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Michael Faris

How movies express cool through music and dance. (VIDEO) - 0 views

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    A 10-minute video that explores the history of music and dance and how it creates "cool" in film
Nina Quattrochi

▶ Bastille cover Miley Cyrus' We Can't Stop in the Live Lounge - YouTube - 1 views

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    Bastille does a very cool cover of Miley's "We Can't Stop" and change the lyrics up a little bit at the end and include some of "Achy Breaky Heart" into it. One of the comments under the video points out how they are using the intro to "Lose Yourself" by Eminem to suggest Miley is "losing herself". 
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    I love Bastille and I love this cover! I also liked how they changed up the song and made it a comment about Miley herself.
Michael Faris

Is Miley Cyrus Appropriating Black Culture? - YouTube - 0 views

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    On her show, Wendy Williams discusses racial appropriation, and how Miley Cyrus and others, have "picked up" black culture in order to be cool and make money, and then have the privilege of putting black culture away and return to whiteness when they're older.
Nina Quattrochi

Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Sign Language (ASL) - YouTube - 0 views

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    This was so cool! I've been taking sign languages course for a while and I just got into a YouTube black hole of signed songs and I stumbles upon this one! enjoy everyone!!
Hannah Penton

The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up HQ (Uncensored).mp4 - YouTube - 0 views

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    This video is rather outlandish, the video is shows the abuse and overt sexualisation of females, but it isn't until the very end that the point of view is changed.  For Gayle Rubin class
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    Hannah, I think this video is great for analysis -- I'm thinking of R&W's point about how videos create authenticity, and that this video, through that shift at the end, tries to portray Prodigy as somehow clever, not misogynist. It's a "clever" move to say: "Look, we're not violent! All people, even women, are violent. We and our fans don't have to think about being implicated in a culture that's violent toward women, because everyone is violent toward everyone!" That changed point of view, in my reading, is way to build "ethos" with their fans and allow them to continue to be violent and cool.
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