“Once a new technology comes into a social milieu it cannot cease to penetrate that milieu until every milieu is saturated”
What I interpret McLuhan is trying to say in this quote is that people in today’s world are overly consumed by new technology.As new technology embraces new faces the older ones get left behind and eventually forgotten.In the past news was passed through newspapers which was then replaced by the television which was then overcome by the internetand even the internet has been overcome by social networks which people can come socialize through their smart phones.
Now relating this quote to my passion group, as it stood before the common athlete or famous singer could be only interviewed or seen through mediums such as the television or magazines like “Peoples” but now with new technologies such as Twitter invented any athlete, celebrity or even any person can set up their own twitter account and speak their mind freely or give any sort of inside scoop of what is going through their minds.There was a time when only a few people had these accounts like Facebook and Twitter but like McLuhan said it cannot penetrate until every milieu is saturated, and in the case of these two new social media it has spread immensely.It is scary to think what kind of new technology will be imagined next, I wouldn’t be surprised if we were to find out in the next week!
With all this new technology though is it actually better is the question.Now that we check on everything basically from the palm of our hands is it making the world a better place or it just making people lazy?It is said that new technologies are here to make our lives a little easier, but I think the word “easier” is a little more stretched than noticed.
"Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise,
Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes?
That we by tracing magic lines are taught,
How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?"
I interpret this poem by Marshall McLuhan "The Media is the Massage" to mean that as our ability to communicate (the message) through evolving media advanced our messages became more precise. McLuhan says "all media are extensions of some human faculty..." If we look at the print era we know that messages were being massed produced allowing the masses to have quicker access to news. Today we have television, Internet, and social media, etc. to spread the news. The technological advancement has changed the physical message we are sending out. In the print era the message was a letter or newsprint. Today it is a video of a person actually speaking to you. The message is formed in the messenger's mind and when they send the message out it now more closely resembles the original message that they thought of. What will the future bring as we advance our media communications? Will we one day be able to broadcast our original thought straight to the audience?
By: Heather Leong
Monday, July 11, 2011
"the content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph. If it is asked, "What is the content of speech?," it is necessary to say, "it is an actual process of thought, which is in itself nonverbal." - The Medium is the Message, McLuhan
McLuhan's theory applies to the written and oral era. Music is communicated orally, and the lyrics are expressed in written form. He explains that the content of speech is derived from a conscious thought process as opposed to being fundamentally verbal. Thus, thought is translated into verbal communication that is expressed through music. In this case, a song would be the medium in which information is transferred and emotions are evoked. If you take into consideration what a song's lyrics imply versus what is actually meant, the results could be contradictory. The content that is understood varies from person to person as their external environment shapes their character. McLuhan argued that technology transforms reality for people and allows them to invent new possibilities. The pathways to development are relentless that enable music to succeed as an upcoming medium to transfer ideas from one individual to masses.
As words come out of a singer’s mouth, one by one, a story is told. As McLuhan explains, when reading from left to right each word is connected to the next. The string of words get longer and longer depending on the length of the piece of writing, and the words start making sense because of how they are related to one another. Reading is a way of communicating, just as singing is another form of communicating. McLuhan explains how all messages are perceived differently depending upon which medium the message is received through. For example, when listening to a song through the radio you may not get the full effect as you may when you are watching the music video on TV; this is because you are physically able to visualize what the singer is talking about. When listening to a song, the tone of the singers voice changes depending on how they want you to hear each word and the chorus is repeated over and over, so the listener knows what the song is saying without having to read between the lines.
Music, for musicians, as with any form of media, is an extension of oneself. As Marshall McLuhan states in "Understanding Media," "[...] the personal and social consequences of any medium [...] result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves [...]" That is to say that instruments are an extension of a musician's self, and this self extension is known as "media," and media convey messages.
But not only instruments or music can be classified as "media." Anything can be media if you think about it. Even speech carries a message, which starts in the thought process, which then gets expressed through voice. So even speech is derived from something else.
Now back to music. There is often a mix of messages within music, within a particular song (within a band's image, even); it's more than just noise. Words often hold a poetic, or maybe not so much a poetic meaning, while the instruments set the mood and play with it.
