Review of Sublime videoThe music video that I chose to write my paper on, is called "Date Rape" and it is performed by Sublime.. I've seen the video plenty of times and I taped it back i
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The music video that I chose to write my paper on, is called
"Date
Rape" and it is performed by Sublime I've seen the video plenty of times and I taped it back in 1993 when I first got their album 40 oz to Freedom The song is about a man
that picks up a lady in a bar and rapes her He winds up
going to court and the judge finds that, "he was full of shit, and he gave him twenty-five years." Then it talks about the man going to jail and even getting "butt raped by a large inmate." The video is much like a movie in the way that it is displayed As the song goes on and on the video
accompanies the lyrics by showing what the man looked
like (which in the song was with "a double chin and a
plastic smile") At the beginning, the video shows the man
go into the bar and getting the attention of the lady He convinces her to take a ride in his van and forces her to succumb to his will by saying, "if it wasn't for date rape I'd never get laid." After he is finished he lets her out and she files a police report and then "she took the guy's ass to court." She goes to court and low and behold, the judge is the great Ron Jeremy (of porn fame) Ron sentences the
man to twenty-five years of imprisonment and later it shows
a depiction of the guy being raped in prison The video says
a great deal for women and actually won a couple of
awards for their "anti-rape message." Although Sublime's
lead singer, Brad, claims that it was just a song he wrote when he was high, it received a rather large acceptance by many women's groups The video sends this message out
to the viewer as well Any man that will rape a woman will almost definitely hate getting butt slammed in jail by a large inmate This is truly a great music video that not only gives
a meaningful message to the audience, but accompanies the song very well Unfortunately, there will not be anymore
videos by Sublime because of their lead singer's death three months ago Although Bradley may be dead, he and his
band-mates have left behind a brilliant video with a
powerful message: don't rape, or you'll get butt-slammed Courtesy of chew (1994) University of Maryland