The meaning and issues of life in music videos.

 I know we weren't supposed to post this week and completely devote our time to our Social Justice project, but i'm done, and I've been really wanting to post this for a while. So, yeah:

Just recently, Katy Perry's video for her new song, "Firework" just came out. When I usually watch music videos, I don't watch the full thing, I just usually stop mid-way and declare that, "I watched it." Now Katy Perry's videos are really, I mean REALLY crazy, and fun. But, when I watched "Firework", I was really dumbfounded. 

I was literally like *:O* the whole time I was watching the video, because 1)it didn't start out with her craziness, I mean it did, but it didn't. y'know? 2)the video  showed issues, and problems going on for teens and well, people in general, and 3)the song is pretty catchy, and for a catchy song I didn't think it'd have such a profound atmosphere and theme. The song demonstrated that no matter if; you're fat/skinny, if you have a disease, if you're being bullied, if you're les/gay/bi/trans, or even if you're not the richest, I can go on and on about the message that the video represented you're still a person. And a person isn't perfect, but the real message was that even if you're all of those things, you can still show it, you can still make a difference. 

Basically, you can DO it, you can FIGHT against it. I clicked on the video to listen to a popular, catchy song only to find a beautiful video with a sententious meaning HERE . If you want to watch the video you can watch it . This wasn't the only video with a powerful message, there is also Handlebars-Flobots and World On Fire , which we watched in class. Those two are very captivating videos and songs, you should watch them to see the power I saw among them.

*The videos above may include inappropriate scenes/comments.

Yours truly,

Zarrin Class 813. (: