devastatingly human

i like concrete songs. from the 50's 60's 70's era, the hippie 80's to 90's retro polkadot days. that's not to say i despise my contemporary artists of today. i like switchfoot, greenday, norah jones, michael babalu.. the likes. i just think you should have refreshing lyrics, words that go hand in hand with different hues, nuances. i like to see variations of tenor and mode, of subject worth and love and peace and joy to the world purported.

as for hiphop they degenerate into mere monotonous outputs of sheer chauvinism. not to say i don't enjoy the reggae beats and the catchy rhythm which makes you want to hum along nelly style. but just look at their titles. we have Get your eagle on, Slow Motion yada yada yada. the infamous and guaranteed way of instant stardom is to talk about sex in your lyrics. mix in some allusions to birds of flight, orifices, phallic objects and pepper in your own slinky dance movements and you've got a hiphop album in hand. oh wait.. then there comes the much anticipated music video. it's simple really. just dress everyone in white from root to toe, have the setting preferably at a gigantic white mansion, complete with white marble floors and colossal pillars and ceilings and a humongous swimming pool, that's also preferably white like your swimming in liquid paper and have lotsa slutty girls wearing white bikinis and thongs shaking their booty at every male singer in the music video. and you already know the ultimate contrast to white eh? yupyup they have to be black.
then of course you need to have the bling bling. david beckham and usher made the diamond big blingbling earrings in fashion, plus oversized basketball jerseys and chunky bling bling rings and rocks around your neck. basically just show me the moolah.. and the girls curl up to you.. heaps of them.. Bevies in fact, just one guy in the music video and 1 million of human beings frm the opposite sex and plenty of bling. now that's what i call hiphop

i don't see why women have to be commodified and commercialised this way. this reminds me so much of Women Beware Women.. oh well. imagine my future boyfriend serenading me to the tune of "Get your eagle on girl".

RRrrrightt... i will be spectacularly mystified and ten times more horrified. either he thinks i'm a large ostrich cross bred with an eagle flap my wings kinda girl or i chose the wrong boyfriend eh? oh maybe he just chose the wrong song haha

i don't understand why can't they make music the way they used to in the good ole rock and roll wine and roses days.

Joyce Lim unzipped at 9:12 PM with 2 comments
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but commodification of women works very well... esp the mtvs :|

# posted by

Anonymous : 10/20/2004 2:38 PM

*raises eyebrows*.. O..k i would presume your a male

# posted by

Joyce Lim : 10/20/2004 8:12 PM