A week after Lady Gaga’s album “Born this way” was banned in Lebanon, The General Security officials revoked their decision and unbanned the album, allowing its release at all Virgin Megastores. [Link]
Even though I am against banning Lady Gaga’s album or any other album, I don’t see the point of censorship in Lebanon or censorship as a whole. I mean the album’s available online and will soon be broadcasted on our hacked TV channels (that we pay a mere 10$ to an illegal cable guy to get them). Not to forget the illegal music and DVD shops that sell you adult movies and could not care less.
Looking as well at how censorship works [Link], one cannot but wonder if the guys censoring movies and music can be taken seriously. They banned Lady Gaga because it was insulting to Christians and then a week later they unbanned it for no noticeable reason. Did they get approval from Jesus because I doubt the church will change its stance that easily.
This reminds me of the time they banned the movie “Help” (which sucked big time) because the main actress was some politician’s daughter.
Te3teer.
what a meaningless song!!! I hate it…It should be banned everywhere in my opinion.
It was never actually banned, they just said they might end up banning it, but they didn’t. I completely agree when you say that censorship is useless, i mean out of all the Lebanese people I know, only a few actually buy original movies and non buy music CDs anymore.
The subject of byuing pirated CDs and DVDs is one that pisses me off. I mean what’s with the production companies? drop your prices and people will buy the original. i think it’s simple math, if you put your DVD’s at 5$ no one would bother pay 3 for a shit copy. not to mention that most people buy a DVD for the movie, don’t spend so much on the DVD Menu and extras, sometimes I miss VHS so much when the Menu’s are complex.
Same applies to the Music industry; for ever now, people buy Albums for one or two songs, Itunes and P2P sharing were the answer to many people’s prayers..still production houses want you to pay a fortune for 20 songs out of which you will only listen to 3 or 4 at most on average…of course people will go for the copies.
I wonder what would happen if an singer comes out with an album priced at the same price as the mainstream pirated copy…it would ‘probably’ decimate the competition…
Or even better when a band like Cold Play releases an album for free like they did with their last one.
wow they are genius never thought of that LOL…
Hi Najib.
I wish people would actually bother to actually read things, instead of immediately rejecting them before trying to understand what they’re really about. My two cents about the Gaga thing below in my blog.
Cheers,
rewazpage.blogspot.com
http://rewazpage.blogspot.com/2011/06/dont-be-drag-or-lebanese.html