Media Awareness blog

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Last Conclusion

This is the end.

Wow. I never imagined that I would come to this period of time. The last of the conclusions, what can i say? First, I would like to thank you for patiently reading my opinions on situations, persons, songs, videos and things. Have you ever imagined that the wacky,crazy person that I am is opinionated?

The last chapter of my entries tackled about how media people manipulate stuff or how different our world from the world before. Media plays a big part on influencing people that's why our time is very different from the others. We should be aware how they can turn bad things to good things and people/audience don't even know it. Lastly, we should not let them discriminate our race because we should stand up and take pride in it.

I hope that through this blog, people who visit this can be more aware of how media works.
Adios and Have a great life!

Back To Basics : Candyman

"He's a one stop shop, makes my cherry pop
He's a sweet-talkin', sugar coated candy man oh
A sweet-talkin', sugar coated candyman"

This is my favorite part of that song of Christina Aguilera called Candyman. This song, especialy the video, takes me back to the 40's, 50's whatever genre that has that. For me, it is a very feel good song. I was fund of the lyrics of it, very catchy and very old.

The song has too many rhymes which is rather fun and new for our generation. It's been stuck in my head for a long time since I have heard it on the radio.
The video shows how people act when they were having a good time back in the olden times. It is like their wildest time was going to a concert like that and dancing or something but now, what you call wild is really wild. Through that video, you can compare how people changed and they changed a lot.
Just compare it to the videos of today, you have artist who take off their clothes and people would say that it was cool thing to do. It seems like that those people in the olden times were more wholesome than we are now.

I recommend, that if you want to see what they used to do and what music was before, you to watch that video and feel good!

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Photoshopped Pictures

HOW LOW CAN THESE PEOPLE GO?
I am not a big fan of these artists but I know them because Piolo Pascual is one of the influencial Christians in the industry, that I know of and Sam is a reality star. Are they really obssesed about Piolo's gender? Give him a break! You can see from the original picture that he was holding Rica. I don't know if Piolo had given a statement about this but if was in his situation I would get enraged. Why would people sink this low to prove that he is gay and is going out with sam? I feel sorry and happy for them because people try and try to bring them down and yet they don't let this ruin their friendship.

People here in the Philippines are very showbiz oriented that's whatever rumor that they will hear, they will spread and give other meanings. And sink that low to get a picture and photoshop them. I just wish that those who are writing "intrigas" would not sink that low and give some artists some slack because they work hard though some are really not good but they still work hard.

Reality Shows

Big Brother, Pinoy Dream Academy, Survivor and Amazing Race, just to name a few are very popular reality shows watched by Filipinos. They say that, " it's the story of a life of person." Here's what I say, " That's crap. You don't even know what is really going on because of technology these days."

We love watching these kinds of show. I, myself find it entertaining but come to think of it, you don't know what's happening because they try to exage the situation and they edit it. I once watched an episode of Laguna Beach on MTV, a special episode where Kristin said that the people from MTV directed her and LC to act exaggerately. They knew that LC and Kristin don't like each other but they wanted action or something.

We as viewers should know when these things are being shown to us just to get ratings and lots of money. We should also be aware that not all of these things are true and should believe them. We, teenagers, should keep in mind that those people who are doing somethings that are unaccecptable to the society should not follow them and say that they are cool like the big issue with Sam Milby and Chix from Big Brother season one.

Let us be aware of what we see and hear from these kinds of show.

Election with Artists

Election here in the Philippines is coming up. You'll see in the TV the commercials of senatoriables where they use songs that are in today to make people see that they should vote them.
You will also see artists who endorse them. The real questions are, do those artist believe in those senatoriables or are they just for the money? And do the senatoriable candidates use them to get their fans to vote for them?

The second question is pretty obivious. The answer is yes and I begin to wonder if people vote them because they are good or they vote them because their favorite artist is endorsing them. The first question, not so much. You'll see Sarah Geronimo endorsing for Senatoriable Candidate Angara and many more and you just have to wonder if they are endorsing them just for the money. Sometimes, we do not know the motives of people and we are easily manipulated by them through technology. Especially in our country's state today, it is very crucial since it's election.
It made me question artists and people who vote for them and endorse them because I really think that they just vote for them because their idol is endorsing them like I said in the beginning. It is very very clever of these promotional people to get artists like them who are very loved by the masses.

To those who are in the legal age and are fans of these artists, try to question yourself if you're voting for the artist or are you voting for the senatoriable candidate. It will lead only to a thing if you're only voting because your favorite artist is endorsing the candidate, CHAOS in our beloved country.

A Star Gone Mad

Celebrities are looked up by ordinary people who stay infront of the TV and say, " Shucks, I want to be just like her or him." Recently, A singer of our generation was all over the news. The news reached people all over the world, in Antartica, in Asia, in Africa and in Europe.

I don't want to name her but I think that you know who I am talking about. She shaved her hair off, she partied with such people who had bad reputations and and the tabloids caught her with no underwear. Come on, Kids are watching the television! She's a public figure!
I am in a way speaking badly about her but what can you do when all you see in ET or E! how she's living but she should know that she has fans that are children and are not setting a good example. She should also know that she's better than that. She doesn't have to take drugs to forget about her ex-husband.

I personally don't know her and I know I should not judge her because we haven't met but she should know that she should start and act like a good example for kids nowadays. I know she's trying her best to be the best mom that she can be for her kids.
What I'm trying to say through this entry is that, if you are a public figure, act like yourself and don't act like it's the end of the world for you that you go out and do drugs or whatever.
You just have to mourn for a bit and move on and don't do vices.

Friday, March 09, 2007

A Racist World?

There are different types of people here in this world. You can classify them as smart, not so smart, tall, short, normal, abnormal and many more but there is a classification of human beings by their race or color of their skin. White, Yellow and Black are the colors of humans here in this world. But which is the highest race and which is the lowest?

I begin to notice, some shows in america and U.K. sometimes do not have Asians, African American or Black people. If there is, it only has one or two, limited members are from different races. Is our world, a racist world? There was a news about American Idol by the View saying that it was a racist show, maybe, or maybe not.

No one is above anybody. We should not stereotype people and say that, you're white and you're so superior than everyone in this world or even say, an asian is just a slave or something (like they say about filipino women) or even say, black people are criminals. Never stereotype a person for what he or she looks like.

Last Introduction

This has come to its end.

The Last introduction of this course.
I hope you had a great time reading my perception about things.
I hope you picked up lessons from this.
I hope that you laughed at some of them.
And I hope that you saw how my personality.

Through this blog, the world knows how I think.
And through this blog, I get to express publicly what I really feel about people.

What you will see here in my site is the last chapter of this blog.
You will see how I view crazy people in the entertainment business.
You will see how I view this world as a racist or not a racist place to live in.
And you will see how I doubt people doing their works.

I really hoped that you'll get more lessons from this last chapter of this blog.
Ringraziarla molto ed avere una vita buona!