The Totally Clean Explicit Post

As you all may agree, the black and white striped sticker displaying the words "explicit" on music is a bad thing. This means that the content you find may be inappropriate. That's a good thing, right? If you don't like swearing, or immoral lyrics, the sticker warns you that it may not be a good purchase for you. It warns you that rappers like Lil' Wayne or Snoop Dogg are going to rap about sex and it warns you that rappers like Eminem are going to swear non-stop. It's quite a good system. Here's the problem though. While it does a great job at warning you about the content of rap and rock, the system isn't always reliable or trusty. Here are some examples.

I have found two songs by The Script so far that say the f-word (on their self-titled album), yet, they don't put an explicit label on the album. It will tell you on iTunes which songs are explicit, but what if you buy it at Wal-Mart? You'll be listening to it and the f-bomb will drop in. A lot of the other songs are clean, but thats no excuse to just leave it unmarked. On the other hand, the song "Sell Your Soul" by Hollywood Undead is marked as explicit, but all it censors is the word kill. It is true that it is quite violent, but I've heard violent songs that aren't explicit. It's also true that almost all the other are WAAAAAAY explicit, but that's not an excuse, really. Also, Blue October's "Into the Ocean" is marked, but it's just a metaphor of suicide. Just like the last song, like three songs are marked explicit. (It's also marked on the cover.)

SO what's with the explicit sticker being marked or not marked when needed? It's quite simple: the content is judged by the record company, the guys who produce and sell the music and what-not. The company decides what's explicit or not. That's why it all varies.

Below is an album that's from the 80's or 90's. (I can't remember.) It is the cover of rap group's self-titled album. Read the white box below.

(Here's what it says for those with bad eye-sight.)
"Def American Records is opposed to censorship. Our manufacturer and distributer, however, do not condone or endorse the content of this recording, which they find violent, sexist, racist, and indecent."

That's right. The manufacturer found the music to be so raunchy, they added their own warning label to the album! As far as I (and Wikipedia) know, this is one of the only few albums ever produced to have this kind of label. I find it quite funny, actually.

Just as a side-note, there is an album by a certain rap group that was so bad, it was briefly banned from being sold in Florida for a time! Talk about immoral! Oh, and the only reason I know this was because I had a question concerning the information I gave to you at the top.)  

Train + Romeo and Juliet = "This Ain't Goodbye" (And Some More Crazy Stuff.)

I absolutely love the band Train. I've also found that I'm starting to love Shakespeare. One day, (I don't know how) it came to me that "This Ain't Goodbye" (Co-written by Pat Monahan [of Train] and Ryan Tedder [of OneRepublic]) can be related to the story of "Romeo and Juliet." The songs sings of an impossible love, which is the case of Romeo and Juliet's. Let me explain.

I'm assuming that everyone reading this has some idea of Heaven. (Doesn't matter what religion.) Let's cut to the end of the play. Romeo has poisoned himself and Juliet has stab herself. One of these two lovers are now telling the other that although they've died, "this ain't goodbye." It's not the end of their lives and their love.

Here are the lyrics and the comparisons below-


You and I were friends from outer space
Afraid to let go
The only two who understood this place
And as far as we know


(Out of all the Montagues and Capulets, they are the only two who see past the hate.)

We were way before our time
As bold as we were blind
Just another perfect mistake
Another bridge to take on the way to letting go


("Doth with their death bury their parents' strife." There love was never accepted, and their death is what finally made it so. Even so, they were determined to beat the odds.)

This ain't goodbye
This is just where love goes
When words aren't warm enough
To keep away the cold

Oh no, this ain't goodbye
It's not where our story ends
But I know you can't be mine
Not the way you've always been


(Before death, Juliet, being a Capulet, could never really have been Romeo's. [Not in the possessive way.] But now death has set them free, in a way. They will now soon be with each other again.)

