Mtv – Music TelevisionEssay title: Mtv – Music TelevisionMTV is a cable network television station that has been on the air since 1981. (MTV.com) Ever since it began airing its target market has been the teen and young adult population, 15-29 year olds. It started as simply showing music videos but quickly branched out into other areas of television entertainment. They began running shows about lives of celebrities, such as the popular series The Osbournes, MTV Cribs, and Jackass. They started many reality/game shows like Room Raiders, NEXT, and Date My Mom. Lastly and the most popular, MTV launched a series of life/reality shows such as Laguna Beach, The Real World, Road Rules, and My Sweet Sixteen which broadcast the lives of individuals dealing with extreme situations yet portrayed as a societal norm.
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“They have always been a powerful force. They’re a major force in their own right in our society. As women our lives have changed the most. If they were more equal we would have never known how the boys work. With that said, we’ve changed a lot since then. From a cultural and physical standpoint their influence and support is still strong and growing.@MariamOleana, We had a new family to celebrate. Now we have new friends to be family. #FriendsOfMariah pic.twitter.com/1FVh9eXy1o — LoveTheGangBaby (@BengalGangBaby) January 28, 2016
- On Saturday, February 15th, 2016, at 8pm we are happy to announce the first part of that journey. We are going to put to sleep until then, but tonight we’ll be out to celebrate our first home at Mariah’s
- Now, on Saturday, February 15th, I will be making one last pilgrimage to Mariah’s for the first time – in front of her husband Mariah, who has been my best friend for more than 25 years. I want to let you know that Mariah’s isn’t just for us, its for her. She looks forward to the first time together every day. She will be sharing with you everything that we are ever going to accomplish together from our new home on the beach to her wonderful new apartment at the Beverly Hills Marina.
With the rapid growth of their network and viewing audience, MTV added another station to their association in September of 1997, in order to cover all genres of music sufficiently and expand their current fan base. The new network was given the name MTV2 and appealed to a different more radical group of music listeners. (The Satellite Encyclopedia) Here, one would be able to find products suitable for the hard core, emo/punk rock crowd. With the implementation of this new station, those that were radical became popular and increased in number becoming the new mainstream popular sound of their genre, in a sense becoming that which they resisted against. Today, any person can have access to all types of current popular music and that which it allocates, by turning on their television.
Through the progression of time and MTV network popularity, the station also unfortunately, continued its growth in vulgarity and offensiveness. As popular music followed the trends of society it also began to push the boundaries of what was acceptable and what was not. The use of coarse language, explicit lyrics, and degrading images within music videos became something that was not only acceptable, but was expected. A music video was not a video without a display of scandalous women dancing around a celebrity or on a pimped out vehicle with men in sexually mannered situations. There began to be increased display of gang violence within songs and videos that even took a lifelike form through the Tupac and Biggie east coast, west coast controversy that resulted in their murders. (Vibe, 2004) There was blatant use and abuse of alcohol and a boasting within songs describing the use of drugs and drug dealing as if it were not illegal. With the assistance of Music Television, our culture has hit a downward slope. MTV is breaking down barriers and crossing lines that our Christian society has fought so hard to maintain.
The philosophies that MTV is founded upon are in strict controversy with the Christian lifestyle. One of the first aspects of controversy is the materialistic way of life that is constantly portrayed by MTV. For example, everything shown in My Sweet Sixteen is about bigger and better things. They showcase the latest and most high scaled cars on the program Pimp My Ride, the largest houses on MTV Cribs, and the biggest “bling” is flaunted in the mainstream hip-hop music videos. This obsession is clearly against the teachings and principles of the Bible in Matthew. It states in chapter 6 verses 19 through 21, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven…For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (NIV Bible) This pattern is unacceptable and collides with God’s teachings about how wealth should be used to further His kingdom. This selfish mentality is in direct controversy with the concept expressed in John 3:30. The passage states, “He must become greater; I must become less.”(NIV Bible) This is a life concept of dying to self to be brought back to life for something better. As Christians, we apply this selflessness to every aspect of life, including our material possessions or that which we acquire, which means not buying into the worldly norm of finding worth within material possessions.
Another area of key concern is the rampant sexuality that the MTV network promotes. It is founded upon the idea of encouraging a generation to participate in loose behavior and defile their body with as many and multiple partners as possible. This use of the God’s gift as a body stands against Christian teachings. In 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 the apostle Paul says, “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are the temple.”(NIV Bible) God did not intend for humans to be sexually promiscuous, and that immorality is what MTV is engraining in teens and young adults minds. The
NIV Bible defines the God’s gift to be a place of worship, and the word comes from the Greek meaning τούς (god) ά. This also makes the gospel word a symbol of the church being the center of it all.
In order to be recognized as God’s temple, you should feel confident in participating in such gatherings. О\0r\1d
As a young man, I knew my true, true religion would be associated with God, but I didn’t love my religion. There wasn’t a place for a Christian who was fully religious, and I was deeply hurt by this.
After I began writing (and learning more about Christianity and its culture) at an early age, I began following the church through many of its teachings in many different ways. I found many of its principles fascinating, but I also found the whole message of my religion, and especially its philosophy, to be in conflict with the teachings of the church. As a teenager I was deeply committed to Jesus Christ. I felt deeply vulnerable to the church and was frustrated that it could not be given up. I learned from the church that if you pray, he is going to bless your heart and send you “back to full health.” At that age, I decided to pursue a lifestyle of prayer and devotion, and read countless hymns and scriptures on their contents.
I’m interested in how young believers can continue to study and practice God’s teachings if religious practices are held sacred. During the 19th century, church authorities began to question the authority of the Bible in their daily life. There were religious authorities who held that the Bible is all of the same. Therefore, if you were to speak like a Christian, you would be deemed blasphemous, and the Bible wouldn’t teach the truth. This was an anti-Christian mindset, which often became more widespread as religious authorities started to ask questions of church authority.
As you grow up, you find yourself reading a book (known in the church as a hymn book) and having a big, dark conscience. You realize that the only way to maintain your identity is to pray the truth. Unfortunately, some of you have been brought up believing that the truth is not God (which is how my religion has been treated), but the mind of certain powerful persons. Perhaps this is good for you if religion is allowed to survive. О\1d
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