I'm Just too WHITE & NERDY

                                               

      White and nerdy: 

"I wanna roll withThe gangstersBut so far they all thinkI'm too white ‘n’ nerdy"

The second single from Weird al Yancovic's, album Straight Outta Lynwood ,which was released on September 26, 2006.   It parodies the song "Ridin'" by Charmillionaire and Krayzie Bone. 

 Weird al Yankovic's a parodist who enjoys changing the lyrics in the music videos and make a completely different thing from them, which results very funny for the audience, he's made other great jobs like this by parodying Michael Jackson's songs (Beat it/Eat it),Lady Gaga (Born this way), Coolio and L.V. (Gangsta paradise/ Amish Paradise) and so on.

This 2 minutes 50 seconds videos exposes the stereotypical version af a "white nerdy boy" dressed  with a button-up shirt,dress slacks, wearing wide glasses, and doing the "common" nerd activities which are expected from a nerd to do, like playing Dungeons and Dragons,reading Stephen Hawking's,editing wikipedia,playing ping pong,and "eating all my sandwiches with mayonnaise."   This "Alfred nerd guy" attempts to be admitted in a stereotypical gangster's crew, which seems to be impossible because of his "whiteness" and "nerdiness", also that would knock down the status quo between this two completely separated sub-cultures,therefore they "flip him off" and send him to his appropiate "side of the table", or they just run away from him.   The music video uses several references that only "nerds" would understand. Ultimately, the goal here is to keep nerds as nerds and not as "wannabe" gangsters, showing again how necessary stereotypes are and how rejection and non-acceptance from other sub-cultures is predisposed to happen.  Moreover all the overstatements about the activities this nerd does,proved he's too "white" and not hard enough to "roll with the gangsters".  


To conclude, although it's really funny when stereotypes are taken to the highest level, they recreate two or more realities suggesting these "different worlds" are incompatible,  and there's no chance they combine, have commonalities or "roll with" each other.

For more information:

http://rap.about.com/od/hiphopvideos/v/WhiteandNerdy.htm

http://www.metrolyrics.com/white-nerdy-lyrics-weird-al-yankovic.html

http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/091106/   *(charmillionare comments)

Ella - Bebe

Maria Nieves Rebolledo Vila, better know like Bebe is a spanish singer and actress,  known worldwide for their successes "Malo" and "Ella", she express all their feelings in your songs. 

"Ella" is a song thet talks about violence against woman, this topic is not only physical violence , is also discrimination, contempt and psychological violence
this song talk about a woman who get aut of violence and feel good again.
" Hoy le gusta su sonrisa, no se siente una extraña
 Hoy sueña lo que quiere sin preocuparse por nada"

She recovery her confidence.

   Here is the video, enjoy it!

Run Run se fuel pa'l Norte

                                                  This song is written by Violeta Parra and performed by Francisca Valenzuela. 

First of all I want to tell you about Violeta Parra. She was born in Chile and she was the first woman who went to foreign countries to show the chilean folk music, and her art. For me is a symbolism for the chilean women, and the low society. Also she was part of the music that represented social movements as the communism because she was a popular singer. 

"Just the love with his science makes us so innocent" - Violeta Parra

                                                   Nowadays Francisca Valenzuela is very known for her music, full of love. Some people say that is also feminist music. As Violeta Parra, Francisca's music has international repercussion.

                                                    I'm not trying to say that Francisca is the new Violeta, I'm making a comparison between the impact of two women who at their own time made a succesful career that help the female power in Chile that by the way is a male chauvinist country.

About the lyrics... Violeta had a lover who was from France and he run away from her and she was broken hearted because of this. She made a song of this situation and here is the video.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

"Shake it out" was released as the first single from the second studio album "Ceremonials" by Florence and the Machine, an English indie rock band, consisting of lead singer Florence Welch (who wrote this song, with Paul Epworth). I absolutely love Florence's voice and lyrics, but this song in particular gets me in a personal level.

 The lyrics have different meanings to each person, some say is about drug addiction, other about ending unhealthy relationships, all of this ideas are valid (one of my favorite things about music is how it affects so many people, but all in a different way), but to me this song is about the fights you fight with yourself. How in order to fully understand and know yourself you have to go through your dark side, make all the wrongs choices, but in the end still go on, let go of your mistakes and learn from them even though some times you think you can't. You have to understand that no matter how unfixable or bad a situation may be, it will pass, and you have two choices, you either let them hurt you and haunt you, or you shake them off and keep going. "I'll make better mistakes tomorrow".

 Florence Welch said about writing this song "I was thinking of regrets, like, you know when you feel like you're stuck in yourself, you keep repeating certain patterns of behavior, and you kind of want to cut out that part of you and restart yourself [...]" and I kinda feel in love with that idea. When I first heard the song, I was in a bad place, feeling really bad about myself, but as soon as I heard the chorus an energy took over me and I felt not so alone and desperate, and to this day, everytime I feel like giving up, I play this song, turn the volume up and just listen. It gave me the enough strength to, as the song says, shake the devil off me, and I hope it helps everyone who listens to it the same, or in any other, way.

