Media Rant!

Since I don't really have anything to post about today, I'm posting the blog post my sister asked me to write that started this whole shebang. ^_^

Just a note: My sister's name is pronounced like Jenny. She's a college sophomore with a bunch of friends that aren't all that smart, hence me insulting their intelligence :P


Here’s the deal.

My sister wanted me to post something on her blog for her because she couldn’t think of anything and said I was a good writer. So it’s not Genie writing this right now. It’s her 13 year old sister, Gemmie.
So I’m wasting the precious minutes I have before midnight to work on the project for geometry I’ve procrastinated on all weekend. If only I didn’t love writing. Oh well, I’m not going to geometry tomorrow anyway.

Genie pretty much limited my possible topics of this to something not “nerdy” since I’m pretty much the biggest nerd in the whole family. So there go my ideas to write something about Harry Potter, Fall Out Boy, or how evil it is for James Patterson to allow the “wonderful” director of the Twilight movies, Catherine Hardwicke, to even THINK about having KStew and RPattz play the roles of Max and Fang in the movie version of Maximum Ride when they so OBVIOUSLY cannot act!
Just kidding. You college kids wouldn’t want to read anything about that anyway unless you were as “cool” as I was. It’s a darn shame.
So instead of ranting about Twilight and their evil doings to ruin good books/movies (since I’m pretty sure 90% of you would maul me for that), let’s talk about something you wouldn’t expect a 13 year old to talk about.

Media.
It’s the most horrible monstrosity known to man.
I’m pretty sure most of you would maul me for this too since I know a lot of you listen to Lady Gaga and all those mainstream artists and are pretty much the biggest influence in the public, but it is an issue that must be addressed. Anyone who agrees can give yourself major EPIC!ness points.
First of all, let’s talk mainstream people. I seriously can’t find any talent WHATSOEVER in the media. My knowledge of people who are mainstream right now are only limited to Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga. Why? I pretty much gave up on the radio after my transition out of loving Disney people (mainly the Jonas Brothers). My sisters would say, “Oh the things you listen to are so EMO!” but they’re really not. They have real talent and because of that, media doesn’t want to publicize them.
But back to the main idea here. Every time I’m in the car with my sisters and they turn on the radio, all I hear are these (c)rap songs about sex and drugs and hanging out with some gang or crew or whatever you call it. Only Fall Out Boy can make songs about sex and drugs sound awesome so don’t even try (yeah…I pretty much crossed that one condition…but I’m done mentioning them now). See, they actually TRY to make their lyrics sound poetic and meaningful (I swear I’m done after that bit), but every mainstream artist straight up talks about getting laid and drinking at the club. Two words for you: WHO CARES? That’s not music! Music is supposed to be a creative outlet in which you can talk about whatever is on your mind at the moment. If the only thing I hear on the radio is about knocking someone up or getting hung over at the club every night, then America’s got some SERIOUS problems.
And if you’re going to come running to me telling me a song that is played on the radio that isn’t about sex or drugs, it still sounds like crap. There’s a reason why the word “rap” is in “crap,” people!

There’s another thing about music: It has to come from the soul. The bust musicians ever had to go through the pain and agony of writing something deep and beautiful by banging away on piano or wailing away on guitar. That can’t come from some canned tunes and mixes ready for you to play around with in the studio! Real music is something played, not something mixed. It’s synthetic and pathetic. I’d go and post my free form poem about this that uses those lines, but I’m wasting time here.
Basically, the music you hear on the radio isn’t music. It’s something the PUBLIC wants, and the public is more fickle and shallow than a one inch deep stream or some high school queen bee that bitches at her supposed “friends.” The public will easily drop someone either with or without talent once someone new and fresh comes along.

You all are probably going to think I’m a total ass for saying all this when I listen to Fall Out Boy and Cobra Starship, but at least they have more talent than someone like Justin Bieber who’s just a skinny white boy gangster wannabe who says “Shawty” too much and sounds like he’s a 12 year old girl singing about other girls.

