Hit Me With Your Best Shot

So it's been a while since I've actually wrote a blog post, so here's something on a topic that I have been silent on far too long:

10 reasons why Miley Cyrus is awesome:

Honestly, I'm a big fan of Miley. And let me tell you why

1) She actually is talented. She can sing. Check out her singing Dolly Parton's "Jolene" in the backyard sessions.

2) She is super fit. Claims that it's "yoga" and never sleeping. Sure man... 

3) She has completely transformed herself. She took her good girl image and then what seemed like overnight (which really was a series of incidents and warnings- see TMZ video of Miley twerking at a Juicy J concert months ago before the VMA incident) and transformed herself into a pop commodity. Is there anything really wrong with a girl shedding her image of the past? Take chameleon extraordinaire, Madonna, or for a milder example, Rihanna - From "Breaking Dishes" to "Umbrella." People grow up. People change. Except it.

4) She is not afraid to show off her body. Some people may think that she is being slutty, gross etc. Or using her body to sell records. But I say, get it girl. You're young and 20. Take your clothes off if you want. Wear what you want. Dance however you want. Take risks.

5) She appears to not listen to anyone but herself. She claims she is in 100 percent control of her career. Whether this is true, she sure is dancing to the own beat of her drum.

6) She openly reps smoking weed. Just one more on the Kush train with Snoop and Willie.

7) So far, she has yet to have some type of mental break down. And that's pretty good being a product of the Disney machine (see Britney Spears, Demi Lavato etc.)

8) I don't think she is overly "artsy" but she does attempt to make something artistic (like her music videos for "We Can't Stop" and "Wrecking Ball" as opposed to just pumping out hits from Doctor Luke (again see Britney Spears latest creation.)

9) She is candid. She speaks her mind, laughs, sticks her tongue out, swears, smokes, whatever. She shows us she is human and that really is super fun up in Miley's world.

10) She can apparently hold her own in the hiphop world. Somehow she has won over hiphop artists like Mike Will Made It, Juicy J, Wiz Khalifia, and French Montana, oh and Pharrell Williams. That speaks volumes. If they are willing to work with her, she must be packing some heat ( I mean some talent.)

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Brush, Brush Away...

I am well aware that we live in a visual culture.

Artists create works of art full of symbols and signals.

I often wonder where the ideas come from?

Why did they create this certain persona, etc.

Someone sent me this article about Lady Gaga and the Illuminati (http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1676) and after reading several other articles by the author, I am trying to grab some insight on it.

The author writes about Metropolis, the 1927 Fritz Lang film. I'm highly interested in German expressionist films and I did my term paper on this particular film. The author of this article claims that the film is about mind control and using robots to maintain control etc.

In the film, the scientist makes a robot in the likeness of Maria, the people's advocate. Maria did not consent and conspire with the scientist to make a robot of herself like the author says. Maria was captured by the scientist and he performed experiments on her to transform the robot into her likeness. If Lady Gaga is a willing participant in this mind control by the music industry like the author says, she cannot be compared to the character Maria in the film.

Metropolis is yes, about robot mind control, but it is also about war, fascism, the plight of the working class toiling away in the factory. It relates more to socialism than it does government mind control. In the end of the film, the true Maria tries to stop the robot from controlling the workers. She tries to save the people from the destruction, and she does succeed in ending the turmoil.

Although, what the author writes about Beyonce and Rihanna seems somewhat accurate. Rihanna was a "good girl", just singing about music and dancing. Until her "Good Girl Gone Bad" album. She seemed to have changed her image over night. Everyone was talking about her "new look" etc. And she just kept getting darker and darker. Like she sold her soul to the devil? As soon as she went darker, her album sales jumped.

Before I read the analysis of "Run This Town" by Jay-Z, I kind of wondered what it was about? I still do. The lyrics didn't seem to be telling at all. It wasn't talking about sex or money so it must be talking about fame?or something else.

This also made me think of how Beyonce and Gaga recently joined up for two songs, which just struck me as, a extremely odd collaboration. Not their style at all. I still wonder why they chose to do so.

So the author, from most articles I have checked out, is really saying that the music industry is using superstars like Gaga to control the population for evil purposes. This theory is not revolutionary, but it may be far fetched, maybe not.

A while ago, I read this book published in the 80's about how rock bands worshiped the devil and were brainwashing teens to become satanists and fornicate all the time. I thought the book was silly, but not completely crazy.

So in 2010 terms, rock music is a dying breed. So maybe the satanists needed some other type of stars to control the minds of people. So they took in control over the pop music industry. They have the right medium and can do it subliminally. Right?

It all reminds me of the song "the Devil Went Down to Georgia", and how the man sells his soul to the devil in order to play like a fiddle god. Fame comes with a price after all.

Think about the demise of Britney Spears. She was and innocent girl (Think "Hit Me baby One More Time" video), the music machine got a hold of her, made her into a star(think "I'm a Slave for You" era), and then a monster. I don't think she will ever recover. And think about how fucked up she was a year ago. She probably still is.

One thing that does not sit well into this theory yet, is someone like Taylor Swift. Where does she fit in? How is she being controlled by the music industry?

Or the Disney owned Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus. They have received immense fame and there is no evidence of symbols or whatever. The author has a theory. And that's all it is, just a theory.

Maybe we are just reading too much into it. But then again those who do not question, must then be accepting it.

Those who do not question anything in life, follow along like sheep to the slaughter.

All I am really saying is, watch what you are feeding your mind. Question the images you see, wonder where the ideas come from. Think of the message behind it. Don't just eat up the music/images like it's porridge to your soul.