You can watch the video here, enjoy.

Survivors Women

The women are recognized as fighters and survivors, and those are the women's favorite labels. There are so many songs with that topic and two of the best known are "Survivor" by Destiny's Child and "I will survive" by Gloria Gaynor.

"Survivor" is a song by the American group Destiny's Child, it was written and composed by band member Beyoncé Knowles, the song was inspired by the jokes and negative comments that the group was receiving, but after the release of the song in February 13 of 2001 all the negative comments became in ovations. "Survivor" won a Grammy Awards in 2002 for "Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals". This song opened the doors to the group's success. 



 
 


 "I will survive" by the American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. The song's lyrics describe the  personal strength after of a devastating breakup. This song is one of the most famous disco songs of all time, it is also recognized as a symbol of female strength and as a gay anthem. The song won a Grammy in 1980, the only year that the disco music has been awarded.
 




   
Both songs have a striking and powerful content, so I decided to share a mash of the songs by the glee cast version, an American musical series. 

The previous songs are based in situations that the composers lived and exceeded. In life there are always situations that tested you, and your strength makes you a survivor.

  

Here is the video, I hope you enjoy it! 

 

Women (Girls) Power

In 2003 Christina Aguilera released her fourth single: "Can't Hold us Down".With this video, Aguilera make an hymn about female power, in which she expresses her disgust with the society's double standards.

She feels that the male sex is respected and admired for his wild sexual life, but when women, like Aguilera, try to express their sexuality, are called bitches.

In the video Aguilera walks when a man grabs her butt. She returns and accuses him singing. Then many men and women begin to discuss. The song is an hymn to women's liberation.Where aguilera questioned about criticism and prejudice against women, making comparisons with the opposite sex.

I leave the video here below for you to enjoy.

Love is a losing game...

Amy Winehouse is a woman with a strong voice, who put on the front the sound of Jazz and Soul again.

She was born in London, England the September 14, 1983. Daughter of Jewish parents, but belonging to a family of Jazz lovers, dshe was in love to singers like Frank Sinatra, and soul girls groups like The Ronettes.

In 2003 Amy Winehouse released her debut album Frank. The album had very good criticism and was nominated to the Birt Awards.

In 2006 Amy released her second album called Back to Black, a very controversial album for its lyrics, Winehouse passed for different kind of problems with alcohol, drugs, and love, and her songs express all her feelings in that moment. This album led her to the first place. Back to Black win a Brit Award and in 2008 Amy was the completely winner on Grammys price.

Her deep contralto vocals and her special mix of musical genres did she continue winning many price and fans between 2006 and 2009. Back to black was number two on the billboard.

Amy always had atention in press for her lifestyle, her look and her legal problems for drugs, acohol and different kind of medical troubles. In July 23 of 2011 Amy Winehouse was founded died on her house under strange conditions to her 27 years old.                                                        

 In 2011 was realesed her last and posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Trasures containing cover and unpublished songs. This album was number five on the US Billboard, with 144.000 units sold.






The song F*ck me Pump from the album Frank (2003) talk about the stereotypical "gold-digging" girls (money-hungry women looking for security and love) . The term "f*ck-me pumps" is a slang expression for sexy women's shoes, particularly those featuring bare heels.

The video shows Amy walking for the street using "Pumps" with a microphone in her hand. Is also two girls discussing front a discotheque. On the video we can see women suffering hungry and cold looking for love and security and  Amy explain this with irony. This song it's one of her few songs about stereotypes and not about love. 

                                                                                     
                                                                                               

 

Woman Model

Francisca Valenzuela is a Chilean singer and composer of rock-pop; daughter of Chilean parents she was born and raised in San Francisco- California- United States for 12 years until settle in Chile. She is the most successful Chilean female artist of the last years, she is known as "The Chilean rock princess".

Her songs refer to personal stories, intimate reflections, humor and love stories.

“Mujer modelo” is a song that talks about how a woman feels, as the majority of his songs. There are times that we love ourselves, others- we want to be different physically, and this happens because a mistaken concept of “beauty” has been created and we believe it. Many times make us want to be like models: tall, skinny, with a shiny and soft hair, defined eyebrows, and a lot of features that we take as synonyms of perfection.

“Esa mujer modelo, mira sus labios, mira su pelo - yo siempre atrás me quedo, yo no sé cómo ser”

I chose this song because I think all the women we have ever felt that way.

Personally is difficult to me to say “I am nice “or “I feel good with the body I have” because I tend to compare myself with other women, and when I listen to this song I feel that I don’t have to compare myself with anybody, I have to be myself.

The important thing is love ourselves as we are and be good women.

There are real woman –they are real models.

HERE IS THE VIDEO, I HOPE YOU LIKE IT!