Assignment 1: Review

I think the most prevalent aim in pop culture is pleasure. Actually think? No I know it's pleasure. Think about any rap and R&B song from biggie small's to Jay Z. Strippers, booties bouncin', poppin' bottles in the ice, drugs, clothes, money money money. It's all pleasure. Even in country music, pleasure from sittin' on the front porch swing to sexy tractors.  We all love pleasure, in any form, but i believe the Hindu aim of pleasure was much different than what we experience today.

I wasn't surprised to find that thinking and finding songs that fall into the pleasure category would be much easier then community service. Especially as an American culture we are much more self absorbed and selfish than many other cultures. Pleasure in the hindu aim would have been pleasure from reflecting on the positive aspects of the world, spring showers, summer evenings, ect. For us it's about pay day and sex, for the most part. As for liberation and community service, i believe community service is very similar, however, with american pop culture it's more of saying the doing and it's on a global scale. Liberation for us is more along the lines of women moving on from a cheating boyfriend or a star liberating themselves from the media. Liberation for a Hindu would be more like liberation from negativity.

Assignment 1

Pleasure:
Marvin Gaye "sexual healing" Reggae 1982  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5g18CN_yP8&feature=fvst
Faith Hill "Breathe" Country 1999 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmsZUN4r_s
Social Distortion "Pleasure seeker" 1996 Punk Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8StxgBe-nE

 Bob Marley "Red red wine" Reggae
Buckcherry "Crazy B" 2006 Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6pLKlU-8Q

Worldly Success

Travis McCoy and Bruno Mars "I wanna be a billionaire" 2009 Hip Hop/pop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY Queen "We are the Champions" Classic Rock 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps Michael Jackson "Man in the mirror" Hip Hop 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJY96m3lkg Louis Armstrong "Wonderful World" Soul 1970
John Mayer "Waiting on the world to change" Alternative Rock 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY


Community Service

Rob Thomas "Little Wonders" Alternative Rock 2004
Toby Keith "American Solider" Country 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWrMeBR8W-c
Shakira "Waka Waka: This time for Africa" ethnic 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0
Jack Johnson "The sharing song" Alternative 2004 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfSpsnLyo18
Michael Jackson "Heal the World" Hip Hop 1991 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWf-eARnf6U

Liberation 

Cher "Believe" Pop 1998
Bob Dylan  "Like a rolling stone" Classic Rock 1967 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk3mAX5xdxo
Miley Cyrus "Liberty Walk" Pop 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aQsq5l0m2E
Beyonce "Irreplaceable" Hip Hop 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EwViQxSJJQ
Britney Spears "Stronger" Hip Hop 2002 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWtLf4-WWs