In today's class we discussed a number of recording artist that send a negative message in their lyrics and in their videos. As an avid music lover, I can say that before when I listened to songs I didnt realize the actual message they were singing about, instead I focused on the beat and if it was catchy enought to sing along too. Since MTV rarely plays any music videos it is hard to watch any music video on TV. You almost have to search them out if you want to see them. So to some extent I think artist feel like they have to push the envelope when it comes to their videos. Shock value is huge and gets those tons of views and as long as that keeps happeneing videos and music will continue to push things to the limit.
As for the idea of "acting a certain color" I think people can been seen "acting Black" or "acting White" if the person lookng at them has a specific stereoptype of what black or white people are "supposed" to act like or be like.
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