Sluts, Pimps and Music

It's common knowledge to the people that are close to me that on most days, I really can't stand getting the bus to work. A lot of the times they are dirty and messy and while I can put up with this, it is mostly the people that are on it that annoy the hell out of me. The people who have their ipods, mp3 players and once someone actually bought a full blown stereo on the bus and had it on VERY loud. Bus drivers don't care and as much as I believe in self expression, it is not the way to go with certain music.

I was sat towards the back of the but the other day and a couple of girls were singing along to a song by Jesse J. It's called "Do it like a dude" and some of the lyrics these girls (they were about 14 years of age) were singing were "Rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' money like a pimp, My B I T C H's on my dick like this, Dirty dirty dirty dirty dirty dirty sucker, You think I can't get her like you, you motherfucker."

What on Earth??

It reminded me a few years ago when a pop group called "The black eyed peas" had a song out called "My humps" and I remember then too that 2 girls were singing to this with some of the lyrics being "My humps, my humps (repeated a few times), my lovely lady lumps." These girls were also about 14 years old at the time-if that. Their humps weren't even fully grown as of yet.

I see a countless number of newspapers and magazines with pictures of whores like Rhianna and Katy Perry along with the ones mentioned above as well as others sexualising music and totally degrading the word "music". Everybody, even these musical "artists" know that the record companies are mostly targeting young audiences with pornographic lyrics, images and videos to simply make money. Rhianna made it onto the cover of Vogue magazine. Why?? Because of money. She wrote a song with lyrics saying "sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me". This is coming from a woman who was beat up by her ex boyfriend.

I really wish music was just music and not people whoring themselves.

A lot of the children and very young adults that get drawn into this know very little about sex (or music) as much as they might pretend to know. To some, all they know is that the song is rude and they get their jollies by singing it aloud because they know the words are prohibited. Girls will dress up as their idols whilst still at a very vunerable age and this kind of thing can just be plain dangerous. Girls will act like sex objects and then guys will treat them like sex objects. I have seen girls wear tops that say "Slut" and "Whore" on them. Do they really want to be known as these words??

So who is to blame for all this?? Parents, the music industry, the artists themselves or just society in general?? Kids aren't even kids anymore now. They are growing up too fast with younger and younger people having sex and making babies. Young girls worrying about being overweight and impressing the boys by wearing make up from primary school age. Boys themselves not really caring about anything but bragging about how many girls they have slept with.

Why? What has actually happened?

Congratulations India

The 2nd of April 2011 was probably the greatest sporting day in the history of my life. It was the cricket world cup final (the tournament being held in India), along with a list of premier league matches.

The final was between India and Sri Lanka, both deservedly in the final. On the way, India  beat the world champions Australia in the quarter finals, they then went on to beat arch-enemies Pakistan who I don't think should have even been allowed to enter the competition in the first place after 3 of their players were involved in a huge betting scam a few months ago. But it was brilliant when the captain of Pakistan had tears in his eyes when they lost. Brilliant. Even though the manager of the Pakistan team had said prior to the game "We have come here to play cricket. This is not a war field or anything". Who was he kidding?? It's amazing that people can settle scores through the spirit of competition, but this game was more than just a competition. Ask any Indian.

And then India beat Sri Lanka in an amazing final which could've swung both ways. The semi final and the final each had over billion people watching! There was no 100th century for Sachin Tendulkar. He only made 18 runs before he got caught out, I have never seen absolute silence in a stadium before like that. India were 0 runs for 1 wicket and then 31 for 2 wickets and were chasing a total of 270 and it looked a lost cause. At the same time Manchester United were down at half-time 2-0 to West Ham and that also looked a lost cause. Then in an amazing few hours, everything changed. United ended up winning 4-2 taking one more step closer to a record 19th league title and India won the world cup!

The scenes after the game were unbelievable. Some newspapers even said that "it was the biggest party on the planet". The captain of India, Mahendra Singh Dhoni put himself up in the batting order and scored 91 runs in an amazing innings, Yuvraj Singh got the man of the tournament for some amazing batting, bowling and fielding. The final was supposed to be all about Tendulkar in his home town, winning the world cup in front of his people. Although he didn't play too well, he was carried around the stadium in a lap of honour by his teammates with batsman Virat Kohli summing up the feelings of a billion Indians saying "He's carried the burden of the nation for 21 years so it's about time that we carried him on our shoulders"

What a fitting ending.