As long as we've got time
Then this ain't goodbye
Oh no, this ain't goodbye

We were stars up in the sunlit sky
That no one else could see
Neither of us thought to ever ask why
It wasn't meant to be


(It didn't matter if one was a Capulet or a Montague. They loved each other, and even when others didn't understand, they never bothered with the details. Romeo love Juliet, Juliet Loved Romeo. It was not "Montague loves Capulet and Capulet love Montague. That name didn't matter.)

Maybe we were way too high to ever understand
Baby, we were victims of all
All the foolish plans
We began to divide

(Sadly, even hate destroyed the two youths. They were victims.)

But this ain't goodbye
This is just where love goes
When words aren't warm enough
To keep away the cold

Oh no, this ain't goodbye
It's not where our story ends
But I know you can't be mine
Not the way you've always been

As long as we've got time
This ain't goodbye
Oh no, this ain't goodbye
Oh no, this ain't goodbye
This ain't goodbye

You and I we're friends from outer space
Afraid to let go
The only two who understood this place
And as far as we know

This ain't goodbye
Oh no, this ain't goodbye
This ain't goodbye
Oh no, this ain't goodbye

This ain't goodbye
This is just where love goes
When words aren't warm enough
To keep away the cold

Oh no, this ain't goodbye
It's not where our story ends
But I know you can't be mine
Not the way you've always been
Oh no, don't say it
Don't say goodbye






I hope that was well explained. If you listen to the lyrics, I can garentee you'll find a correlation between the two subjects.


Now to some more crazy stuff.............................................................................



We went to a monster truck show today, and I can tell ya this- people are SO DANG LAZY! There was enough popcorn on the floor to feed our school! I don't know about you, but I would be ticked if it was my job to clean that up. It goes back to the lunch ladies again. Neither one of these two different people are treated with the amount of respect they diserve. It's just so messed up!


Next, on the way home on the freeway, we saw passed by an unusual display. The single passenger, the driver, was wearing headphones, and he was watching what appeared to be "The Office." Let me repeat that. He was a SINGLE DRIVER with HEADPHONES on, driving on the FREEWAY, WATCHING The Office. That is some pretty irresponsible driving! That puts someones life in danger! My mom was going to report him, but she could find the number to do so. So now, if there are any crashes on the news, you now know who caused it.


Idiot.


Next up on my to-mock list is Go-Gurt. They have questions about the show "Spongeob Squarepants" on there. This would be quite a fun challenge. Right next to King of the Hill, me and my brother watch the show a lot. I could complete quotes even. But sadly, the tube only provides mediocre questions like "who lives in a pineapple " while providing a close up picture on the character. If you have watched just one episode, you will know that the answer is Spongebob. It's apparent throughout the show and it even tells you in the theme song! They need to provide questions like, "In which of these episodes does Patrick say this? Liar, Liar, plants for hire?" (He says it on "Life of Crime" I think.) Those would be good questions! Challenge us Go-Gurt!


The last thing I want to ramble on about is, once again, music. The app "Tap Tap Revenge" is going to the dogs. Its line of free songs have gotten progressively worse as they've succumbed to senseless pop music. They've given a horrible song by Dev, a partying, drinking, sex song, a pretty lame Tiesto song, (hes normally okay though) and, the newest release, a song by Jessie J. It is called "Do It Like A Dude." I imagine that it doesn't take much to know what 'do it' means. (If you don't, then maybe thats a good thing. Basically, it's a girl saying how she wants to have sex like a guy does. It's absolutely horrible. 
The thing that makes this all even worse is the rating.
13+
13+ references to drugs, alcohol, sex, nudity, and violence.
13+ FOR CRAP!


If you have been patient enough to read my rambles, then I deeply appreciate it. 

On a Whim

<(If this turns out to be a badly written song, I can understand why. I came up with the first two lines and I just wrote what I felt.)>

I wonder

does the sunrise have anything to offer?

Does it bring

a solid promise of a brighter day?

Can it give

what we've all been waiting for?

And can it's rays

touch every surface of Earth?

Even though it seems

that the darkness is too invading.

I know that where there is light

darkness can't occupy.

Christ is closer than he seems

he's shining on us his every beam.

