![]() Children today often look up to other child actors, or what is portrayed as a child actor, and think, "why doesn't my body look like that? Aren't we the same age?" Growing up is hard enough, but growing up with the image of an 18 year old playing the age of a 14 year old on tv is incredibly difficult for viewers to see and it doesn't stop there as we get older, we look to magazines, fashion instagrams, influencers, and other media outlets to see what the latest trends are, but most importantly, we look to see what we should look like. Diets, exercise crazes, and the media's portrayal of the 'ideal body' has been a major contributor to women and young girls, as well as men, believing their natural body shape is not acceptable. How did a time once filled with nothing but joy turn into this doom of "will my body be good enough"? America has grown increasingly more hostile towards body image over the past 50 years. Over the past several weeks, I've gotten many nervous "7 weeks until bikini time," "4 weeks until bikini season," "2 weeks until I have to be in a bikini," "I'm not going to the beach or any pool parties this summer" texts from several different friends. Main stream media has begun to include all body types in modeling and advertisement campaigns, but yet there's a sense of not feeling good enough still lingering in the air. Summer is the warmest and most fun season, but it can also easily be the most stressful season for anyone who suffers from body image issues. Whenever I give a tour of my town I never leave out the village or the colleges because they’re such a huge part of what makes my town so special. In fact, Claremont is known as a college town because of how college centered it is (so much so we actually named a lot of our streets after famous colleges). They all have their own personalities despite not having any distinct borders separating them. They’re all very distinguished, both in their reputation as educational institutions and their campus. They’re known as the Five-C’s (The Five Claremont Colleges): Pomona, McKenna, Scripps, Pitzer, and Harvey Mudd. What also contributes heavily to the grandeur of the city is the fact that it’s the home of five very prestigious colleges. You’ll rarely find the restaurants and shopping attractions anywhere else. It has a village that’s filled with unique, privately managed businesses that further add to the uniqueness of the overall city. Nevertheless its beauties are unbound by the restrictions of descriptive words as they do it no justice. "It's bigger than black and white / It's a problem with the whole way of life / It can't change overnight / But we gotta start somewhere"- attempting to gather the millions of Americans to make a change of the racial injustice surrounding America.Īccording to Lil Baby, sales from "The Bigger Picture" will be funded towards The Bail Project and Black Lives Matter.Ĭlaremont is about an hour or so away from L.A. Then, the rapper proceeds to reflect on his skin color and how when he sees "blue lights, scared and runnin." He later says, "That shit be crazy, they 'posed to protect us / Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us." With these words, Lil Baby is trying to emphasize the line between citizens and the police and how that line has now been blurred.Īmidst all these lyrics, Lil Baby had a clear purpose with this song. "I find it crazy the police will shoot you and know that you dead but still tell you to freeze / F***ed up, I seen what I seen / I guess that mean hold him down if he say he can't breathe." In these lyrics, Lil Baby is trying to make sense of the police brutality that he and millions of Americans have seen. ![]() ![]() He unfolds his feelings and empathy surrounding the racial injustice that he's seen throughout his life. Throughout the 4 minutes of the entire song, you can hear the anxiety in Lil Baby's flow and his 3 verses. Stream/Download Lil Baby's "The Bigger Picture" here: Follow Lil Baby Everywhere: Instagram. The film is about two sons who are ambivalent about taking care of their aging mother and was made by combining 2D painted art and life-size puppetry, animated in life-size sets.Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture (Official Music Video) It won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation at the 68th British Academy Film Awards. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards. The Bigger Picture is a 2014 British animated short film directed by Daisy Jacobs.
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