Posted by Benjamin on: 03.28.2008 /
Number one on this weeks Billboard Hot 100 is “Bleeding Love” sung by Leona Lewis.
You can also watch the official U.S. version of the music video here
Or read the lyrics here (you have to scroll down a little)
Curious am I: *Why* … does this song, with these lyrics, go number one?
I don’t mean technically *how* it reached number one. I’m more curious about what it is about culture and people that made this song so popular. What does it mean that people who are pretty much in the top 20% of the richest people in the world wanna listen to this–that it … moves us? What does it say about the human condition, about our condition, our priorities, etc.?
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Comment by: Pamela Lyn
1 03/28/08 9:31 PM | Comment Link |This is a really sad statement on our society. We have become a society that associates love with being wounded.
There was a story earlier this week that parents in Missouri were allowing children as young as six years old to participate in ultimate fighting.
It is all so sad.
As a society we’re embracing violence and becoming numb to the suffering of others.
Comment by: Benjamin
2 03/29/08 3:20 AM | Comment Link |Pamela Lyn,
Thank you for stopping by JaC!
I saw the ultimate fighting story as well. Crazy!
I *totally* hear you on this. We’re like the … first two guys in the story about the Good … Taliban. Yeah.
Don’t even get me started about the simple art of hitchhiking. When I hitchhike, which happens twice a year or so, I look at the faces of the guys who go screaming past me in with their 3 empty seats, and their 200 horsepower, and I usually get really pissed off–not so much that they don’t stop for me, but that some percentage of them are going to go sing praise songs to Jesus next Sunday morning.
A small illustration of numbness to the needs/suffering of others.
Have you ever read Richard Adams’ Watership Down? His rabbits come across a warren of rabbits that is very very creepy, where they write high poetry about pain and suffering and death, and everyone is a bit … tuned down to the reality of it. It’s very effective when Adams writes about it–I’m ruining here. But it touches on what you are talking about, I think.