He will show us the way;

He'll help us rise and seize the day!

When darkness is invading

our sacred inner being.

You can be assured that Christ is intervening.

He will not let go

of the ones that he loves.

Christ is love!

Christ is always love!

When the Tempter tries to take you, just remember that

Christ is always love!

And you never abandon the ones you love!

ANYONE WANT A BIRD?

I have a bird, and let me just say, I've appreciated the experience. But that bird doesn't really add to my life. Well, he adds more work, but that's besides the point. He or she hates me. He will bite anyone that goes near his cage, hard, might I add. The only one he does like can't have him. So please, if you or anyone you know wants a bird, tell me here or at school. He is 30 dollars. He comes with a cage, two bird feeders, plenty of food, treats (millet), a bell, water tube, and HE IS A PARAKEET, YELLOW.

Oh, and look below for my other post

Websites

I put up a few websites on my blog, so I just wanted to give a brief description of them.

The first is my music video blog, but nothing is on it yet.

elyrics.net is where I get nearly all my lyrics from. I do format them occasionally for my blog, but they're well written. Not to many grammar/spelling errors and they load quickly.

Before I describe the next website, I need to get you familiar with a music term, sampling. Sampling is the act of taking a section of lyrics or composition and inserting it into another song. Some examples of this are-

Enigma's "Return to Innocence." (Drum beat taken from Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" and a Polynesian chant is sampled.)

Train's "I Got You." (A large portion of lyrics come fro The Doobie Brother's "Black Water," including some of the tune.)

B.O.B.'s "The Kids" (Some of the tune and lyrics come from Vampire Weekend's "The Kids Don't Stand A Chance.")

The website whosampled.com will take any song you search for and produce a list of songs that have sampled it or the song it samples from. It will also tell you how many covers (a song sung and performed by a different band) aned parodies there are. The lists are not always comeplete, but they do give a lot of info.

songfacts.com is what it suggests. It's like an encyclopedia for music. I don't think it's a wiki. There are also articles, interviews, quiz's, and a whole lot more fun stuff to look at on there. If you want to find the meaning of a song, this website can be a reliable source.

grooveshark.com is a website that allows you to listen to free music without adds, waiting, and restrictions. You can even create a playlist! Not all songs are listed, but a majority of them are. Be careful though. Last time I went on ther, they had Vicoria's Secret adds on there.

So, if you are interested, go look at these sites. They're fun to mess around with!

whosampled.com is a pretty interesting website.

More Randomness

(This post was completed in a two day period because I was too paranoid to finish it late at night.)

I have had a few things on my mind, and I'm just going to write them on here. (And probably make another post too.)

First off, I watched the most the most stupid SNL skit of all time. It's an advertisement for a money-loaning company or bank or something with money. The point of the skit is to make fun of their website address which they call "clown*****.****" The stars are in replace of other words that I don't want to appear on my blog. So in other words, they thought it would be funny if they came up with a derogatory website name and just go through the commercial like it was all fine. It was stupid, immature, and honestly, sad. They came up with a pathetic form of comedy and they ACTUALLY THOUGHT it would be funny! If they can't think of anything else other than sex, then they've hit rock bottom.

