Yet more proof rap is dumbing down our population…
I’m at the gym tonight and an “Outkast” (sic) video comes on the TV (perhaps if rap stars weren’t priding themselves on being “crunk” they’d be sober enough to remember how to spell). Since I workout with headphones on, I only watch the TV in passing – and only as much as I watch girls or anything else in the gym.
Anyway, at one point I look up, and there’s a long slow shot of this dumbfuck putting toothpaste on a toothbrush. Wow, super cool! I hope one day I can do that! Oh, wait… Then, and I can’t believe this actually happened, he starts brushing his teeth, rolls his head back and around like he’s sucking some guy off and is getting off on it. A rap video where a guy brushes his teeth. Invigorating.
What brain-dead, fucked up, mentally incapacitated, social reject thought this guy brushing his teeth would be a cool scene in a music video?
And I’m told Outkast is “good” rap. So what the fuck happens in bad rap videos? We watch them shower? Wash their dishes? Sleep? Oh boy, oh boy, let me watch that, please, please, please, yay.
Watching it made sticking my head in a blender seem like a highly intelligent idea. I’m not sure what’s lower – the maximum IQ possible for someone to desire seeing this, or the IQ one is left with after watching the whole video (I know I lost several IQ points, but at least I immediately stopped watching after the aforementioned scene).
Unfathomably my girlfriend – an amazing woman who, despite losing the required 50 points of respect for liking rap, remains one of the people I respect the most and one of the few people who has enough brain cells to watch this and still be ridiculously smart – upon being told about this video said she’d probably like it. ::sigh:: One of the scariest moments of the last several months of my life…
Have not seen the video myself. But I would venture to say that to judge the entire composition (and genre) brain-dead after admittedly viewing only a few seconds of picture with no sound (and then bragging about that fact) seems a mite premature. The Godfather contains an entire scene about making spaghetti sauce… I suppose that means all Al Pacino movies are trivial and insipid.
I’m glad you have the balls to admit your prejudice. Now let’s work on getting past it, hm?
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This coming from Mr. Film Student who wrote off dozens of movies that Kristel and I rented based on Title, Actors, or 30 seconds of the movie you happened to walk in on. At least the 30+ seconds I saw which included that scene plus various glances at the screen before, and a few after (while I tried to catch what video it was), was probably around 30% of the video compared much smaller percentage of those feature films you saw before writing them off.
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You missed the point again. My personal criteria for entertainment are not at issue. The point is that while I didn’t always feel like joining you in whatever TV show or movie you happened to be watching, I never, ever called you an idiot for watching them, and I never made insulting remarks about your I.Q. based on something I didn’t take the time to properly evaluate.
In the words of Lewis Black,
“MTV is not music. Music is a wonderful thing. It’s like a drug really, it’s played and it goes in our ear, and we get a vision. MTV is a video, and that goes where? In your eye. Eye. Ear. There’s a big fuck difference… and if you get a vision in your head after you listen to some music and you go home and turn on MTV and the video they show is the vision you had… kill yourself.”
I don’t who you are, but I happened to click on your crappy blog and read this silly, unorganized, unfocused rant, which has no redeeming qualities what so ever. Are you mad that all these people are ridiculously wealthy making their dreams come true, while you are stuck in your boring ass life, working at Wal-Mart and fucking your cousin? Have fun silly boy. J