This video references several viral videos and popular songs that have been big hits on YouTube over the past 6/7 years, based on the most recent, Baauer's 'Harlem Shake'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(Family_Guy)
This episode of Family Guy was making fun of the '420' day 'celebrated' by people by smoking marijuana. It was released the day before the 'holiday' (20th April), as well as being the 420th episode. This episode is particularly postmodern as it is giving the viewer a sense of escapism as they change the law on the drug, creating controversial scenes towards the government and state laws. In addition the use of Adam West as the Mayor is also very postmodern.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/01/star-wars-disney-sell-out
Recently Disney have bought the rights to 'Star Wars' from Lucasfilm, and plan on creating the 7th, 8th and 9th films. This decision is incredible controversial as they will follow on from the original 3 films, meaning they will either have to bring in new characters or replace existing characters with new actors. They are also being accused of using the films to generate money rather than create good films that will live up to the expectations set by previous films, although people are saying they were always out to create money, which is why they made the prequels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Harvest_(Family_Guy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjROPuXaWWc
This episode of Family Guy is making fun of the original Star Wars film 'A New Hope', making it obviously postmodern. There is also a clip from the episode where a character sings Bill Medley and Jessica Warnes' 'Time Of My Life', which was typically known for being in 'Dirty Dancing'.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22291744/Pulp-Fiction-is-a-Perfect-Example-of-a-Postmodern-Text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdO9orWQ-Nk
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Above are images and clips from the TV show 'The Simpsons' which is incredibly postmodern, for this reason, the clip of Moe talking about postmodernism is incredibly ironic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cOt9UcYGOU
This music video is postmodern because it contains childrens board games typically from the 1990's and uses them to represent the different types of sound analysers through stop-animation. Also, when they come to life, trying to escape from the character, possibly to be perceived as a butcher, they move as they would in the games they were played in. In the end when the toys and games are pressed out into a vinyl record, displays that the games and things that they did when they were younger, created who they are now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bparw9Jo3dk
This music video would be classed as postmodern as it shows elderly people doing things that are stereotypical of teenagers and young adults in the modern day. It contains a lot of drugs references and very controversial shots which may not be considered as humorous by everyone as the video was originally intended to be, for example the policeman that joins in with them at the end of the video.
How Disneyland is Postmodern (Wikipedia)
Both Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard refer to Disneyland as an exemplar of hyperreality. Eco believes that Disneyland with its settings such as Main Street and full sized houses has been created to look "absolutely realistic," taking visitors' imagination to a "fantastic past." This false reality creates an illusion and makes it more desirable for people to buy this reality. Disneyland works in a system that enables visitors to feel that technology and the created atmosphere "can give us more reality than nature can." The fake animals such as alligators and hippopotamuses are all available to people in Disneyland and for everyone to see. The "fake nature" of Disneyland satisfies our imagination and daydream fantasies in real life. Therefore, they seem more admirable and attractive. When entering Disneyland, consumers form into lines to gain access to each attraction. Then they are ordered by people with special uniforms to follow the rules, such as where to stand or where to sit. If the consumer follows each rule correctly, they can enjoy "the real thing" and see things that are not available to them outside of Disneyland's doors.In his work Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard argues the "imaginary world" of Disneyland magnetizes people inside and has been presented as "imaginary" to make people believe that all its surroundings are "real". But he believes that the Los Angeles area is not real; thus it is hyperreal. Disneyland is a set of apparatus, which tries to bring imagination and fiction to what is called "real". This concerns the American values and way of life in a sense and "concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.""The Disneyland imaginary is neither true or false: it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real. Whence the debility, the infantile degeneration of this imaginary. It's meant to be an infantile world, in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that real childishness is everywhere, particularly among those adults who go there to act the child in order to foster illusion of their real childishness."
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/postmodernism-is-dead-va-exhibition-age-of-authenticism/
Dubstep as a Postmodern Music Genre
Dubstep music, in my opinion, is probably one of the most “postmodern” music genres in contemporary music culture. The genre uses only electronic means to create its sound and is heavily dependent on the use of sampling. The music itself has its roots in Jamaican dub and reggae and relies heavily on the use of reverberating bass frequencies with a slower, darker tone. Some dubstep music is described as having a sci-fi quality, because of its heavy reliance on computer technology, which would only be possible in the postmodern era. Some artists even use old-school video game sounds in their music, which would be characteristic of a nostalgia for older technology, that is then reused to make something new. The genre also makes no distinction between high and low art because artists will remix any song, whether it’s a classic like the Beatles or Pink Floyd or a contemporary commercial artist like Lady Gaga or Kanye West. The genre takes influences from many different genres; anything from classic rock, techno, punk, new wave, to hip hop is incorporated into the music and then fragmented to the point where it becomes a completely new sound in itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBb1kyP8lVw
I found this video to be postmodern as it has made a modern sounding song out of sounds from the original Super Mario games back in the last 20th Century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBb1kyP8lVw
I found this video to be postmodern as it has made a modern sounding song out of sounds from the original Super Mario games back in the last 20th Century.
