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1 Political
statistician Silver
5 Sell for
9 Learn
13 Lacking company
15 “__ way!”
16 Indian
mausoleum city
17 Dodge Chargers,
e.g.
19 Doesn’t keep
20 Rescue squad pro
21 Gerald of Tara
22 Vision-related
23 Take __ the waist
25 Hyundai’s home
27 House of Henry
VIII
29 Camera named
for a Greek
goddess
30 One of the
Canaries: Abbr.
31 Cyber Monday
events
33 Previously
34 Backs (out)
35 Warm underwear
38 Edges
41 Notre Dame’s
Parseghian
42 Had a bug
45 Dashboard
Confessional
rock genre
46 Painter’s deg.
47 Root beer brand
49 Easter season
feast
54 1492 caravel
55 “Peace out,
Pablo!”
56 Like ham in some
omelets
58 Little one
59 Future flower
60 Shindig by the
shore, and a hint
to the starts of
17-, 25-, 35- and
49-Across
62 Run out of steam
63 Smallest of the
litter
64 Derisive look
65 Rose support
66 Rich rocks
67 Root beer brand

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1 “Whatever you
want”

2 Fund-raising
target
3 Food truck order
4 Wedding RSVP
card, e.g.
5 Chocoholic’s
favorite tree?
6 Hokkaido seaport
7 Battlefield board
game
8 Prof’s aides
9 Marx playing with
strings
10 Narcissistic
indulgence
11 Most pretentious
12 Imps
14 Gp. with the
album “Secret
Messages”
18 Uncertain
responses
22 Signs off on
24 Trucker’s expense
26 To-do
28 Stutz
contemporary
32 Huge mess
33 1977 Steely Dan
album
34 Country singer
K.T.
36 Awesome quality,
as of mountains

37 Bethesda-based
medical research
org.
38 Lunches and
brunches
39 Cry of success
40 “Tartuffe”
playwright
43 Horn of Africa
nation
44 Signified
46 Submissions to
eds.

48 Nymph chasers
50 Data transmitter
51 “Cheers”
waitress
52 Savings and
checking: Abbr.
53 Slangy
affirmative
57 Around-the-horn
MLB plays
60 Good bud
61 “Wait, there’s
more”

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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

Why Chris Brown 
is still the worst

MUSIC NOTEBOOK

Five reasons why 
Chris Brown is bad 

for pop culture

By CARLY SNIDER

Daily Arts Writer

1. He beat a woman.

Who the fuck does that? How 

is one so incapable of using words 
to solve problems that there is 
no other option but to resort to 
barbaric violence? I would like 
to think that most decent people 
could recognize domestic vio-
lence as the heinous, inexcusable 
crime that it is. But Chris Brown 
has failed do that, and neither 
can the portion of the American 
public who continue to support 
his career.

2. He promotes misogyny 
and objectification in his 

music.

Brown’s story would be entire-

ly different had he changed his 
image 
post-domestic-violence 

incident and used his fame to 
help women who have fallen vic-
tim to the kind of crime that he 
had committed. But, he didn’t 
do that. He continues to depict 
women as nothing more than 
sexual objects for consumption, 
further promoting the sexist 
culture in which male pop art-
ists thrive. For example, one of 
Brown’s most popular tracks, 
“Loyal,” includes some fun lyr-
ics like “I don’t fuck with broke 
bitches” and “Got a white girl 
with some fake titties.” So indic-
ative of equality and respect, 
right? Not to mention the song’s 
irony-soaked hook, “These hoes 
ain’t loyal.” Women are consid-
ered unfaithful whores just for 
talking to other guys, but Brown 
is still praised as an important 
pop culture figure despite his 
history of assault.

3. He has a tattoo of a bat-

tered woman on his neck.
After comparisons were made 

between Brown’s neck tattoo and 
the pictures taken of Rihanna 
at the hospital after her assault, 

Brown quickly tried to play the 
image off as a candy skull à la Dia 
de los Muertos. Either Brown has 
no idea what the Mexican skulls 
are supposed to look like or he 
went to the worst tattoo artist 
on the planet — the image looks 
nothing like the traditional geo-
metric, floral figures. If the image 
really is supposed to be that of 
an abused woman, Brown’s mis-
anthropic and violent identity is 
unquestionable. And if it really 
was supposed to be a candy skull, 
he should ask for his money back.

4. He beat a woman.
This needs to be mentioned 

again — there is no excuse for 
violence against women. This 
should be a career-ending act.

5. His continued success 

shows the patriarchal, misog-
ynistic tendencies that are 
deeply rooted in American cul-
ture.

There are many things that 

can end an artist’s career — sub-
stance abuse, sexual assault, 
money problems — but apparent-
ly a history of domestic violence 
is not one of them. If anything, 
Brown’s fame has grown since 
his infamous acts of 2009. It is 
not necessarily Brown’s success 
that peeves me so deeply, but 
its implications. Chris Brown is 
nothing unique; there are plenty 
of other up-and-coming artists 

who could take his place as the 
smooth hip-hop artist that he is 
— artists who have never physi-
cally assaulted another person. 
The fact that his act of unwar-
ranted violence against Rihan-
na did not bring his career to 
a close shows that sexism and 
patriarchal ideals are still alive 
and well in American culture. 
Record companies, radio sta-
tions and fellow artists (most 
surprisingly 
female 
artists, 

who perhaps need his co-sign 
to break into the mainstream) 
continue to work with Brown 
and promote his work. Estab-
lished artists like Rihanna and 
Nicki Minaj have worked with 
him on multiple occasions. Pia 
Mia and Jordin Sparks both col-
laborated with him in the early 
stages of their career, helping 
to launch them into the main-
stream. Obviously Brown is 
not the only artist to demean 
women through his music, but 
his violent past makes his doing 
so into a much stronger state-
ment — he has actually commit-
ted a wrong against women that 
his music suggests is acceptable. 
I know it’s improbable to think 
that sexism will be succinctly 
wiped out from pop culture, but 
cutting out an artist who is bla-
tantly misogynistic would be a 
step in the right direction.

RCA RECORDS

The coat doubles as a trash bag.

Watching America 
through our TV set

By DANIELLE YACOBSON

Daily Arts Writer

“When 
I 
say 
‘America,’ 

what’s the first word that comes 
to mind?”

It’s a loaded question, and 

one 
that 
inevitably 
invites 

stereotypes. 
Maybe 
the 

political buzzwords pop into 
mind first: democracy, freedom, 
opportunity – “the American 
Dream” in all its infamous glory. 
But when Cut Video, a Seattle-
based YouTube channel, sent 
their producer around the world 
to ask this question, he received 
much more honest answers. 
Forget democracy – it’s the land 
of Hollywood, Britney Spears 
and Jersey Shore. In a video 
titled “America Around the 
World,” Cut Video illuminates 
the overwhelming impact that 
the TV and film industry has 
on perceptions of American 
life and culture. For better 
or for worse, the industry’s 
perpetuated stereotypes have 
influenced how the world views 
American families, careers and 
relationships, surfacing truths 
that may be hard to hear.

Cut Video, a channel that 

features 
individuals 
of 
all 

ages, 
genders, 
sizes 
and 

races, produces videos that 

predominantly 
explore 
hot-

button 
issues 
and 
cultural 

stigmas, such as transgender 
rights. Accumulating close to 
200 million views, the mini-
series has provided a platform 
for discussion as stereotyped 
groups are offered a voice 
to share their thoughts and 
experiences.

For the “Around the World” 

mini-series, 
the 
producer 

traveled across the globe to see 
what people think of America, 
collecting 
cliché 
descriptors 

that have engrained themselves 
into the U.S.’s cultural identity. 
Of the 11 individuals featured in 
the video, four think of food and 
obesity while nine circle around 
the American dream. “Is it a 
stereotype if it’s true?” a woman 
in Adelaide, Australia asked, 
as she called the American 
people “eternally optimistic.” 
Assigning a stereotype can 
make an abstract or complicated 
idea become more tangible, and 
when it comes to generalizing 
an entire country, the few labels 
that stick out are usually ones 
most prominently circulated. 
Not 
surprisingly, 
many 
of 

the video’s subjects point to 
the 
widespread 
influence 

of America’s television and 
entertainment industry. The 

chance of fame and success is 
not only gloriously portrayed 
in dramas and reality TV, 
but also off camera, as actors 
and 
actresses 
appear 
in 

advertisements 
and 
media 

campaigns all over the world. 
The pop-culture phenomena 
in 
the 
United 
States 
has 

transcended 
all 
borders, 

enhancing a specific and often 
misleading aspect of American 
life 
to 
those 
who 
haven’t 

experienced it themselves.

Global 
surveys 
have 

corroborated the impact of 
American TV culture, as the 
majority 
of 
European 
and 

Asian countries are reported 
to have positive perceptions 
of American music, TV and 
film. 
According 
to 
a 
2012 

survey collected by the PEW 
Research Center, ratings for 
American popular culture have 
continuously 
scored 
highly, 

with over 70 percent approval 
in Spain, Italy and France. 
Furthermore, 
results 
from 

a study conducted by GfK, 
a market-research firm that 
surveyed over 18,000 people 
across 18 countries, identified 
that 30 percent thought of 
American TV and film as the 
best aspect of American culture. 
By far the most popular answer, 
European 
countries 
alone 

attributed even higher marks, 
hovering around 40 percent.

Surprisingly, Americans had 

drastically 
different 
attitudes 

toward 
the 
effects 
of 
their 

television and popular culture 
than the rest of the world. The 
GfK survey identified a whopping 
32 percent of Americans attribute 
film and television as the worst 
contribution to world culture, 
higher than any other country, 
and by far the most popular 
response among all individuals 
surveyed. This is alarming: why 
are Americans so out of sync with 
the rest of the world’s perceptions?

Perhaps, the discrepancies 

within 
these 
statistics 

come 
from 
knowing 
the 

difference between real life 
and a glamorized distortion. 
From 
“Keeping 
Up 
with 

the 
Kardashians” 
to 
“Here 

Comes Honey Boo-Boo,” these 
wildly 
popular 
reality 
TV 

shows 
document 
a 
narrow 

truth that is not applicable 
for most American citizens. 
Nevertheless, 
these 
multi-

million dollar franchises are 
most widely distributed and, 
therefore, the source of the 
most prevalent stereotypes.

What 
America 
needs 
are 

genuine people on camera, like 
those featured in Cut Video’s 
projects. 
In 
a 
recent 
word 

association video, the YouTube 
channel 
gathered 
African-

American men ages 5 through 
50 to respond to “America” with 
a single word. Some of their 
responses were not so optimistic: 
“Free with an asterisk,” a 31-year-
old subject said.

This 
represents 
the 
real 

America, and the very real 
people that are affected by 
its everyday policies. Life in 
the States isn’t an endless 
summer at the Jersey Shore or 
a bottomless pit of McDonald’s. 
So, 
instead 
of 
looking 
to 

“reality” TV and pop sensations 
for a taste of American culture, 
let’s turn the attention to 
outlets like Cut Video that bring 
to screen a more accurate vision 
of America today. 

E! NEWS

Kris Jenner is obviously plotting something.

TV NOTEBOOK

