SUMBLOG 9

Our culture has evolved in a sense that we are now more than ever tolerant of offensive things.  I think it’s because of our freedom of speech that plays a large part in this because people have been fighting for a long time for us to express our opinions.  So the freedom of speech may be the reason why that society today are accepting of offensive things such as the language being used in the music industry today.  Music artist nowadays seems to not care what they put out there, and people at the same time don’t really care either.  Songs such as Blurred Line are popular because of its catchy tune rather then it’s lyrics.  That is what people seems to care about these days because music artists wouldn't be writing and singing them if there is not a market for them.  Although some people do voice their opinions on the offensive lyrics in the song, it seems like their opinions only brings more publicity to the artist and the song.  Musicians such as Miley Cyrus thrived on this concept, because before she became what she is today, her image was that of Disney create star that can do no wrong.  She underwent a drastic change and released some edgy materials.  The negative attention given to her because of the controversial things that she did, in the long run is actually is helping her by putting her name out to the mass public.  This seems to be the norm in the music industry because the edgier you are, the more records you seem to sell.  There is an article (http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=elvis-presley-controversy) that talks about how even the king of rock n roll Elvis Presley was very controversial in his time.  His unique style of performing was not immediately accepted by the older generation at the time, but at the same time was widely accepted by the younger people.  This seems to be the trend with every new generation as the world continues to change.  So maybe one day we’ll look back at twreking and think that it wasn't such a big deal.