Hey Sexy Lady, I Wanna Get To Know Ya

When was the last time you turned on a mainstream music station or television channel and didn't see something to do with sex or alcohol?  For me, I can't even remember.  When we walk into a store, go to a school dance, or simply sit at home and watch TV, there is typically some type of song that involves getting really shwasted, getting lots of poon (action), or grinding hard booties.  If Pitbull and Britney have sex with lots of people, that means it is okay for me to do that too, right?  These musical "artists," whether we want to admit it or not, are our role models.  They are the people we look to for examples.  It isn't because we think they are really awesome people and should follow in their footsteps to lead a good Samaritan life. It's because in our eyes, they are success.  They make all this money by taking their clothes off for the camera and singing about it.  We think "Wow. That sure is much easier than doing my homework!"  I'm not trying to say that we see all these nakey, thrusting bodies and think that if we take our clothes off and get kinky we will be really successful in life too.  That is not the case.  What we see is what used to be risque.  But then these "stars" came and pushed the envelope (dying metaphor, I know) and they got away with it.  People said, "Hey! They're cool!" Gradually, people began to accept the shedding of clothing and movement into highly explicit lyrics.  No longer was it taboo to get drunk and hook up with some random guy.  So now we are at a point where chicks go naked in the slammer (Lady Gaga and Beyonce -- Telephone), men sing about the lack of respect they have for women (E=MC Vagina), and those intimate details from last night? Yeah he told everyone (David Banner -- Play).  These videos are supposed to be entertaining and funny, but really, would you be able to watch them with your grandma?

Consider the possibility that these desensitized values were here in the first place and these artists just came along and broadcasted them.  In all reality, this is highly unlikely.  The music business is all about the future, finding what type of music is new and innovative.  What haven't people seen or heard before.  They've created this acceptance of degradation.  The media is the necessary tool for spreading far and wide this new frontier of sexuality. How else would a whole ideal be so omnipresent in our country and accepted?