Grammys and Social Liberation

I’ve never had the minutest interest in the Grammy musical awards, and my impression from afar was it embodied mainstream sanctioned corporate blandness. I presume it’s always had its niche in American tv life as encompassing very much a family audience. I still have zero interest in case you’re wondering, but interesting to see, having heard it mentioned in internet land over the last day or so, how the mainstream media, whatever specific tv network, were happy to aim at the family audience this time. 

In the first video below we see BLM encouraging hatred for the state, and I don’t see how you could interpret it as anything but a call to or threat of violence and insurrection. This by the way after the US President was impeached after saying absolutely nothing to incite violent insurrection. Here though it seems to be fine, given a platform, encouraged.

And the second video, again with its traditional family audience expected to be on the other end of the screen, amounts to basically porn with some bits of clothes. To add, I presume it’s only bigotry and oppression that forced these musical ladies to have to wear the bits of clothes. Fight the power. To add, the children’s books Dr Seuss are now being blacklisted because of claimed racial stereotypes, but presumably seeing these women in the guise of musicians perform their entertainment role as nothing but sex-objects is for their little minds fine. No harmful stereotyping there.

Imagine trying to construct some cohesive sense of reality from watching such mainstream shows as this now. What is the consistent message or unifying vision? And it might even be the right thing to consider that there is a unifying vision, which is basically the undermining of any kind of conventional society by these crazy extreme fragments from the most disordered imagination, beamed out across the airwaves. And remember this edition from the Grammys is still arising from the same mainstream power structures as previously; it’s just that this is now what corporate blandness amounts to.