Let's take U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday," for example;
"You know people are dying every single day through bitterness and hate, and we're saying why? What's the point? And you can move that into places like El Salvador and other similar situations - people dying. Let's forget the politics, let's stop shooting each other and sit around the table and talk about it... There are a lot of bands taking sides saying politics is crap, etc. Well, so what! The real battle is people dying, that's the real battle."
In Derry, Ireland, on January 30, 1972, there was an incident known as "Bloody Sunday," (or sometimes, "The Bogside Massacre") twenty-seven civil rights protesters and bystanders, including seven teenagers, all of whom were completely unarmed, were gunned down by British soldiers.
It's worth noting that U2 is of Irish descent, so there is obviously some extra sentimental appeal to their choice in subject matter for the song. The album the song is from is "War," and, as stated by the band, the title has an alternate non-military meaning.
"[...]War is intentionally more direct, more specific. But you can still take the title on a lot of different levels. We're not only interested in the physical aspects of war. The emotional effects are just as important, 'the trenches dug within our hearts.' People have become numb to violence. Watching the television, it's hard to tell the difference between fact and fiction. One minute you see something being shot on The Professionals, and the next you see someone falling through a window after being shot on the news. One is fiction and one is real life, but we're becoming so used to the fiction that we become numb to the real thing. War could be the story of a broken home, a family at war."
The song being released in 1983 served to be a reminder of the "unjustied and unjustifiable" events that happened just 11 years prior.
Although lyrics can give direct message, there is also more to the song. The slow guitar riffs and electric violin give the song a somber tone. The drums can be described as "military-esque" and the snare hits even seem to mock-imitate gunshot noises, and giving the verses and choruses power and aggression, while the refrains drop the snare and guitar, focusing on the vocals, giving the song an uplifting undertone. As Bono stated, "love is [...] a central theme" of the song. It's meant not only to mourn the deaths of the innocent, but also to realize injustices, and to stand up for your rights and freedoms.
And this is how music is the message. It's not just noise. It holds feeling, meaning, and purpose, all of which are an extension of the artist's self.
In the summer of 2000, Afroman released a track called “Because I got high” which spread like wildfire. Every elementary kid, high school student to adults were humming this catchy tune.
The lyrics to this song were highly controversial and caused quite a stir amongst parents and concerned teachers. Afroman’s track narrates a short story of how he lost his job, paycheck, is a paraplegic and is homeless all because he got high. It appears that the track can be interpreted in various ways, one being that it is an anti marijuana song in which Afroman is trying to warn others of the effects of the drug, or a mockery of what effects the drug gives and all the stupid things that follow. It depicts more of a satirical situation and the irony of the fact that smoking a joint made him lose everything. The term “paraplegic” was initially sung in the track, however, after a couple weeks of being aired, the term was bleeped out. The public took offence to the term and derived a derogatory meaning from the song, thus giving a negative impact to the public.
Society tends to decide what songs are socially acceptable and what is not. Thus, restrictions are tagged to songs making them appear as inappropriate irrespective of the positive message it may try to convey. The media censors selectively which gives rise to conflicts as to what is morally accepted and what is not. Who decides what is acceptable? These questions are a great example of the ambiguity of censorship in music and media. Does music communicate ideas and emotion? If so, how do people formulate the meaning? It is difficult to truly identify the discourses associated with music and how we come to understand what the song is trying to convey. Media censorship is very vague and ambiguous, it is difficult to determine what is acceptable, and to whom. The public's opinion of appropriateness depends on their character and their external environment; thus making it difficult to define boundaries.
Songs with a lot of profanity used in them usually have alternative versions available: the clean version and the dirty version. The clean version available does not contain any swear words, this way it can be played on the radio and its video can be watched on TV by everyone. To get rid of profanity, a bleep sound is put in place of the swear word and usually the person swearing is blurred out just so that no lip reading can be done. Censoring and filtering are always involved in the process of media because Canada has certain regulations and rules which apply to all content shown on television and the content heard on the radio. Drake’s song, “Best I Ever Had” comes in two explicit versions that can be heard and viewed. The dirty version is still being played but only at places where it seems appropriate, such as, bars and clubs. These are places where everyone is over the age of 19 and are mature enough to listen to music with profanity. If children were to listen to songs with such profanity they may be influenced to use those words at the wrong time, without knowing what the word may mean. Therefore, the clean version is played on TV and the radio where the public, all ages, can listen to the song and also view the music video.
