Thriller this COMMERICAL!!!!!!!!

In this weeks discussion we learn about how a song can sell a product. Now it’s a given in any situation that commercials use music in their advertisement to sell their products. But one company has come to a serious halt when they are selling their product. The company spirit has used some of Michael Jackson’s music to sell their Halloween costumes but the commercial is just dreadful when it comes to the way they represented that song. The commercial is about a minute long and has people dancing and waving their hands while they show off the costumes they are selling Now I dislike the comerical lot because it disgraces the majesty of Thriller. It’s not that I am a Michael Jackson fan or anything its that people use his music to sell their busted Halloween costumes I mean it sucks because Jackson is pop culture icon and seeing a bunch of dorks running around in a commercial for a Halloween ad is repulsive the representation of thriller is done very poorly in the commercial. An example of the stupidity is at the last part of the chorus in the song the commercial puts a stupid baby laughing like a devil. Now that sucks to have your art and good name being smashed on by a Halloween ad, I know that the Thriller music video had zombies and ghouls but the song was good and the dancing was incredibly intense and too compare garbage Halloween costumes with thriller is dumb. A major point to my shallow yet sensible agreement is the payment to the Jackson family royalties. Musicians make a fortune off of people who use their music. An example would be in the use of Bruce Lee and the Jeet Kune Do name people can’t use Bruce Lee’s name or image without first paying to the Lee family royalties. That to me is bogus because it cheapens the art of the artist. The artist should have his art to be displayed in formal fashion and very respectfully but families like the Lees and Jackson’s endorse and surrender their souls for a dollar at the drop of a hat. Seeing artist and musicians’ like Alice Cooper is really stupid because you see this crazy dude who’s supposed be down with the conformist society saling school supplies for staples. I think if your message is to be the either the greatest pop musician ever or one of the most influencing rocker than live up to the name .Selling worthless crap like cheerios and school supplies isn’t cutting it artistically and it send the message to the audience and your fans that you are a sale out phony. For me when I think of Bruce Lee’s family royalties it sucks because allot of people look up to Lee and for him to have his name make more money dead while alive is trippy. Wheatear it’s Michael Jackson, the Smashing Pumpkins, the grateful dead or any other group being a sale out it’s cool towards the fan base and it deadens the art of the artist.

Week 10 Gangsters Paradise

There are many different types of music but none what so ever hit the urban city culture like the genre gangster rap. Rap has a lot of negative influences in it but the stories of gangster rap are told of hard lives in an environment for the less fourtant of people in the United States. How can someone bring the pain of his upbringing out into the media showing the glimpses of reality in the city streets? Coolie’s gangsta paradise is a song that embraces the gangster feel and life in it’s very monotone lyrics and hard words. The music video is very interesting it shows Coolio raping to Michelle Pfeiffer about his experiences as a gangster. The music video is very dark and ominous because he starts to preach his problems to a white woman alone in candle lite room barley able to make out his face within the darkness. Other parts of video show the heavy set man singing in a dark room crying as if he is troubled by the pain of the life he choose a good example of this is in the lyrics of
We've been spending most our lives
Living in the Gangsta's Paradise
In the music video Coolio is singing to Pfeiffer about the problems . As he sings the scenes in the video change from a heavy set singing and crying about his painful experiences with his choices , other parts include scenes from the movie dangerous minds in which Michelle Pfeiffer plays a hard knock school teacher bent on saving a troubled school deep in LA. Some of the songs lyrics are pretty intense there’s a church inspired chorus that sings through out song making a more emotional feel to it. Lyrics like”
“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nuttin left “and
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
On my knees in the night
Sayin prayers in the street light

These lyrics have religious notations attached to them that puts a deep feel into the songs meaning of a persons ideal life on the streets . My personal belief about the song is that the song expresses the ideas of a gang bangers life style is life on the edges. Coolio expresses the ideas of life being very falsified by theb hard life killing , and gangbanging in the lyrics of
I'm livin life do-or-die-a, what can I say?
I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-fo'?
The way things is goin I dunno

This song and music video is really challenging too the listener because it speaks the truth about the life style of a intercity gang banger who lives are shorten by violence , crime and drugs . I found the song and music video to be a delight and I can hope that hip hop goes back to its truthful roots of what really happens in life.

