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While myself and the rest of the world were busy expressing our outrage over the disturbing sexualization of boom boom-shaking Jenna Rose and the stripperfied little girls from ‘Dance Moms’, there was a team somewhere putting together the boy band from hell. Ok, maybe not quite so hellish, but a nightmare nonetheless. This new group is called ‘Mindless Behavior’.
At first when iTunes gave out their music video on ‘free-music Tuesday’, I took a look at the screenshot and left it alone, never checking it out until it popped up after a video I had just finished watching on YouTube. Imagine the shock and horror I experienced when the group which I had initially thought to be made up of four young men in their late-teens/early twenties, was really four teeny weeny boys who couldn’t possibly be older than 13.
In the midst of all the shock and horror however, is a statement that tickles me tremendously. It’s bad enough that this group of prepubescent cocktail wieners have been dubbed ‘Mindless Behavior’, it’s also quite evident in the following statement by one of the members, that they have NO IDEA whatsoever, what their name means.
EHHHHHH! WRONG!So how can you be "Mindless?" Ray Ray goes on, "Anybody can be mindless. It doesn't matter if you're two-years-old or eighty-two-years-old. Be yourself. Love who you are and love what you do, no matter what it is. That makes you mindless."
Quick! Someone buy them a dictionary/thesaurus combo!
Last time I checked, the word ’Mindless’ did not connote anything worthy of emulation, except maybe when defined in the last context. E.g. “For the employees at McDonald’s, the preparation of food has become a mindless task…” Nah. Didn’t work. I don’t want the mindless preparation of food that I’m supposed to be consuming, to result in me finding someone’s Band-Aid in my Big Mac. That aside, I’m still trying to figure out how loving oneself translates to mindlessness. Wake up parents! Your children ARE being left behind.mindless |ˈmīn(d)lis| adj.
• acting or done without justification or concern for the consequences: a generation of mindless vandals | mindless violence.
• [ predic. ] (mindless of) not thinking of or concerned about: mindless of the fact she was in her nightgown, she rushed to the door.
• (of an activity) so simple or repetitive as to be performed automatically without thought or skill: the monotony of housework turns it into a mindless task.
Let’s take a look-see at the music video shall we?
First off, if my little brother exuded that much attitude I would smack him upside his head. Boys that age have NO BUSINESS looking for Mrs. Right anywhere around the world. To me it’s just a watered –down version of Lil’ Wayne’s ‘Every Girl’. Here are the lyrics to the first verse:
Wait. What?! Show what goods off? Not only are we pushing our little boys to grow up too fast with all this mindless behavior, we’re also teaching them that it’s ok to objectify women. This video’s got the same M.O as most other hip-hop videos. Loads of women dancing suggestively? Check. Main act preening while women fall over them? Check.Shawty say ya don't but I bet you do/MB on your ringtone, posters in your room/Sassy little thing,like the way you talk/Heard you got the goods go ahead show them off/Take a picture quick, send it to my phone/Dimple in your cheek, white Gucci stunners on/Don't know where you've been hiding from me so long/Prodigy, Roc, RayRay and Princeton we on/So baby come on
With all the attitude these little boys are giving off, it wouldn’t be surprising if they became some of the worst narcissists in the future. They’re clearly on the right track for that. Just like a friend of mine said, this is just inappropriate, and it is unbelievable that any parent would be okay with their kids acting like that on TV.
Words can have powerful consequences.
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