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Welcome to Weimerica Weekly Episode 30. The podcast airs every Wednesday.
This week’s podcast is on sexualized pop products.
Weimerica Weekly is a podcast hosted by Ryan Landry that touches on the cultural, political and sexual topics that fill the mindspace of our United States of Weimerica. The politicization of all cultural and social degeneracy is examined with a focus on how it fits together.
Weimerica Weekly is produced by the Hestia Society and distributed by Social Matter.
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The Scandinavians that write all pop hits and treat music creation as any other industrial product. The Nordic concentration is an open secret that others have noticed.
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Never heard of Fifth Harmony before, and yes indeed, that really sucked.
Fortunately there is plenty of great music being created today in many genre, to listen to and/or see live.
Listening to a Britney Spears song one day, I realized that no human was involved in the making of it. Not sure what Britney brings to the song, perhaps some gyrating and grunting, but her voice is autotuned and no human plays an instrument. Pop music is positively awful. I can’t stand the stuff and avoid places where I am forced to listen to it. Unfortunately that is everywhere.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to put on the youtube video of Denis Matsuev playing Rachmaninov’s Second and Third Piano Concertos back to back.
Noticed that this focused on females and sex but an interesting split happened in the ’90s with rock and rap. Very machismo, aggressive rock was replaced with depressed feminist alternative rock. At the same time, upbeat rap that might even mention God or was politically mindful of the urban dystopia was replaced by gangsta and gangsta lite rap that glorified the thug life. This definitely massaged males for the ’90s. Difference in messaging by race too.
I’m wondering if the collapse of The Spice Girls combined with the rise of Britney Spears sealed the deal regarding the necessity of ultra sexualized pop music.
The Spice Girls had the grrl power and diversity beat, but were only sexualized via Ginger who, I think, was slanted toward a male sexual fantasy- you know, a pretty and feminine girl with a hot body- which probably only served to somewhat alienate the female audience (and didn’t really make male spice fans either).
Fast forward fifteen years and you have ugly duckling Meghan Trainor riding the wave of a “don’t worry, girls, you can be a fat slut” message.
I think that what’s really sad about the rise of grrrl power skank pop music is that there are many other artists around today who are making great music and who even have great aesthetics, that are being drowned out.
Grrl power skank pop music makes it easy to stop caring and to tune out, even though if you dig a little, an argument can be made that we are living in a time which is abundant with great music replete with sublime pop aesthetics.
There are many examples and I am sure that everyone can name their own favorite “alternative” artist who can pack concert venues despite never showing up at the supermarket line of tabloids or the Times of London Online and who is not a household name.
No mention of MK Ultra?