Tuesday’s lecture opened my eyes to a whole new world …the
world of Justin Bieber. Of course I had heard of Justin Bieber, and his
enormous popularity but I had no idea the fandamonium surrounding him was this
large. Furthermore I had no idea of his many charitable efforts. After going
home and doing a quick Google search on him I learned two things:
1) Teenagedr girls really, really,
really love Justin Bieber and are absolutely not afraid to say it.
And 2) Justin Bieber donates a
lot of time, money and energy to chairty
Whether these efforts are sincere
or not are of course hard to tell. As the issue was brought up in class we
truly never know what motivates artists. However,
I do think that all this charity work and the all around good image that Justin
Bieber promotes should not be put down. Of course the music video we watched in
class was ridiculously cheesy, but what do we expect,? He is (or was when the video was created) a 16 year
old talking about foreclosures and other world wide issues that he most likely knows
little about, and furthermore has little authority to talk about. However, his authority and expertise on the world economy is not
really important. What is important is the message that he sends out to his
viewers with music videos such as “Pray”. In
this case, as with most of Bieber’s music, it is always a positive message. This
positive message, although a little unauthentic is important to young
listeners. When it really comes down to it wouldn’t it be better for tweens to
be listening to music that makes them think about the world around them,
and question how they can help, as opposed to other artists who do not have
this same kind of attitude?
One thing that I learned this
week is that young girls will literally do anything for Justin Bieber, and if that is the case, isn’t it best that they
are doing something positive?
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