I am now waiting for the village mob, but that’s what comes from blogging.

So this is going to be my last point (even though I really only have one point) because I’ve already spent more than half an hour on this when Genie’s probably going to delete this anyway. I could go on about the no talent hags media promotes (*cough*RobertPattinsonandKristenStewart*cough*), how the paparazzi seriously needs to get a clue about privacy, how movie directors are just looking for fame and not a piece of art, but I don’t have time for that and I’m already almost done with two pages on Word. Just remember if you ever want to have a stimulating conversation about this, always come to me (which would be odd, since all of you are over 18 and more than five years older than me…). Trust me, I also have more ranting issues than just this one (war, how corrupt America is, etc.).

So that brings me to my second and final point.

The media BADLY influences children.
How many times have I seen little kids becoming brattier, more perverted, and all out sluttier?
A LOT my friends, A LOT.
Let’s see, I’d like to start with Miley Cyrus. She’s beautiful, she’s funny, she has her own TV show… and an all out slut. I mean, YEARS of being signed with Disney has built up a pretty large fan base comprised of little girls and next thing we know she’s dancing on top of cars wearing the shortest shorts known to man and a stripper top in her music video, “Party in the USA.” Little girls IDOLIZE her and she’s out there shaking her ass at them! What do you think those little girls are going to do? Yes my friends, they’re going to copy her.
Have any of you seen The Mean Girls? Remember the popular chick (whose name escapes me at the moment…) who has the huge house and the little sister? Yeah well in one scene you can see her little sister watching something on TV where the people were FLASHING the cameraman. You know what she did? SHE COPIED THEM.
I just feel sorry for the parents. One day you think you have the perfect little child cradled in your hands and the next you find out that they’ve been drinking booze at parties and banging anyone they can find. It might not be directly because of media, but it all leads to that somehow.
You’re probably thinking, “Yeah? Well, your kids are going to wind up cutting themselves and attempting suicide!” Wrong! My kids will be raised to be literate and love REAL music, thank you very much.

Other than media corrupting the younger generations, who will someday lead the country, I must remind you, it pressures them into these absurd thoughts!
For example, WEIGHT.
A healthy woman is supposed to be around 120-140 pounds. The models and actresses you see on TV are around 100. Girls see these women and think, “Gosh, why can’t I be as skinny and pretty as them?” when the truth is that they are REALLY unhealthy. Sure, I’m unhealthy too but that’s of my own laziness. At least I don’t go around obsessing over my weight (which I am wonderfully in the middle of healthy) and resort to not eating or throwing up my food just to fit into size 0 jeans.
If you girls (whether you are in middle school, high school, college, or already in your 30s) think that you have to be skinny to be beautiful, think again. Most people can’t even achieve that type of “beauty.” Being skinny won’t make you rich and famous. It’ll actually make you look almost dead and will probably lead to depression. I promise you that.
If you still have a problem with seeing what I mean, I suggest watching the movie, Lying to be Perfect. It’s inspiring, eye opening, and really empowers you into thinking that you are beautiful.
That goes for guys too. You don’t have to be buff and muscle-y to get a girl to like you. In the end none of that matters in true love. The girl for you will be like a girl version of you, since you’ll have all the same interests and all the same likes/dislikes.

So that pretty much concludes my rant. Trust me, I can go ON AND ON AND ON, but I’ve already spent more than an hour on this and used three pages in Word already. Oh the things I do for blogging.

If you completely agree with this, then congratulations because you gave me more hope in the world.
If you think I’m a complete hypocrite and shouldn’t be thinking these things, then I encourage that. Good blogging comes with haters and people who disagree with you.
If you have nothing to say about this, then you just lessened my hope in people. Stop being ignorant and face the facts. This is what’s happening.

And if you were wondering, yes Genie’s little 13 year old sister DOES think like this and I HAVE talked about this on many occasions. I’m not the only one.