Was reading today online about Sam Smith and his supposedly "satanic" stage show. The problem with Sam Smith is that he's fat and unattractive yet still trying to be provocative with cartoonish "devil" images. He's actually not provocative in any way. He's like Lena Dunham: A schlubby person trying very hard to be sexy (and social media also trying very hard to make the rest of us agree that fat, ugly people are sexy and that men are women... Sorry, but... "Follow the science.")
After reading about the Schlubby Sam Smith, I had to run some errands, and on my way back home the radio played Madonna's "Like a Prayer." Also controversial (back in 1989) for combining religious and sexual images---except that Madonna was attractive in 1989, and her race/religion tweaks were very mild though the media/publicists claimed they were "controversial." This song, over 30 years later---despite its video's mild attempts at controversy via race/religion (at the time, who actually cared about the re-hash, except for the fact that it was good artistically?)---is still very good. And when I cranked it up as high as it could go in my car today and rolled down my windows so everyone around me at stoplights could hear it, I got goose-bumps and felt very happy and mighty, a feeling that lingered for hours later.
p.s. Is the black Christ in the video the ex-husband of "Real Housewives Atlanta"'s Cynthia Bailey? Small world!
After reading about the Schlubby Sam Smith, I had to run some errands, and on my way back home the radio played Madonna's "Like a Prayer." Also controversial (back in 1989) for combining religious and sexual images---except that Madonna was attractive in 1989, and her race/religion tweaks were very mild though the media/publicists claimed they were "controversial." This song, over 30 years later---despite its video's mild attempts at controversy via race/religion (at the time, who actually cared about the re-hash, except for the fact that it was good artistically?)---is still very good. And when I cranked it up as high as it could go in my car today and rolled down my windows so everyone around me at stoplights could hear it, I got goose-bumps and felt very happy and mighty, a feeling that lingered for hours later.
p.s. Is the black Christ in the video the ex-husband of "Real Housewives Atlanta"'s Cynthia Bailey? Small world!
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