Friday, August 22, 2014

"Same Love" By: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Cultural Analysis

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ music video for “Same Love” rejects the dominant ideologies that gay people are wrong and should change because society does not accept them. Gay people are ridiculed and it has become normal to use gay slurs on the Internet. It says in the chorus

I can’t change
even if I tried
even if I wanted to.

When it’s not gay people who need to change, it’s the hard headed people who don’t accept them and stand between them and their happiness.
Have you seen the YouTube comments lately?
‘Man that’s gay’ gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we’re saying

The normal use of these terms has grown dramatically, and it’s mostly teenagers that say it. It’s cyber-bullying which can easily lead to suicide, and has many times before. It is a very sad truth in our county’s youth.

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