Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Can Teens Stop?

For my true story analysis I choose Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop.” This piece of music depicts a girl with her friends having fun, having sex, and doing what they want because nobody can stop them. Miley Cyrus says, “It’s our party we can do what we want.” I think when she says this is our party she uses that as a metaphor for her life. Her life is her own party and she can do whatever she wants with it. This idea of doing what you want because you can may be viewed in a postive way. One perspective is that people do believe young adults act in the manner Miley Cyrus Describes in her song. Many people have this Idea of a younger person such as Miley Cyrus going out on the town and doing what they want.


People, mostly adults, have this idea in which young adults do have sex, do drink, and do take drugs because they think life is a party and they're here to have so much fun...yeah. One of the lines says, “red cups and sweaty bodies everywhere.” The red cups refer to drinking usually in places or time in which drinking is not permitted. An idea that is very common among those who are not exposed to young adults is that they often drink and do drugs. Miley Cyrus also says “dancing with Molly. This is a reference to a certain drug supporting the idea that young adults also break the law by taking drugs.


The line saying “don’t take nothin from nobody” referring to the fact nobody can tell he what to or even give her advice. The reputation that was built by this video was very negative and people were repulsed by Miley's transformation from the kids pop star Hannah Montana to the current pop star she is today. This is yet another thought process by older America who have the impression that all kids start off innocent but become this sex craving partying rule breaking character in which repels anyone with sense around them.


6 comments:

  1. Personally, I found this song really harmful to the image teenagers have in this culture. We're already hardly ever taken seriously, because adults have these ideas about us that only ever involve drinking, partying, being irresponsible, and throwing away our lives. This song only promotes those ideas, confirming adults' worst fears about us.

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  2. I agree with Rosie, the video to be sending a message that kids don't care about anything and get drunk or high as often as possible. The Video is making kids think that it is cool to get drunk and high, promoting those actions.

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  3. I tend to have a different opinion, though I see that all three of you make very valid points towards yours. However, I think one crucial part of this video is the fact that in the very beginning it shows her cutting off a house arrest sensor around her ankle. I believe this acts as a metaphor for a higher power telling you what you can and can not do. Her cutting it off symbolizes her freedom and breaking from this oppressive authority. Because of his I believe that it holds very true for teenagers in today's society. As one becomes a teenager the world gets much bigger and you are more cognizant of what you can/can not do. You are always looking for boundaries to push, wether it's the way you dress, listening to certain music, sneaking into R raided movies, or drinking & doing drugs. Whatever it may be, you get a thrill of doing it because you were simply told not to or it was wrong. Though I do agree that maybe her way of giving a big FU to authority isn't every teenagers way of doing it, the choices she was making necessarily weren't supposed to relate with American teens, but more or less the fact of liberating yourself from general authority.

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  4. Who cares what adults think about teens? Not me. Teenagers have been pushing boundaries for generations. It's just part of growing up. And once they did grow up, they became just as whiny as their predecessors were. Not everybody enjoys being told what they can and can't do. Some do, though and that's okay too. But if today's adults think that it's fair to make generalizations about an entire group of people (as Jack is suggesting), then I don't want their approval anyway.

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  5. I think that adults have a lot of important experience and knowledge that adolescents should take into consideration. Perhaps doing endless drugs and having lots of sex in high school is not the most prudent choice. When teenagers rebel for the sake of rebellion it can lead to impulsive and destructive behavior. I do not think that arbitrary standards of morality should be strictly enforced, but I do think that harmful behavior should be cautioned against. Maybe it would be to the youth's benefit to heed that caution.

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  6. Adults do have knowledge that adults should take into consideration. However, by the time we became teenagers, we have listened to adults hammer their ideas into our heads for years. Sex and drug use are certainly not the safest things to engage in, but all teens know the risks associated with them. When teens decide to ignore the risks, adults should let them learn lessons for themselves, rather than force lessons upon them. Attempting to force lessons upon teenagers only serves to increase their penchant for rebellion.

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