Does Pornography Always Objectify?
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here.
Exploiting sex as a means to sell things is wrong. Especially today, as the unrealistic and overly-idealized images of women, and men, in advertising and the media serve only to reinforce warped ideas of beauty [...]
Connected to Music
“Listen to Tommy with a candle burning, and you’ll see your future,” says Anita Miller in 2000’s semi-autobiographical Almost Famous.
(Before we get started, seriously, watch that trailer. It gives me chills.)
Anyhow –
For “ELEVEN?!?!”-year-old William Miller, the on-screen version of real-life journalist-cum-director Cameron Crowe, those words begin teenage years full of sex, drugs and rock & [...]
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
His name is Greg Gillis, most know him as the mash-up master, Girl Talk. With only a PC and a few dozen rolls of toilet paper, the man is able to transform himself from scrawny, shaggy haired stoner, into a rockstar, adored by thousands of American Apparel-clad hipsters. With these modest tools he leads his [...]
Music: Gen Y’s Most Outlandish Ladies
Rihanna and Lady Gaga produce hyper-provocative music. So, naturally, I purchased both albums when they dropped on the same day. (Mind you, I don’t even remember the last time I purchased an album, let alone a song. I usually just stream from Last.fm or YouTube.) There is just something about Rihanna and Gaga that mesmerizes [...]
Free All Music and We Won’t Have to Steal It
My generation steals music. We are thieves. Every year we snare seven billion songs without paying for them.
True some of us fork over $1.29 to the online music monopoly known as Apple.
Right now those are our only two alternatives. Steal or buy.
Perhaps it’s time for an alternative.
Enter Free All Music. The premise of this company [...]
Out From Behind The Curtain
Before releasing his (excellent) latest album, Noble Beast, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird participated in “Measure for Measure,” an online series hosted by The New York Times, in which he traced the creation of the album’s lead single, “Oh No.”
In a sense, this move was really no different than an artist releasing demo versions of album cuts, [...]
