"To be able to live the American dream," that's why.
And the dream?
To be surrounded by six hot women in shades, black-sequin jackets and a long-legged trip down to their silver high-heeled boots.
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Pitbull's new Vegas show is pretty awesome
"To be able to live the American dream," that's why.
And the dream?
To be surrounded by six hot women in shades, black-sequin jackets and a long-legged trip down to their silver high-heeled boots.
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It is about time for Las Vegas put in a show in residency for a hip hop artist, and with the vegas demographic I think Pit bull was a great choice. While I may thing all of his music sounds the same, you can’t deny it can be catchy and pretty easy to move to. Sadly, Pit bull will forever be a part of my life, an impromptu road trip in undergrad caused me to listen to the song “Temperature”, one of the first songs he was featured in, 14 times in a span of 12 hours, to this day I cant listen to that song all the way though. I am glad to know he puts on a good show, and is keeping his “work hard, play hard” persona. I hope this show will open other rappers and hip-hop artists the opportunity to have a residency in vegas, and not just come in for one off concerts/parties.
Ummm…. Wow. I don’t know whether to be offended or baffled? Everything about this show screams misogyny and excess. It’s almost like this show wants to be everything that individual groups see as good, yet the fact that these ideals are brought together almost seems like a slap in the face to another community. How does one justify Maya Angelou quotes juxtaposed alongside ‘jiggling thong-bikini culo’? Though I love the idea of a Rapper in Residence (in Las Vegas of all places), I don’t believe this artist’s artistic product is any good. Then again, maybe this pseudo artistic support will open some drunk-Vegas-goers eyes to art patronage. Regardless, I think I am little more offended than baffled at this creation. Maybe even a little more offended by the journalists blasé reaction to the objectification of woman and the handful of things wrong with this show by calling the new show “pretty awesome.”
I sincerely hope that Pitbull is trying to be ironic here. Maybe I'm just biased because I've never really liked his music, but this entire show seems like it's just perpetuating typical misogynistic music culture. Preaching the importance of hard work is always a good thing, but doing it in a way to continues to objectify women is not. Like Ben said, the juxtaposition of the words of Maya Angelou and predicatively dressed dancers is both unjustifiable and downright disrespectful. I do think it's interesting that the show only includes dancers, a band, and Pitbull himself, as he is known for being featured artist on other people's tracks. In fact, it seems as if all of his popular songs include a guest artist. I respect that he decided to do this show "alone", even if the author thought that he looked a little lonely onstage. That being said, this does not justify how typically degrading to women this performance is. Having a residency for a rap artist in Las Vegas is an awesome idea, I just wish that they had gone in a different direction with the content of the show itself.
I'm glad the guy has the opportunity to have his own Vegas show, even for 7 performances, as it is great that there's a Rapper in Residence in Vegas. But the analogy of Boyz II Men at The Mirage is pretty accurate, in that I don't think Pitbull has enough material that he could pull off by himself, without the slew of collaborators and guest artists he's worked with on about 80% of his popular music that gets played on the radio. That's how these shows halt between songs for chit chat with the audience and how they lose their momentum. I also agree with Ben, that Pitbull's show is made up of a bunch of contradicting material and sending two very different messages, one way more prominent than the other. While he has preached of working hard to get what you want and achieve the American Dream, the ultimate end result of achieving the American Dream isn't making millions of dollars from objectifying women in your lyrics and having half-naked women dancing next to you for your show. But it is in Pitbull's world.
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