The best thing I ever seen Eminem do
The best thing I ever seen Eminem do, since we have spoken of him lots in recent days, came this weekend. It was so bizarrely fascinating that I feel the need to let you all in on it. We were watching MTV, which had a show on basically accusing Britney Spears of being slutty for the way she dresses, and featured a truly agonizing segment of Britney sitting on a chair, watching a tape of people on the street in front of MTV studios degrading her (intersperced with a handful of girls defending her, including two friends who got into a bit of a fight when one said, “If you had her body, you’d dress like that too” - you just know the next line was “You think I’m fat??”). Eminem came on and said that he, Eminem, thought that Britney Spears was a bad influence on his daughter. Eminem. Eminem said this. Eminem had the nerve to call someone a bad influence on children!!!
This is made much more funnier in light of the fact that the show that lead into the Britney-bash-athon was a show about Eminem being a bad influence on popular culture, littered with comments by him stating that parents should be responsible for their children’s behavior and it’s all in good fun.
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DevintheDude on August 1st, 2008
The problem with your argument is the role each of these artists plays in music. Eminem is a rapper, and if you know anything about rap, you’ll know that rap is usually inherently violent. His music is for adults, and even though kids can listen to it, it specifically says “Explicit” on his CDs– much like the warning on cigarette packets. In most cases, a parent can see these warnings and prevent their kids from buying these CDs either by not giving them the money to, or by not allowing them to go to CD stores unsupervised. Also, some stores will not allow kids to buy these CDs.
Slutty Britney, on the other hand, has no such warning on her CDs. Any child, of any age, can purchase her CDs without permission. Her music is more mainstream– it is more often heard by young girls, and the image she portrays is harmful to their self esteem. She is a bad role model, and because of sensorship, it is easier for her to model this bad behavior than it is for Eminem.