Okay so something slightly crazy happened during the Akon Live show I went to here. Akon selected 5 lucky girls and 2 guys to join him up on stage. After that 2 of the 5 girls had a priceless “heated” moment with Akon himself and his DJ, Benny D. Some genius captured it using a camera phone and uploaded it on Youtube. Imagine if that was your sister or your girlfriend. LOL. In this other clip, the crowd joins him in singing his new smash hit “I Wanna Love You” except that the crowd instead chooses to follow by singing the uncensored version called “I Wanna F*ck You”. Akon is cool and damn creative right? Yaaaaaay to Akon and the overall current state of commercial hip hop music! 
… If you ask me, I would still choose Tiesto’s rave over Akon. The Tiesto party I went for last year was truly mad. I still can’t forget it!
Previously, I posted something about American pop culture and how in my opinion I believe it to be one of America’s strongest assets. I still firmly believe that. Even if America stopped invading other countries with its military, America’s “other invasion” would still continue. Moreover this “other invasion” isn’t forced but rather invited by the “invaded”.
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LOL about the video
If it was my sister, I’d tease her about it for months. If it was my wife, I’d tease AND guilt trip her about it for months
I don’t know if it’s the American (Western?) pop culture as much as culture in general - clothing, music, literature, cinema, radio, hobbies, the whole thing. It will certainly keep making an impact for a long time… cultural conquest, one part of the Chinese 1000 Year Plan
“If it was my sister, I’d tease her about it for months. If it was my wife, I’d tease AND guilt trip her about it for months :)”
Now that’s something nice!
“cultural conquest, one part of the Chinese 1000 Year Plan :)”
Well it already started a while ago… Bruce Lee movies are da shyte!
I can’t stand Akon! I don’t get why he is so popular, even if I don’t like an artist I can see why other people would like them but with Akon I just don’t get it
ahum
:D 
unbelievable
wonder how those girls feel? ‘lucky’ or ‘mis-used’ ?
Shy, Akon’s first album “Trouble” was really good. It actually had substance and I really like it but his new album is leaning more towards the same commercial “hoes with big titties, tastey pussy, bling bling, me got cars” kinda crap. Some of the songs in it are good. Most just suck. I’m speaking in terms of lyrics but when it comes to beats, you can’t mess around with Akon or many other rappers out there.
Tse, believe me they felt LUCKY… You should have seen them after their priceless heated moment. I think they orgasmed big time just from THAT. LOL!
From a serious point of view though, I think the consequences of this “cultural invasion” could be negative in the long term run. In a way it already is. However there are “mind opening positives” to it too.
And oh ya… wohoooooooooooooooooooo!! It’s the freaking weekend around the corner baby. Work was interesting and GREAT this week but tiring too. Now is time for a good party and lots of blogging.
OMG o_o
have a nice time parteeeeeying, Drima and a great weekend
I do appreciate the acknowledgement that there appears to be a voluntary market for innovative stylistics of American pop culture across the world, as it bespeaks of the priority of invention and the praise of The New And Different Thing we Americans would like to profess. However, I wish to drop the rhetoric, even in compliment, that such things are semantically an “invasion” of any sort. I am past the point of annoyance that adaptation and exploration constitute the bullshit designation of “cultural imperialism” of any kind. It arrogantly implies that the rest of the world are children in need of A Guidance That Only “I” As Sole Guardian Of Our Culture can benevolently provide.
Oh Really? The NonAmerican may sniff derisively, You Americans aren’t the ones who are under the constant influence of other cultures so you cannot judge.
Guess what: the most popular television series here in Los Angeles are telenovelas, Spanish-language foreign-produced soap operas. In any given week, on the norm, NINE OUT OF TEN of the most-watched programs based strictly on number of viewers, are examples of these. They often outperform even the “CSI”s. And now Hollywood is studying ways to replicate this popularity.
So: If if there a worldwide struggle for “Cultural Dominance,” even we NorteAmericanos are getting our asses handed to us by Latin America. And we’re clearly digging it. The new high-rated television series “Ugly Betty” just won the Golden Globe this week for Best Television Comedy. It’s based directly upon a Columbian TeleNovela.
Shall we get into how we take cues from Hong Kong action movies, Japanese Manga, and Bollywood musicals?
So, yes, there is a greedy “Cultural Imperialism” present: we Americans look at the rest of the world’s demonstations of their expressions and say Gimme. We’ll inject it into ourselves and hyperdrive it. We’ll hothouse it and mutate it just to make sure we didn’t miss something.
So, for the record: Dear World: Please culturally dominate us. We dare you. We double dare you. It only innoculates us and makes us stronger.
I heard that AKON is a muslim. I dont get how his music or antics on stage correlate to that.
I dont like him, besides the stupid songs he sings, his voice is annoying as shit…he just whines. He is a no talent embarrasement..to someone..his momma and daddy maybe.
Troy -
Uhm. Nobody was speaking about “cultural imperialism”, dude. There is a cultural invasion from Japan, China and India into the West as well. But it is much more recent and, frankly, appealing to much smaller segments of population.
And Spanish-language telenovellas… absolutely and totally, yes. Only they’re not really as much of a cultural invasion as Manga or American Pop, despite their incredible popularity.
Mostly because they do not carry many cultural memes.
“I heard that AKON is a muslim. I dont get how his music or antics on stage correlate to that.”
Yup and apparently he’s married to 2 wives. Check wikipedia and type Akon.
Oh ya and this *is* a cultural invasion Troy since much of what’s influencing the youth nowadays when it comes to US pop culture is something foreign to their culture. I won’t use the word “imperialism” because it isn’t being forced on anybody.
Understood, Drima, and Rac, Drima himself used “invasion” to begin with, to which I responded that “I wish to drop the rhetoric, [b]even in compliment,[/b] that such things are semantically an ‘invasion’ of any sort.” I’ve seen quite a few sanctimonious bloggers, editorialists and cartoonists elsewhere who portray it as a literal bombardment of the rest of the world by a slavering-fanged Uncle Sam, and I’m annoyed by the comparison to the point of soreness. If you don’t like American products or commerce, avoid it. Don’t make a market for it. You are absolved through your easy and safe inaction. Hell, I live in the U.S. and I can barely name any of the top-ten most popular recording artists at any given time, despite the understandable best efforts of Marketing Forces. I just need for everyone to stop feeling guilty about the pop culture one gravitates toward, even it’s True Crap, and not feel responsible for the other shades of True Crap that people around you consume, digest, and spew. Nobody forces me to watch stuff of the embarassing ilk of “The Jerry Springer Show” (the likes of which was noted disparagingly by Drima once), and I’m not going to expect an award for avoiding it either. I also cannot expect to herd people into concentration camps to listen to my Crappy death-metal CDs.
In a like manner, we Americans cannot expect to wonder how come Afghani and Columbian farmers grow poppies and coca and spend our tax dollars trying to eradicate crops when a high-maintenance portion of a population which happens to live within our borders makes a market for a lethal drug trade. They’ll stop growing the shit when people stop using it. We can’t expect for places with atrocious judicial systems and black-box financing of terrorism like Saudi Arabia to change as long as we have diplomatic, strategic and commercial ties with it. And we can’t expect to be taken seriously on Human Rights as long as we farm out our cheap labor demands to places like China. You want to stand strong, America and Elsewhere? Check the label and see where your products are made, and make your value judgments based upon that. Just don’t complain about being subjugated for your, or, more accurately, our willful decisions.
Okay. Rantmode off. Glad you enjoyed the concerts.
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