miércoles, 1 de octubre de 2014

reggeton and the F word

"The stuff kids listen to these days...it's not music, it's just noise!"
Hasn't every generation said that about the next one?  My husband brought that up in the context of the reggeton his niece listens to. 

Emma Watson has recently been all over the news with her now-famous speech to the UN on her #heforshe campaign.  Although it was nice to see a fresh new face join the fight, nothing she said was really new.  At least once a generation since the 50s and before, someone has said something similar. 

What's the connection between bad music and a good speech?  The themes are recurring.  Most regetton videos show scantily clad women dancing around a fully dressed man.  Girls dream of being those girls: thin, beautiful and wanted.    Boys dream of being that man: surrounded by beautiful, half-naked, dancing women and wanted

#Heforshe cannot happen when teenage dreams are still so unbalanced. 

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