Boys' Moment

Josey Greenwell:

As you can see, today, we're going to talk about Josey Greenwell. 

First of all, who is he ? 

Josey Greewell was born on 1989, in Kentucky. He is an artist, a pop singer, and song writter, but also a successful model. He appeared on several magazines covers, such as "DNA Magazine" "Out & About" and also, in France, "Têtu". 

At first, he began with a record company in Nashville, where he lives. But one day, while hanging around the gay district, he meets one of his workmate, a traine who denounced him. Josey get fired, but not the trainee. 

He was kind of depressed, and began to post videos on youtube, covering famous songs with his accoustic guitar and wonderful voice; in order to cheer himself up: Songs like Katy Perry or Adele. He became famous thanks to this, and reached over 4 millions plays. 

Then, another record company notices him, in Miami this time, and gives him the opportunity to realease his first single: "Stuck in my Head". He's know a well-known singer. 

Music :

"Gangnam Style", a unsual success.


 S ince its release on July 15th 2012, Psy's hit song  has known a universal success : Gangnam Style ranked first on You Tube's "Most Viewed Videos" with more than 1,500,000,000 views, and  received several prizes such as the MTV Europe Music Award (Best Video), the NRJ Music Award (NRJ Award of Honor,  International Song of the Year...)
The video started to become famous in Korea soon after it appears and as a continuation it became viral since it was released in Youtube, going beyond Justin Bieber's Baby.
Despite the first goal of the song, Psy's Gangnam Style lyrics and moves are sung and danced worlwide by fans and it was parodied as many.

You still can't dance it ?
I feel bad for you Dear reader......

There is no doubt that you have already sung the famous chorus, even without noticing it. But the fact remains that most of you don't even know what this song is about ! That is why I propose you to discover the secret aspects of "Gangnam Style"...

  What is Gangnam ? 
Gangnam the richest district in Seoul (South Korea). It's a modern area gathering luxury shops, restaurants, immense and prestigious buildings, and large avenues. The song is a reference to the way of life of the posh youth of Gangnam.


 What's the link between Gangnam, and the "Horse Dance" ? 

According to the historian Li Ogg, horses are famous in the Korean culture : Indeed, the horse is the totem of  Djumung, the son of Tangun, who is the supposed to be the founder of the ancient kingdom of Korea.

 Finally, does Gangnam Style belong to K-Pop Music ?  

The song is classified as a Korean Pop music however its goal is to mock this style. Indeed Psy wanted to explain the stupid acting of K-Pop , the music video looks crazy with complete non-sence as it's like in other K-Pop ones.

I guess you were singing this song again and again while reading this post, but I have bad news for you :
Psy's new hit song is now released, and it has already more 150 000 000 views on You Tube.

Here the link !  >> ♫♪ <<

 ( If Psy can be a gentleman... well, you guys have
no excuse not to be a gentleman anymore. )

Rwandan Genocide

~ Subject of the day ~

RWANDAN GENOCIDE

Dears readers,

Today we are going to talk about a subject that we didn't hear much about because it was not very mediatized. It took place from the 6th April to the 4th July 1994 in East Africa more precisely in Rwanda between Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. It was the fastest genocide in History with the most important number of deaths per day. During this mass murder 800,000 Rwandans were killed.

During the 1st World War Belgians inherited the Rwanda-Urundi colony from Germans who lost the war. Belgians separated the population in three groups: the Tutsis who were considered as the most intelligent and who were supposed to be physically closer to Europeans than the others. Colons called them "White-Niggers". The other important group were the Hutus who were in majority agricultors and were as inferior people. The last group were the Twas, the smallest one. During decolonisation Belgians placed Tutsis at the power until Hutus rebel.

Concerning the Medias, the radio "One Thousand Hills Free Radio and Television" played a major role during the genocide broadcasting hatred messages constantly like " Tutsis are croackroaches ! We will kill you !" . Those messages drove to te creation of district militia and massacres more and more planned .

We have to keep in mind that this massacre was approved by the Rwandan Government which supported the radio.The murder of the Rwandan President Habyarimana used as an excuse to beginning the genocide.

Rape was also used by the Interahamwe (a militia which committed the most of massacres and which was on the side of Habyarimana) as a weapon of war transmetting the AIDS to the victims often very young.

Moreover, militias were armed by major powers like France (firearms and munitions) and China (machetes).

However, we mustn't forget the fact that the International Community didn't do anything to stop this genocide, qualifying the massacre as an interethnic conflict.

At the end of the genocide, popular court were made by village people, called Gacaca to judge criminals or suspect. Witnesses told their stories and people decided of their culpability.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council to judge people responsible of the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law judges this crime against humanity.

To learn more about this tragedy, we advise you to watch a very good movie by Raoul Peck called Sometimes in April . Here the movie (it's legal ! )

By Prisca, William and Anissa,

#TeamUltimatePower