Friday, December 10, 2010

Great song with vulgarities for added flavour



This Eminem song has 163 million 'hits' (or views on Youtube) since it came out, earlier this year, making that an average of 16 million hits per month or 500,000 hits per day on average. Wow !

The vulgarities sometimes lend ammunition to the stand by conservationists who think that anti-hero Eminem is poisoning the minds of influential young people. Well yes and no, yes, if the youngsters believe that the images such as Eminem falling off the cliff and flying into the air can be replicated - but then again, every superhero does that, Superman, Astroboy and recently Hancock. Of course, the youngsters should know by now the difference between reality and make believe.

The other aspect of vulgarities. Now we all went through our teenage years, who never uttered a four letter word or swore in his life ? Emimen's lyrics reflect the growing disenfranchisement of society, about his daughter's problems and him trying to reach to her. The rest of the stuff "Fxxx the universe" all add colour.

So, enjoy the song. Understand the message and accept that we live in a multi-coloured multidimensional world, where Eminem, Teletubbies, Chinese xinyao, Bollywood artistes and Hillsong (a Christian band) all  jostle for our attention.

Seize the day and enjoy it.  

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