Eminem

[PlaneJane22]

Anyone seen the new Eminem video "Mosh"? Do you think it will have an impact on people going out and voting?

www.ifilm.com/viralvideo?ifilmid=2654122 (http://www.ifilm.com/viralvideo?ifilmid=2654122)

[16L43]

I can only hope the video gets young people into the polls. I don't care if you vote Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian or Socialist, just vote. It takes but few minutes of your time and the issues are so very important...

[jekelish]

well me, i've already voted...good ol' absentee balloting, baby.

but this brings me to a point matt stone made recently in an interview--he said there is no shame in not voting if you don't know the issues or anything about the candidates. do you think that's true? i mean, if you're not informed...how can you make an informed decision? sure, you can base it on what you may have heard...or you can take the stance that so many people do, like "oh i just hate that george bush" "why?" "i dunno, i just do...he's not a good president" "oh? what makes you say that?" "i dunno, i just dont like him"

the people who are like that...well, i encourage them to vote anyway, because i'm all for getting W out of office so even the uninformed can help with that ;)

but, really...is it ok to vote if you know nothing about the candidates or issues?

[AndThePickles]

This is just me, but I don't like it when celebrities go all public and do speeches and things about who they are voting for, B/C this day in age, no one knows how to think for themselves anymore. We need movies/TV music, books/magazines to tell us what to wear, eat, drink, say, do, look, feel. It's sad. What ever happened to individuality. Like what really ticks me off is seeing a parent and they're 4 yr old child holding a sign declaring their favorite politician. It's like, you ask the 4 yr old kid "Why are you holding that sign?" "I dunno...mommy told me to hold it" LOL But it also, like jekelish said, somepeople don't know why they're voting for a certain party, just b/c they don't like bucsh or kerry, LOL. What is this world coming to? I feel this political race is just to prove who can win. Doesn't matter who's gonna do what. Just so the winner can say "Told ya so! *sticks tounge out*" LOL

[PlaneJane22]

In terms of not voting, my father refuses to vote in Canada. He escaped from communism in Romania and he says there, you were forced to vote by the govrnment (you had to choose amongst Communist party candidates) and he's happy to exercise his right not to vote in Canada.

In terms of the youth vote, I'm 23 and I always vote. And go out of my way to do so if I can't on election day at advance polls.

But then I'm also a reader of newspapers and magazines. The one thing that makes me think there will be an increase in youth voting in the States is the fact that Jon Stewart's show has had a huge rating increase lately and Comedy Central's audience tends to to skew pretty young.

As for the Eminem video, I think he should bring politics back into music. If you think back to the sixties, there's a lot of good music that was politically inspired. I'd rather listen to a song with some sort of political message. It's better than most of the bubble gum stuff that came out of the consumerist 80s.

[walkingcarpet23]

Don't even get me started on Eminem...

Being political in your music seems to be the trendy thing to do these days, that's all it is. You have some bands/artists who have always been political, and then you have the ones who put out their political album to make money. I can't take Eminem seriously when he's talking about mollesting kids one minute, and then George Bush the next.

And furthermore, MTV makes me sick with this whole political thing. Yes, kids should be voting -- but do they need it shoved down their throats every two minutes? It's gone entirely overboard.

/rant