So close but yet still so far away, still after 40 long years the Vancouver Canucks are still without a Stanley Cup.It was all suppose to be there for them according to the “experts”, they had it all from goaltending, to skating, to the deepest defence core in the league.All the parts to the puzzle were there but unfortunately some of those parts were broken pieces.
During the grind of the playoffs the team had just been decimated with injuries to key players, and although some of the players played through their injuries, some were just to hurt to even give it a go.Throughout the course of the season teams are permitted to supply the media with any sort of injury to a certain player but during the playoffs that is not mandatory anymore.As this is a way of one protecting the player from being targeted on their injury and two help the team not being exploited on that weakness.Unfortunately the Canucks still lost and injuries shouldn’t be the excuse while it actually may be the fact of the matter.Good thing for the Canucks there is always next year, but then again that’s been said for the past 40 years and instead of the banner that’s lowered before each game and says “this is our time”, it should really say this is our time... next year”
Bruno Mars was here in concert on June 3, I attended the show with my sister. When Bruno's song "Billionare" is played on the radio it is a watered down version of the original. The opening line is changed from "I wanna be a billionaire so fucking bad" to "I wanna be a billionaire so fricking bad." The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council decides what to censor. I believe that the song on the radio played during the daytime is censored because the audience listening may be very young. Daytime radio is accessible to all ages so without censorship a five year old child could be listening to the word "fucking." By censoring the song to say "fricking" it says that the CBSC has decided it inappropriate for young kids to hear the original version. My sister was not aware of the original verse. When Bruno sang the original she exclaimed "OMG!" Her reaction to that one word. Because the radio plays an altered version of this song the true version was lost on my sister. It is more accepted that Bruno Mars can literally say "fucking" at his concert because the audience is smaller than that of the radio audience. Also there is a general public understanding that concerts are for an older audience and will expose you to swearing and people being rowdy.
Today, I'm going to talk about probably one of the biggest cases of music filtering and censorship in the world today--Chinese music regulations.
Since the 1940's, all music in China is regulated by the government; meaning, if the government doesn't approve of their people listening to a song, then the people are not allowed to listen to it. If an artist wants to market an album in China, or to even perform a concert in China, they must provide a full lyrics sheet for each song as well as proper proof of copyrights. This is due to China's sensitivities towards "offensive" and pirated music.
But the government wants to not only control any music coming into the country via CD's or live performance, but they also want to expand to internet music--disabling searches for music.
The "Guidelines on the Development and Management of Network Music" issued...by the Ministry of Culture have the stated purpose of preventing problems,... pirated uploads and downloads,and content that "offends" ethnic groups or "affects social stability".
-Xinhua, ChinaDaily
With sites like YouTube and such, nearly anyone can make music, and thus there has been a massive flood in online music recently. With countless songs being uploaded viral for the world to hear, it becomes literally impossible for the government to keep up with their system of censorship. They simply cannot govern all of these songs.
How could they possibly keep up? Well, three years ago, they went ahead and blocked the iTunes store completely and demanded big-name sites like Google to live up to their own strict music regulations (which would mean blocking all music from searches and providing full lyrics and song copyrights for every song, which would entitle it to show up on searches once more). More recently China established a newer music copyright system with the firm R2G. They provided a public site for music-holders to register their songs with proof of copyright, and then all service providers are required to take down these copyrighted works and to disable searches to them within a 24-hour time period from when the work was proven to be copyrighted. More information here: http://musically.com/blog/2011/05/04/chinas-new-music-copyright-protection-guidelines-include-24-hour-takedown-deadline/
Now--for Chinese citizens, what all this means is, in comparison to the rest of the world, you get a severely limited selection of music that has been approved by the government, none of which could be viewed as morally offensive, none of which could be seen as giving China or the Chinese government a bad portrayal, and none of which could encourage acts which are illegal. Basically, if you think of the government as a single being, the music you're allowed to listen to is being controlled by one person's ideas, as many Chinese citizens probably do not share these same sensitivities to music content. What it is the fear for the Chinese government to even allow the slightest chance of being disempowered by music--and that's what their sensitivity really is.
