Week 5 Forum - My Favourite Things II
Christianity is not stupid and communism is not good!
This weeks forum class was a bit controversial. It takes a lot to offend me, so I wasn't offended. But, I defiantly would not want my name on a song like that. Religion and politics are the two topics you shouldn't discuss unless you're willing to have conflict.
Personally I would never want to write music about these two topics because I like to keep my views to myself and not expose them to public. Then again, I do admire artists that tastefully write music about important issues.
I think the band Negativland are ignorant doing what they're doing. I would be ashamed and embarrassed to be famous on their song. It's probably the only way I would reject being successful as a commercial artist. Using sex appeal to sell music is common and not as bad. This is just wrong.
[1] Stephen Whittington, "Music Technology Forum: Semester 2 - Week 5 – My Favourite Things II". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, Schulz 1009, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 28th August 2008