On my way to school, my mom spotted a dead cat. The cat was in the right lane a little ways from our car, and it wasn't just dead, it was slaughtered. What probably used to be its head was splattered all over the road. It was like someone had taken some bloody grounded beef and spread it all around and it made me a little sick seeing it. I thought "whoever owns this cat is going to have a broken heart; I know I would. I have a cat and if that was her, I would be crying my guts out. As we drove past, I though I would never get the image out of my head. Luckily, I didn't really think of it during school. I actually completely forgot of it on my walk home. I didn't see the cat on my walk home either, and I definitely would seen it because it was pretty close to the crosswalk. So either I was to busy singing to Train (yeah, I admit it) or the cat was taken care of.
May the cat rest in peace.
Later that night, we watched the semi-new thriller, Devil. It is a story conceived by M. Night Shyamalan. He is probably my favorite director and the only one I recognize other than Tim Burton. When I saw the preview for this movie, I got really excited when I found out it was a movie by him. He doesn't direct it and he didn't write it, but he did create the story and he also produced in part. I don't know the extent of his work, but he is credited for the film. It is about five people and a crime investigator. The five people get on an elevator and start to go up, unfortunately, it stops working and there seems to be no problem. One by one, people //////start getting hurt and people die. People turn against one another, and it is soon thought by one security guard that one of the five is the Devil. (WARNING. DO NOT READ THE NEXT PART BECAUSE I MIGHT REVEAL THINGS THAT MAKE THE UNKNOWN,KNOWN.) Right from the beginning, we started to guess which one was the devil and who was going to die next. (I was almost always right when it came to guessing the next death.) It was pretty creepy. It used a mix of the unknown and gore to create a very creepy movie. Visions of death would occur, and whenever it got dark, you soon learned that another life was going down. They used noise and horrible flashes to give you a sense of fear. It was a great movie, and I would definitely watch it again.(READ FROM HERE YOU SKIPPED) You will never be able to truly guess who the devil is. When I found out though, my insides jumped. (Ugh, it's in my head now. Do I dare turn around?) This movie is really good, but if you get WAAAY freaked out by horror films, don't watch it. I'll be sleeping with my lamp on tonight because all the death occurred in the dark. I actually went upstairs briefly and about had a paranoia-attack (whatever the term is) because of the movie. I know it may sound wussy to some, but they don't call it a psychological thriller for nothing. Also, if you hate gorey scenes in a mild degree, then it might make you uncomfortable. It's not too nasty, but it's not so pretty either. The good thing is is that, like many of Night's films, they contain a religious aspect to them. This is evident by the end where... well, I can't tell you cause I would spoil it, but let's just say not everyone on Earth will be sent to Hell. Another religious aspect is the last sentence where the narrator tells us, "If there is a Devil, there must be a God." The ending lightens the mood. Movies such as "Signs" and "The Sixth Sense" are also religious. That's actually the whole point of "Signs." A God exists and things happen for a reason, no matter how bad they are. Tomorrow, I hope to watch a few other of his films like "Lady in the Water" and "Unbreakable." I'm deciding over "The Happening" though. It's about a substance that causes people to commit suicide. It's rated-R and from a parent's website, I highly doubt I'll watch it. It seems a lot of its horror comes from violence and gore. Actually, I'll just read the plot off of wikipedia instead. (You can do this with Devil too if it seems too nasty.)

http://www.thenightchronicles.com/home.php

The link above is the official site of "The Night Chronicles," with Devil being the first. At the bottom to the right, you will see a scene from one of the power-outages. When the lights flicked back on briefly, that is what is seen. (No, it does not give any hint as to who the devil is.) I'm going to now watch King of the Hill to lighten my mood. Apparently, watching Narnia afterwards didn't do much. I will post this tomorrow because I am just so dang paranoid right now.

(The next day, 1:20 pm)

Guess what, my mom read this because I left it open and she downloaded "Lady in the Water" and "Unbreakable!" Awesome, isn't it?

Yesterday, I had to stop writing because of paranoia. Because of this, you may be wondering why I might watch a thriller/horror in the first place. Here's my reasoning. Although I have weaker nerves than others, paranoia only lasts for about one night. I also have Paul Cardall (a religious singer) on my iPod, and that always calms me down.

But anyway, I have like two more things to say. First off is about the lunch ladies in school. Is it just me, or is respect very minimal? People always leave a disastrous mess on there table. I know it's there job to clean up, but could the students at least pick up after themselves or not make a deliberate mess? I see some kids that make ketchup art all the time. I highly doubt that's fun or easy to clean. Another thing that bugs me is that some kids have been known to throw peas and other such food at the people. These ladies work diligently to create a clean environment, and this is how they are thanked, with peas to the face? It just bugs me. The other thing that bugs me is the fact that they can't really do anything about it. I will describe why in a later post though because I can make a separate post of it.

Well......I can't think of anything else, so bye.