Monday, March 11th, 2024
The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.
— Dalai Lama
I’ve been using ip for a long time to view my private IP address (say when I’m working on a box and need to know my own IP on a tun interface), but I can’t say I understand every part of its output, except for the fact that inet x.x.x.x/y gives me the IPv4 address and the subnet mask (and link/ether aa:bb:cc:... gives me the MAC address of the interface). So I’ve decided to take a closer look here.
MUS106 Lecture: Controversy
Final exam is not cumulative & covers modules 5-10.
Last listening quiz occurs during final. Covers modules 8-10. No comprehension questions.
- Madonna
- raised a Catholic
- ”Queen of Pop”
- personal history
- professionally trained dancer (UMich, studied post-modern dance)
- dancing didn’t
- went to NYC
- found that she had a good voice
- films include
- questionable quality
- Desperately Seeking Susan
- Shanghai Surprise
- Who’s That Girl
- actually good
- Dick Tracy
- A League of Their Own
- …
- questionable quality
- 1981: Sire Records
- Madonna (1983)
- Like a Virgin (1984)
- album & single rose to billboard #1
- controversy? it’s OK for her
- posts nudes in the Playboy in various positions… more controversy, but it’s fine for her
- 1984: live performance “embracing the floor” (rolls onto the floor)
- runs towards controversy
- Live a Prayer (1989)
- album & single rose to billboard #1 again
- record label (Sire Records) recognizes that she’s a goldmine
- Pepsi endorsement
- Cola wars: Pepsi & Coca Cola spends a lot of cash to get pop stars to endorse their version of coke
- $5m
- sponsors her tours
- ”Make a Wish” Pepsi commercial — 2-minute mini-film, which also premieres the title track of Like a Prayer on TV
- also makes an ad for this commercial
- est. 250m (TV broadcast) viewers across 40 countries
- ”Like a Prayer” video released the day after “Make a Wish” commercial
- borrows some elements from “Make a Wish”, but essentially a brand new video (that is also more controversial)
- controversal images
- burning cross
- Black savior
- stigmata
- American Family Association threatens & carries out boycott against the record “for “ridiculing Christianity”, then other Catholic organizations follow
- Pope John Paul II condemns video and warns her not to come to Italy
- Pepsi cancels ad, drops endorsement since Madonna refuses to edit the video
- super successful. to date: 300 million units sold, $1b made from touring
- savvy entrepreneur
- Van Halen
- members
- Van Halen brothers: Alex (drums), Eddie (guitar)
- original vocals: David Lee Roth
- debut LP (1978), billboard #19
- contracts a “rider”
- wants the venue to follow instructions carefully to prevent accidents / injury
- band’s hospitality specifications ask for M&Ms but absolutely no brown M&Ms
- ”Teaching the garden to weed itself” (Freakonomics)
- Van Halen uses it as a way to tell if the venue is actually reading instructions carefully.
- members
- Prince (1958-2016)
- Minneapolis
- multi-instrumentalis
- 39 studio albums
- 7 Grammys
- artist who is outspoken against the “evils” of the record label industry
- eccentric
- innovative
- Prince (1979)
- role: composer, producer, performer, does all instruments
- ”self-contained” (like Buddy Holly)
- role: composer, producer, performer, does all instruments
- controversial
- Controversy (1981)
- provocative lyrics & song titles that references controversial topics (e.g., religion, politics, sexuality)
- e.g., “Mommy, why does everybody have bomb?“
- made a symbol for himself (like Led Zeppelin)
- Warner Bros contract (WB tries to milk as much as possible from its artists)
- 1994-96 releases 5 records
- wrote “Slave” on his face
- Releases an album Emancipation after he leaves Warner Bros
- Purple Rain: musical film
- wins Academy Award & Grammy’s
- Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)
- group founded by Tipper Gore & Susan Baker
- compiles a list of “Filthy Fifteen”, and “Darling Nikki” by Prince by was the top 1
- united against “porn rock”
- comes up with lyric’s parental ratings
- 1985 Senate Hearing
- rock artists (e.g. Snider, John Denver, Frank Zappa) comes to hearing to protect their freedoms of speech
- John Denver warns against slippery rope
- Frank Zappa explains more problems that censoring lyrics would have
- ”Tipper Sticker”: Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics sticker
- kind of useless, since kids would look for records with these stickers
- compels artists to self-censor
- Nirvana, “Rape Me”
- album cover changed, song name changed (?)
- Radiohead, “Creep”
- removed f-word from lyrics
- Nirvana, “Rape Me”