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Reply #30 posted 02/24/17 1:57pm

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Gunsnhalen said:

MotownSubdivision said:

The problem is hypocrisy. There's nothing wrong with pop stars addressing real issues in their music or outside of it but you can't speak out against a problem that you're actively a part of. Katy is the poster girl for shallow, paint-by-number pop music yet she makes a shallow paint-by-number pop song supposedly against shallow paint-by-number pop music? Makes less than zero sense. This is made worse when she dubs the song "Purposeful Pop", which is confirmation that she was trying to make a statement.

What Katy did is the equivalent of someone advocating for veganism as they eat a sirloin steak.

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^ there we go thank you Motown.


But MoSub is making a different point than you did, and there's merit to it.

You called Katy's politics "trash"? What exactly makes her politics trash?

I mean, we elected the straight man to a monkey in a B movie President of the United States who's still revered by almost half the electorate.

A bodybuilder action movie star with a thick Austrian accent and a tub full of funny catchphrases was elected Governor of California.

A former comedian whose catchphrase on SNL was basically his own name is one of the most respected U.S. Senators on the American Left.

The White House is occupied by a reality show star.

If they have political credibility, why can't Katy?

I'm not being (completely) argumentative, just trying to get your point.


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Reply #31 posted 02/24/17 6:17pm

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It's freedom of speech and they can say what they want. Should John Lennon have shut up and not be political during the NIXON criminal days, a man who extended a war so he could get votes? to me that is straight up murder and had Nixon been alive today he should have been thrown in Jail or gotten the death penalty like those he sent to die.



So we can bitch about celebs talking and thats cool, but just like we get our platforms on social media and shit like that, people getting voices and can hide behind a screen, at least they are doing it and owning it and walking the talk, no one on Facebook or social media that rants and goes off on someone would have the balls to do it to someones face.



The problem is hypocrisy. There's nothing wrong with pop stars addressing real issues in their music or outside of it but you can't speak out against a problem that you're actively a part of. Katy is the poster girl for shallow, paint-by-number pop music yet she makes a shallow paint-by-number pop song supposedly against shallow paint-by-number pop music? Makes less than zero sense. This is made worse when she dubs the song "Purposeful Pop", which is confirmation that she was trying to make a statement.



What Katy did is the equivalent of someone advocating for veganism as they eat a sirloin steak.


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^ there we go thank you Motown. And usually Lastdecember is the one constantly making these ''pop music nowadays is awful'' for about 15 years. It's refreshing to know after all that he's a Katy stan biggrin



Uh no, the question is a political debate not her music content which has no content. I'm commenting that pop stars or actors or douche bags on Facebook can all have their opinions no matter how stupid they are, this generation has allowed cowards voices with no real subjects or issues tackled or solved.

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