May 30, 2013 in Uncategorized

Context…It is important people (Adam Levine’s “Outburst”)

There have been a lot of opinions being stated as well as over-dramatization about Adam Levine’s comment at the end of Tuesday’s The Voice Results Show. For those that do not know, there were three contestants left on the chopping block at the end of the show. Team Blake’s Holly Tucker as well as Team Adam’s Judith Hill and Sarah Simmons. This meant that at the end of the day at least one of Adam’s singers was going home. Right before the announcement of the final save the camera pans to Blake and you hear Adam say “I hate this country”. This was tweeted on twitter and all hell broke loose. Other twitter users started tweeting about it, retweeting, blogs and media picked up on it and it was a veritable smorgasboard of hate towards Mr. Levine. But here is the thing… if everyone took the comment in context with the situation that it was made during and if the camera hadn’t panned to Blake (so we could have seen Adam’s face or gestures when he said it) maybe this wouldn’t have been such a big deal but alas that is not how people work.

People that do not even watch the show jumped in on the action claiming Adam as anti-America and now he’s having to explain something that he shouldn’t need to if people just looked at context. “America” gets to vote for who stays and who goes. America as in “this country”. The entire season you could see how fond Adam has grown of his performers and how much he cared. So seeing that two out of his three singers (who are amazing and seriously… WTF Voice watchers/voters) were still up for elimination he made a comment about hating this country. Then when the camera pans back out you see him sitting there with fingers crossed and pleading under his breath hoping they would be saved. So context. Adam Levine faced with losing two of his singers (which he eventually did, see above WTF comment) said “I hate this country”, it was a joke throwaway statement. Much like sometimes when my friends say something I say “I hate you” to them. Do I actually hate them? No I do not.

Did Adam just randomly decide to say “I hate this country” for no reason under his breath? No he did not. Even from the little clip everyone has been posting you can see that. Now he’s having to go the long PR route going on TV shows, talking to blogs, tweeting and etc to explain an innocent frustrated outburst made in an intense situation. Why are we as a society so quick to get offended and jump on the “hate” and “anger” wagon? When did we become so overly sensitive to everything that is said that something like this had to be blown way out of proportion? Seriously people, lets calm the heck down and try to think things through before blowing our tops.

Does Adam Levine hate this country, his country, his birthplace and homeland? ANSWER IS NO! Lets just leave it alone now. Or if anything, get offended by the fact that media and overly sensitive people blew this out of proportion and wasted all our time and flooded the news channels, radio station morning reports and etc with this stupid crap.

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