The song, "Respect" by Arethra Franklin was released in 1967 as a part of a feminist movement. Respect had an appealing tune that caught on to all women, and become a song of empowerment that recognized inferior women or women that were taken for granted. After countless brutalities and inhumane acts were committed that Franklin was a witness too, she popularized this song and gave it meaning and hope to all the women who needed it. The main message or understanding of the song is the inequality of women and the agonizing search for respect. An alternative perspective of analyzing this song, would be highlighting racial discrimination. Franklin was one of the first African-American to address issues and be vocal about them; it gave them a voice and the ability to speak about various issues about individuality, culture and religion. Women were suppressed and were not allowed freedom of speech, thus, Arethra demonstrated through her songs and music that women should be heard and that they deserve a little respect. Though the track wasn't a success in obtaining freedom or respect from the opposite sex and strong chains that men had imposed on their women; it managed to signify the beginning of addressing important issues. Women, in search of hope turned to a voice that seemed to empower them, something that they could relate to and empathize with. In retaliation, the song gave rise to a motion that was unstoppable - hope. During times of weakness, it is human nature to turn to something that can give you support, thus this song by Arethra Franklin was empowering to all women.
"...What you want Baby, I got What you need Do you know I got it? All I'm askin' Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit) Hey baby (just a little bit) when you get home (just a little bit) mister (just a little bit).."
The bandwagon for the Vancouver Canucks has reached mass capacity and fans from all over the country have gathered together to cheer for the lone remaining Canadian team.The crowds form all over downtown Vancouver all through Surrey to cheer for the beloved Canucks, and to show their support fans have found different methods to cheer.Some have gone to extremes and even done song parodies, although this may seem silly it has seem to have caught on and some of the songs are either played on the local radio station or shown on the news.The Canucks have brought the whole province together, much of the same impact the Olympics, the atmosphere is just electric.Watching the game 2 win on Saturday night down on Hamilton Street after Alex Burrows scoring that game winning goal the whole crowd just irrupted.I heard many people yelling and singing and just soaking it all in.Hopefully the Canucks can win another two games and to pull this province out of a misery it has been suffering for 40 years, at the moment the glass is half full.
"Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am."
-Marilyn Manson
In 1997, the 15 year old boy, Richard Kuntz, killed himself while listening to Marilyn Manson's album "Antichrist Superstar" on repeat. Furious, the boy's father blamed Manson solely for his son's death, and joined the countless people who try to derail Manson to this day. The next year, Manson would go on to release the album "Mechanical Animals."
The song of the same title would be no doubt inspired by this incident; some lyrics making quite a direct reference, where "I was a hand grenade that never stopped exploding," was a reference to Kuntz' claim that Antichrist Superstar was "a hand grenade that gone off in his son's head," and (in his own words) "I was a hand grenade that never stopped exploding." The lyric "I'm just a boy, playing the suicide king" goes out to all people who claim Manson to be the "king" of suicide, supposedly leading these teens to kill themselves. "This isn't me, I'm not mechanical" takes the teen perspective; that they have their own reasons for suicide, and that it isn't because of the music.
There have been countless claims that Manson encourages teen suicide and leads them to kill themselves; that these teens follow him like mindless sheep. No doubt being inspired by Raymond Kuntz' son, "Mechanical Animals" refutes these claims, taking heed of disgruntled teenagers who see no reason not to kill themselves.
After the events at Columbine high school, where two students brought guns to class and murdered 12 students and one teacher, before turning on themselves. These events became solely blamed on Manson and his band. The band canceled their tour out of respect for the victims as well as taking a few years off of performing, but maintained their opinion that entertainment, such as music, television, or video games, were in no way the cause of the incident or any like it, stating;
"The [news] media has unfairly scapegoated the music industry and so-called Goth kids and has speculated, with no basis in truth, that artists like myself are in some way to blame. This tragedy was a product of ignorance, hatred and an access to guns. I hope the [news] media's irresponsible finger-pointing doesn't create more discrimination against kids who look different."
