{"id":193986,"date":"2019-08-30T07:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193986"},"modified":"2019-09-01T07:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T07:18:18","slug":"the-2019-vmas-its-not-about-music-its-about-pushing-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193986","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 VMAs: It&#8217;s Not About Music, It&#8217;s About Pushing Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vigilant Citizen \u2013 Aug 29, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vma2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-193987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vma2019-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vma2019-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vma2019-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vma2019-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/vma2019.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Watching awards shows is an act of self-sacrifice that I suffer through a few times a year for the benefit of this site\u2019s loyal readers. Although I strongly dislike sitting through these seemingly endless hours of televised garbage, I believe it is crucial to report on the messages that are being promoted throughout. Because, while most media sources focus their \u201ccoverage\u201d on random items such as Cardi B\u2019s boob dress, there is much more going on during these shows. And the young people who watch these shows absorb what is happening the same way a brand new sponge absorbs the dirty stinking water of a nasty kitchen sink. And, yes, in this beautiful metaphor, the dirty, stinking water represents the elite\u2019s relentless social agenda.<\/h5>\n<h5>Since 2009, my coverage of award shows mostly focused on the occult symbolism that was found during musical performances. However, in the past years, the propaganda of the occult elite shifted, morphed and evolved. Nowadays, it is less about exposing viewers to dark occult symbolism and more about directly dictating what they should be thinking and what attitudes they should be adopting.<\/h5>\n<h5>The 2019 VMAs was definitely not an exception. Everything was orchestrated to focus on specific social topics \u2013 all of which are in line with the elite\u2019s agenda. The main one is \u201cdiversity\u201d. As you can see, I placed the word diversity between quotes because what is being promoted is the exact opposite of diversity. Instead of celebrating everyone, mass media now about carefully selects who has the right to be celebrated while shunning everyone else. It is about reducing people to a single label and treating them according to that label.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Drebae-twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-193988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Drebae-twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Drebae-twitter.png 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Drebae-twitter-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>This tweet bothered me for several reasons. It reduces these two artists to the labels \u201cbig black woman\u201d and \u201cblack gay guy\u201d. Second, it doesn\u2019t even make sense. There are many examples of successful \u201cbig black women\u201d. This very VMA show spent about 20 minutes celebrating Missy Elliot. And did we already forget about her?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36234 size-full\" title=\"The 2019 VMAs: It's Not About Music, It's About Pushing Narratives\" src=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1140-aretha-franklin-2001.imgcache.revad82eb81cc5c52e27afa8d4f87c4d33b-e1567120630871.jpg\" alt=\"The 2019 VMAs: It's Not About Music, It's About Pushing Narratives\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36234\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>What truly bothers me is that Aretha Franklin was never reduced to the label \u201cbig black woman\u201d. She was Aretha Franklin. While they make you think that we are \u201cprogressing\u201d, we are actually regressing into the Stone Age. Instead of seeing people as complete human beings, \u201cwoke\u201d society only sees people as being Black, Latino, gay or whatever else. And people are being judged and categorized accordingly.<\/h5>\n<h5>This insufferable trend of extreme virtue signaling has been happening for years and people are sick of it. The result: The show got the lowest ratings in VMA history. A total of 1.93 million viewers watched the show \u2013 a 14% drop from last year\u2019s show (which was already the lowest ever).<\/h5>\n<h5>The first performance of the VMAs perfectly illustrated how the show lost its way.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Taylor Swift Needs to Calm Down<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/musicbusiness\/the-2019-vmas-its-not-about-music-its-about-pushing-narratives\/\">Continues \u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly everything that happened on the 2019 VMAs was linked to some kind of agenda being pushed by media. Here\u2019s what really happened at this year\u2019s VMAs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193990,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193986\/revisions\/193990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}