Crayons Edit

This is a picture of Sean Kingston. He's a pop artist who's worked with various hip hop artists. This picture is making fun of how ridiculous the music industry has gotten. Rappers always talk about their money and their chains. I’m pretty sure no one cares about how much money they make or what they can buy. The people who listen to it are just as dumb as the rappers who create it because they’re the ones saying it’s okay to keep making shitty music because they’ll listen to it. 
A rapper, Gucci Mane, got a tattoo of an ice cream cone on his face. He got famous by saying the word "burr" between his lines for no reason. In one song he says “Lemonade diamond bracelet put it in your face burr yellow lemondhead diamond earrings I wore yesterday Burr”.... If you think this is good you're a fool. He's talking about nothing just like Waka Flocka in "Let's Do It". He says, “Now it's back to coka niggas talkin shit bruh, hang him by a ropa hit em with the choppa call that shit hot lava.” I honestly have no idea what he's saying. He can’t rap, he has to make words up or change the sounds of them to make it seem like he’s doing a good job of making music. Waka Flocka is also one of the rappers that are obsessed with their chains. In a Peta ad, he's only wearing his chains and his tattoos. It's not necessary to be wearing his chains when the words say "ink, not mink." It's like you're not going to wear clothes even though they don't have fur but you're gonna wear your chains?

I don't know why but rappers have a strange obsession with tattoos and chains that they forget that their job is to make music so it just turns out to be straight up shitty.

Crayons

This is a picture of Sean Kingston. He's a pop artist who's worked with various hip hop artists. This picture is making fun of how ridiculous the music industry has gotten. Rappers always talk about their money and their chains. I’m pretty sure no one cares about how much money they make or what they can buy. The people who listen to it are just as dumb as the rappers who create it because they’re the ones saying it’s okay to keep making shitty music because they’ll listen to it. For example, the rapper Gucci Mane got a tattoo of an ice cream cone on his face. This dumbass got famous by saying the word "burr" between his lines for no reason. In one song he says “Lemonade diamond bracelet put it in your face burr Yellow lemondhead diamond earrings I wore yesterday Burr”.... If you think this is good you're a fool. He's talking about nothing just like Waka Flocka in Let's Do It. He says “Now it's back to coka niggas talkin shit bruh, hang him by a ropa hit em with the choppa call that shit hot lava.” He can’t rap, he has to make words up or change the sounds of them to make it seem like he’s doing a good job of making music.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West's album cover for his most recent album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had been banned from selling in stores because of nudity . He changed it to another odd cover but it was more appropriate to sell in stores. 

West said on Twitter, "Banned in the USA!!! They don't want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!" West's refute to the ban was that the cover is art; it's a painting. I agree. I think that art has no boundaries. There is meaning to the choices that a person makes to create art. I don’t know what West’s reason for his album art was but he probably had some.

Apparently he is the evil looking bear (almost all of his album covers, he is represented as a bear) and the scary monster is a phoenix. The phoenix on the other hand, is what's odd. She is armless with wings instead. She has a polka dot tail and a scary face. Regardless of the scary face, she is obviously a woman. I think that the phoenix is represented as a woman because birds are feminine creatures. They symbolize beauty, for example the swan (even though this bird is very ugly). The phoenix itself is from mythology. West put his own spin on this by changing the tail that is usually gold to polka dot patterned. There’s a short movie along with the album that matches the description of the mythological bird; I guess he just decided to completely redesign what a phoenix looks like.
He changed his album cover to a ballerina which relates to a music video for the song "Runaway." This image is a completely different topic as to why he made the chick have a mustache. 

Dolce & Gabbana Advertisements

I decided to pick a Dolce & Gabbana ad because I remember in the beginning of the semester looking at ads and trying to interpret the meaning. I remember working in groups looking at a very odd Dolce and Gabbana ad with women portrayed as antelope or some kind of animal with antlers. I realized that almost all of these ads are super strange and there's probably significant meaning to them too. Trying to understand what the intentional meaning really is is the hard part is.
This has different approach than what ads usually do. Advertisers usually follow patterns in society, however, this ad does the opposite.  In cultures like American or especially in Middle Eastern cultures, men are the ones that have control over women but in this ad, the women are controlling the men.. I think there was purpose behind making the women have power. Women always seem like they're competing with men for power. They claim that men have more opportunities in society. I think they chose women to have power because women are generally more into fashion than men therefore women were the targets of this ad. 
The men in this ad are naked. Most men in Dolce & Gabbana ads are very muscular, this one also. Although they are manly looking they seem "womanly" because they're being taken hostage by the women. One woman is able to control a strong looking man. It might be prejudice to say that I think that the men in Dolce & Gabbana ads have homosexual characters but I think they make men look like that purposely. I don't know what the purpose of it is though. 
The strangest thing about this ad is that the walls are padded. They're nice padded walls because they're leather but that doesn't change the fact that padded walls are for psychiatric hospitals which indicates something could be wrong with either the men or women in it. I'm confused who actually is supposed to belong in the hospital because it can go either way; the men look like they belong there because they're naked and need restraining or it could be the women rebelling against the authorities.