Manson himself was interviewed by Michael Moore in the documentary "Bowling for Columbine." When asked what he'd say to the students who did the shooting, Manson responded, "I wouldn't say a single word. I would listen to what they have to say, and that's what no one did." Manson does not blame himself nor his lack of fear to say or do what he wants for such incidents, and he uses his music to disempower and to emphasize the ignorance in people's blame on him. He's a scapegoat because nobody else would want to admit they were to blame for the incident, so they place the blame on him, which is unfair since he hasn't done anything to cause such incidents. What he's saying is that the kids felt they didn't belong, and they took their frustrations out in a violent fashion because they weren't being heard, and the only way they could be heard was by doing what they did. If someone, namely parents, had provided more emotional support and had listened to their children, then the shooting may not have happened, regardless of Manson's controversial music.
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"I'm sick of people who always try to blame movies, bands, songs, or talk shows for whatever – teen suicides, drug overdoses or everything else. If someone is stupid enough to kill himself because of a song, then that's exactly what they deserve – they weren't contributing anything to the society – it's one less idiot in the world. There's too many people – if more people kill themselves over music, it wouldn't disappoint me. What would disappoint me is that people are that stupid." -Marilyn Manson on the Phil Donahue Show
Lady Gaga designed a prayer bracelet made available to purchase online. She let fans know via Twitter that all proceeds would be donated to help with the relief effort for Japan following a devestating Earthquake that occured on March 11, 2011. Lady Gaga's online shop http://ladygaga.shop.bravadousa.com/Default.aspx sold the bracelet for $5 with the option of additional donation.
Lady Gaga has empowered people of Japan by creating an easy way to donate to a cause. Just by purchasing a bracelet we are able to do our part and help others in need. Survivors of the earthquake and tsunami were empowered by Lady Gaga using her celebrity to gain awareness for their situation. Roughly $3,000,000 has been raised so far by the sale of the relief bracelets. Lady Gaga has power. She has millions of fans that watch her and support her. She has used this power to reach people and give them a way to donate to Japan. She used her blog, Facebook, and Twitter to tell fans to buy bracelets. Other media sources such as magazines and other celebrity news outlets also commented on Lady Gaga selling these bracelets. Celebrity power is far reaching and effective as we can tell from the donation.
Domestic Violence is something you usually hear about in the news or read about in the paper. Domestic violence is an everyday issue in our society but many of us do not hear about it because young adults don’t care to watch the news on a regular basis. “Love The Way You Lie” by Eminem and Rihanna is a song that sends the message of how domestic violence is an important issue that takes place everyday and happens to young adults all around the world. Not only do just young adults face domestic violence, celebrities do too; so when Rihanna co-sung this song after addmitting to being put through domestic violence, people were more likely to relate to her. Having two major stars come together and produce a song like this, makes it much easier to get a message across to the younger generation instead of hearing about it on the news or reading it in the paper. Having the issue presented in a song makes the issue more empowering to young people because it allows them to see the situation and know if something like this is taking place in their lives that they are not alone; they can put a stop to it and help is available.
In today's world, there are many independent streams of media that are filtered through various channels; this provides society with an alternative from mainstream media.
The Georgia Straight is a free local newspaper/magazine in Vancouver; printed once a week and features society and lifestyle, entertainment as well as local music, concerts etc. The Straight throws more light on social and political issues, opinion, and tactfully expresses these concerns through witty cartoons. The Straight provides an alternative stream with different perspectives and public opinion compared to mainstream mass media. Alternative media helps diversify and spread content that is otherwise filtered in dominating newspapers.
The music and entertainment section is very comprehensive. Compared to other newspapers, the Straight gives you all the details on local happenings relating to concerts and performances, clubs and artist reviews. The online site www.straight.com allows the public to access the music blog section in which music videos are reviewed with an embedded corresponding youtube video; upcoming artists - who's hot and who's not are also featured. This magazine focuses more on local music and events to promote and support smaller artists and bands. The discourses in music can be extensively debated upon, which the Straight enables the public to challenge by submitting their opinions and concerns.
The urban and youthful approach to the Straight has allowed the mass public to freely express their thoughts and opinions on a variety of topics, making it popular and vibrant.
