"I am Satan, Lord of Darkness" April 9, 2011- BEDA- Day 9

If you've been anywhere on the Internet, you've heard Rebecca Black's Friday. And let's face it, the song's terrible. But if thirteen year old you were offered a job as a professional singer, you'd take it. She didn't even write that song, or have any control over it.

Now, shortly after this was released another music video by the same company came out called My Jeans. This was the same stupid writing and directing, but it was kids having fun and being kids. Talking about Kiki Palmer, and buying jeans. No harm done, right?

But it only got worse. Over the past few week the same girl from My Jeans, Jenna Rose, was in another video. And this is where is stopped being fun and started being down right wrong. Entitled as 'Jenna Rose as the Teen Boom Boom Doll.' But that's just the issue. She's not a teenager at all. She's twelve years old, and she's bopping around in Victoria's Secret angel-like lingerie. This video's all about the hip shaking and the booty shorts. But the thing is, 12-year-olds are not, and will never be sexy. She's shaking her ass, and singing things like, 'Oh my God, She looks good. Oh my God, you wish you could.' Not only does typing this whole thing make me feel gross, but it really scares me. Parading girls around and teaching them that sexy dancing and and lingerie is what's 'sexy' is not a positive thing. Girls at this age need to discover sexuality on their own, and they need to see that 'sexy' is not defined by things like this.

I love new media. I'm a new media fan-girl, and I could preach to you about it all damn day. But this is not what new media should be about. This is the OPPOSITE of where we as a society should be going. We need to teach kids how to be (To use Lacy Green's term) sex positive. This is not sex positive. This is exploitation of a child. You know what kind of things go hand-in-hand with this? Child prostitution? Child porn? And it's very clearly not there yet, but it doesn't make it okay.

I don't want my children growing up with this twisted idea of sexuality. Sexuality goes right along with self-esteem, which no girl with have if we keep this idea in the media.

Mood: What kind of mood would you be in after watching that video?
Listening to: We Think We Know You- Bo Burnham
Last thing I ate: Raw pasta noodles
Last thing I drank: Moutain Dew: Voltage
Currently reading:  The last couple chapters of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown