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This past Saturday, Macklemore held a concert at the Verizon Center in Dallas,TX. Throughout the concert he had many things to say with positive messages. Before singing his song titled "Same Love" he said to the crowd "I’m happy with the progress we’ve made in the last year in the forefront of equality.". Macklemore sings about equal rights for same sex couples and speaks against the way music bashes homosexuality. One part of his song "Same Love" goes like this "If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me/Have you read the YouTube comments lately". He also sings about how alcohol and drugs are bad and have a negative affect on you. In his song "Starting Over" he talks about how pot and alcohol hurt his creativity and put him in rehab. He does all of this while still being very entertaining and putting on a great show.
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I think that Macklemore is just what society needs. We have grown so accustomed to people being put down and with things that aren't good becoming social norms, that Macklemore goes and challenges all these ideas and beliefs. We hear people talk all the time about things that are bad as being "gay", for example when someone was talking in convo the other day about people sagging their pants he said "that's GAY". We use the word so freely without even realizing what it is we're saying. I think that many more artists need to promote the right messages in their songs instead of the wrong ones.
Tyler, interesting blog and I agree with you, there needs to be more artists like Macklemore, who delivers a good message to people not a bad one.
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