Tumblr needs to hop down off it’s high fucking horse and instead of turning against a potential role model and ally to all that they’ve been fucking preaching about JUST BECAUSE HE’S PRIVILEGED AND WHITE, maybe make him an icon because he’s not rapping about disrespecting women. He’s making a small change. But because he grew up with a well structured family environment and he was able to afford everything he desired, he’s suddenly the enemy.
^^ It is pretty sleazy, and the fact that it got to #1 with lyrics that trashy says something not great about the American people's social consciousness with regards to pop music, but it really isn't the worst thing to happen to the pop charts in recent memory, let alone the worst thing ever.
^ Kind of, but it's more than that.
It's good that people care; it's bad that they obsess.
Honestly hearing it on the radio makes me incredibly uncomfortable at this point and it's not entirely because of the dissonance between the music's quality and the lyric's quality.
I honestly just don't like "Blurred Lines". Not even because of social objections (although it's skeevy as hell, but so are a lot of pop songs) but because I just don't like the way it sounds. I don't know who produced it offhand, but it sounds like a bad Timbaland impersonation, which matches up nicely with Thicke's bad Timberlake impersonation.
Talked with one of the few people that I know in real life and Tumblr about Mackelmore today. She managed to convince me that Thrift Shop's message is also kind of iffy.
On the one hand, it erases the stigma of having to buy thrift clothes. On the other hand, it makes it cool to buy thrift clothes when you're rich enough to not buy thrift clothes, which means that thrift shops might skew their prices upwards to cater to their new fanbase, which screws over the people who need to thrift shop.
It's not a perfect argument, but I see where she was coming from.
Talked with one of the few people that I know in real life and Tumblr about Mackelmore today. She managed to convince me that Thrift Shop's message is also kind of iffy.
On the one hand, it erases the stigma of having to buy thrift clothes. On the other hand, it makes it cool to buy thrift clothes when you're rich enough to not buy thrift clothes, which means that thrift shops might skew their prices upwards to cater to their new fanbase, which screws over the people who need to thrift shop.
It's not a perfect argument, but I see where she was coming from.
To point out the least of the holes in that argument: People who could potentially buy more expensive new things have been buying stuff from thrift stores and the like for ages and they have not, on the whole, decided to skew their prices upward to appeal to a wealthier clientele.
honestly Thrift Shop's only message has ever seemed to me to be "don't pay absurd sums of money for clothes, even if you could hypothetically afford them", the rest of the song is just silliness surrounding that theme, and honestly if that's a bad message we may need to rethink our definition of a bad message.
honestly Thrift Shop's only message has ever seemed to me to be "don't pay absurd sums of money for clothes, even if you could hypothetically afford them", the rest of the song is just silliness surrounding that theme, and honestly if that's a bad message we may need to rethink our definition of a bad message.
Agreed.
Now let us talk about other, more entertaining things.
honestly Thrift Shop's only message has ever seemed to me to be "don't pay absurd sums of money for clothes, even if you could hypothetically afford them", the rest of the song is just silliness surrounding that theme, and honestly if that's a bad message we may need to rethink our definition of a bad message.
Yeah, that's what I originally got from it too.
My friend, I have realized, is a lot more angry at things than I allow myself to be. Considering that there are things to be angry about with Macklemore, that may have shaped her feelings.
So, I saw an interesting set of questions and decided to put them up for those so inclined to ask. Feel free to send me an inquiry and feed my enormous ego.
honestly Thrift Shop's only message has ever seemed to me to be "don't pay absurd sums of money for clothes, even if you could hypothetically afford them", the rest of the song is just silliness surrounding that theme, and honestly if that's a bad message we may need to rethink our definition of a bad message.
Agreed.
Now let us talk about other, more entertaining things.
The modern maid outfit is a construct based on French design for, and there's no set maid outfit for Late Medieval England (unless I'm wrong, in which case you can correct me with arguments from respected journals).
Now, the importance of the archer to warfare, along with the usual common status of the archer, made archery a go-to way for a commoner to gain respect from noblemen. This is reflected in Robin Hood's use of the bow in all but the earliest ballads, the bow being a signifier for his yeoman, quasi-noble, quasi-commoner status.
The modern maid outfit is a construct based on French design for, and there's no set maid outfit for Late Medieval England (unless I'm wrong, in which case you can correct me with arguments from respected journals).
The word "maid" is generally short for "handmaid" or a synonym of "maiden." I gave no indication as to what sort of outfit that would be, beyond it being the attire of a maid.
Did the parts of Europe that weren't a part of the Roman Empire really change that much pre-Fall and Post-Fall? :o
The main difference was a lack of central authority to protect them, which wouldn't be adequately replicated until Renaissance times, and the rise of modern nationalism.
honestly Thrift Shop's only message has ever seemed to me to be "don't pay absurd sums of money for clothes, even if you could hypothetically afford them", the rest of the song is just silliness surrounding that theme, and honestly if that's a bad message we may need to rethink our definition of a bad message.
Yeah, that's what I originally got from it too.
My friend, I have realized, is a lot more angry at things than I allow myself to be. Considering that there are things to be angry about with Macklemore, that may have shaped her feelings.
Macklemore is nothing to get angry about. I mean, at worst he strikes me as a well meaning doofus who is not terribly good at rapping. Also he has a silly name
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"Thrift Shop" is actually a great example of this.
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and take their weapons leaving them dead
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guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead