As controversial music videos go AirHammer are at the beginning so here goes nothing: Why do blind people travel? An awful question I know, but having a rather practical streak running through me I did find myself asking it one day several months ago whilst still in my former Job pro busking in South Kensington. (I invented the title of Pro Busking because is sounded better than musical beggar)
As a pro busker at south Kensington station I cannot tell you the number of tourists that walked past me on a daily basis and they came in all shapes and sizes: Black, White, Irish, Oriental, Russian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestites, Mute, Tall, Fat, Skinny, Heterosexual, Hindu, Buddhists, Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Amputees, Sikh, Muslim, French, Tourettes and Down’s syndrome.
Wow, there is scope for controversial music videos and more controversial music videos in that list!
As a percentage of all these hundreds and thousand of tourists I would estimate that maybe two percent of them were blind. This made me feel strange at first and I started to worry that I had some deep seated hatred for the visually impaired which was uncontrollable.
But then it struck me, because I realised that what was eating at my little heart strings was not an irrational hatred for disability but my inherent money saving gene fostered in childhood by my father. Yes I was subconsciously thinking “If I was blind, I would save the money on travel, as mostly visiting new countries is about seeing things you haven’t seen before”.
As soon as this thought crossed my mind I realised how ridiculous it was and I could feel the controversial music videos coming on.
It was a very silly idea as its obvious there is a lot to be gained form a new country even if you can’t see it. Relaxation, hot weather, the sounds and the smells………. not to mention the fact that you would probably have a full vision family who would be itching to see Big Ben and Buckingham palace etc.
My stupidity is once again shown up when you look at Fulham football club and their successful blind stand. Ignorant people might say “Why on earth would a blind person go to a football match? It’s a ruddy waste of money”. But at Fulham they have commentary in the stand and the crowd noise is supposed to be incredible for the heightened senses of the blind.
Of course this whole “controversial music videos” post could backfire causing such unrest, uproar and hatred that a band of vigilantes target and peruse me to the ends of the earth in a noble quest take my own eyes in penance for the flippancy I may have displayed here. Although I’m sure the rest of you more rational people will understand that we all have these strange little thoughts from time to time. It’s defiantly bests to get them all out in the open before they start to well up and mutate into bigotry.
Controversial Music Videos Galore – So what is the song all about?
In the song below I take the part of my formerly ignorant and short-sighted self and revisit the past to see what the world is like. There will also be a second part to I reach philosophical enlightenment on the issue and understand the value in blind travel. In the end my character will move on and spend his days creating Controversial Music Videos for profit and fame.
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Anyway I would be glad to get your views on this blind or not so leave me a comment and let me now what you think. Could this work stand up against the great Controversial Music Videos of the past and is there any chance that I might be the new Madonna?
