Ok, this is Amy Z.
I really hope you read my blog, whoever you may be, even though it is about Josie and the Pussy Cats. I was flicking through channels on Saturday and it immediately caught my attention when a woman told a government official that her company was advertising to kids through music. (btw-I would not really recommend this movie unless we can watch it in AP English-doubt it) Anyway, so the company starts bands with hidden advertising in their music so that kids don't know that they're being brainwashed, but at the end of the song they want to buy the next cd and the products mentioned. It is such a crazy movie. If a band ever gets to close to figuring out what the company is putting into the music, they kill them off (they give examples such as Elvis overdosing or a singing group crashing in a plane into the side of a mountain).
It's funny since in class we were talking about how advertising influences us and can brainwash the young. Even the singers are influenced. Each supports a different store or company. Josie represents Revlon w/ a logo carpet and matching wall paper. Another's room is Target explosion w/ the red bullseyes everywhere and even a stuffed target dog. The third represents McDonalds and her shower has a golden arches border and french fry and hamburger man sponges are on the floor of the shower. The movie illustrates how after listening to so many advertisments, we begin to become influenced by what we see.
In the end the moral is that we should all decide what we like by ourselves. Everyone who was brainwashed becomes magically normal again and the main point is decide for yourself and don't get caught up in the propaganda (b/c of course every movie needs a moral in the end). We should definitely watch it in AP English. Actually, maybe we shouldn't.
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