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| From | shoshana price <shosh820@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: FOW Mexican Wine Video....ARGHHH |
| Date | Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:20:51 -0800 (PST) |
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Ok...I've been reading the heated debate being
generated by this video, and I think I'm in the Bob
Segarini ("take a pill") camp...and I apply this
suggestion equally to both the men and women on this
list who have been bitterly attacking each other's
political opinions over a piece of fluff
entertainment.
After all, I thought this was a music discussion list,
not a political discussion list. And not to take the
political aspects of this discussion lightly, let's
PLEASE try to put it in all in perspective.
It's a stupid MTV video - it's raison d'etre is to
catch the (admittedly extremely limited) attention
span of the typical 14-25 year old mostly male MTV
watcher, so that MAYBE, just MAYBE they will pay
attention long enough to think "wow...what a great
song...maybe I'll go buy the CD or check out what else
these guys have done". The point of making a video in
the first place is not to uphold a certain moral
standard; the point of making a video is to sell CDs.
Nothing more and nothing less.
I know MTV is full of tongue in cheek sexually
explicit and unrealistic images of women (and
sometimes men); I also don't make a habit of watching
it, and if I did have kids (which I don't) I would
make sure they were in on the joke before I'd let them
just sit there and watch it.
Personally, I'd rather have a great band make a silly
video that catches people's attention, gets more
people interested in great music, gets more money
available for bands doing similarly great music,etc,
than in having a great band make a really boring video
that nobody watches just to uphold a higher moral
standard and have crappy music (with attention
grabbing videos) continue to pervade the airwaves.
-shosh
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