At 90° With Sore Knees

For those of you that are Karl Pilkington fans and more specifically the 'Idiot abroad series', I wish to take you back to when Karl visited India. Although a largely unpleasant visit for our growing national treasure, he did come across some interesting spectacles; One of which being when he visited the Kumbh Mela festival. Here Karl met religious Babas that practised extreme feats of yoga, the reasoning being it is through these forms of yoga that these people feel spiritually enlightened. Because of this, some have dedicated a large proportion of their lives to, for example, holding one arm up in the air for several years.


 And so...Karl is walking around these various different Babas finding out what each one is doing and why they are doing it. Some are extremely flexible, some do some seriously messed up things with their meat and two veg and others, as given in the example, hod certain posses for years on end. At the end Karl makes funny comments and finds the whole visit bewildering ect. Allow me to offer a different version of this trip.

Karl is standing at the start of a long line of Baba's, he slowly strolls past each one. Now and then the Baba's will offer to show more yoga if Karl pays. (of course we all know that extreme poverty won't lead people to do some bizarre things for money). After seeing several of these Baba's Karl comes to the last one. Oddly enough its Miley Cyrus. She is bent over and twerking her ass off! As usual wearing skin tight revealing spandex which squeaks as she jiggles. Karl walks round to her front and lowers into a crouching position so he is now level with Miley. He asks why? Still twerking away with onlookers taking a good long look, she turns her head and says "the more I do this, the more money I get"



After, it cuts to Karl asking the questions we all love Karl asking; the types of questions that your conscience constantly asks, but only Karl voices. "I thought she was a singer?" I thought she use to be a children's entertainer?", I thought she didn't care what people think of her, but whenever she is in public view has to bend over and shake her ass endlessly."

there are despised figures such as Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber because of the things they say and do. This normalisation of famous individuals doing or saying outrageous things has become more of an issue in the 21st century, as instant worldwide communication means that within minutes of it happening, fans half way around the world can here of Justin Beiber spitting on fans.

Point being, the music industry or rather, certain individuals within it, are missing the point. Individuality and self expression is what the industry is all about, but Miley Cyrus is an advert for prostitution. I would say she is in fact just a few so called 'twerks' away from being an actual prostitute.

In short, higher standards are needed. Fortunately though, if you know where to look; real music is still going stronge. It's just a genuine shame that some of  the big players let the image of being a musician suffer.