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Katy Perry vs. Sesame Street?
Here's the story, if you didn't hear:
Katy Perry made this video with Elmo for Sesame Street...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHROHJlU_Ng
It was posted on You Tube and a day later, after complaints, Sesame Street took it down and won't air it. Parents were complaining that Katy's outfit was too revealing and that it was inappropriate.
I think it's a pretty big over-reaction by potentially a few parents. What do you think?
Here's the story, if you didn't hear:
Katy Perry made this video with Elmo for Sesame Street...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHROHJlU_Ng
It was posted on You Tube and a day later, after complaints, Sesame Street took it down and won't air it. Parents were complaining that Katy's outfit was too revealing and that it was inappropriate.
I think it's a pretty big over-reaction by potentially a few parents. What do you think?
Tags: controversy, sesame-street
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Permalink Reply by The Oracle on -
Ha!
Still, not to put too fine a point on it, but I think your target market is a little different than Sesame Street's ;P
Kiwi said:I concur.
Nearly ever top I buy serves two purposes
A) Showcase my awesome tattoos
B) Illustrate the resplendence of my heaving bosoms
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Permalink Reply by Kat on -
.... [spits coffee out of mouth].....
Don't get me started on Jenny McCarthy.
I've been mad at Sesame Street since Cookie Monster started eating vegetables.
Kiwi said:But Jenny helped cure autism
John T. Capp said:p.s. Elmo can also help you learn how to be Barbie from actual Playboy Playmates!
John T. Capp said:No problem with the dress. Problem with Sesame Street having Katy Perry on. Seriously. This is the show that used to have guests like Itzhak Perlman who taught important lessons. Now it's mass produced commercial crap like Katy Perry teaching nothing at all. It's all entertainment/motion/noise, etc. Sign of the times. (Also, this jibes with the whole Neil Postman theory that kids are being turned into consumers at a much younger age today than they were decades ago. It's not about education so much as it's about initiation into a world where price tags are hanging on everything and marketing reigns.) Tickle me, Elmo. Just don't challenge me.
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Permalink Reply by Kiwi on -
In the words of my best drag queen friend "Giiirrrrllll, I can't stand that ho"
So rant away.
Kat said:.... [spits coffee out of mouth].....
Don't get me started on Jenny McCarthy.
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Permalink Reply by Daddy Geek Boy on
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You're my kind of girl Kiwi.
Kiwi said:I concur.
Nearly ever top I buy serves two purposes
A) Showcase my awesome tattoos
B) Illustrate the resplendence of my heaving bosoms
ks said:If showing cleavage around children is a bad thing, then, like I said before, CPS should just come get my kids now and not let me volunteer in their school, because I'm all about the boobs and most of my wardrobe is chosen specifically to show them off.
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Permalink Reply by CrazyPlateFace on
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As if there wasn't reason enough to love Offsprung.
Lady Grey said:She's not that well-endowed, Diggy. I'm betting that most of us OSers have bigger boobs than her.
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Permalink Reply by MamatothaMax on -
I understand the problem with little girls wanting to dress like that but couldn't be, oh I don't know, be parents and say no?
ps I loved both the dress and the video.
pps I like to dress to show off my fantastic boobies/ cleavage (don't fall in)
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Permalink Reply by StitchyWench on -
Very true Oracle. For example, I'm cool with showing off the girls, but there are times and places where I'm going to consider other people's children in how I do it. For example, Friday night we went to an Octoberfest party. I was sporting a black uplifting bra (I needs all the help I can get) and a Dirndl inspired white shirt with a black cherry corset I'd made for the occasion. There were good things happening with my boobs. While I didn't mind dressing this way for the event (and there were lots of children there) I wouldn't wear this particular outfit to help in the kids' class, or if Sesame Street wanted me to come on their show.
That's what I don't get, why would she want to wear the exact outfit she did, unless it was as JTC says - she wants to sell her music and pop culture to preschoolers. Why does she have to refer back to her pop video for the kids? Singing the revised song is what makes it entertaining for the adults who have to watch these shows over and over, but the rest of the content should be for the kids. If she were doing this for the kids, she would wear an epic dress-up costume of fun. If doing it for yourself, you wear an outfit that projects your pop image and reverts back to your video. For a positive counter-example, look at Feist's 1234 video vs. her Sesame Street version. There's nothing wrong with Feist's blue sequined number in her video, but choosing to wear what she did on Sesame Street just goes to show she wasn't making it about perpetuating her image as a pop star, to the kids.
But I will add, for the record, I think Sesame Street should have aired the show. They had an opportunity to make wardrobe suggestions (or even provide it themselves) before the taping. Once they taped this and said they were going to show it, they should have showed it. Moms, like me, who wouldn't have liked their kids to see it, could turn off the show that day.
The Oracle said:Ha!
Still, not to put too fine a point on it, but I think your target market is a little different than Sesame Street's ;P
Kiwi said:I concur.
Nearly ever top I buy serves two purposes
A) Showcase my awesome tattoos
B) Illustrate the resplendence of my heaving bosoms
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Permalink Reply by Reeling on
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Watching Ms. Perry on SNL this weekend I couldn't help but thinking once again that she was and is waaaaay bustier in other situations than on this clip. But maybe I'm just too focused on her boobs.
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If Madonna can do it into her 50's...why can't Katy?
And yes, that skit was hilarious.
Lady Grey said:Yeah, she looked much bustier on SNL than on Sesame Street. The skit with Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph was pretty funny. I didn't realize that Katy Perry did that first song that she performed. I *HATE* that song. The woman is 26--way too old to be singing that bubblegum, pop shite.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on -
I love that skit. It pretty much encapsulates my position. Boobs feed babies. Why are people fine with taking their kid to a movie like Despicable Me, with guns, violence, and bad parenting, but they freak out when someone wears a low cut top while pretending to play dress up? Sesame Street has ALWAYS had this stuff on for the parents that watch with kids, and like it or not, a lot of those parents are younger than most of us and like Katy Perry and her music. Why did they do a Rocky Horror Picture show sketch with Susan Sarandon and The Count back in the day? I'm pretty sure nobody has their preschooler watching The Rocky Horror Picture show. Yeah, there are discussions to be had about children, in particular girls, and needing to feel sexy too early in life. But to me the larger cultural conversation here seems like slut shaming with a soupcon of cultural elitism. Her and her bad body and her silly pop music, it should be hidden away. My preschooler sees my boobs all the time, and I promise they have no sexual connotations for him. Neither would anybody else's. He hasn't gone through puberty. He's not interested in sex, he doesn't know anything about it, and since we don't make a big deal about bodies he doesn't know parts of them are "bad" to show. He does know some areas are private, but that's about it.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on
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Have you read Street Gang? It's pretty clear on the origins of Sesame Street. Which were, more or less, exactly like the recent re-branding moves with baby carrots. They wanted to advertise numbers and letters in exactly the same way people advertised products. That was their entire lofty mission. Let's go shopping for the letter Q.
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