{"id":4127,"date":"2021-03-05T21:09:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2021-03-05T21:09:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:09:01","slug":"the-girlfriend-wars-part-ii-katherine-grace-mcnamara-vs-victoria-dawn-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4127","title":{"rendered":"The Girlfriend Wars, Part II: Katherine Grace McNamara vs. Victoria Dawn Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Stats> <\/p>\n<p>Katherine McNamara- Born Nov. 22nd, 1995 (25 years old) in Kansas City, MO.  Start of relationship: Nov. 22, 2012.  Relationship length: 8 years, 3 months.  Person status: Living, actress, singer. Reason for relationship: I had known about Katherine tangentially for quite some time before dating her.  A post on Just Jared Jr. about her birthday finally prompted me to investigate her as a candidate for a romantic relationship.  Some internet sleuthing led me to her demo reel on Vimeo and that video provided me with more than enough infatuation material to spark a serious relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Justice- Born Feb. 19th, 1993 (28 years old) in Hollywood, FL.  Start of relationship: Sept. 7, 2008.  Relationship length: 12 years, 6 months.  Person status: Living, actress, singer.  Reason for relationship: Seeing pictures of her appearance at the 2008 MTV VMAs on a celebrity picture forum.  Good lord is she pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis><\/p>\n<p>Victoria and Katherine are forcing my hand, here.  I need to analyze all of this and take stock of our relationships before <i>Trust<\/i> comes out.  Seriously- I have to, and I know they know this, too, since they know me so well.  So it\u2019s like\u2026 yeah, okay then.  I\u2019ll play their game.  I mean, I might not <i>win<\/i>, lol, but\u2026 I\u2019ll play, too.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.  Kat, the KitKatsMeow.  It\u2019s been fun and wonderful watching her grow up and guiding her through life, her career, and everything else.  Her acting career is varied and interesting.  Clary, and Disney, and Mia, and Julie, and everything else- see my post here where I talked about her and the <i>Tom Sawyer<\/i> movie.  I\u2019ve had a blast shaping her into what she needed to be, and I know she loved every (*ahem*) second of it.  I\u2019ve turned her into a star.  She\u2019s so far evolved now from her early days that she\u2019s hardly recognizable, except in spirit- which means I grew her the right way.<\/p>\n<p>The key here is that she\u2019s happy, obviously, and confident, etc.  She makes good music and has good social media presence and provides plenty of well done photoshoots.  She\u2019s excellent on the red carpet and great in interviews; she kicks ass.  Great actress, pleasant personality, and a very good singer- her rather unfortunate dearth of music videos notwithstanding.  <\/p>\n<p>But yes we have a good \u201cthing\u201d her and I.  An excellent thing.  A relationship that, as good as it has been, has even more potential now than it used to, possibly.  The sky is the limit between us.  \u2026 kinda.  I mean, you know.  These things are&#8230; complicated.  Mostly.  You know.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Now- Victoria.  Our relationship had a slow burn, at first.  Katherine\u2019s adorableness in her demo reel instantly rocketed her into the upper tier.  With Victoria, her looks were so shockingly good that I initially held off a bit.  Think of it as \u201cJennifer Connelly syndrome\u201d.  Katherine, being so young, was \u201ccute\u201d and had potential.  Victoria came out of the box (for me) as something possibly completed already.  <\/p>\n<p>Example: Katherine had just started with Disney when I met her.  Victoria had already completed all 4 seasons of <i>Zoey 101<\/i> with Jamie Lynn Spears by the time we found each other.<\/p>\n<p>So, I got to know Victoria a bit, but\u2026 held off with portions of my\u2026 soul(?) until I saw more of what she could do, potentially.  Portions.  Not big portions, I mean, but portions.  <\/p>\n<p>I did make a big deal about being with her before her 18th birthday, back when I found such things important.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out I shouldn\u2019t have worried.  Victoria\u2019s social media game is phenomenal.  She has an easy affability that made talking to her a breeze on places like twitter, back when I still checked those things.  See- she uses social media as an advertising tool of course, but not to the detriment of her personality and relatableness.  There\u2019s a soul there, not just ads, politics and trailers.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also, uhm, pretty.  lol.<\/p>\n<p>Her music game is very strong, with a bunch of good music videos with moods and styles that range from fun, to mysterious, to romantic and sexy, to the outright cute.  Photoshoots galore of all different kinds from many years, many thousands of great social media pics and videos, and dozens (hundreds?) of notable and glamourous red carpet appearances make her a standout girlfriend without question.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s cute, nice, and\u2026 a great singer, honestly.  She\u2019s not as popular as her <i>Victorious<\/i> co-star Ariana Grande but\u2026 I like her music, a lot.  It hits me in that \u201cspot\u201d, IDK.  <\/p>\n<p>Interviews with her are always fun and worth a watch.  Her pap game hovers around \u201cabove average to very good\u201d, so it isn\u2019t close to Lucy Hale levels, but it\u2019s overall a mark in her favor.  She\u2019s given me a variety of looks and styles over the years.  Classy looks, casuals, bikini pics and dresses, workout gear, etc.  It\u2019s a good collection.<\/p>\n<p>Her acting career is good.  