Subliminal messaging… true or false?
A ninety’s classic “Josie and the Pussycat,” stars three young girls who are striving to become the all american rock stars. When a major record company just happens to hire them on a whim because they look good on an album cover, the girls jump in with both feet, not thinking of the precautions. What they didn’t know was that the company was using subliminal messages placed strategically underneath their music to sell not only a variety of consumer goods but the band itself. The movie shows how advanced technology can become and how company’s could possibly send messages through there products in order to get consumers to buy exactly what they want.
I think this idea is a bit farfetched. I do not believe in the whole sending subliminal messaging through music or movies, at least not to the exaggerated extreme the movie presented. Everyone still has free choice and it is there choice on whether or not they want to buy a specific color or specific brand of clothing. If someone wants to go out and buy pink puma sweatpants then they are going to buy it, with no help from others.
Yes advertising can lure you toward a type of style but it is not forcing you into buying it. Also there are those people in the world that long to be like Paris Hilton or Chris Brown, and will do or spend whatever it takes to look and become just like them, but there is no movie or music that is sending hidden messages to them to be just like these super stars. They themselves are the one who instill in their own minds that they are going to everything in their power to make themselves look like them, and it is their money they are spending. Nobody is changing their minds and nobody is telling them they have to do this, it is their personal choice.
