2008 Woodie Awards
The reality of entertainment's downfall
Forrest Stout
Issue date: 2/15/06 Section: Opinion
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Is it just me, or is the modern world becoming more and more fake? So many of the top selling CD's are not recorded by musicians but instead by actors from the Disney Channel (Remember, Brittany Spears was a Mouseketter). It wasn't too long ago when Milli Vanilli won the "Best New Artist Award" at the Grammy's. Then, we found out that the real musicians behind the music were visually unimpressive, middle aged white people and Milli Vanilli dropped off the face of the Earth, along with the real musicians behind the act. Still, at least Milli Vanilli were old enough to buy cigarettes which is more than I can say for the likes of Lindsay Lohen, Hillary Duff, etc. What portion of these modern CD's and DVD's are sold to middle aged men who are just too embarrassed to buy Hustler's Barely Legal? After Britney Spears' music videos, I'd say it's pretty high.
Where is the music in the music industry? There are still countless great bands out there, but it's starting to feel like our taste in music is visually sedated by underage blondes, just after we got over the painfully dense boy band craze.
Music turning into a visual media is just the tip of the iceberg. Look at television. "Reality" television has about as much connection to reality as the Easter Bunny joining Hogwarts (Seriously, they'd never let him because he's really a Death Eater.). Just how many programs can be made where the winners get married? In each episode, it seems that the star is about as sincere as our president and makes out with as many people as possible. (Does that make the star a slightly more attractive combination of both Bush and Clinton?) Why would anyone want to marry the star? I suppose all the contestants are even sadder and more deprived than the star. (Which is worse, Hillary Duff or an adult who buys her CD?)
Like modern music, reality television is not just silly, it's disgusting. We've taken marriage, which should be the ultimate expression of love and devotion, and turned it into this. Please explain to me how it is that we can eat up "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire," etc., but allowing homosexual wedlock would be tainting the "sanctity of marriage." Homosexuals cannot ruin marriage because lazy heterosexual couch potatoes already beat them to it.
Where is the music in the music industry? There are still countless great bands out there, but it's starting to feel like our taste in music is visually sedated by underage blondes, just after we got over the painfully dense boy band craze.
Music turning into a visual media is just the tip of the iceberg. Look at television. "Reality" television has about as much connection to reality as the Easter Bunny joining Hogwarts (Seriously, they'd never let him because he's really a Death Eater.). Just how many programs can be made where the winners get married? In each episode, it seems that the star is about as sincere as our president and makes out with as many people as possible. (Does that make the star a slightly more attractive combination of both Bush and Clinton?) Why would anyone want to marry the star? I suppose all the contestants are even sadder and more deprived than the star. (Which is worse, Hillary Duff or an adult who buys her CD?)
Like modern music, reality television is not just silly, it's disgusting. We've taken marriage, which should be the ultimate expression of love and devotion, and turned it into this. Please explain to me how it is that we can eat up "The Bachelor," "The Bachelorette," "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire," etc., but allowing homosexual wedlock would be tainting the "sanctity of marriage." Homosexuals cannot ruin marriage because lazy heterosexual couch potatoes already beat them to it.