Typical Monday Morning

So every monday morning is a struggle for everyone. We all have a seminar at 9am every monday, however ours isn't your typical seminar, you will always find us discussing heated topics about, well...pretty much anything to do with feminism and sexism within the media and ALWAYS Miley Cyrus is brought up. (We love a cheeky Miley Cyrus YouTube video) I'm pretty laid back, I kind of go with the flow...I'm not really too bothered with how much Miley wears or how little clothing she has on but it's so interesting listening to other opinions on her. Some say she really has no need to be so drastic and sexual with the way she promotes herself and her music. Others absolutely love the fact at how crazy she is. One point that my lecturer Sharon made was "she's comfortable". Miley simply loves her body and in fact she actually loves being naked.

So Miley obviously has an affect on young girls and most probably will influence them too like most celebrities in the media. At the end of the day, they are in the spot light, they are going to influence everyone with everything they do, no matter what! Whether it's good or bad, we will always be able to see what style and phase they are going through. So really, is it their fault young girls feel the need to be so revealing? In reality, that's the trends these days. If you think about it sexuality and revealing too much skin has been around for decades! But I'll come to that later on, that's WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY! anyway, it's just more obvious to us these day's as we are constantly surrounded by it from our TV ad's, magazines, internet, posters, etc! So, I don't want to point fingers at JUST Miley Cyrus, many celebrities feel the need to strip down to their underwear at some point throughout their career, maybe because they don't want to be seen us a young girl/boy or they feel their career going down hill and need a change in style! Another example we looked at was Rihanna, just because of how she was so innocent and girly at the beginning of her career to now, portraying a very sexual, edgy image. Which personally I do love! However some may think it's too sexual and there is no need. We watched her most recent music video, that is probably her most sexualised video yet! There obviously is a 'cleaner' version and an explicit version. In class we were discussing the aspect on whether she really needs to do this in her video? Is she not talented enough to just sing? But then Adele was brought up and someone said "well Adele doesn't have to take her clothes off...because she's a great singer". But it all honesty Adele is a completely different genre of music to Miley and Rihanna. However, the opinions could go on forever! Below is a video of Rihanna's music video - 'Pour it up'

So when others were appalled, I actually didn't mind, along with a couple of other girls in my group. It's like 'whatever' You just have to deal with it, if you really don't like the music video then turn it off. Doesn't stop you from appreciating the music.

So in conclusion to todays seminar...you will always find varied opinions everywhere you go, you will always find sexuality in everything advertised across the world and are we OK with it? Yes because it's such a massive part of the industry and whether people like it or not, it gets people talking, it get's everyones attention and that's what they want!!!!