After reading option number two on the Scholar’s website that states we can discuss a video or article, I had to discuss the “Saturday Night Live” video featuring Justin Timberlake. I am sure most of you have seen this video or heard about it, D**k in a box. When this clip was shown on Saturday Night Live on December 16, 2006, it made national news. The clip featured Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg and was intended to parody R&B sex ballad videos for the early 1990’s. This was an instant success when it aired, but it was also seen as immature and inappropriate. It was accepted and rejected by many people.
The video made instant ‘viral’ status and was all over youtube.com and sites similar to Youtube. People viewed it as absolutely hilarious and saw it as genius. The song went on to win a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. It was a popular ‘water cooler’ topic of conversation the following day. But while it was widely accepted, it was much more rejected.
Many people saw this song as a very offensive and inappropriate thing to put on national television. NBC received a lot of rejection letters and negative feedback. Families believed it was inappropriate to put something as racey as this song on national television. Children could have possibly been watching and many parents believed that was beyond inappropriate.
Although this was a risky thing to put on television, it is still a large topic of conversation and a common skit and song to be copied. Justin Timberlake even performed the song at one of his concert and of course, the crowd loved it! This skit, in a sense, demonstrates that Everything’s An Argument and can be interpreted in many different ways. It completely depends on your values and views on common topics.
Here is a link to the video. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg
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I absolutely love The Lonely Island (the SNL music group with Adam Samberg). I actually have that CD and it's on my Ipod. This is one of my favorite songs. I also love J**z in my pants, for some reason. My friends will randomly quote those songs in awkward situations and it will make me laugh so hard. I love SNL
ReplyDeleteBAHAHA!That is too funny and why are kids that are too young to watch SNL even up that late?
ReplyDeleteCaitlin, thank you. I've never seen this an it's hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI think one of the reasons it's so funny is because it's really making fun of the "romantic" seriousness of the R&B genre, and it seems like Justin is making fun of himself. It is also so well done -- with all the funny details -- you are laughing before you even get to the punchline.
I agree - if your kids are up watching SNL and they're not old enough to appropriately handle this kind of content, it's the parents' job to check themselves/do the censorship themselves -- SNL is funniest when it's edgy. Also, it's not like it's promoting violence or hatred -- it's just straight-up silliness. May be not appropriate, but not damaging or encouraging bad behavior.
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