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Topic:
Is the music industry too suggestive
with sexuality. With artists like Brittany Spears preaching
"sexy" to 12 year olds does the call of "pay
attention to me" overshadow the music? And bands like
ShoCore using 'strippers' in their shows, does it add to the
live performance or cheapen it? Or maybe sexuality and music
just go hand in hand - it's always been that way. Would you
rather Brittany was ugly and dressed lame...would she be anywhere
if she was?
Below are responses I received from
local music industry professionals on the topic: The Power
of Seductive. Althuogh they didn't ask, I've kept them semi
anonymus.
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I believe sexuality, as a beautiful, healthy, pure and sincere
expression, is a quintessential part of music. We are all
sexual beings, to deny that is to deny ourselves. YET, exploiting
sexuality and representing it in a teen porn, hookers and
blow kind of way, and selling it to children like it was candy,
is (I think) totally deplorable. That kind of s**t only perpetuates
young minds more towards the kinds of sick social depravity
we face everyday in meat-head culture. F**k or make love.
I believe that what the artist portrays, be it fact or fantasy
is, very telling of which kind of world they want to live
in. And in sweet Brittany's case, where free will seems to
be stripped, it seems obvious to me that her industry's dream
for us is that we all become whores that they can buy and
sell... or maybe trade.
Gabe
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Music IS sex. Always has
been. Aside from cerebral prog-rock, inner-perspective loner,
and pop-a-cop stuff, (though all that's sexy to some as well..),
let's face it, Music and Sex equal success. I encourage it.
Just because it's a challenge to divide reality from fantasy
doesn't mean it shouldn't be met. It's inevitable one way or
another. I would also encourage my child to sit with me as we
cruise internet porn, as I explain, too! But then, I don't have
kids. I don't believe in sweeping it under the carpet, and since
the 'drive to procreate' is second only to the 'drive to survive',
it only makes sense that we will utilize, speculate, analize,
exploit it. We are (to the best of my knowledge) the only mammals
that mate 'face to face', and get aroused watching others of
our species, do it. Let's go where no religion has gone before
- not deny it. Elvis..do you have any comments??
Dennis |
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SEX DRUGS AND ROCK 'N'
ROLL!
What else can you say? SEX SELLS!!
If Brittany was a pig, she would be popping zits in the mirror
and getting ready to go to college every morning. But she is
not, and she is hot, and I think I speak for most of the men
in this world that we would not kick her out of bed for farting.
Yeah, the little virgin, right? My ass she is a virgin or even
was a virgin during that little media hype, I bet she was takin
it up the backside long before most of her little girlfriends
in grade school. I think she is one of those pre-fabbed teeny
bobs, its the only way to make any sense of her. She is the
perfect little Daddy's girl that wears tooth floss panties and
breaths heavy in her music and pretends to be the innocent one
at home. Whatever, she is just playing the cards she was dealt.
Whether she is a virgin or not, she is infact a star, and yes
it is because she is cute and not uglyand that she is why she
is where she is today. Well, that and her touching her tits
about a million times in each video too.
Shocore with the dirty girl strippers.....hmmmmmm....they are
not hot, but kinda sexy from a distance. Sure it seems tacky,
but at the same time it looks good and ads to the show. I think
they could get hotter chicks though, like ones that don't have
bar pudge falling over their panty lines. I believe Shocore
could even forgo the Ho's and people would still dig their show,
their music is good and it really gets ya moving. But again,
it is all a part of show business, right? Yeah, I think the
dirty strippers cheapen the show, but it may have been part
of the plan all together to show they don't care what they do
on stage that they are just here to rock whether they have hot
dancers or ugly ones. I myself would rather watch hotter chicks
strippin and spitting whip cream on tits than less attarctive
strippers. But atleast they rehearse their act and for the most
part dance the same as each other, so that looks more professional
than some sluts on stage spitting whip cream on tits. If thats
what you are into, then go to the Number 5 Orange.
I think what it all boils down to is what group of people these
musicians are trying to reach. Sex sells. And whether you are
into chicks or guys, you will watch a video with both dancing
half naked or even naked just because somebody told you there
is nudity involved. Sex is also a part of us everyday, we look
at the opposite or same and guess what they have under their
clothes without even batting an eye lid. And don't try to say
you don't, we are guilty of it and that is all a part of being
a human being. So Shocore and Brittany, keep it up as you are
doing nothing that we don't do on our own without the influence
of you.
I myself love going to shows and seeing half naked chicks dancing
on stage. But the most important part is that they know what
the fuck they are doing up there. I don't enjoy watching some
ditzy girl with next to nothing grabbing her tits and shaking
her ass throughout the entire song. I like how Shocore actually
has some rehearsed bits for the girls. It makes sense, you are
performing an act, know it and don't just wing it. It takes
away from the fact you have dancers on stage and really cheapens
it. If you are gonna do it, do it right.
Harold G. Jones |
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Bodies are beautiful and
fashion is art. But unfortunately in our current society where
women are abused/exploited and financial gain is a priority,
art and beauty fades away. In this context, sexuality is exploited
in a way that is ultimately destructive. Just ask women who
starve themselves to look a certain way. Just ask obese women
who feel too ashamed to even visit a gym. Or ask aging women
who should be praised for their wisdom yet are seen as being
secondary to the young and "beautiful." Or even ask
men who feel as though they could never take off their shirts
because their bodies do not resemble "The Rock's"
body. In a context where being sexually attractive is twisted
to mean being young and "sexy" we all feel pressured
to play up to these roles in order to feel accepted. This is
a waste of valuable time and energy. What we should be more
concerned about is Higher vibrational elevation and social responsibility.
Ndidi |
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"Sex sells.....(unfortunately)"
Greg |
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