Am I the only one who is disturbed by Jay-Z's latest video, "On to the Next One"? (Please be warned, the video below contains explicit language.)
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You are not the only one disturbed. This video is too strange for me to fully wrap my mind around. Most of the images seem completely irrelevant to anything he's rapping about, and in all seriousness I suspect there's some subliminal messaging of sorts going on here. Interesting that you chose to post that image of the cross with a bullet on either side because when it flashed across the screen for about .2 seconds of the video, it was just long enough for me to see that it was the cross but too short for me to make anything more of the image or its significance. But judging by the context of the rest of the video, I'm guessing it isn't anything positive. Music is a powerful medium, and I think it's unfortunate that we often get caught up in the music enough to overlook how disturbing some videos (and even lyrics when you pay close attention) can be.
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