In this youtube video, Eminem performs his new single from his new album that will be hitting stores on november 5th. In the video he displays similar vulgar language as in the past albums. However, instead of targeting a newer generation like he has done in the past he combines his song with a 90's beat to attract the older audience. He use's references such as "lets take it back to straight hip hop and start it from scratch implying that he thought that 90's hip-hop was predominant. He also reaches out to the older crowd by sharing this song to the viewers before every thursday night football game. In this music video he shows countless amounts of violent acts that cut in and out throughout the music video. The resemblance in his music video to fighting and football are extremely similar in a violent matter. Eminem encourages to "let yourself go and go Berserk" to his audiences as the right thing to do. When asked to analyze this i knew it would be difficult to not be biased because i am an Eminem fan. However, his tone of voice as he yells into the microphone displaying street fights in the background of his video as well as performing before football games leads me to believe that he is wanting to get peoples attention. Eminem has sold more albums than any other hip-hop artist and he has done so predominantly in the 90's. It can be asked if Eminem has corrupted Americas's youth with violence. It leaves wonders if Eminem has shaped our generations of youth negatively and violently. Which leaves the question if Eminem has made thousands of dollars off of violent music, will he remain with violent content to please viewers and make even more money? Or could he be using violence one way or the other to regain more recent fame.



















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab9176Srb5Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem

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At the beginning of the clip of "The Whitest Kids You Know" 5 middle age men are posing as a teacher and 4th graders. They use comedy to reflect how they perceive what american schools and youth are like in today's society. Running with many stereotypes they feel like it is somewhat true and will make viewers laugh. At the start of the episode the teacher infers that the students are not smart. She then pokes fun and makes a game out of seeing which students mom just died. The students become immediately frightened and proceed to guess with the students. While guessing which student mom had died the teacher reply's to all of the statements with violent and unhealthy remarks for example "no she drank herself to death last week". Once the particular student finds out that his mom died he goes on a rampage. The student goes and drinks alcohol with chocolate syrup and starts to rebel  with only an excuse that his parents have died. When asked to critically analyze this video. I have come to realize the main actors or doing what they perceive as what is cool and funny. I thought that the their title "the whitest kids you know" is stereotypically fit for them for they fear black people and disagree with what they do. Also, as a positive note i feel like this video demonstrates that american children are suffering more and more from depression in households due to domestic violence. Because of this nature society has taken in cause and affects of depression with the american society.










reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whitest_Kids_U'_Know



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwj3efLxbc