'Is this what our culture has come to?'

[patrick_vecchio]

Comments

[sahlah]

I'm curious - did the audience react? Did your school paper cover the conversation? We have a series of lunchtime social justice conversations that aren't well attended - but do get video coverage, that is how I get to participate most of the time.

[patrick_vecchio]

This post was an after-the-fact riff about the event. The post just fell out of my head.

The event itself was casual: We told stories about musicians, the times we've met them, concerts we'd seen, etc. It all went down at noon, so the student reporters were either in class or eating lunch.

[anita_margarita]

I can think of numerous thing that happened in the punk era that were far more explicit than anything Miley Cyrus comes up with.

[patrick_vecchio]

The publicity machines are much improved since then and can spin actions by pretty poseurs like Britney, Miley, Justin et al into events that are shocking, truly shocking-that is, good for ratings, which are good for advertising dollars-as far as the print and TV tabloids are concerned. Yawn.

[ronyae]

Good point

[patrick_vecchio]

Many, many years ago, somebody provided Playboy with nude photos of Madonna taken before she was a celebrity. She fumed, made a fuss and threatened legal action about the unauthorized publication of the pictures. At the time, I thought it was ironic that the Material Girl was being treated like, well, material. In retrospect, I realized the whole faux controversy must have been manufactured. I think Madonna was the best self-promoter since Salvador Dali in terms of turning her personality into money.

[ronyae]

Madonna's definitely "MATERIAL" (puns intended)

[un_crayon_rouge]

Amen. Also, and I'll probably get myself kicked off your friends-list for this, Myley Cyrus has some pretty good songs.

[patrick_vecchio]

If you like those songs, that's cool. I listen to some stuff you wouldn't like. Life would be boring if all of us had the same tastes.

[un_crayon_rouge]

Exactly.

[ronyae]

I agree... Miley's a great artist; very talented.