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American Idol: Kris Allen and Social Mood
History will look back at 2009 as a year of transition. Great financial experiments are being conducted in labs known as Citibank and Bank of America. Rising instability is mounting around the globe. The Obama era is underway and change is in the air. Beyond the shifting global landscape, the American mindset is rapidly evolving (maybe even transforming). One of our favorite financial blogs, Minyanville, has gone in depth about the importance and implications of changing social mood.
Tonight’s American Idol victory by acoustic teen heart throb, Kris Allen, is a significant milestone amidst a groundswell of change. Yes, Kris Allen’s ballot box resembled that of Barack Obama’s 69 million votes last November. What’s the big deal? Let’s take a quick look back at music history and its correlation to global events, the economy, and social mood.
1970s
How fitting that Adam Lambert sang tonight with Kiss, a classic American Rock band that formed in late 1972 and came to prominence with the mid 1970s in the midst of a difficult economy, staglfation, and an oil shock. 35 years later, America seemed primed to embrace a rock act with a show.
1980s
In the early 1980s, the US was in a state of flux with a new president (Ronald Reagan) facing high inflation, a hostage situation, and a recession. Upbeat disco of the 70s was dead and gave way initially to New Wave and Artsy Punk. As America worked her way through challenges, more upbeat music, including pop soul, ruled the day. Madonna and Cindy Lauper joined Michael Jackson as Billboard’s hit-makers.
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Are criminals correct to perceive Obama as “sharing their ethos” ?
According to the L.A. Times:
August 23, 2008
ON A brick wall in downtown Atlanta that usually is splattered with graffiti tag names, a spray-paint portrait of Barack Obama now gazes over the streetscape.
And all over Los Angeles — on stop signs, underpasses, buildings and billboards — hundreds of posters and stickers of Obama, emblazoned with the word “Hope,” have been slapped up, guerrilla-style.
Street artists embrace the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s experience as a community organizer, in part because they view their own movement as similarly grass-roots. “He’s perceived as sharing their ethos,” Bourland said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-streetart23-2008aug23,0,4609510.story
mommanuke: y es, grafitti is a crime and those who perpetrate it are criminals
Judging from his associates such as Rezco, Ayer’s and I would even say Wright he is “down” with the criminal or gansta mentality.
It is very interesting that his message inspires inner city kids to commit vandalism. I hate to imagine what they would be inspired to do if he was elected.
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