One of the good things about doing this blog, is that it is my own little platform to talk about the things I love, and occasionally, the things I don’t. This post will be about the latter. It is solely MY opinion and feelings and although I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind – I hope you will think about the kind of world you want your children growing up in.
I originally wrote this post yesterday, the day after witnessing Lady Gaga teach millions of children around the world about sexual intercourse. I sat on the post and waited to see if I was over-reacting. A day later, I am still just as fired up about this as I was the moment it freely aired on primetime tv.
I don’t typically watch the show American Idol, however this year; I actually followed it a bit more than usual. I don’t know if it was just this year or if Fox always does this, but throughout the season there were an astounding amount of performances by today’s pop “elite.” Wednesday night, on the Season Finale, I caught the performance by Lady Gaga.
Just as a bit of background... I do not like Lady Gaga. I am not a fan of her music or the way she markets or carries herself. I have many friends that enjoy her music; I am just not one of them. I find her to be desperate for attention and fame and will do anything to get it – from her stupid outfits, hair and antics, to her complete disregard for family values and any kind of morals.
So as I am watching her performance of whatever dumb song she is singing and I am thinking to myself, “Wow, other than wearing another stupid costume (begging to be talked about), at least she’s just singing and not doing something ludicrous.” And then, as if she heard my thoughts, I watch a male dancer climb up the platform where she and this dancer simulate sexual intercourse. No joke. From start to finish.
As I sit on my bed in complete horror and disbelief, I immediately think of all of the young children watching. I imagine 8 year old girls watching this singing competition, hoping that their favorite singer becomes THE American Idol. But wait, before you can see that, you’ve got to sit through some sex ed and pornography. It’s wildly inappropriate and I am so utterly disgusted on what I, and millions of people (my concern being young children) have just witnessed.
I don’t know why I am so surprised. It wasn’t so long ago that Lady Gaga released her video for the song “Alejandro” that showed many bondage and S&M scenes, including what appeared to be her dressed as a nun whilst getting raped. As a Christian, I found that horrifically offensive. As a woman I was mortified. As an American, I was embarrassed.
Lady Gaga continues to “push the envelope” on just how low she can go. About two years ago, I said, “Lady Gaga is so desperate to ‘one up’ the pop scene, that she is one step away from having sex on stage.” And last night, she hugged that line with the desperation of a hooker trying to turn a trick for her next hit. Sure, you can’t legally have intercourse in public – but let’s make no bones about what that was or what her intentions were with that “choreography.”
What really pisses me off is that her act was on a channel that just about everyone who owns a television (despite what cable package you have) gets. I didn’t pay for a ticket to one of her vile concerts, I was just watching tv. Sure, I can change the channel – but why is that kind of behavior allowed to be on tv? Why should I have to change the channel? It’s not like it was a Lady Gaga show. It was a reality singing competition show!
How irresponsible of Fox to allow such a broadcast with no warning to parents or viewers. As with all performances, there are dress rehearsals and sound checks – Fox cannot act like they did not know what her act entailed. Not that I was ever a faithful Fox viewer, but that will be the last American Idol (and possibly Fox) show I will watch.
I guess I am wondering… where did the everyone’s morals in this country go? Why do we idolize someone that couldn’t be more intent on tearing family values into pieces? How can America be so jaded to that kind of behavior that no one even blinks an eye?
Today I went online to MSN wondering if there would be an article about the pornography shown on primetime tv and I find nothing (although in all fairness, finding such a story on a liberal media outlet was a long shot). No mention of it. However, I did see an article that this is some kind of out roar about a Dove ad. The body wash ad features three women, ranging in skin tone. The left woman is African American, the middle woman is medium colored skin and the woman on the right has light skin. Apparently (in the desperate need to hold onto racial discrimination in this country [and don’t get me started on the multiple months dedicated to the history of different races – and no, don’t expect to find a “White History month,” it doesn’t exist]) people are up in arms that this Dove ad shows the women in a progression of dark to light skin and that it is ‘showing people that light skin is beautiful and thats what all should aspire to be.’ That’s right folks, Dove has decided to make a racial jab by carefully arranging the women into such an order that so that it obviously suggests racial discrimination or racial insensitivity. They are definitely trying to insult and imply such silly things to upset consumers so that they won’t buy their product. That’s exactly what they are doing. It amazes me how people 1) cannot let history go, but 2) have these delusional citings of racial discrimination that doesn’t exist.
The point of the Dove ad is that THIS story makes headlines, and Lady Gaga’s pornography doesn’t.
Like I said earlier, I have never been a fan of the mediocre pop music and outrageous antics of Lady Gaga. She writes her own music? BFD. So do respectable musicians like Taylor Swift. How crazy is it that little girls look up to Lady Gaga, when there are artists like Taylor Swift that make good, clean music and aren’t doing it looking like a steak dinner (No, I am not shocked by the fact that you are wasting perfectly good beef by wearing it as a dress, I just think you look like an @$$hole, that’s all.). It boggles my mind. It makes me angry, and at the same time sad, that Lady Gaga is allowed a platform to spread such revolting behavior. But she has that platform because people buy her schtick. They buy her act. Her albums, “The Fame” and “The Fame Monster” are so appropriately titled, yet I think it goes right over the heads of her followers.
I used to say that I was “old” and no longer relevant because I didn’t like musical acts like Lady Gaga. That’s really not the case. I don’t like Lady Gaga because I think she makes mediocre music and I strongly dislike not only her political / social views, but her severe desperation to create a scandal and be famous.
I find her to be a disappointment of epic proportions. If children are looking up to her as a role model, we’ve got some serious problems and everyone should be concerned.
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