It takes hard work and a lot of dedication to become a professional athlete at the highest level, and those who do make it are praised all over the media.The media critics, praises, points out the flaws and occasionally insults a professional athlete.I came across a website a little while back that takes another approach to sports and its superstars, that it mocks them in a very clever way.The website I’m talking about is www.sportspickle.com, it’s a website that talks about the big sports teams and clowns at them in a very different approach.The writers for this website understand the game but at the same time are very comical on what they are writing about. What this website is trying to point out is the over analyzing that happens in sports, and to an extent they are right.An example of this on TV after every hockey game that has been played in this year’s playoffs there is a panel that sits and discusses the game and breaks down every single detail in slow motion and tries to explain to its viewers what had had just happened.What the website challenges is the knowledge of the fan watching the sport and the over explaining done by its reporters.Its readers have to understand the sport inner terminology to get their hoaxes otherwise it would seem like a whole bunch of nonsense to the reader.The website also takes shots at the masterminds of the games; I’m talking about the clip board holder the coaches.I read an article awhile back on the website in which it to aim at one of the greatest sports coach’s of all time, Phil Jackson.It was joking about his famous triangle offence,(for those of you who may not know the triangle offence is an offence run by three players , hence the name triangle.) well it wasn’t working anymore in the games so one of the writers suggested that Jackson had come out with a new offensive tactic called the octagon offence.The joke here was that the octagon offense would require 8 people to run when the maximum amount of players allowed on the court is 5 per team.Although the website does make fun of sports, their intentions are of good nature and by no means insulting, its articles take a lighter approach to the competitive aspects of sports.
Overall www.sportspickle.com has done wonderfully with its work, and if you enjoy sports as much as me, I would recommend that you check it out!What the website represents is a lighter aspect to the world of sports, its funny and witty making it a fun read.It successful at the topics it targets and if you enjoy sports as much as I do than I recommend that you check it out.
Hey guys, John here with my first blog post. What's in store for you guys? Music!...Music, music, music. My blog posts will keep you posted on the greatest masterpieces and will enlighten you to stuff you probably wouldn't otherwise discover.
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Today's lesson: alternative media (No "Rolling Stone Magazine" or big record labels here). So what exactly is this going to be about? Well, obviously KeepTheHeat. Wait...you never heard of them? Sh--y'all got some explaining to do....
I know many of you are like me.You like to watch random videos when you're bored. Well, it was to my delight when a wildlife photographer in Prince Rupert told me to look up "Rupert Owls" that I stumbled upon this--the most relevant video, apparently.
Who says white kids can't rap? All you need is a plastic owl and you're good to go. Or anything for that matter--your favourite Creed album, your favourite movie ("Fever Pitch"), and even reference to your favourite song of all time (ABBA's smash hit, "Dancing Queen"); anything is good material for a rap song, as long as it rhymes. Or so seems to be the priority of some rappers, anyways (Soulja Boy).
But, the best thing is--it's actually a song. Even though it's meant to be a parody on how the pop and "hip hop" industries have made a turn recently, it manages to do whilst sounding exactly the same as every other generic mainstream hip hop song. It sounds like it could even be played on the radio alongside some Soulja Boy and Rebecca Black. What makes it really great is that he pushes the envelope with bizarre lyrics and a random crazy music video, but he still manages to keep his serious attitude throughout, despite how outrageous the whole song is. Just like every mainstream artist in the world, he throws in a random auto-tune section, which completes the structure of a mainstream song, making it the perfect mainstream marvel that it is.
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So what's the point of the song? Just to be funny. But it also pokes fun at sensational rap talents such as not Notorious B.I.G., not Tupac, and not Kanye West (Well, okay...maybe the last one, but whatever). It seems nowadays anybody can just grab a camera and make even a slightest effort at making a song, and they will gain popularity from it (Fun fact--many modern pop "stars" have made their debut on YouTube, including Canada's very own Justin Bieber). In fact, it's become so easy that we (all us music-lovers, be it mainstream or not) are all being flooded with extremely generic beats and stunningly shallow lyrics.
Now onto KeeptheHeat specifically. Who is he? Or they? Well, pretty much just a guy named Alex who parodies mainstream music for the most part. He does do some original masterpieces, like the song aforementioned, but even those parody mainstream music in general. Unfortunately, he sold his channel out to a group of people who make videos on his channel now, so his channel's a lot weaker now; the parodies aren't as good, the other people aren't funny, which is unfortunate since his channel has gained tonnes of popularity since this sellout. His old videos are overshadowed. "I Love Rupert"for example was the best video on the entire channel, yet managed to be one of the less popular. I guess you can say that people don't make 'em like that anymore, it's such a shame.
