Robert Small, The blog thereof.

Everyone knows I hate rap, really I hate ‘gangster rap’, I consider the art produced by certain Jamaican artists very pleasant to the ear. Nobody had informed me this made me racist. Picture the scene, it’s a summer’s evening by the side of a river, well, not really.

(16:57:42) <SomeoneElse>: do u have go getta
(16:58:47) <SmallR2002>: go getta?
(17:00:01) <SomeoneElse>: ya its by young jeezy and r kelly
(17:00:54) <SmallR2002>: oh… pop trash?
(17:01:07) <SomeoneElse>: no
(17:01:08) <SomeoneElse>: rap
(17:01:11) <SomeoneElse>: hip hop
(17:01:55) <SmallR2002>: ok, badly genre’d trash
(17:02:09) <SomeoneElse>: omg!!!!
(17:02:21) <SomeoneElse>: that’s insaulting to the rap world
(17:03:27) <SmallR2002>: i can be more so…
(17:03:38) <SomeoneElse>: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(17:04:07) <SomeoneElse>: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(17:04:12) <SmallR2002>: mostly ’styles’ of pop
(17:04:15) <SomeoneElse>: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111
(17:04:22) <SomeoneElse>: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(17:05:04) <SmallR2002>: and pop near enough always sucks
(17:05:14) <SomeoneElse>: rawr
(17:05:49) <SmallR2002>: even the monkees were better than most modern pop
(17:06:12) <SomeoneElse>: who the heck are the monkees
(17:06:32) <SmallR2002>: shows how much you know about music…
(17:06:55) <SmallR2002>: please tell me you’ve heard of the beatles
(17:06:56) <SomeoneElse>: you’re a racist freak
(17:07:05) <SmallR2002>: racist freak?
(17:07:07) <SomeoneElse>: you dont like rap cuz most rappers are black or mixed
(17:07:11) <SmallR2002>: hahaha
(17:07:18) <SomeoneElse>: you’re a fucking racist freak
(17:07:18) <SmallR2002>: which is why i love bluegrass and jazz?
(17:07:41) <SmallR2002>: japanese pop, jpunk, lots of asian music too
(17:07:57) <SomeoneElse>: well jazz music made it’s way into rap
(17:08:00) <SomeoneElse>: you loser
(17:08:17) <SmallR2002>: not quite, but, near enough
(17:08:38) <SmallR2002>: i find that so amusing…
(17:08:56) <SomeoneElse>: psh and i happen 2 kno more musicans than u
(17:09:01) <SmallR2002>: really?
(17:09:05) <SomeoneElse>: like wolf from sydney
(17:09:15) <SomeoneElse>: and richard carter from someplace in europe
(17:09:24) <SomeoneElse>: and other ppl my mom talks 2 and meets
(17:10:16) <SmallR2002>: all the artists on my myspace i know and correspond with personally
(17:10:59) <SomeoneElse>: you dont know all the artists on myspace
(17:11:27) <SmallR2002>: on my myspace i do
(17:11:31) <SmallR2002>: not on myspace
(17:11:38) <SmallR2002>: helps if you read :p
(17:12:07) <SomeoneElse>: shut up
(17:12:13) <SmallR2002>: …
(17:12:34) <SmallR2002>: so you cant debate without insulting or telling me to shut up?
(17:12:43) <SomeoneElse>: shut up
(17:12:57) <SomeoneElse>: ur a freak
(17:13:07) <SmallR2002>: i’m a freak, why?
(17:13:20) <SmallR2002>: because i don’t like rap and know more about alternative forms of music?
(17:13:56) <SomeoneElse>: no you’re a freak cuz ur so judgemental
(17:14:01) <SmallR2002>: i am?
(17:14:13) <SmallR2002>: when did i judge whom?
(17:14:28) <SomeoneElse>: people that like rap
(17:14:43) <SmallR2002>: yes… and i don’t like most rap
(17:16:38) <SomeoneElse>: you said you didnt like it at all;
(17:17:07) <SmallR2002>: when?
(17:18:09) <SomeoneElse>: when what?
(17:18:20) <SmallR2002>: when did i say that i didnt like it at all, quote me
(17:18:24) <SomeoneElse>: when did your balls shrink and you blew up and had sex with a penguin?
(17:18:30) <SomeoneElse>: idk i press esc after everything
(17:18:39) <SmallR2002>: well i didn’t
(17:19:13) <SmallR2002>: so, it would seem you’re being pretty judgemental calling me a racist freak for not liking some rap and liking alternative music wouldn’t it?
(17:20:48) <SmallR2002>: you’re also accusing me of things which aren’t true without any evidence
(17:21:02) <SmallR2002>: just because i don’t like some music you like
(17:22:36) <SomeoneElse>: well shut up
(17:22:40) <SomeoneElse>: go fuck ur penguin

So, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that someone who can’t spell `you’re` is calling me a racist freak. I’m deeply NOT hurt. Sorry, Borat reference.

I was going to write a critical essay on this, but I don’t think I can say anything to make it sound any worse or any better.

Kind regards, Robert.

In most countries it is illegal to sell sex; in some the law is reversed and it illegal to buy sex.

Everyone has seen the adverts, you know the ones, pretty women photographed next to the product or even using it. I have no objection to the choice of good looking participants for adverts; what I object to is the use of this when, as is increasingly common, the pretty woman is totally irrelevant. I’m sorry if I’m incorrect but there’s no connection I’ve discovered between the undressed female form and web hosting, or fishing nets.

I also object, quite strongly, to the ’sexing’ of music and music videos. Rap, notorious for this, is well known to objectify women and glorify gangsterism. I believe that the ‘armies’ based around various rebel forces in Africa often use ‘gangster rap’ to give their child soldiers the confidence to follow the orders they’re given. Studies have shown that heavy bass beats in music increases testosterone levels, this would be excellent for someone about to make young children shoot up villages. It would also create a heightened level of all the bad sides of masculinity within the children, is it any wonder that they rape and massacrer? I dislike the trend to take this form of film making over into the rest of the music industry, not that I liked the music industry in the first place, I dislike the use of women as objects; in fact, I consider it to be an attempt to manipulate me.

The reason I think that the criticism or abuse of others is so attractive to some is as follows; to be above others (rightly or wrongly) one must create a difference between yourself and them, this can be done by their failing or by your success. If you push them down then you help them fail by your perception, you are now - in your own mind - bigger than they. I hope this makes sense, I’ll probably explain more about it another time, this is getting on for two in the morning and my mind has ceased working according to the normal constraints of ordered thinking. This goes for the objectification of women by men, mostly men who have little self worth; by pushing others beneath them they have greater self worth. It’s sick.

So why did I say that I considered it to be an attempt to manipulate me? Well, if I believe what I’ve already stated then it’s an attempt to make me feel good about myself and buy their music because it does so; they’ve failed as it only serves to make me even more sick of modern ‘culture’ than I was before. If I do not become entwined in their net by this devious trick they have a backup plan up their sleeve, simply lure my interest with sex.

But over all, I find it disturbing that to make me buy a fishing net, a new film, or maybe a cup of coffee I must be lured in by the attraction of sex. Whatever happened to the appeal of wanting to buy a product?

Kindest regards, Robert.