So I woke up this morning and found out about this this morning
So what's wrong with wearing a veil? Does it have to do with separating religion from public affairs or does it have to do with that anyone who moves to country X should assimilate or try to follow the customs of country X?
Is the wearing of a veil something forced upon Muslim women or a choice that she makes? It's hard to say because I don't know what goes on with their lives even though I did live with some back when I used to live in an all girls dormitory (I still don't know everything). From the girls I know from when I lived there a couple of them do not wear a veil in public but at the same time dress modestly in western style clothing. One girl would not cover her head while she was in the house but when she went out of the house she would wear a headscarf that ranges from a small bandana to a full on hijab, but most of the time she would wear it in the style of a headwrap. Kinda like this:
I have also seen around campus women who wear the niqab. I have no idea if they're student or not but may most likely be the wife/mother/sister of someone who studies/works as a TA/is an instructor/researcher.
Anyways I don't really see a problem with a woman wearing a veil. It's her choice because she is religious and reserves herself for only her immediate family and her religion, maybe seen her mother and other female relatives wear one and accepts it as normal, or maybe her female family members don't wear a veil but makes it her choice to wear one. But what seems to be going on in France to me is that everyone should conform to a westernized lifestyle. Anyone who moves to a new country or a new location of course will have to adapt to the lifestyle but you can't expect them to fully assimilate and become like everyone else (yet somehow it can be done with the kids).
So the law bans full-face veils. Does this affect just Muslim women or anyone who decides to cover up their face? In the western world where we are allowed freedom of expression this seems unwestern like.
Also on a side note here, I think niqabs look pretty cool
This may be old news but I'm deciding to write about it anyways, even though mentioning "Rebecca Black" and "Friday" might bring up her fame/infamy that has come upon her.
So anyways for those out of the loop a 13-year-old girl from the United States has this song/video on youtube called "Friday" and as I'm typing this the view count is over 77.5 million with over 1.5 million in dislikes. Just how bad is it?
First of all I do believe it's her only song that's out there so as for the singer's voice it stands at robotic and autotuned. If she can actually sing what's the point of autotuning her voice.
The song, whoever it's written by (obviously not her), from my perspective sounds like it's for someone who is pretty much legal to have a driver's licence (15? 16?) unless Black comes from a place where 14 is the legal age to have a licence. Or can it be applied to 13 year old as well? Without watching the video and just reading through the lyrics the first two verses and the chorus seem normal (assuming that she's on a school bus and not in the back seat of a convertible). Where it becomes unbearable lyrically is at the bridge before the rap part where it goes:
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin’)
We-we-we so excited
We so excited
We gonna have a ball today
Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes after...wards
I don’t want this weekend to end
Maybe it has to do with the pointing out the obvious (Thursday is before Friday followed Saturday and Sunday, what else is new), or it could be the "we so excited" part. "I don't want this weekend to end"? Sure you can have a neverending weekend. Just don't show up to school or work (kinda doesn't work out if you're still living with your parents and you being tracked by your employer if you show up to work).
>After that comes the rap part which kinda draws attention to Justin Bieber's (I can't believe I said he who must not be named) "Baby". I've heard that RB is kinda like the female JB and in ways such as:
both videos have an insane number of views on youtube (JB having the most of the share since he's been around longer) as well as more dislikes than likes
annoying voices: JB's questions whether he's gone through puberty or not (to the point where his gender is questioned) while RB's is somewhat nasally.
song structure: the choruses sound similar (<title>,<title>, something (something) <title>) and have a rap part
Yet the two songs and artists have some differences such as:
"Baby" is about someones first love/first crush while "Friday" is about . . . well . . . song is pretty much self explanatory.
JB is older than RB (though you can find people out there in cyberspace saying that he's not even a teenager)
but I don't think it really matters.
Now as for the video I like how each day of the week (except for Saturday) is connected to a song that features said day of the week ("Manic Monday" by The Bangles for example) but after that things just don't make sense, especially the friends driving the car taking her to school/party central (besides the under-aged driver the front seat is already taken so asking yourself "which seat can I take?" is somewhat redundant unless you're forcing your friend out of the front seat). Okay maybe the driver could be someone's older brother but another thing wrong with the video is RB and her friends on the "highway" sitting on the car. Unless there's some sort of traffic jam that doesn't look safe (probably hella fun though). The final thing I'd like to mention is the rap part doesn't match lyrically with the video. The time frame of what's said in the rap part seems to take place in the daytime while it's night time in the video.
Overall not a fan of the song itself but the parodies seem to be a lot better than the original
