Yes, Yes, Y'all
The one party democracy of Singapore allows for free speech and media to transmit to its people only after being filtered by an organization called the MDA. What you are about to see is a recently released propaganda video featuring the management team at the MDA rapping about their jobs and the future.
Now, the main reason I want to post this is because it's funny. You get to see forty-something nerds belt out lyrics that sound straight out of a powerpoint presentation. There's a cardboard car, awkward dancing. Some of the rhyme schemes only work thanks to Chinese pronunciations of English words (dot / support is one that comes to mind).
But disregarding what will make you laugh, it's clear that whatever this board lacks in allowing its audience a right to access content, it makes up for in... artistic achievement? While no one would call this video creative, it has a certain calculated brilliance combined with amazing production values and a catchy tune that makes it something of a summation of good ideas put into music video form by which all future videos, made anywhere, will now have to compare themselves with. It's really quite good.
So I ask now, would you rather have your freedom to choose your favorite types of media, and have to sift through the crap before you find the really good stuff; or is there a better way in which a board of managers simply makes it for you, and then gives you no other option? I know I've made up my mind.
Oh, and is it just me or are the directors of Media Policy and Communications not totally bangin' hot?
Now, the main reason I want to post this is because it's funny. You get to see forty-something nerds belt out lyrics that sound straight out of a powerpoint presentation. There's a cardboard car, awkward dancing. Some of the rhyme schemes only work thanks to Chinese pronunciations of English words (dot / support is one that comes to mind).
But disregarding what will make you laugh, it's clear that whatever this board lacks in allowing its audience a right to access content, it makes up for in... artistic achievement? While no one would call this video creative, it has a certain calculated brilliance combined with amazing production values and a catchy tune that makes it something of a summation of good ideas put into music video form by which all future videos, made anywhere, will now have to compare themselves with. It's really quite good.
So I ask now, would you rather have your freedom to choose your favorite types of media, and have to sift through the crap before you find the really good stuff; or is there a better way in which a board of managers simply makes it for you, and then gives you no other option? I know I've made up my mind.
Oh, and is it just me or are the directors of Media Policy and Communications not totally bangin' hot?
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