Saturday, March 10, 2007

Music Industry!!

Hi Everybody,
In my opinion, the Media and in particular the Music industry, actually sets trends, it subtly leads society but ironically follows it too.The ideas the media gets for the music videos is becuase of public demand and whats going on around them in the world most recently, but because these videos act like a catalyst in speeding up the reaction and spreading these trends, techinically it does "LEAD" the society.
Mostly young girls and boys start to get influenced by singers or dancers, starting to want to be just like them!

It definitely shapes and influences the cultural values, to a great extent. A lot of videos connote, political issues, indirectly. Others are just trying to attract more people to buy and view them. But an example of a video that shows something interesting is the video of 'PINK'S Stupid Girls'!! She sort of spoofs how other girls or singers (like Madonna) in the industry fake or overdo certain things. I liked that video. On the other hand, there are videos like, 'smack that' by Akon, or 'Love dont cost a thing' by J.Lo, that make people doubt their values. People start questioning themselves and wonder, is it right to dress like that? Can i do it too? Should i get so many piercings as well?, am i allowed to just strip, or take my shirt off on the beach!?
A hundred questions for a hundred million reasons, all planted by the music industry because of their videos and media popularity, in children, youngsters and adults heads.

There are a few videos with a political agenda, like i said 'Pink's Stupid girls' and then there are those, which just try to satifsy what people actually want to see now.
Also, not everything you see on T.V is real, most of it is illogical presmises or Fantasy. But people dont understand that. Especially music videos are very influential.

This is just something i think about it.
Thanks.

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