music! and message! and I am twleve!
Aug. 10th, 2010 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthI am addicted to this song, and not only because I really miss Outkast. (There are apparently people who can tell B.o.B.'s rapping from Andre3000's, but I am not one of them.) B.o.B. - "Magic" (warning: it's an audiosurf video, so it's sort of hypnotic, and also now I totally want to play audiosurf again)
I don't really know anything about the thing with Rihanna and Chris Brown, other than the fact that he hit her (at least) once. I think I knew that she was the singer on Eminem's new single, but I hadn't really put it together until I watched the video for "Love the Way You Lie". I'm a little curious as to whether this was another case of attaching Rihanna to a song because she's featured on every single ever, or if there was more to it. The Chris Brown thing was a year ago, right? So this had to have been recorded after that.
I hear (and this is not surprising) that there is some debate as to whether the video glorifies/whatevers domestic violence. I trust that if you really care, you can find your own discussions of this out there on the internet. I mean, I guess they could have gone with one of those "serious" videos and featured stories of the actual bad shit that goes down in these relationships, instead of casting Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan to portray a low-rent love/hate relationship with bonus pyrokinesis. For her part, I read that Megan donated her salary to a domestic abuse shelter.
As much as anyone can be said to believe a celebrity who I will have no personal interaction with, I really believe that Eminem tries. I also believe that he has done a bunch of shit that he Should Not Have Done. I don't have any problem with him rapping about it. I don't even really have a problem if he fails to make a Statement, when spilling out his guts, about which things are really, really bad. At least he's not rapping about fucking strippers while they're all high or drunk.
And on a completely unrelated note:
I don't usually repost image macros, because if you really wanted to see captioned pictures, I'm sure you have the internet skills to find them on your own. However! I would like to point out that this one makes me laugh every time I look at it. Because I am twelve.
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I don't really know anything about the thing with Rihanna and Chris Brown, other than the fact that he hit her (at least) once. I think I knew that she was the singer on Eminem's new single, but I hadn't really put it together until I watched the video for "Love the Way You Lie". I'm a little curious as to whether this was another case of attaching Rihanna to a song because she's featured on every single ever, or if there was more to it. The Chris Brown thing was a year ago, right? So this had to have been recorded after that.
I hear (and this is not surprising) that there is some debate as to whether the video glorifies/whatevers domestic violence. I trust that if you really care, you can find your own discussions of this out there on the internet. I mean, I guess they could have gone with one of those "serious" videos and featured stories of the actual bad shit that goes down in these relationships, instead of casting Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan to portray a low-rent love/hate relationship with bonus pyrokinesis. For her part, I read that Megan donated her salary to a domestic abuse shelter.
As much as anyone can be said to believe a celebrity who I will have no personal interaction with, I really believe that Eminem tries. I also believe that he has done a bunch of shit that he Should Not Have Done. I don't have any problem with him rapping about it. I don't even really have a problem if he fails to make a Statement, when spilling out his guts, about which things are really, really bad. At least he's not rapping about fucking strippers while they're all high or drunk.
And on a completely unrelated note:
I don't usually repost image macros, because if you really wanted to see captioned pictures, I'm sure you have the internet skills to find them on your own. However! I would like to point out that this one makes me laugh every time I look at it. Because I am twelve.
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
