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How Pop became Porn
UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/26/2010 | Liz Jones

Posted on 02/26/2010 4:25:01 PM PST by iowamark

The woman is naked - or looks like she is. Only a flesh-coloured leotard covers her body. Her long blonde hair tumbles down her back. She's in a cage, sliding her fingers provocatively in and out of her mouth.

A scene from a cliched pornographic film? Sadly not. The woman in question is Shakira, a pop superstar and the fourth richest singer in the world...

Meanwhile, in the video for her single, Rude Boy, Rihanna, an American pop star most famous for having been beaten up by her boyfriend, is dressed in leather bondage gear. She writhes on the floor...

I have just spent 24 hours watching MTV's various, numerous channels. My eyes hurt. My brain has lapsed into a confused coma. I felt nauseated one moment, bored out of my skull the next...

Spend a Friday night watching women parade in town centres the length and breadth of Britain and you will be able to see for yourself that they take the drag queen make-up and hooker uniform they see on screen literally...

In the U.S., the National Coalition On TV Violence condemned MTV as early as 1985, while the loudest critics were cable TV mogul Ted Turner and Al Gore's wife, Tipper, who took exception at the sexual content of many hip-hop videos...

What I saw on MTV, and have glanced at several times on the internet, was an entire sub-culture of mainstream music videos in which sex is the only currency: in which girls wear bikinis, and boys take their pick.

It's depressing. It's demeaning. And it's corrupting a generation who simply don't have the moral guidance that would lead them to turn it off.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes; mtv; porn
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1 posted on 02/26/2010 4:25:01 PM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Beyonce on stage
2 posted on 02/26/2010 4:26:23 PM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

“The woman is naked - or looks like she is.”

What, no pics?


3 posted on 02/26/2010 4:26:35 PM PST by Grunthor (The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs.)
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To: iowamark

don’t we have rules about posts like this?


4 posted on 02/26/2010 4:26:38 PM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: iowamark

Well nice pic but she does NOT “look naked.”


5 posted on 02/26/2010 4:27:04 PM PST by Grunthor (The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs.)
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To: iowamark

When did MTV start showing music videos?


6 posted on 02/26/2010 4:27:50 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: iowamark

The images can be seen in the video for her single, She Wolf, which will be watched obsessively, again and again, by thousands of young men and women, many of whom will form the opinion that writhing in a cage is precisely the way ‘sexy’ women should behave.


Only if they are retarded, ate paint chips or happen to be crack babies.


7 posted on 02/26/2010 4:29:33 PM PST by Grunthor (The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs.)
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To: iowamark
I have just spent 24 hours watching MTV's various, numerous channels.

What kind of peculiar masochism is this?

8 posted on 02/26/2010 4:29:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Grunthor

Well, at least the idea that it’s something special. Which it is, like a skunk poop in the punch bowl.


9 posted on 02/26/2010 4:30:39 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: iowamark
It's depressing. It's demeaning. And it's corrupting a generation who simply don't have the moral guidance that would lead them to turn it off.

In Britain you gotta be careful what you say about that -- even in explicitly religious schools -- or the equality police will getcha.

10 posted on 02/26/2010 4:32:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: iowamark

At least she doesn’t throw up on stage.....yet.


11 posted on 02/26/2010 4:34:33 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Grunthor

Shakira “She Wolf” video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=booKP974B0k


12 posted on 02/26/2010 4:34:51 PM PST by iowamark
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Shakira....Who recently had a meeting with barry in the White House.....Suprised Michelle didn't drag her out by her hair.......
13 posted on 02/26/2010 4:35:05 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: iowamark

niiiiiiiccce!


14 posted on 02/26/2010 4:36:07 PM PST by Grunthor (The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs.)
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To: iowamark

***Only a flesh-coloured leotard covers her body.***

Big deal. I saw flesh colored leotard covered dancing girls thirty two years ago dancing to the tune...You Make Me Feel Like Dancing. It was on...(ready for this?) The Donnie and Marie Osmond show.


15 posted on 02/26/2010 4:36:16 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: jakerobins

That is a very attractive woman.


16 posted on 02/26/2010 4:36:38 PM PST by Grunthor (The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs.)
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To: iowamark
In between the videos on MTV, shows like The Hills portray girls as image-obsessed

There's videos on MTV? What year is this?
17 posted on 02/26/2010 4:41:28 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Proud Member of the Teeth Party Movement)
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To: iowamark

TWAS EVER THUS!

18 posted on 02/26/2010 4:43:31 PM PST by jaz.357 ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." W.Churchill)
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To: iowamark

She’s uhm, quite uhm, what’s the word....flexible.


19 posted on 02/26/2010 4:55:18 PM PST by SZonian (There are times when we have to tell loved ones truths that hurt. We do so because we care for them.)
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To: jakerobins

Hey Girl, I can see your body moving
And it’s driving me crazy
And I didn’t have the slightest idea
Until I saw you dancing

And when you walk up on the dance floor
Nobody cannot ignore the way you move your body, girl
And everything so unexpected - the way you right and left it
So you can keep on shaking it

I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man want to speak Spanish
Como se llama (si), bonita (si), mi casa (si, Shakira Shakira), su casa
Shakira, Shakira


20 posted on 02/26/2010 4:55:30 PM PST by razorback-bert ( if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid)
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