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Originally posted by mariska
How was it trivializing it? You can say that all you want, but you should at least present evidence. The same goes with how she was allegedly "glamorizing it", even though everybody's reaction was the antithesis of the word "glamorous"..
The above painting is commonly interpreted to be about anxiety or depression. It's one of the most commercially successful paintings of all time, having been painted by one of the most influential artists of all time. The painting doesn't actually address anxiety or depression, does that mean those issues are getting trivialized? Given the success and prestige of this painting, is it glamorizing anxiety and depression?
You can't have it both ways. This is a piece of art that is about a mental disorder, but doesn't openly acknowledge it. Clearly it's not informative, so is this painting by Edvard Munch not ok? |
Are you telling me someone will look at that picture and say "hmm depression and anxiety is cool, lemme just clap my hands around my ears and open my gob"?
No, depression and anxiety is an abstract idea for most and you can't really copy it. Gaga had someone on stage vomiting and Gaga is mainstream, people of all ages know about her and the younger demographic/ unstable people don't have that filter of what behaviours are OK to be replicated or not. Purging can cause SO many long term effects on someone who becomes addicted to those behaviours and Demi summed it up perfectly when she talked about PSH's death.
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I wish more people would lose the stigma and treat addiction as the deadly and serious DISEASE that it is. Drugs are not something to glamorize in pop music or film to portray as harmless recreational fun. It's not cute, "cool" or admire able. It's very rare when people can actually predict their addiction and even then, you never know when too much is going to take their life or take a bad batch of whatever it is their using. It's time people start really taking action on changing what we're actually singing/rapping about these days because you never know if you could be glamorizing a certain drug to a first time user or alcoholic who could possibly end up dead because they end up suffering from the same deadly disease so many have already died from. This stuff is not something to mess with. Why risk it? Addiction IS a disease. Please spread the word so we can take the taboo out of discussing this illness and raising awareness to people of all ages. RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman.. An INCREDIBLE artist who lost his life to this horrible disease.. May you rest peacefully and in complete serenity now that your pain is gone. God Bless...
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Now she was talking about drugs but the point extends to this.
(I need air)
