Transcendentalism Post

     Transcendentalism is when you are not afraid to be who you are. You take risk and you don’t care what other people thing. You believe what you believe; do what you want to do, say what you want to say. A good person to describe this is Katy Perry. At concerts her outfits are always very different and outrageous. One outfit she wore at one of her concerts is rainbow, and the bottom of it is a carousel. If that doesn’t say “I don’t care what people think about me” I don’t know what does! She has dyed her blue at points in her music career. Many, many celebrities won’t dye their hair a crazy color, but she did. Her song “Firework” really emphasizes how important it is to be you. Katy Perry in her song says “Just own the night…” when she says that Katy Perry means that you should live your life to the fullest, do what you want when you want and not care what others think. In the song she also says “Come on let your colors burst” This line really talks about being who you are, who you really are on the inside and letting it come out to people, because colors represent your true colors. People always talk about people’s true colors coming out, sometimes their ugly, and sometimes their beautiful. The lyrics to her song are very transcendentalist, because the whole song is about how you are special, but it is more than just the lyrics it is the visual part as well. In the video there is a girl that is a little on the bigger side, she sitting at the edge of the people watching everyone else have a fun, this young girls gets up and jumps in the pool in her underwear. She makes a statement about herself that she is comfortable with herself. At another part there is a party, the camera is focused on a boy, as he makes his way through the crowd he kisses another boy. The reason this is such a huge deal is because he could be shunned for the rest of his life for being gay. But, he does not care, because that is who he is and he is and should be proud of it. Katy Perry chose these scenarios for a reason, they show how kids have tough time showing who they are, and takes a lot of guts to be who you want to be and do what you want to do, but this video also shows how good these kids felt after doing it. Katy Perry is a transcendentalist because she goes crazy with how she looks; she takes her outfits to the next level. And her music talks about being an individual. Katy Perry is a true transcendentalist.