Yea, there wasn't the same amount of backlash with "Royals" and t was shrugged off by the public at large relatively quickly, especially considering the Grammy's she received.
I was pointing out a few examples of a general observation I've picked up on recently. Blogs, in the last couple of years, have been dangling…

There were two versions. They are basically the same, except one has the girl in bathing suits and in the other, they are topless. The latter was pulled from Youtube. It's still available on Vimeo or just from a random Google search I'm sure.

Yea, that dates all the way back to 80s hair metal. Of course, it exploded with 90s hip-hop and continues. It plays to the male fantasies of having women want to be a man's sex object. It also bolsters the image of the performer or, in the case of mainstream rap, visually represents the lyrics onscreen.

As a male as well, I still question the idea of letting a "significant" sext of the population should really have the authority to determine what's "socially acceptable" to hear because it makes them feel oppressed. Even if it's just by coercively labeling something as unfit for public consumption. I am fresh off a…

Well, if we are giving the video any credence, the women in that video appear to be consenting to their objectification. They are being objectified and exemplifying hyperbolically regressive sexual/gender politics, but they are doing so by their own free will.

I completely agree about the trend to deny women agency in the argument. The obvious impression for about any reasonable listener would be that the singer was continuing to flirt with a girl who was playing hard to get, because, "I know you want it." The "blurred lines" refers to the difficulty in interpreting the…

I think it fell into a perfect storm. When the song came out, there had been rising interest in the amount of unreported or uninvestigated reports of sexual assaults, particularly on college campuses. As I recall, the Steubenville case was right around that time and possibly the Jameis Winston story coming to light.…

His episode of Iconoclasts with Maya Angelou was the clearest explanation I've seen him give. He talks about his celebrity negating the human connection to the audience, which he considered a fundamental element of his art. He became a brand name product once he got that big and his relationship to the audience was…

Betty has been pretty messed up since season one and never received any real psychological care, besides the therapist who called her immature. Yes, she is still discontent about not having a purpose or voice, but she has spent her entire life reliant on others and has an emotional instability that has surfaced more…

Well, yea. I'd actually completely forgotten the trailer in my string of rants. I imagine that would be good too. More black actors in mainstream roles, treated as something other than a stereotype, would be nice.

Certainly black people do go to "white" movies. That study showed people across ethnic lines went to the big movies like Iron Man, Man of Steel, Monsters U, Despicable Me, and the other blockbuster releases. Those movies are designed to have universal appeal, though the on-screen diversity tends to rebut it. (But…

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus, this is a short little article about the perceived clash discussed below. Certainly the "faith based" movie industry feels they're message has been ignored by they system.http://www.thedailybeast.com/artic…

I would question how devoted many of those actors are. Also, they aren't really the creatives writing the script. Yes, Scorsese adds a lot of Catholic imagary to his films, but they aren't explicitly Christian, unless you count Last Temptation. Certainly Narnia has a Christian metaphor. There just don't seem to be…

I hypothesize the Christian dogma in "white" studio films has been left out for the last few decades because there are very few practicing Christians in the studio system. They generally athiest/agnostic or Jewish. There are obviously a number of (at least semi-)practicing Jewish characters and films about Jewish…

Because "mainstream" audiences hate to leave their comfort zone and that includes relating to people whom they perceive look more different from them than the people on the screen (because "mainstream" audiences believe they are aesthetically comparable to Channing Tatum and Amber Heard).

Yea, to expand on @stevenkeaton:disqus's analysis, if the market for general arthouse fare will always be smaller than the market for general studio fair. Let''s say there are sub-segments of general and arthouse markets for movies appealing specifically to one race or ethnic group's tastes. (That may sound prima…

Sterling Cooper, after numerous shuffles that seem of nominal importance now, just became a corporate subsidy, There is a giant computer designed to replace the value of employees. The last living founder is dead. It seems like such an artificial entity to devote a life too. That Burger Chef pitch was complete…

I've been predicting Don won't have a choice in realizing the best things in life are free. I honestly didn't see Megan being written off like that, but we'll see how that goes. I just really believe something will happen where Don has to take responsibility for his kids by the end. Maybe Peggy (and even Pete) will…

My out there prediction for Betty at this point: BETTY COMMITS SUICIDE. Don has to take the kids and learn how to be a real dad.

I think the actor playing Bobby is the problem. They've had three different ones, I think. They just couldn't change again. He is terrible and weird. It was like he had Asperger's or something. His dialogue wasn't great, but the kid made it worse. I think that's why he is practically non-existent. That and they…