Throughout the semester, Mr. Edwards had given the class multiple texts. Texts that are debateable, about te media, music, celebrities, you name it. I have picked 3 texts out of my binder that I am going to discuss here, and give an opinion on. These texts are: True Beliebers Ditch The Flip, The Origins Of Hip Hop, and Reality TV Fakes It
True Beliebers Ditch The Flip
This text, is talking about the 'one and only' Justin Bieber. Everyone knows this kid as the 'teenage heart throb', the boy with the blonde hair that he wears to the side, an 'Idol' to most people. But questions have been asked before, if these fans only like him for his hair and appearance, and not just his music. Well they found an answer to that after Justin cut all of his hair off. Apparently after he cut all his hair off, he lost 80,000 Twitter followers, and was left with 7,588,731 followers.
This goes to show that the fans only liked him for his appearance, and how ‘cute’ he looked, or is. In my opinion, the media made his whole appearance. They made that the main focus of him. His music and his movie that came after it, seems to be an extra for this celebrity. Media tends to make celebrities appearance more important then what they became famous for in the first place. That is wrong completely wrong. Because for 1) They aren’t letting their work be noticed and recognized. 2) Because they are making celebrities look a certain way, it is creating an influence for anyone looking up to them. For example, in magazines they make the girls look a lot skinnier than they really are, and it makes young girls think they need to be like that, so they starve themselves and risk their lives so they can look like this. When all along, it was photoshop. Overall what the media does for the advertising of celebrities is completely wrong. It is only going to continue and become worse.
The Origins Of Hip Hop
This text is explaining the birth of the music genre hip hop. Hip hop originally started with African music. The beat to their music was brought all over the world from the slave ships. Ever since then hip hop has become popular by people mixing and matching the music and beats they heard, and creating it into something of their own. Later on in the text they mention some big time hip hop artists and what they have done to become popular. Such as The Sugarhill Gang, The Beastie Boys, and Blondie.
I think it’s amazing how hip hop became so popular, and have multiple styles of it. What bugs me is like I mentioned, hip hop originally came from Africa. From that it turns into different styles with different artists. People who are racist, and like hip hop,don’t realize that hip hop originated from Africa. They are too quick to judge. I think this article was put together really well overall. I deffinitely learned a lot I didn’t know about hip hop before.
How Reality TV Fakes It
This text, shows the true colours of the media. They are sneaky, horrible, and they do whatever they can to get an audience, and earn a lot of money. In this article, they explain how the media takes what people say, and basically cuts and pastes what was said, so it seems like they said something horrible, or something they don’t want people to think they said. They do this as I said to get an audience or to earn money. There are many other examples that were explained in this text but overall this is the main idea.
I personally think that what the media does, is wrong. They can and have ruined peoples lives, with how they mix and match everything. They give people the wrong impression about someone or something, and that can really hurt. As well something that the media does that really bugs me is when editors of big time magazines like Cosmo and People magazine, they make everyone in pictures the ‘perfect person’ with nice bodies, perfect smiles, make them out to seem like they have the perfect lives when really, they are nothing close to it. By doing so, they can really endanger young teens lives, who look up to these people and love reading these magazines. Overall this text was well explained and really got in depth with the truth behind the media.
