Review on Justin Timberlake's made-up video!

“What goes around comes around”
This music video for Justin Timberlake’s new song ‘What goes around comes around’ IS NOT the original version, but I must say I absolutely LOVE IT!
The video, which was put together by a young lady called Claire Redfield, who is sixteen years old, is a blend of Justin Timberlake music videos from his past to his present, HOWEVER this music video has a twist. The video also includes cuts from Britney Spears’ music videos. Claire has tactfully put both these videos side by side to reveal what she believes and I am sure what you will all believe is the hidden message behind Justin’s new song.
As I am sure you all know Justin and Britney were once the world’s most idolised celebrity couple but after a few years they experienced a harsh split. Although Justin claims the song is about his best friend's experience with a partner I think we can all tell by the lyrics that it is really a message to the now ‘wrecked’ Britney Spears. Which of course explains why Claire created this video.
For me watching this video almost described the build up to Justin and Britney’s break up. I liked the way each cut has been put together, using the various music videos, I think helped to create a picture story, with the song acting as the narrator describing what happened to them in the past and why. Although using different cuttings from music videos did add to the narrative of the song the wrong lip sinking I believe was a major put off! It sometimes made it extremely difficult to concentrate on listening to the lyrics to the song because the lip movements in the video were not to the same song. However, the majority of the words from the lyrics were successfully linked to similar words or actions made in previous videos, which then made particular words from the song, stand out. Although it may not have intended to do so i think that the music video resembles a time line stretching from the days when Justin was a member of NSync to his present solo career, as well the days when he was with Britney. Once again I believe this works well with the song as it adds to the narrative of the song as he is singing about his past.
Some people who may end up watching this music video might think that the white screen that sometimes appears as each scene is cut is slightly distracting or unprofessional, but I believe it is extremely effective and helps add a sense of destruction to the video, which is of course representing the state of the relationship.
Both Britney and Justin fans who watch this video will of course know that the cuttings used from this video are taken from a number of music videos, which I think I think will help them identify how well this has been put together.
The line from the song I found the most ironic was, “heard you found out what his doin’ to you. But you did me, aint dat da way it goes’’ I believe this particular line successfully conveys the entire message of the song as well as the link to his relationship with Britney.
Overall, I think the entire video is extremely successful, in my eyes its quite gripping and is very well put together for a 16 year old amateur, who had obviously just used footage from the music video’s found on the web.

Size zeros are no hero's....But then again nor is the British media!

The thing that frightens me most about the British media today is that the press and their entire entourage are so lost in their own fantasy worlds full of both lies and deceit, that they fail to recognise that they are in fact hypocrites.
With women’s magazines and tabloid newspapers constantly bombarding their readership with “What’s Hot and what’s not!” I think its only nature that the women of today are confused with how they think they should look and what’s right to eat.

The media today are currently showing their awareness on size zero models and how important it is for them to be banned from catwalks and other modelling activities due to the influence that their petit or shall I say under under-nourished bodies could have on women of today’s society. However excuse me if I’m wrong but is it not the media that subsequently first planted this idea of what our body ‘should look like’, in the first place? I think it’s fear to say that had it not been for the media’s portrayal of slim being best (or them knowing best), the women of today would be able to acknowledge for themselves that these size zero models are not what women should look like or consider aspiring to.

While the media viciously attack these size zero models and show their everlasting support for the London’s fashion week, which has banned all their size zero models from appearing on the catwalk, they are still needless to say publishing articles on ‘what’s the best diet this month’, ‘which celeb has the best work out video’ oh and less not forget our all time favourite, ‘how to drop two dress sizes in 4 weeks’. Now someone tell me that this is not a hypocrite in the makings. How can the media in one breath be encouraging people not to follow these size zero models but to instead be happy if not content about your figure and your weight, whilst in another breath telling you that loosing two dress sizes is an achievement which will make you feel better about yourself and make you stand out from the rest. I mean its no surprise that some women get stuck in between those fine lines of what’s right and what’s wrong when it comes to how they look.

If 37% of women are dieting most of the time whilst another 18% are skipping meals to keep their weight down can someone please explain to me when exactly they’ll have the time to realise that they will probably never obtain the perfect size body because THERE ISN’T ONE… But of course these women’s magazines are not going to tell us women that now are they, because that would be completely demolishing the unique selling point of their magazines. It just saddens me to realise that we women don’t recognise that.

But any women reading this don’t be fazed or feel stupid because it happens to the best (and worst) of us, we are so quick to be led by the British media on how to look that we barely get used to being comfortable in our own skin before we go changing into the next. So while the British media continue bantering on about how naïve these size zero models are and questioning what possessed them to look as they do or think that what they look like is right or sexy. Maybe they should consider the fact that it is the media that implants this ideology of what looks good, and that maybe these innocent young women that started off just like you and I with an aim to look a little slimmer got too carried away with these "Fantastic" diets praised by the media. All to fulfill what they were made to beleive was 'the right figure' or 'models expectation.'
“But who are they to decide” I hear you ask, “they are just normal people like you and I, who gives them the right to decide? “ That’s the funny thing… because WE DO! But why? I'll never know!

If the media really want to fulfill their roles of being the news providers and helping our country and it's citizens strive for the best, than maybe they should think about including what starving yourself silly and constanly subjecting yourself to diets is really capable of doing to our bodies, instead of promoting these outragous ideas about changing them.

Who's online?

With the internet being the lowest cost system ever developed which allow millions of people from all around the world to communicate with one another it is not to suprising to hear that in the UK 37,600,000 (62%) use the internet on a day to day basis for a varity of reasons.
According to comScore Networks up to 694 million people currently use the internet worldwide.
Results found showed that 50\50 Men and women found the Internet equally useful for doing their jobs and for shopping. While other statistics show that only 40 percent of adults with less than a high school education use the internet, which reinforces the idea that the internet is mainly used within schools for educational purposes.

What users do on the internet:
Email: 90%
General information: 77%
Surfing: 69%
Reading: 67%
Hobbies: 63%
Production information: 62%
Travel information: 54%
Work/ Buisness: 46%
Entertainment/games: 36%
Buying: 36%
Chatrooms: 24%
Homework: 21%

My personal thoughts on the Blog "Go Fug yourself"

The blog page "Go Fug yourself" is an extremely entertaining page full of real life celebrity pictures. The entire blog is based on fashion and the way celebrities can or cannot carry off a particular outfit. In this case the particular topic spoken about is 'who wore what on the red carpet'. Although the blog reflects both the bloggers (Heather and Jessica's ) personal thoughts on many of the celebrities outfits and can be seen as entertainment for its viewers i do not believe that this blogg page and its content can be seen as journalism. There is no core structure or detailed meaning to the writing. The text is purely two people harshly critising others as a source of light entertainment, there is no news of information adopted within the writing or even to the blog page itself.

Web 2.0 (What is it?)

Many people are extremely intresed on what web 2.0 exactly is: according to Wikipidia
Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.
However, according to Tim O'Reilly who first coined the phrase 2.0 it is: " the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them."