02-05-2012, 01:22 AM
I watched it but I didn't see racism. I see racism every day of my life and it looks much uglier. That was more like personal interpretation gone awry. What I mean is the voodoo may have been inaccurately represented and the Christian symbols may have been represented, but that just means that the artist/director/producer screwed up not that someone was trying to offend.
Believe it or not, I kind of liked the song. I'd have to read through the lyrics tp puzzle out what in the Hell she is singing about, but its a catchy little tune. The video is cheaply made but fairly inventive for such a low budget- the overall theme of the video was hardly flawless, but it didn't look like a shot in the dark to me. But I will never intentionally listen to that song again. It is marketed to someone else and just isn't my thing.
I can't understand why some people try to squash racism at the root when imo its not something that can ever be completely eradicated. As long as there are human beings there will be social intolerance and trying to bar the representation of a valid social opinion is a terrible strategy. Better to allow uncensored freedoms because the major racist groups don't rely on YouTube to recruit their little skinheads, they have their own promotional videos- and none of them are set to Pop music . . .
Believe it or not, I kind of liked the song. I'd have to read through the lyrics tp puzzle out what in the Hell she is singing about, but its a catchy little tune. The video is cheaply made but fairly inventive for such a low budget- the overall theme of the video was hardly flawless, but it didn't look like a shot in the dark to me. But I will never intentionally listen to that song again. It is marketed to someone else and just isn't my thing.
I can't understand why some people try to squash racism at the root when imo its not something that can ever be completely eradicated. As long as there are human beings there will be social intolerance and trying to bar the representation of a valid social opinion is a terrible strategy. Better to allow uncensored freedoms because the major racist groups don't rely on YouTube to recruit their little skinheads, they have their own promotional videos- and none of them are set to Pop music . . .