The Decline And Fall Of Western Civilization As Expressed Through WoW Machinima, Part 473

Whether you need for greed or not, it pales in comparison to the larger problem that you’re addicted to WoW.

Tarislar :
@geldonyetich
Wow, and I though You Tube comments were the dumbest things I’d read today.

You’re even more an authority on this than you believe.

Robin Kestrel :

Clyde :@Robin Kestrel
It’s a parody of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Ladies_%28Put_a_Ring_on_It%29

Wow, I’m not just an old fart; apparently, I’m an old fart living in a cave.

Maybe not. I’m pretty sure I may have chanced at the original music video long ago, but it quickly become a repressed memory since it’s horrible mainstream ghetto trash.

That said, this video was a good parody, but anyone who is still that deep into WoW at this point is either bored stiff of it or new to the game.

Beyonce is incredibly rich. The people she sings about in the song sound like they’ve got money. Nobody’s tossing around street slang. The song made it big primarily on pop radio, not on rap radio.

And yet the word you naturally leap to describe to in order to describe the song is ‘ghetto’?

Even if you don’t consciously conceive of yourself as someone capable of being racist, your demonstrated capacity for unconscious racism deserves a bit of introspection.

Yeah, pull the racism card.

I didn’t call it Ghetto Trash because Beyonce is black. I called it Ghetto Trash because the whole semblance of the lyrics are, “hey, I’m a hot chick who is going to sleep around with all the guys, and if you don’t like it then you should have married me.”

Which ghetto logic, at best.

@Sanya

You have a point there about how it’s more of a spoiled rich girl lyric than applying to somebody who has to live in the harsh realities of a ghetto.

However, that doesn’t apply to me, because I’m using the word “ghetto,” I’m not talking about the real ghettos in which people live.

I’m talking about the fictional ghettos being peddled by shortsighted musical stars that hype up immoral behavior and engage in complete blackspoitation so as to milk that monetary teat for all it’s worth.

The inane booty-shaking was definitely a part of why I got this overly ghetto-esque message. But lets talk a bit about the central lyric, “if you like it put a ring on it.” Exactly what kind of girl would refer to herself as an it twice in one sentence, then repeat that sentence to push it into ear worm territory.

You’re not the only one. When I said that video was “complete ghetto trash” it could definitely sound pretty raciest since I didn’t clarify what I meant by “ghetto” was this imaginary concept being brazenly marketed and sold.