We made <i>Victorious<\/i>, her and I, and <i>Victorious<\/i> is fucking awesome.  <i>Eye Candy<\/i> was good, I thought.  And\u2026 her other movies were good to me, probably because that\u2019s how and why they were made, lol.<\/p>\n<p>Uhm\u2026 so\u2026 Katherine\u2019s acting career is certainly stronger, overall.  As much as I like <i>Victorious<\/i> it doesn\u2019t seem to have resonated with the general public as much as <i>Shadowhunters<\/i>.  I think that Katherine\u2019s People\u2019s Choice award is sufficient proof of that.  Of the two, Katherine has, possibly, more star potential in the old ways of looking at celebrity.  In the new ways- I think Victoria is slightly stronger, but only slightly, and only then in certain situations.  I mean, her twitter is better than Katherine&#8217;s, but I&#8217;m not sure about her instagram, overall.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria\u2019s music career is obviously stronger than Katherine\u2019s.  And I mean that, seriously.  People tend to rag on Victoria\u2019s music career, mostly because they seem to have a psychological need to compare her to Ariana Grande, as if not having as good of a music career as the biggest pop star on Earth is some kind of failure.  Ridiculous.  I mean- just compare Victoria\u2019s music video career with Katherine\u2019s one, solitary music video from that low budget TV movie she did way back then.  I mean, seriously, people.  And this is not even counting the stuff she did in show in <i>Victorious<\/i>.  And now I think that with this analysis that Katherine\u2019s acting career and Victoria\u2019s music career probably cancel each other out, leaving a wash.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think I\u2019m being too hard on Katherine, here, note that Olivia Holt was able to star in a Marvel TV show that didn\u2019t seem to slow down her music or music video video output any, at all.  But, that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria\u2019s pap game has been better than Katherine\u2019s.  So, there\u2019s that.  But- Katherine wins awards, as I just mentioned.  I mean, they\u2019re not Oscars, but\u2026 it still adds up.  Victoria hasn\u2019t, yet.  I mean, she got those ensemble awards with the <i>Zoey 101 cast<\/i>, but\u2026 yeah, not the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026 yeah, this is brutally tough.  I\u2019m again at a junction where I\u2019m not sure I should go.  You could make a case for either, really.  It almost depends on my mood today.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmn.  Yeah, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>I have been with Victoria longer than Katherine, but that hardly seems like Katherine\u2019s fault.  I was filling out my Victoria directory as far back as 2008, which was two years before the aptly titled <i>Matchmaker Mary<\/i>.  And- the relationship between Victoria and me wasn\u2019t even that strong back then anyways, as I summarized above.  It was mostly a \u201clook and see\u201d kinda thing at first, and only a little more significant than how I knew about Katherine for a year or two before dating her for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s kinda\u2026 hmmmn.  Well\u2026 hmmn.  <\/p>\n<p>Hmmmn.<\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026 maybe\u2026 Victoria?  Maybe?  Kinda?  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe?<\/p>\n<p>I mean I know that I\u2019m supposed to be confident about this stuff but I\u2019m not sure of this one, either.<\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Katherine\u2019s IMDB page has more stuff in it coming up, but Victoria gave me that music video the other day.  I mean, the song wasn&#8217;t necessarily better than the one Katherine gave me for Valentine&#8217;s Day this year, but there was a video to go with it- and the video, if you haven&#8217;t seen it, is seriously very good.  It&#8217;s fun, mysterious, romantic, sexy, and not at all what you would get from a typical, run of the mill pop video.  And it&#8217;s personal to us both, while being intellectually interesting, legitimately.  But&#8230; I don&#8217;t know.  Katherine&#8217;s IMDB page is so&#8230; interesting, in it&#8217;s own right.  So\u2026 uhmmn\u2026 neither?  <\/p>\n<p>Nah, can\u2019t do that.  That or \u201cboth\u201d would be a cop out.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so\u2026 Victoria, then, and honestly it probably is just because I\u2019ve been with her longer.  I mean&#8230; this is by the hair on a sliver, here, lol.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, who am I kidding, lol.  Victoria wins because I have seen her boobs, and that does indeed slightly edge her out over Katherine, I think.  Yes; I truly am that shallow, lol.<\/p>\n<p>So, uh\u2026 yeah.  There you go.  I hope I don\u2019t regret this one, lol.  I mean, not that I would since&#8230; oh yeah, it&#8217;s THEIR fault that I&#8217;m even doing this in the first place!  Yeah.  So- it&#8217;s their fault, not mine.  I mean, if they wouldn&#8217;t have made this&#8230; situation, so PUBLIC then I wouldn&#8217;t even need to be doing this.  I mean, it&#8217;s not that I didn&#8217;t want them to, but&#8230; you know what I mean, right?  Right.  I mean, <em>I <\/em>know what I mean.  I mean, mostly.  Right.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah.  If anything bad comes out of this I think we all know who to blame, then.  Right?<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>So <em>there<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Stats> Katherine McNamara- Born Nov. 22nd, 1995 (25 years old) in Kansas City, MO. Start of relationship: Nov. 22, 2012. Relationship length: 8 years, 3 months. Person status: Living, actress, singer. 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