Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Inadequacey

My disappointment towards Hollywood, celebrities and their egotistical personalities never seem to lessen. What I hate the most is the way women are portrayed on magazines and adverts. It has made the image of a young girl seem insecure and not worthy of the world based on her looks. A long time ago, I realized that Hollywood is dead.
A young girl sits in a waiting room and looks at the front of the magazine. The blonde-haired model has perfect ocean-blue eyes, beach-tanned skin, mid-toned pink lip gloss and a bikini. She sees how her skin is perfect, not a flaw to be seen. As a matter of fact, all of the other young models in the magazine have long hair and slim bodies.
In today's society young girls are feeling inadequate about their bodies and image. They are constantly dieting, comparing themselves with stars and models in the magazines. These models and stars do not look like that in real life. Most of their pictures are photoshopped, airbrushed and cover their faces with tremendous amounts of make-up. People would be floored to see celebrities without their make-up (some look like two different people). No matter how beautiful a person is, their portrait is not being truly displayed around the world. The team of workers behind a photo shoot are always going to find something wrong with their models no matter how they look.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Can lyrics to a song change our perspective in life?

Many songs nowadays contain lyrics filled with profanity and swear words. Personally for me, I usually don't like it so much, but there is this one song that I really like that has one curse word in it. I told myself, Oh, this is no big deal. There is one curse word and you can't even tell she sings it by the way she enunciates the word. Some songs are worse. I have been listening to this song for weeks and the beats and music get stuck in my head. I started singing the song and I would never say the swear word. When I sang it a couple more times, I didn't realize that I actually swore. I mean, this isn't the biggest crime on earth and it's nothing to get all up in arms about, but it got me thinking. Is it really necessary to have swear words in songs? Can curse words in songs lead us to curse more in our lives? I think you can have a song with good writing and music without the curse words.
This doesn't regard only to songs with swear words. Listening to any artist or group can influence the way we look at situations and life.