I really enjoy those videos, have been watching everyone mentioned in the article for a couple of months now. I had not considered them as a rejection of identity politics, I thought more of the generational gap between me and the makers of those videos.
I don’t think I am alone when I assert that the music of my youth is far superior to the music of today. That likely is simply a rite of getting older, but we all believe it. A few years ago I gave my elementary age girls the Beach Boys Greatest Hits CD as a stocking stuffer and was genuinely amazed at their sustained joy…they played that CD almost non stop for months and months. But they have since asserted that the music of my youth is far more melodic and varied and has nice lyrics compared to what today’s market says they should be listening to. Most of it they think is junk, with the exception of Bruno Mars whom we all agree is amazingly talented. We also seem to agree that Taylor Swift makes really bad choices in boyfriends.
I haven’t seen any of the reviewers say they didn’t like a song, but it is fun to see them react to Bohemian Rhapsody, because I think I had the exact same reaction the first time I heard it
I haven’t watched the music video reaction videos, but I’ve watched plenty of the movie reaction videos. I’d say there is a lot of rejection of identity politics in those videos Indeed, several have pointed out the inherent racism of some movies that in the process of trying to adhere to identity politics actually promote bad stereotypes of gender and races.
For example, Finn from the new Star Wars sequel. The character was teased as a person of color that became woke to the violence of being a storm trooper, fled that situation, and may be force sensitive. Yet in the movie, he has no problem killing other storm troopers that get in his way, routinely lies to every woman he meets, is asked to quit grabbing woman’s hands, first job was in sanitation, and despite attempts to be heroic, the character is never to fully achieve any goals (other than killing a woman storm trooper). The same set of movies have no problem making a white woman (Rey) and white latino (Po) into straight up heroes (possible exception of Po being marginalized in Last Jedi, yet he’s ultimately proven to have made the right decisions at every level).
This strikes me as some clever folks cashing in on white guilt. There is some catharsis in see charismatic blacks enjoying ‘white’ music.
“Black-folk music reaction videos soothe the anxiety-ridden, guilty white breast.” -Anonymous
Maybe if there was a genre of black people only reacting to country rap but the reaction channels typically listen to all music and their audiences are probably more diverse than self loathing white people. The country rap folks aren’t exactly self loathing either lol.
“first job was in sanitation”
You’re joking, right? No script writer who wanted to continue to work would engage in such blatant stereotyping?
“When he arrives on the planet with Han and Chewbacca, however, Finn reveals that he only worked in the base’s sanitation section.”
The above is from Wikipedia — I never watched the movies to corroborate any of this. Am I being gaslighted?
Hey, which century I are living in, anyway?
In the second movie, it is revealed he mopped floors on a Star Destroyer. If YouTube ever gets back up, there are montages of the character being tazed various times across 2 movies. When the trilogy ended production; the actor complained that it was clear producers never developed a plan / story arc for his character, despite him being the first scene in the very first teaser trailer. If you see the original teaser, you might think he was the main character. He featured prominently on the movie poster. Well, except for the Chinese movie poster, where they shrunk down his image and moved it further to the bottom and back.
It makes as much sense as the rest of the writing. Take a person and give them some of the empire’s most elite military training and then have them mop floors.
Have you met any military in the world? All that stuff needs to be done, even in secure facilities. People need to be fed, and as a result there’s some soldier somewhere right now fixing an erupted toilet.
None of the links work. There’s always an “error”, no matter what browser I use.
[snark] YouTube was so embarrassed by this article, they shut it all down. [/snark]
I really enjoy those videos, have been watching everyone mentioned in the article for a couple of months now. I had not considered them as a rejection of identity politics, I thought more of the generational gap between me and the makers of those videos.
I don’t think I am alone when I assert that the music of my youth is far superior to the music of today. That likely is simply a rite of getting older, but we all believe it. A few years ago I gave my elementary age girls the Beach Boys Greatest Hits CD as a stocking stuffer and was genuinely amazed at their sustained joy…they played that CD almost non stop for months and months. But they have since asserted that the music of my youth is far more melodic and varied and has nice lyrics compared to what today’s market says they should be listening to. Most of it they think is junk, with the exception of Bruno Mars whom we all agree is amazingly talented. We also seem to agree that Taylor Swift makes really bad choices in boyfriends.
I haven’t seen any of the reviewers say they didn’t like a song, but it is fun to see them react to Bohemian Rhapsody, because I think I had the exact same reaction the first time I heard it
I haven’t watched the music video reaction videos, but I’ve watched plenty of the movie reaction videos. I’d say there is a lot of rejection of identity politics in those videos Indeed, several have pointed out the inherent racism of some movies that in the process of trying to adhere to identity politics actually promote bad stereotypes of gender and races.
For example, Finn from the new Star Wars sequel. The character was teased as a person of color that became woke to the violence of being a storm trooper, fled that situation, and may be force sensitive. Yet in the movie, he has no problem killing other storm troopers that get in his way, routinely lies to every woman he meets, is asked to quit grabbing woman’s hands, first job was in sanitation, and despite attempts to be heroic, the character is never to fully achieve any goals (other than killing a woman storm trooper). The same set of movies have no problem making a white woman (Rey) and white latino (Po) into straight up heroes (possible exception of Po being marginalized in Last Jedi, yet he’s ultimately proven to have made the right decisions at every level).
This strikes me as some clever folks cashing in on white guilt. There is some catharsis in see charismatic blacks enjoying ‘white’ music.
“Black-folk music reaction videos soothe the anxiety-ridden, guilty white breast.” -Anonymous
Maybe if there was a genre of black people only reacting to country rap but the reaction channels typically listen to all music and their audiences are probably more diverse than self loathing white people. The country rap folks aren’t exactly self loathing either lol.
“first job was in sanitation”
You’re joking, right? No script writer who wanted to continue to work would engage in such blatant stereotyping?
“When he arrives on the planet with Han and Chewbacca, however, Finn reveals that he only worked in the base’s sanitation section.”
The above is from Wikipedia — I never watched the movies to corroborate any of this. Am I being gaslighted?
Hey, which century I are living in, anyway?
In the second movie, it is revealed he mopped floors on a Star Destroyer. If YouTube ever gets back up, there are montages of the character being tazed various times across 2 movies. When the trilogy ended production; the actor complained that it was clear producers never developed a plan / story arc for his character, despite him being the first scene in the very first teaser trailer. If you see the original teaser, you might think he was the main character. He featured prominently on the movie poster. Well, except for the Chinese movie poster, where they shrunk down his image and moved it further to the bottom and back.
It makes as much sense as the rest of the writing. Take a person and give them some of the empire’s most elite military training and then have them mop floors.
Have you met any military in the world? All that stuff needs to be done, even in secure facilities. People need to be fed, and as a result there’s some soldier somewhere right now fixing an erupted toilet.
None of the links work. There’s always an “error”, no matter what browser I use.
[snark] YouTube was so embarrassed by this article, they shut it all down. [/snark]