in this first black mirror season 5 episode breakdown we're gonna be talking
about the episode Rachael Jack and Ashley too featuring miley cyrus and there's actually a lot from
this episode that's actually going on in the music as well as the movie industry
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waiting so so so long for black mirror like that episode Bandersnatch where you
got to choose your own path and stuff that was pretty dope but anyways one of
the reasons I love black mirror is because they they do what I love doing
right like looking at society looking at technology looking at human behavior
seeing how things are going but what they do is they project like what are
some possibilities that are happening in the future so by the way if you love you
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the first video that I'm doing and we'd be breaking down each episode of pulling
different topics to see what we can learn from them so real quick I'm gonna
run down this episode give a quick synopsis if you haven't seen it there
will be some spoilers but you probably know that there's a title of this video
set in big explain alright so anyways there is a young girl named Rachel
alright and she is a huge huge huge fan of the pop star played by Miley Cyrus
and her name is Ashley rachel has a sister named Jack and Ashley comes out
with a brand new product called the Ashley - and this is a little robotic
device that has actually it's almost like her consciousness inside of there
and it's like a I and told me train so rachel becomes friends with this little
robot thingamajigger and that's very helpful to her cuz she just moved to a
new school doesn't know anybody doesn't have any friends but actually is very
like encouraging and positive and everything kind of the way they mold pop
stars and Rachel's sister Jack doesn't really like all that stuff but also I'm
going to be doing a whole separate video discussing the talent show aspect of it
because there's definitely a topic that we can
all take from that and learn from but anyways what we come to find out
actually like many musicians who are in the pop industry they're not happy with
what they're creating Ashley it's pretty much being controlled by her aunts and
what happens is Ashley's aunt in finding out that Ashley has been taking her
medications and all that so if she crushes them up puts them in Ashley's
food Ashley goes into a coma so what they end up doing is they end up tapping
into Ashley's mind and pulling out all of her creativity and things like that
because what they realize is they don't really need Ashley they can still make a
boatload of money off of Ashley all right Ashley and Jack end up getting
Ashley's real consciousness without the rev limiter into the little robot find
out what's going on they go they rescue Ashley and right when Ashley's aunt is
about to release this huge huge huge project of like at virtua ashley i can
do a million tours and never get exhausted or anything like that they go
and they put a whole cup Bosh on it and in the in credits we see that actually
it's now finally free she joins she makes a little band with Jack and now
she can make the music that she likes and I'm assuming Ash's aunt went to
prison for what she did alright so yes what what is this episode talking about
alright this is actually something that has been coming up a lot in the music as
well as the film industry and it involves a conversation around ethics
okay so for example talking about the movie industry this is something that's
been happening more and more often like I'm a huge huge huge Star Wars fan and
recently in the Star Wars movie road one what they actually did was they did a
CGI version of a actor who actually passed away who was from the original
movies alright and that was a conversation that a lot of people
started having around ethics like is it ethical to take an actor or an actress
who has passed away and put them in a movie because what the way technology is
now with the way that they can not only make somebody look visually like they
were like even younger but they can also do voice mimicking right like they can
recreate someone's voice so they are recreating that character so much and
like the question is like what that person have wanted you to do that so
what we see in the music industry we see this on all sorts of levels so one of
them I remember at what was at Coachella years ago where they brought out the
hologram version of Tupac right and they had to park on there and then well they
yeah this is pretty cool but then they wanted to do it more and
more and more so the conversation started to become like is it ethical to
recreate a dead musician and have them perform as a hologram something else
that has come up when it comes to artists who have passed away is their
music right so their unreleased music I remember when Michael Jackson first
passed away he had and they were saying it was like a vote right that he had a
vote of music that was completely unreleased now why did he not release it
put a bit of a line of reasons maybe he wasn't fully happy with it or anything
like that but they ended up not releasing all the music but they took
some of that music and they did create a new album now in the case of Michael
Jackson I believe if memory serves me correctly
like Michael Jackson had massive debts that he had to pay off so pretty much
like the family like the estate had to release some of that music to bring in
some money to pay off some of those debts but this is a question because
we're living in a time where many artists are passing away way way way way
too soon right like we have like people like Matt Miller we have people like
little peep so many artists who are passing away I believe this was even a
situation when Prince passed away as well and his unreleased music I remember
Prince was actually taken off the Spotify and put onto the other app title
because they own the rights to Prince's music so the question becomes like
ethically can you do that can you continue to make money off of an artist
now that they have passed away all right so in my opinion and my non-lawyer just
fan of music and movies of payments I think I believe that artists knowing
where technology is taking us and all these other situations that we can look
at like artists need to start making wills like now right and put in that
will yes or no like can studios can the family you know can the the person who
is running the estate make these choices to sell the rights to a movie production
or like the music industry to say yes you can recreate music or you can
recreate them in a movie and things like that because what they were what they
did in this episode of black mirror Rachael Jack and Ashley - with Miley
Cyrus's character like there was a scene where they pulled out some music from
Ashley but it wasn't like that pop sound so what they did was they edited had
switched everything around and it became that pop sound right so is that
disrespectful to the artists who take their music like let's say let's say
artists did have a notebook write a notebook and it had a bunch of lyrics
that was never out there maybe even you look if you look at like rappers write
rappers write down their their bars and everything like that and you can
recreate their voice so would it be ethical to take what they've written
recreate their voice produce a track and put their recreated voice over that beat
you know what I mean and in my opinion without their permission
absolutely not absolutely not because a lot of artists like maybe they're not
happy with their label maybe they're not happy with the music they've been
creating and when people pass away like they have a legacy that they're leaving
behind and maybe there's a reason they don't want somebody else tampering with
this especially when we're talking about something that is creative such as music
right so the last thing I want to talk about is when I was watching this
episode Rachael Jack and Ashley - like I was thinking about the current free
Britney situation right so Britney Spears you've probably
heard about that in the news after she had her famous mental breakdown she
pretty much signed over the rights to all of her decisions over to her father
white and now there's a lot of things being brought up like this she in a
state now to manage your own affairs and all those kind of things
so I think this episode kind of touched on that because there are many people in
the industry this is why a lot of people are starting to do things on their own
and independently it's because when they get into that big corporate world of
music and like you started hearing about industry plants and all that like
they're not even really making their own decisions anymore you see I mean I do
enjoy how black me are kind of touched on that as well anyways this is all very
interesting to me and I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic do you
think it's ethical to do that for entertainment if the person hasn't given
permission before they passed away all right let me know down in the comments
below but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please
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