Back around '90, the cable service (at least in the Portland, OR area) had a PPV channel for music videos that charged $2.95 a play off the revolving list ran during "dead air" times. This was a perfect medium for not just "too oddball for 120 Min." bands like the Cocteau Twins and Ministry, but videos never intended for MTV or in the case of Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls", too dark and violent for even CMT back then. So naturally, it also became the channel to see explicit, unedited fare like Madonna's lesbian sex romp in "Justify My Love"...and yep, those videos 2 Live Crew had that were "As Nasty As They Wanna Be". At least MTV allowed "Me So Horny" to run on late-nights, but those dancers wore panties instead of those thongs!! LOL
As disgustingly creepy towards women (calling chicks "pussy" is NOT something any woman, myself including, wants to hear ANY guy say within earshot, EVER) 2 Live Crew rhymed about in their music, that one verse the Afro-Asian pudgy guy, Fresh Ice Kid, does that somehow clues him to the fact his gal just plays him for sex ("You tell your parents that we're goin' out/Never to the movies, just straight to my house") kinda makes me feel sorry for him. Having grown up as a military brat who went to an on-base grade school the 3 years my dad was stationed in Rota, Spain, I saw boys like him (Navy dad with an Asian mom dad had met off-base, and of course, fell in love and married--oftentimes Black servicemen who married local Asian women) get picked on or beat up a lot, particularly if they looked like Fresh Ice Kid! Hard to believe some 25+ years later, nobody even blinks an eye anymore at couples in interracial relationships...must've been due a lot to all those talk shows on daytime TV in the '90s. (Go Ricki! LOL)
I was happily growing up in a northern state in the 1970's and interracial couples were still being stared at (and probably stared down). I remember feeling so good whenever I saw them in public, which was mainly on the televsion set. I wanted to give them a High Five for their courage. I was given the usual speech from my mother....I don't mind you marrying a black man if he loves you and treats you like a princess, but I worry about the children. It would be too hard on them. (In other words, just don't do it;) Daddy's...
I was happily growing up in a northern state in the 1970's and interracial couples were still being stared at (and probably stared down). I remember feeling so good whenever I saw them in public, which was mainly on the televsion set. I wanted to give them a High Five for their courage. I was given the usual speech from my mother....I don't mind you marrying a black man if he loves you and treats you like a princess, but I worry about the children. It would be too hard on them. (In other words, just don't do it;) Daddy's choice words cannot be printed here.
Back around '90, the cable service (at least in the Portland, OR area) had a PPV channel for music videos that charged $2.95 a play off the revolving list ran during "dead air" times. This was a perfect medium for not just "too oddball for 120 Min." bands like the Cocteau Twins and Ministry, but videos never intended for MTV or in the case of Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls", too dark and violent for even CMT back then. So naturally, it also became the channel to see explicit, unedited fare like Madonna's lesbian sex romp in "Justify My Love"...and yep, those videos 2 Live Crew had that were "As Nasty As They Wanna Be". At least MTV allowed "Me So Horny" to run on late-nights, but those dancers wore panties instead of those thongs!! LOL As disgustingly creepy towards women (calling chicks "pussy" is NOT something any woman, myself including, wants to hear ANY guy say within earshot, EVER) 2 Live Crew rhymed about in their music, that one verse the Afro-Asian pudgy guy, Fresh Ice Kid, does that somehow clues him to the fact his gal just plays him for sex ("You tell your parents that we're goin' out/Never to the movies, just straight to my house") kinda makes me feel sorry for him. Having grown up as a military brat who went to an on-base grade school the 3 years my dad was stationed in Rota, Spain, I saw boys like him (Navy dad with an Asian mom dad had met off-base, and of course, fell in love and married--oftentimes Black servicemen who married local Asian women) get picked on or beat up a lot, particularly if they looked like Fresh Ice Kid! Hard to believe some 25+ years later, nobody even blinks an eye anymore at couples in interracial relationships...must've been due a lot to all those talk shows on daytime TV in the '90s. (Go Ricki! LOL)
I was happily growing up in a northern state in the 1970's and interracial couples were still being stared at (and probably stared down). I remember feeling so good whenever I saw them in public, which was mainly on the televsion set. I wanted to give them a High Five for their courage. I was given the usual speech from my mother....I don't mind you marrying a black man if he loves you and treats you like a princess, but I worry about the children. It would be too hard on them. (In other words, just don't do it;) Daddy's...
I was happily growing up in a northern state in the 1970's and interracial couples were still being stared at (and probably stared down). I remember feeling so good whenever I saw them in public, which was mainly on the televsion set. I wanted to give them a High Five for their courage. I was given the usual speech from my mother....I don't mind you marrying a black man if he loves you and treats you like a princess, but I worry about the children. It would be too hard on them. (In other words, just don't do it;) Daddy's choice words cannot be printed here.