Posted on 08/26/2013 5:33:47 AM PDT by LD Jackson
Allow me this morning to make a detour from my regular posting about news and politics. There are some things that go beyond the pale and are hard to describe, but beg to be written about. Without sharing the video of Miley Cyrus and her raunchy dance at the opening of the MTV Video Music Awards, I can not describe the disgust I felt. I was doing my normal reading of the news this morning and came across a website that had a copy of the video embedded. I made it through to the point where she took off her clothes before I turned it off. I couldn't stand watching this young woman degrade herself any longer.
Just so we are clear, I normally do not watch such videos. I am a fan of gospel music, with a few country songs (if they aren't about cheating and drinking) tossed in for flavor. I do not listen to, or watch, the kind of music and videos that are making millions by selling sex and raunchy behavior to teenagers. If you want to see what I mean, I am sure you can find the video of Miley Cyrus and her dance at the MTV awards. If you haven't seen it, trust me when I say this, it's downright nasty.
I have watched a few clips of the Disney show that starred Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana. It seemed to be a fairly wholesome show about a teenage girl who was a pop idol in her secret life. The clips I have watched were funny and the show seemed to be more of a comedy than anything else. That's a far cry from what climbed out of the belly of a giant teddy bear last night when the MTV awards opened with Miley Cyrus.
I am not a naive person. I have no problem grasping the concept that not everyone holds the same moral values that I hold, that I was taught when I was a boy. I have no problem realizing that not everyone likes the same kind of music. Many of the bloggers I am acquainted with share some of their rock and roll music with their readers and from time to time, I have shared some of the gospel music I enjoy. That's not what this post is about.
There are many people in America who bemoan the fact that our children seem to hold little or no morals. Many of them wonder why this is, but it shouldn't be a big surprise. We have teenager girls acting like little sluts and teenage boys acting like hoodlums and gangsters. Those kind of lifestyles seem to be glorified in our country. And we have the audacity to wonder why this is happening? Take a look at the MTV awards last night and you might get a clue.
Is there any wonder why we see so many teenagers with drug, alcohol, and sex problems? When they look up to and worship someone like Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga, what else can we expect. Garbage in, garbage out.
Will certainly seems into it.
yep, I don’t know why people think her dad doesn’t condone this
Pretty much. Gays control the upper levels of fashion, so you see plenty of ads reflecting homoerotic imagry. The women in them look like teen boys...no Cindy Crawford types.
They have ruled Hollywood for decades.
The technical boards I frequent for music engineering topics are lousy with PC/GLBQRSTUV whatever language and praise for the lyfestyle and God help you if you disagree. Inbred mentality there.
All designed to open minds to ‘gay is OK’ and add to their options.
you know those stories about stars promising their first born to the devil in exchange for fame? Well....
I get the impression she was TRYING too hard.
I remember when the Cars won for video of the year with the innovative “You Might Think.” It was creative, fun and appealing to much of the viewers.
Here’s a list of winners:
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/archive/best-videos.jhtml
Yep. Cannot be disproved. lol
Feminism at work.
This is what passes for culture?
I am almost looking forward to SHTF.
Well, you figure, the dude had a hit that went down in history. It was SOOOOO bad that people couldn’t help but talk about it. It sucked musically, lyrically and made him famous and wealthy. His hair, horrid as it was, was imitated.
And then vanished overnight. No fame, no nothing. Gone.
What else could explain it?
;)
Ditto. G-d has to pull the plug on this sewer pretty soon...
Yep.
I always did hate that “song”
It is really not a mater of no shame. It is more a matter of no taste. That tasteless performance reeks of someone without an education and no real sense of taste.
From my point of view it was hard to tell if she thought she was mocking the mentally handicapped? Or maybe mocking her former fans? [One of the rules of changing your persona that she may have missed is that you do not want to toss the old fans before you start getting new ones.] There was nothing appealing about that. It was not sexy. It was not funny. I was not clever. It is hard to believe a director of the show let her do that unless they were attempting to make her look like a fool.
I just know that if Hanna Montana were to have a rebellious phase, that is exactly how it would look. That is just like many other rebellious teen tasteless and unattractive.
Overcompensating for her underwhelming looks and talents.
Disney porn— what a rebellious child will do to get strangers notice her —used to get good girls in trouble in America—now a lot of folks just wink and say oh well it’s only a stage performance.Will she be doing dog and donkey shows for MTV next?
The Japanese language lends itself almost perfectly to Vocaloid, but yes, once the software gets more user friendly, and more English-language adaptable (and it will), like you said, no more divas. LOL!
This new crowd of "stars" as I stated earlier....sluts and pimps. Are there artists out there, sure. But it's almost impossible to be that and be attractive to profit-hungry big media.
When I first researched it, I was unsurprised to see that few singers will work with Vocaloid companies to do the samples...which are just vowel sounds.breaths etc.. They know what their future looks like.
6 figures to pay a diva or 4 to pay a good Vocalod programmer. Not hard math to follow. and when a ‘body’ is needed, hire a 3D animator for another 4 figures.
Done.
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