I call shenanigans on this. I don’t think it’s happening anywhere. completely hyped. one video, one example – not a fad. what do you say? anyone have evidence or observation to show otherwise?
Tag: teen
Thank you MTV for 16 and Pregnant
16 and pregnant really is the best comedy on tv right now. the tragic tales of irresponsible teenage behavior are entertaining epics that haven’t made me LOL this much per-episode since Tiny Toons briefly spun off with The Plucky Duck Show.
Craig figured it out
Craig has figured it out… Advertising brainwash + youth idealism + the stupidity of youth = Why everything sucks… Ooh-la-la!
South Park slams Disneys teen sex marketing
In the recent episode of South Park, titled The Ring, Kenny takes his new girlfriend to a Jonas Brothers’ concert where they each get purity rings. Somehow this turns into harsh criticism of Disney that went completely over my head, which makes me think it was bullshit since not much goes over my head besides hats and maybe a fez on a Sunday afternoon.
I thought the episode was misplaced satire, even though I don’t know very much about the band. The thesis appeared to be that Disney is a big hypocritical fraud by promoting a band whose members don’t have sex, yet are sexually appealing. Huh? Where exactly is the hypocrisy beef? Did I miss something? They don’t prance around without a shirt (like I do) or have suggestive lyrics in their songs and I’ve never seen the brothers hump the air or pump around suggestively like the South Park versions of them did.
So wtf? The South Park guys seem to just really hate the idea of teenagers not having sex whenever they feel like it. I’d get it if the Band appealed primarily to 17-23 year olds cuz then I’d be all duh – screw the purity ring and screw me. But aren’t the Jonas Bros 10 to 14 year old territory primarily? And eh… Isn’t this a group that maybe should probably not be encouraged to banging? Why is role modeling a no-sex policy to kids and young teens such a bad thing to deserve scorn and ridicule? The South Park kids are in 4th grade.
Combined with what I said earlier about the secondary charge against the Disney Corporation who peddles these sexy no-sex boyzes not making any more sense to me than targeting kids who aren’t having sex – wtf was with this episode? If it was all just an excuse to show Mickey Mouse beating the fuck out of someone and cursing then okay, fine, but we’ve come to expect a little more depth and meaning behind the crudeness of South Park gags.
This episode seemed 8 years too late and should have been about Britney Spears. She was much more obviously marketed on a foundation of sex from her outfits to her music videos to her orgasm moans in every other song. But the Jonas Brothers? really? It seemed like South Park was just attacking them simply because young girls like them. Therefore something sinister is going on behind the scenes? Maybe I’m missing something but it didn’t make any sense to me.
Behind the scene’s at the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair shoot
Vanity Fair released this behind the scenes’ featurette of the shoot:
Then the real unedited version of it:
BONUS slideshow:
and PS if you have no idea wtf these videos are about, here’s the Today Show on it: