"Oh, No!"

 

"Don't do love

Don't do friends

I'm only after success

[...]

I know exactly what I wanna do, I wanna be

I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine

I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy

Oh! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh!"

"Oh, No!" - Marina And The Diamonds

Marina And The Diamonds's examples of what not to be are by far my favourite inspiration for my blog, so I never keep myself from using one of her songs to write an entry about some typical teen situation or some stereotype/archetype (mostly inspired by ♥ Electra Heart ♥). The thing is that I found myself in an existential need of sharing one of those songs just because i liked it, without getting into society's crap, insensitive stereotyped males (entry about this) and fear and misconception of others' opinions (entry about this).

This concrete song, called "Oh, No!", belongs to Marina's debut album The Family Jewels (2010). It was released as the album's fourth single on August 2nd, 2010. Its lyrics deal about a girl who, carried by TV and idealisation of reality, goes far from real life to get a feelingless success, hiding her lacks and insecurities and avoiding human relations in order to get to the social media stereotype of the successful aggressive insensitive business woman.
 

The reason why I firstly liked this song is its videoclip: Marina looks like a diva! Her dresses, the choreography and the special effects are simply gorgeous; I think it's one of the fanciest music videos ever! Even though, I must say that, with or without the videoclip, it is one of my favourite songs!

  

You can look up the lyrics here.

Males and items, the archetypes

"Girls and their curls and their gourmet vomit
Boys and their toys and their six inch rockets"

"Homewrecker" - Marina And The Diamonds
 

Yesterday I was watching some kind of Spanish sitcom (that was quite one of the reasons to say "Spanish things suck") called La Que Se Avecina. Just don't watch it. EVER. The thing is that I saw a really annoying stereotype in it: a retard ape, called Amador, was trying to mate with some female apes (like in almost every single chapter of the sitcom), encouraged by his friends (all of them were males, of course) while his wife was concerned about how much Amador loved her. What a wonderful truth of society: if the woman was the one trying to fuck, she would be called a bitch... and she was, indeed, when once she cheated on her husband!

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But, by far, the worst part of gender stereotypes is how it makes all males exactly the same. Boys have forgotten they have to cry and show their emotions, and that made them really less likable to girls! Can't they see? What a girl looks for in a boy is someone who understands her, who has the same feelings that her! Of course, insensitive boys get sex, but there's no way they get true love, because there's no way they're showing it to their pairs, so all they are going to get is someone with a broken heart who truly loved them and was actually destroyed by their inability to show any feeling!
 

An example of musclegut. Art by Grisser

And they will keep following the stereotype like sheep because they are naive enough to think every girl likes the same (no, sweetie, I'm a girl and I like males with big bellies, and I am not the only one)! Every time I see the typical Facebook photo of a skinny (not necessarily sexy) girl with a chubby boyfriend it is followed by comments as beautiful and lovely as "she loves him for his money" or "she's just a bitch, she doesn't even like him"... Well, I just can't conceive how someone can like skinny guys: hugging someone that hard is just like embracing a pole so, tell me, why would I want a skinny guy if I have a nice streetlight just in front of my house? I want to present you another kind of guy: it's called musclegut, and it consists of a boy with enormous arm muscles and a big belly. I personally call these men Epic legendary huggers and, believe me, I can't conceive how someone can like better any other kind of man (lucky we are, of likes diversity, though!).

But... Hey, wait! Don't you think girls are better than boys in a single point! See, I'm SO TIRED of women trying to be liked by men as a major goal! Half of females is trying to get rights and get to the same point of men... while the other half is full of sexual items proud of being so! Girls don't seem to want their brains and hearts to be recognised, they just wear the most revealing clothes they can, shake their "booties" for the boys and judge each other; that's not a brained woman, that's a barbie for some guy to take and replace!
 

Take a look at an ancient sexual female stereotype!

And, of course, girls have the same exact problem with physical stereotypes: why do they think every guy likes the same? It is not even biologically logical! Just look at the female anatomy: they are not meant to be skinny as society teaches them to be, sheesh! They aren't even meant to be skinny at all!
 

I find stereotypes awful, and I find people following them even more awful. There's no way I'm changing my point of view about it.
 

Get real bodies, males, soft ones.

[Questionnaire] Suspense

"I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's nothing
Well, that's nothing"

"The Monster" - Eminem feat. Rihanna
 

As you could see in the last questionnaire, we're studying the history of horror stories and movies from its origin, the Gothic Novel. Today we had to answer another questionnaire, this time about Suspense movies and Alfred Hitchcock. What I know so far about this director is not precisely good: he was obsessed with blonde girls, and he destroyed an actress's career because she didn't want to be his item... Anyway, here are the questions for today:
 

1→ Who's the director of this movie Psycho?

Alfred Hitchcock.

2→ What kind of characters did he often use in horror movies?

 The archetype of the madman who thinks he's sane is really common in Hitchcock's filmography.

3→ What techinque did he use with the camera?

It's said that Hitchcock's best contribution to the genre was a kind of subjective shot taken from the character's perspective.

[Questionnaire] The psychological horror story: Edgar Allan Poe

"Black cat, nine lives
Short days ,long nights
[...]
Better watch your step
Or you're gonna die"

"Black Cat" - Janet Jackson

Following the history of horror stories, after the Gothic Novels, we find the Psychological Horror Stories and theiir founder, Edgar Allan Poe. The questionnaire/task for today was this one:

1→ What is the story of tell-tale heart about?

It's about a madman who killed the old man he was taking care of because he wore a glass eye that made the madman distressed. After the murder, the heartbeat of the dead man revealed the crime to the Police.

2→ Who wrote the tell-tale heart and invented the first macabre stories?

Edgar Allan Poe.

3→ What was the first Psychological Horror Story?

The Tell-Tale Heart.

4→ When was it first published?

It was first published in1843.

5→ What other types did the author also invent?

The Detective Story and the Science Fiction Story.

[Questionnaire] The Gothic Novel

"Seven devils all around me!
Seven devils in my house!
See they were there when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done
Seven devils all around you
Seven devils in your house
See I was dead when I woke up this morning
I'll be dead before the day is done"

"Seven Devils" - Florence + The Machine

 

For the task of today, we had to look for information about the Gothic Novel in a webpage (here) and answer some questions. The Gothic Novel was quite a really dark and interesting kind of story (just as dark and interesting as modern goths are). So here are the questions:

1→ Who invented the Gothic Novel?
Horace Walpole.

2→ What was the first Gothic Novel?
The Castle of Otranto.

3→ When was it first published?
In the year 1764.

4→ Which basic elements of horror didn't you include in your list? 
To be sincere, pretty much every single one of them: setting in a castle; an atmosphere of mystery and suspense; an ancient prophecy; omens, portents, visions; high, or even overwrought emotion; women in distress; women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male; the metonymy of gloom and horror and the vocabulary of the gothic.