Taylor Swift won the best Music Video award at the VMA's this past week, but what no one expected was the reaction that followed. She and Byonce were up against each other for the award, and a certain celebrity let the whole world know of his displeasure...
Kanye West is notorious for letting everyone know his opinion about any and everything, but this crossed the line. Taylor is only a teen, and this is her first time winning an MTV award. How was she supposed to react?
Even though he later apologized, it was Byonce herself who saved the evening. During her VMA win, Byonce had Taylor come on stage and give her speech. She also let everyone know that she remembered her first time winning with Destiny's Child, and that it gets easier. She showed real character and saved the evening from total disaster.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Music: Influencing the Masses?
Through the ages, people have created many different types of music, for many different reasons. Different people like different music, and it reflects our personalities, right? I'm not completely convinced.
It has been said by older generations for decades that the music the young are listening to is influencing them. Is this true? I don't think so, to me music is created to reflect something that is already in society. Just because a rapper says they beat a man within an inch in his life in their lyrics, doesn't mean that is why other people do so. The problem was there before the rapper was born, it's in society to begin with. The music just sheds light on the problem. The same is true for country singers. Just because a singer says they were cheated on and left for someone else, doesn't mean that no one would leave their partners without the song.
I am a great example. I listen to rap music and some heavy rock, yet I am an honors student who has never been in trouble with the law, or even the school. I was on every honor role, and always made curfew. How then can it be explained that my music, that I have listened to for years, has negatively affected me?
It has been said by older generations for decades that the music the young are listening to is influencing them. Is this true? I don't think so, to me music is created to reflect something that is already in society. Just because a rapper says they beat a man within an inch in his life in their lyrics, doesn't mean that is why other people do so. The problem was there before the rapper was born, it's in society to begin with. The music just sheds light on the problem. The same is true for country singers. Just because a singer says they were cheated on and left for someone else, doesn't mean that no one would leave their partners without the song.
I am a great example. I listen to rap music and some heavy rock, yet I am an honors student who has never been in trouble with the law, or even the school. I was on every honor role, and always made curfew. How then can it be explained that my music, that I have listened to for years, has negatively affected me?
Friday, September 11, 2009
September 11th
Today is an important day in my Nation's history. This is the day of the Twin Towers' terrorist attacks. This is the day when everyone in America stopped and stared in awe of what they were hearing and seeing on the news. Many lost loved ones, others lost friends. Even those who didn't lose anyone felt the shock and despair that permeated the air.
Many brave men and women went into those burning buildings that day, and I just want to take a moment to honor those who risked and gave up their lives to help the people in the disaster. I also want to mention the brave citizens on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Those fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends saved the country from another devastating blow.
I remember the exact place I was when I heard the news. I was in my sixth grade Enrichment class, in a trailer outside Neosho Middle School. I thought it was a story that my principal was telling, until I heard the wailing. Then it finally clicked, hundreds of people were dying. It was truly devastating.
Where were you?
Many brave men and women went into those burning buildings that day, and I just want to take a moment to honor those who risked and gave up their lives to help the people in the disaster. I also want to mention the brave citizens on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Those fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends saved the country from another devastating blow.
I remember the exact place I was when I heard the news. I was in my sixth grade Enrichment class, in a trailer outside Neosho Middle School. I thought it was a story that my principal was telling, until I heard the wailing. Then it finally clicked, hundreds of people were dying. It was truly devastating.
Where were you?
Thursday, September 10, 2009
NFL Kickoff Tonight
Sports are a major past time in America. It doesn't matter if it's baseball, football, soccer, hockey, or golf, people are at the games, listening on the radio, or watching them on TV. It is a way to get friends together, a common hobby.
Tonight the NFL (National Football League) will kick off their season with a game between the Titans and the Stealers. Many devoted fans, whether for either of these teams or not, are excited for the season and will sit and watch the game.
Sports are a great way to bring people together, and it is a way to have fun in these hard economical times. Watch the game tonight with your friends, family, or at your local sports bar...
Just get together and have fun!
Tonight the NFL (National Football League) will kick off their season with a game between the Titans and the Stealers. Many devoted fans, whether for either of these teams or not, are excited for the season and will sit and watch the game.
Sports are a great way to bring people together, and it is a way to have fun in these hard economical times. Watch the game tonight with your friends, family, or at your local sports bar...
Just get together and have fun!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
I Pledge Allegiance To...
In a recent video shown at a Kentucky school, the children were impressed upon to do certain things; such as, not using plastic bags at the grocery store and helping others. For the first few minutes of the video you hear nice things like that and Eco friendly suggestions, but at around the two minute mark the video goes downhill.
At one point someone pledges to the 'funk of the united funk of funkidelica'. What does that even mean? This video was supposed to be serious, and was advertised as being useful to teaching the youth of America. I don't see how that was done with this video.
Another clip held the promise of pledging to the office of the President, and yet another states their allegiance to Barack Obama... so much for checks and balances.
The worst part of the whole video is the fact that celebrities, these children's role models, were the ones pledging. How were the children supposed to respond? Certainly not objectively with their own opinions. What would you have done at their age? What are we going to do about it now?
I am praying for our country.
At one point someone pledges to the 'funk of the united funk of funkidelica'. What does that even mean? This video was supposed to be serious, and was advertised as being useful to teaching the youth of America. I don't see how that was done with this video.
Another clip held the promise of pledging to the office of the President, and yet another states their allegiance to Barack Obama... so much for checks and balances.
The worst part of the whole video is the fact that celebrities, these children's role models, were the ones pledging. How were the children supposed to respond? Certainly not objectively with their own opinions. What would you have done at their age? What are we going to do about it now?
I am praying for our country.
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