However, there are issues other than sex that are presented in music videos and in the culture that follows them. For example, a lot of people blame Marylin Manson for teenage depression and he has even been blamed for suicides. Taken at face value, Marylin Manson has a very shocking image that is especially conveyed in his music videos and it could easily scare people. However, people will often speak out against something they don't understand and while I can understand their distaste for Marylin Manson and other similar artists, if you speak to their fans they will almost always say how the artists songs have "saved their life" or "helped them get through hard times". I have included a video of Marylin Manson talking about the subject on an American chat show and one of his more shocking and visually creepy music videos. I would argue, that if people who are depressed or have issues in their life, if they didn't turn to music and music videos to help express themselves that they would turn to another art form like books or painting which would then cause the same controversy (and in many cases often do)
Monday 1 October 2012
RESEARCH: MORAL PANICS
Music and music videos have always caused controversy. Be it in the 70s with the Sex Pistols or in modern day with the apparent "sexualisation" of music videos. Just reading back on that first couple of sentences, I can already see one trend in how music shocks the world. Sex. Music has always had sexual connotations but it has just got less and less subtle as the years have gone by. The Beach Boys used to sing about their girls giving them "good vibrations" and "exitation" where as modern bands like Good Charlotte say "she sounds like sex on the radio". People often say that music has become more sexualised, but I simply think it has just become less subtle, it has always been there and on the same level. However, if we leave the songs themselves aside, music videos have become more sexualised. Many music videos of all genres include an archetypal sexy woman and it is extremely predictable now, especially in pop music. I want to try and move away from this in my music video.
However, there are issues other than sex that are presented in music videos and in the culture that follows them. For example, a lot of people blame Marylin Manson for teenage depression and he has even been blamed for suicides. Taken at face value, Marylin Manson has a very shocking image that is especially conveyed in his music videos and it could easily scare people. However, people will often speak out against something they don't understand and while I can understand their distaste for Marylin Manson and other similar artists, if you speak to their fans they will almost always say how the artists songs have "saved their life" or "helped them get through hard times". I have included a video of Marylin Manson talking about the subject on an American chat show and one of his more shocking and visually creepy music videos. I would argue, that if people who are depressed or have issues in their life, if they didn't turn to music and music videos to help express themselves that they would turn to another art form like books or painting which would then cause the same controversy (and in many cases often do)
However, there are issues other than sex that are presented in music videos and in the culture that follows them. For example, a lot of people blame Marylin Manson for teenage depression and he has even been blamed for suicides. Taken at face value, Marylin Manson has a very shocking image that is especially conveyed in his music videos and it could easily scare people. However, people will often speak out against something they don't understand and while I can understand their distaste for Marylin Manson and other similar artists, if you speak to their fans they will almost always say how the artists songs have "saved their life" or "helped them get through hard times". I have included a video of Marylin Manson talking about the subject on an American chat show and one of his more shocking and visually creepy music videos. I would argue, that if people who are depressed or have issues in their life, if they didn't turn to music and music videos to help express themselves that they would turn to another art form like books or painting which would then cause the same controversy (and in many cases often do)
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Good work. We discussed on Tuesday the ways in which this could be improved, such as by giving further examples and by referencing the BBC article provided, so please update this.
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