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Anyways, I'm gonna cut this off now, gotta down some Tylenol for an uncontrollable cough. Have a nice day, and be sure to enjoy this video as well or I will devour your soul.
tl;dr Keeptheheat is a pretty cool guy eh parodies moosicians and doesn't afraid of anything
CJSF FM is not the typical radio station on the FM dial. The first obvious difference is that is not a commercial-station. The content is not at all like what you would find on rock 101.1 or 96.9 jack or even the CBC radion stations. The news stories featured are not ones that one would typically find on radio or television. Major stories like a war may be mentioned but they are just as likely to have a show about a new local business or smaller community events such as small concerts or art exhibitions.
Now this is a sports and music blog so we should chat about that, and CJSF FM has time allotted in its schedule for these topics. Again though, not the typical or mainstream sports teams and musicians are featured. The music played and the musicians featured are nearly always someone that very few people know about. This isn't the station to find pop music, top 40, rock, or hip hop. You will often hear contemporary art music that SFU music students have composed themselves, as well as some classical and underground jazz selections and other world music.
There is time dedicated to sport and athletics but again its not the big names that you will hear about. (The obvious exception right now would be the Vancouver Canucks who are being featured by every newspaper and media source out there, including traffic radio.) Simon Fraser University has a very successful athletics program and the updates on these team's performance as well as interviews with student athletes are broadcast.
CJSF is a good example of alternative media. The content is drastically different than other radio stations in that there isn't a single topic or theme that the station is based on the way that 100.5 the peak, News 1130 and ALL-Traffic 730 are. The content more closely resembles CBC radion however, CJSF goes further than the CBC does when it comes to finding local, smaller, and/or less mainstream stories to fill its air time with.
The majority of information that the public receives on sports is through mass media, such as sports broadcasters like Sportsnet or through the sports section of the newspaper. My alternative media source “Take The Piss,” allows the fans and public to interact with one another; they are able to post their views and opinions on this website. When getting sports information through a mass media, you only hear the opinions and viewpoints of the editor of that particular TV station or newspaper. This website allows local and international fans to comment on each others posts, share their own thoughts by writing their own blogs and explore forums. Since this website is open to everyone and anything can be posted on it, it challenges fans and people to stick up for their team. Since negative comments can be made this challenges fans to defend their team and give their opinions on what they believe in the most. I believe http://www.takethepiss.com/ is successful because after exploring the website I realized how people can influence and change other’s opinions.
Everybody in the Lower Mainland has felt the effects of the playoffs. Global News coined the term ``Canuckism`` yesterday before the big game. ``Canuckists`` are hungry for a win. They are beer drinking, fun-loving, supporting fans. Mainstream media like Global News shows fans wearing jerseys and cheering before the game. This pre-game media source is very different from the alternative media available during the game. @Vancitybuzz on Twitter is an alternative media source because it really personafies the true character of Canucks fans while giving real time updates of the game. Canucks fans can view those updates and feel closer to the game. @Vancitybuzz is a Canuck fan. The tweets are discourses that challenge anyone who is not a fan. There are inside jokes, like last nights tweet ``Now Cherry will talk about Lalongo and Bieska haha.`` The incorrect pronounciation of two Canuck team members names by Don Cherry allow Canucks fans to laugh. @Vancitybuzz also posted a video of the Canucks in 1994 scoring the 2nd OT goal to win the Western Finals. This statement says that the Canucks have been vindicated. They have a second chance and they will win the cup. This alternative media is good at making Canuck fans pleased. @Vancitybuzz as an alternative media is different from mainstream media because it is able to take an 'in your face' approach when commenting on all things Canucks. Mainstream media cannot have the attitude that alternative media has. If you are a Nashville Predators fan I suggest not following @Vancitybuzz on Twitter because the tweets will challenge your non-canuckist view of the world!
Here is the link tweeted by @Vancitybuzz last night that has video of the goal in 94 http://bit.ly/lhi30x
