Whatever you may think of this movie, it is still a brilliant satire about commercialism. The constant barrage of coporate logos is so over the top it says in images better than words what our society has become. Also, Rachel Leigh Cook is smoking hot.
"Shut your gob! Or I'll come round your houses and stamp on all your toys". - Gene Hunt
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Yeah, I can't speak on Iggy Azalea's character, because I don't know what's in her heart, but from a from a purely product-based perspective, she deserves all of the hate she gets and then some. Iggy is basically DuJour from Josie and the Pussycats come to life in the form of mainstream music's version of the "great white hope". She's the tall, leggy blonde from Australia who went from Kylie Minogue to Nicki Minaj when T.I. and Atlantic Records came up with the genius plan to produce a surefire success: an act that would get all of the accolades of being a double minority in hip-hop, with all of the guaranteed success of being the standard in commercial pop. She stole the honor of being the first woman in the XXL Freshman Class from a whole slew of female rappers that deserved it more, and she's been given award and award over far more talented artists. And then there's the part where her number one hit came from a Clear Channel pay-for-play deal.share
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Iggy Azalea isn't an artist, she's an experiment in mass marketing. And the fact that she isn't aware of that only, or at least acts dumb on it, makes people hate her that much more.
To me, the film's message is perfectly encapsulated in that scene where they just try to go out and play music in public, just for the sake of playing music, because they just had that tragic realization (with the news about DuJour) that life is precious and short.
...and upon trying to play that guy in an orange sweater runs out saying "woah woah woah, you can't play here, I've got things to sell. They're new. They're orange."
Brilliant.
I love this movie
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