Week 9's Fantastic Review o

In wake of my spring break I have decided to roll big this time on dubs. In today’s industries society people seem to put up a front and the every so youthful generation is looking for someone to keep it real. Eminem or Marshall Meathers is a pop icon that hails from Detriot. Eminem’s realistic view point’s have helped younger kids express themselves in a more vibrant way. Though i listen to mostly house and techhouse where lyrics aren't as imcorpated into the music, I do appreciate the greatness of well placed lyrics from the likes of Coldplay, Dido and Metallica. Lyrics are very important because lyrics are what makes the songs message come alive. Lyrics can both have an external an internal point of view to them. An example of external song writer would be John Legend and internal would be Jay Z even though I think he looks a like a koopa from Super Mario’s brothers game. Direct, indirect , hard, soft , violent and peaceful music are all a part of musical influences that shape our world today. Music as a influencer has been in the mind since the days of the ancient Greeks when they said the harmony and rhythm have the ability to control people. I would see Eminem as a person that keeps it real because of his improvised background and hard life growing up in Detroit. Kids react to Eminem because he does not rap about sex, money or a car that he raps about life and simply his attaire proves his philosophy. Teenagers respect the fact that Eminem gives props to his elders, also teenagers respect his love for people being that he loves his daughter very much. The teenage generation is a generation that is looking for heroes and heroines to show them things like values, respect, honor and peace. Not every teenager out there listening to hip hop is looking for sounds their looking for philosophy or a way to become someone. Eminem is a prime example of what young adults are searching for. Eminem is rude , vulgar and speaks the truth well other hip hop artist only talk about foolish things and choices like car’s , booty , boats and wealth. Eminem’s world view is that stuff is garbage and it doesn’t last forever so his message is clearly directed to wake up people from there Americanized lives. I think why the teenage audience follows him so well is because he doesn’t lie or try to be anything that isn’t himself. Eminem’s realistic points of view open the minds of what hip hop culture have been subjected to for years. Hip hop culture needs more people like him to keep a realistic message about life rather than assuming that girls, cars and planes will bring the ultimate truth to life. Now people don’t like him because of his vulgar language against certain people or groups or that some of his lyrics are a little of the wall but to me he is an artist that speaks the truth.

Same old , Same old when is break again?

First off i have never heard or seen David Bowie s music, but what i have seen are his outrageous and bizarre costumes that he would create for himself. When I first see the guy I am like is that a chick or a dude? but I came to realize that he is just performing on stage. My main point is that their are a lot of artist that do crazy stuff in the name of the crowd I mean i remember a story that Ozzie Osborne was so high that he bite a bats head clean off live on stage, or stories like guitarist swinging their guitars and bashing them on the stage. Well in comparison to David Bowie I can say with out a doubt that Lady Gaga is close to none the weridiest chick in the music business. Now I understand that she isn't the preetist face like Brittany Spears or Katy Perry but she has this zazz that screams personality over superficial beauty.Some of her confounding images has to be the multiple maskes she wears while performing. At the 2011 grammys i shall her in some kind of egg and the other year she was in a loud red suit that looked something out of pans labyrinth. Regardless her style has a lot to say about who she is. Her outfits great though I would never ware them express a deep personalty about her character and whats going on in her head. I think that even her music is a reflection of her outrageous personality that manifests it self outwardly. Now this has been done before when you see Elvis Presily or Micheal Jackson wearing clothes that in their time wear out of the ordinary. Dances , clothing , and speech can be a way to express ones inward appearance. When you look at Micheal Jackson's jackets and Jerry curls it just screams girl y but for him it was a way to show his personality. Elvis did the same thing with his hip and leg movement these are examples of how a musician can express themselves outwardly in a outrageous lite. As for my ,modern day opinion no one comes close to Lady gaga in outward performance and appearance. I don't really understand her message to her audience but from what I can gather is that her message has something to do with freedom of expression and release from a world that has chained her down for so long. Most artist like David Bowie will write and display them selves as pieces of art to demonstrate something or just to be weird and out there . Though I think that David Bowie is a weird and comical individual he's choice of freedom of expression has helped artist like Lady Gaga become more and more daring to push the envelope on the music and art that they are creating. David Bowie dressed like a chick , Madonna wore a meta bra and Lady Gaga is something else but these are the characters that are in the music industry today.