Pop Artists Unplugged
By Mr King
Music artists should be free in their expression.
I agree with this statement.
Yet, in addition they must also be responsible for
their expression in some reasonable fashion or manner.
They do this in a number of ways such as through
radio or television interviews, creating "clean
versions", or through sticker rating systems.
However, many of these responsibility maintenance
systems and services appear to be failing often in
America today because the American people, no matter
their age, still appear to be consuming all that
American Corporations intend that they consume even
if a product is marked "for mature audiences only."
Simultaneously, the supposed "of age" people appear
to be getting more and more immature if they apparently
are the ones consuming the majority of the often
increasingly less than mature music and media that
keeps getting made in America today.
Thus, either way, it remains our responsibility as
parents and as responsible people in the human family,
to give our children plenty of positive and powerful
alternative influences to help neutralize the negative.
Otherwise, a music artist can transcend his or her
own music sometimes to become a force for violence,
social chaos, influential destruction, and philosophical
harm to the mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being
of a young person.
In other words, music artists who are simply out to make
a buck and who don't give a f--k about society or "other
people's children" will often go for the lowest common
denomenator (i.e. violence, gangsterism, sex, "bling-bling"
materialism, shock value, etc.) to sell their music.
In other words, these music artists are truly just business
people out to sell music to the immature among us, and I am
not speaking here against business, but I am here speaking
for education, awareness, and responsibility for the
effects of media (including music, television, video games,
etc.)
I am here speaking for the protection of society and of our
children. I am here speaking for our children to protect
our society and themselves.
Thus, again, we as parents and as mature and long-term
thinking people concerned with society and all children,
not just our own, must simply offer up powerful positive
role models (e.g. Dr. Martin Luther King, Gandhi, etc.)
and positive music artist alternatives (e.g. KRS-ONE, Bob
Marley, Kanye West, etc.) for our children.
We may even have to pull the plug sometimes as well!
Comments on "Pop Artists Unplugged"
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On Monday, March 13, 2006, Blinded_Tiger
(518) wrote:
I am clear on it now, and i can swallow it ^^ Sometimes we must "cencor to liberate". My rebel instinct dosnt like that one bit .. But to be responsible it is needed.
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On Monday, March 13, 2006, Blinded_Tiger
(518) wrote:
You often provoke my rebel side, you should know that. That is why I read you. Also why I rarely comment, becous my comments would not show the respect I hold you in and the joy I get from reading you. Nadir
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On Monday, January 30, 2006, Mr King
(547) wrote:
Thanks Nadir... I re-opened, re-examined, and re-wrote here concerning the subject.... 1Love, Seth
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On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, Blinded_Tiger
(518) wrote:
I am confused about what the issue is. Social unrest can be alot of things, and in my eyes both good and bad (looking back in historie). I personaly would not unplug anyone from Dante as example.
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On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, Blinded_Tiger
(518) wrote:
He did fall into the category of an evil pop artist playing for shock value in the eyes of many; many years ago. So I dislike that people speak in general about good and evil pop artists today.
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On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, Blinded_Tiger
(518) wrote:
Who is to judge good and evil in art and what does entice bad behavior and what dosnt? And what is bad behavior, one would be the judge of that aswell. It is alot to swallow, and I think we should only speak for our OWN kids.
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On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, Blinded_Tiger
(518) wrote:
If that is your point, to speak for ones children or/and be aware and alert then I can swallow it. If not, I can not.
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On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, Mr King
(547) wrote:
Dear Crysa... Thank you for your thoughtful ideas... I agree that artists should be free... also that they need to be responsible, in some way... not necessarily through their art...
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On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, Mr King
(547) wrote:
...for what their art does. Parents cannot obviously defend their children completely against the work of a society...
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On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, Mr King
(547) wrote:
"It take a village to raise a child" as they say... To put it all on the parent is often neither reasonable nor realistic... Surviving fiscally can be difficult enough in many cases for most parents...
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On Sunday, January 1, 2006, Crysa
(33) wrote:
:) Thank you. I would just like to point out, that I don't think the parents are entirely accountable for thier children.
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On Sunday, January 1, 2006, Crysa
(33) wrote:
What they are responsible for is arming thier children with the neccesary "weapons" to defend themselves, so to speak. I could go into more detail, but it's kinda late. :) Happy New Year!
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On Tuesday, December 27, 2005, Mr King
(547) wrote:
Parents can, however, obviously make the difference... So, its a combination of solutions... I agree with your conclusions about art, fame, fortune, and Poe...
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On Wednesday, March 22, 2006, Mr King
(547) wrote:
Thank you for sharing... I see a teacher in you!
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On Saturday, December 24, 2005, Crysa
(33) wrote:
I thing part of the appeal of any type of art is freedom. When I'm writing, I don't think about how it's going to come across to someone else. Anything is capable of corrupting minds. Religion, education, politics...
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On Saturday, December 24, 2005, Crysa
(33) wrote:
(I think, not 'I thing"*) I believe that it's up to the parents to make sure their children are exposed to the right kinds of role models, but they also need to stress the fact that these pop artists just make music. Sure, they are media magnets. But t
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On Saturday, December 24, 2005, Crysa
(33) wrote:
But they are just people who are being exaulted because fame and fortune have come to mean so much to our nation. It really is what you take from any form of art that is important.
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On Saturday, December 24, 2005, Crysa
(33) wrote:
One person will look at Poe and see a door closed by death and depression, another will see an unending hall in which words and feelings echo endlessly, encouraging self expression, and acknowledge the power of words.