Tuesdays Class

This week in class we watched some music videos Tuesday and did another article summary on Thursday. In class Tuesday we watched the music video to “Papa Don’t Preach” by Madonna. The song was about a young girl who fell in love with a guy that she was sure she wanted to be with the rest of her life, even though her friends advised against it. Although she was young, she said she knew what she wanted and ended up getting pregnant. The song is about her telling her dad and his reaction to it which is silent at first but then helpful to her knowing sometimes people make mistakes. The young women seemed to have a good relationship with her father which is important because if they had not been close, his reaction may have been different. The song title and lyrics are “papa don’t preach” which makes me think that even though her dad raised her to do the right thing and be careful she still got pregnant and she doesn’t want her dad to preach to her about how he tried to keep her from something like this happening. Another thing we watched on Tuesday was the part of a movie called “Paris is Burning.” It was about a type of dance called voguing. Voguing is a form of dance that originated when people would use dance to show their feelings and throw shade at someone instead of physically fighting with them. Dancers used it as a safe way to throw shade at someone and whoever danced the best threw the most shade. It sounds like rap battles in dance form, people have come up with new ways to fight with someone other than physically. Another thing we watched that we sort of stumbled upon and watched was Pink’s speech to her daughter after winning a VMA Award. She started by telling the story of how her daughter said she was ugly and looked like a boy and her daughter was only 6-7 when this happened. Pink was taken aback that at her age she would be told that or thinking that, she is too young to be worried about something like that. Pink went on to tell her daughter that she gets told all the time that she looks like a guy, or her clothes don’t look right but she made the point to tell her daughter that no matter what anyone has said, she hasn’t changed a thing about her. She still wears whatever she wants and cuts her hair short, she stays true to herself and told her daughter to do the same thing. People are too worried about what everyone else thinks about them that they try and change themselves to please others even if it doesn’t please them. We need to move on from this and just be who we are because that is what matters, not being or doing what others tell us to do.