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I read an article and found a great topic to discuss.
I'll be talking mostly about the American culture because I honestly don't know what it's like in other places. But friends from other countries are welcome to join in on the discussion and tell us about their culture.
So I was reading an article that talked about Beyonce and how she's a terrible role model for young girls. Which I agree with. Sure, I liked Beyonce about ten years ago just as much as any other teen girl. But now she's gone off the rail and her lyrics are gross! You can read them on the article I linked.
Beyonce is Destroying Your Daughter, Not Empowering Her | TheBlaze.com
In the beginning, the author talks about our culture and how it's "bland, superficial, repetitious, existing for its own sake. Devoured quickly, with little intellectual effort, leaving you still hungry and slightly nauseated..."
"None of this is unique to her, of course. What I’m articulating is a familiar lament about all pop music today. It’s not art, it’s advertising. Like superhero films are designed just to hock action figures and sell tickets to the next superhero film, Beyonce’s albums are designed to hock her fashion line and sell downloads of her next album. Everything in pop culture is a franchise now, including pop singers. It’s all made for the purpose of perpetuating itself, like a virus. It certainly is not interested in expressing anything true or beautiful or good or difficult or joyous or painful. As the new iPhone is just the old iPhone with different commercials, so the new Beyonce song is just the old Beyonce song with an arguably different computer-generated beat."
So what do you guys think? Is our culture in trouble? Has true art lost its meaning?
There is another topic on that article I found very intriguing. He basically says that when people don't have God to serve, they start serving other things or people. He says America serves/praises its celebrities. Do you think that it is true? Discuss!
I'll be talking mostly about the American culture because I honestly don't know what it's like in other places. But friends from other countries are welcome to join in on the discussion and tell us about their culture.
So I was reading an article that talked about Beyonce and how she's a terrible role model for young girls. Which I agree with. Sure, I liked Beyonce about ten years ago just as much as any other teen girl. But now she's gone off the rail and her lyrics are gross! You can read them on the article I linked.
Beyonce is Destroying Your Daughter, Not Empowering Her | TheBlaze.com
In the beginning, the author talks about our culture and how it's "bland, superficial, repetitious, existing for its own sake. Devoured quickly, with little intellectual effort, leaving you still hungry and slightly nauseated..."
"None of this is unique to her, of course. What I’m articulating is a familiar lament about all pop music today. It’s not art, it’s advertising. Like superhero films are designed just to hock action figures and sell tickets to the next superhero film, Beyonce’s albums are designed to hock her fashion line and sell downloads of her next album. Everything in pop culture is a franchise now, including pop singers. It’s all made for the purpose of perpetuating itself, like a virus. It certainly is not interested in expressing anything true or beautiful or good or difficult or joyous or painful. As the new iPhone is just the old iPhone with different commercials, so the new Beyonce song is just the old Beyonce song with an arguably different computer-generated beat."
So what do you guys think? Is our culture in trouble? Has true art lost its meaning?
There is another topic on that article I found very intriguing. He basically says that when people don't have God to serve, they start serving other things or people. He says America serves/praises its celebrities. Do you think that it is true? Discuss!
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