Selena Gomez's Heartbreaking AMA'S Performance

Over the years, we’ve all watched and kept tabs on the infamous Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez relationship and if you have, you would know that they just recently broke up…again. If you’ve been keeping up with pop culture at all, then you probably also watched along with most of America as the American Music Awards premiered on TV on November 23, 2014. I remember as I was watching performance after performance, there was one specific one that caught my attention. