earned herself the designation ‘nepo grandbaby’ for her place in a pedigree of rich and famous Hollywood heavyweights, received mixed reactions for her debut song about her materially privileged life.
The track “A-listers,” directed by Sofia Coppola, her Oscar-winning mother, touches on the emotional void that comes with excessive wealth.
Highlights
- Romy Mars, who comes from a pedigree of Hollywood Famous, brought out a new song about her luxe life.
- The public received the music video with mixed reactions.
- Some think that she may actually be boasting.
While she appears to lament the lifestyle as “heartless, tasteless, nameless,” some netizens believe she is actually boasting.
Most, as can be seen by the response to the official music video, favor the track and see it as “iconic.”
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Romy sings about an insatiable desire for more
Image credits: romymars
The music video starts by with depicting her luxury lifestyle along with its accessories and calling out an insatiable desire for more.
In the lyrics, Romy admits to mimicking pop legends like Elvis Presley and iconic scenes from the big screen like Titanic.
Image credits: Romy Mars – A-Lister
She goes on to describe the “Sunny West Coast” as a “plastic world” before exposing herself for not being a “rеal girl anymore,” singing, “I’ll be miserable after chasing what I don’t want.”
Romy even makes references to the substance abuse that roils Hollywood, with the verse: “You’ll draw the line there, I’ll sniff it up.”
The video mainly drew positive comments, but according to some, it is all bot activity
Image credits: Romy Mars – A-Lister
The track was well anticipated—if the comments on YouTube are anything to go by.
“I’VE BEEN LOOKING THIS UP FOR WEEKS,” wrote one viewer, while another chimed in with how obsessed they were with Romy.
Image credits: rxlgrr
Someone else captured a prevailing sentiment when they made the connection between the music video and the 18-year-old’s mother, Sofia.
“Of course the music video is pretty because it’s Sofia Coppola,” they wrote, hinting at her work with fashion giants, Cartier and Chanel.
‘This is talentless, insufferable, overproduced, nepo-baby garbage’
no one is doing nepotism better than romy mars pic.twitter.com/6NUTpVAq7Z
— 🦌 (@coppolasfilms) May 22, 2024
One user took issue with the overwhelming amount of positive comments, claiming that they were bot activity while describing the video as “Everything [that’s] wrong with the world.”
Another critic took it further still.
Image credits: Romy Mars – A-Lister
Agreeing with the bot farm theory, they added: “This is talentless, insufferable, overproduced, nepo-baby garbage, and no amount of astroturfing will change that.”
“She’s not even trying in this video, as if she couldn’t be bothered. I guess that’s her nepo-life now,” wrote another, summing up the negative sentiment in the comment thread.
Romy says her parents do not want her to be a “nepotism baby”
Image credits: Romy Mars – A-Lister
In a TikTok reel she posted in 2023 while filming herself trying to cook pasta, Romy explained that she had been grounded.
She explained that her disobedience involved trying to use her father Thomas Mars’ (the lead singer of the French indie pop band Phoenix) credit card to charter a helicopter and visit her friend in Maryland.
Romy explained that part of the grounding was being banned from social media. How or when she posted the video, and whether she defied her parents’ attempt to discipline her, are unclear, but the video went viral.
In the video reposted to X, she said, “They don’t want me to be a nepotism kid.”
Despite her parents’ aspirations for her, Romy had already started hinting at the disadvantages of her birthright.
Image credits: romymars
“I don’t know the difference between garlic and an onion. I just have to Google images of onions on my phone. I’m embarrassed,” she said in the video.
Romy’s mother does not want people discussing her parenting
Romy pointed out that her parents were seldom present, so she had replacement parents—alluding to her babysitter and her boyfriend.
Her mother has since commented on the now-deleted video.
Image credits: romymars
She told a Hollywood reporter that while she appreciated Romy being “funny,” she was not pleased to have her disciplinary measures aired on social media.
“People discussing my parenting publicly is not what I would’ve hoped for,” she said.
Romy shares her bloodline with the director of The Godfather and Nicolas Cage
Fame in Romy’s family flows both laterally and linearly: her grandfather, Francis Ford Coppola, is renowned for directing The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979), among others—and her mother’s cousin is none other than Nicolas Cage.
A part of the internet is not impressed with Romy’s debut
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Mel in Georgia 6 months ago
No singing talent, no charisma - only a nepo baby could get a video like this made and popularized. It's pretty cringe.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
Just watched the video. Yiiiikes. She doesn't have a single scrap of emotion in her singing at ANY point during the song. It's completely lifeless. I'm professionally trained (singing and acting) and I was taught to channel one's own emotions/feelings into whatever song you are singing/scene you're acting in. Even if you can't relate to it directly, you can still emote by channeling something similar (e.g., if the song is about a breakup and you've never dated, you can channel the heartbreak you felt when you lost a pet or lost a friendship.) This girl didn't have a single molecule of emotion/feeling in her song AT ALL.
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Janet Sparrow 6 months ago
I remember seeing a post by Paul McCartney in which he said “we were so rich it was ridiculous. So we bought a farm in the country, the kids went to the village school, and they really didn’t even know who I was till they were teenagers.” I believe this technique has made his children normal people and it’s the reason why you don’t hear about them in the news cause they’re not doing f****d up things.
Mel in Georgia 6 months ago
No singing talent, no charisma - only a nepo baby could get a video like this made and popularized. It's pretty cringe.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
Just watched the video. Yiiiikes. She doesn't have a single scrap of emotion in her singing at ANY point during the song. It's completely lifeless. I'm professionally trained (singing and acting) and I was taught to channel one's own emotions/feelings into whatever song you are singing/scene you're acting in. Even if you can't relate to it directly, you can still emote by channeling something similar (e.g., if the song is about a breakup and you've never dated, you can channel the heartbreak you felt when you lost a pet or lost a friendship.) This girl didn't have a single molecule of emotion/feeling in her song AT ALL.
Load More Replies... Janet Sparrow 6 months ago
I remember seeing a post by Paul McCartney in which he said “we were so rich it was ridiculous. So we bought a farm in the country, the kids went to the village school, and they really didn’t even know who I was till they were teenagers.” I believe this technique has made his children normal people and it’s the reason why you don’t hear about them in the news cause they’re not doing f****d up things.
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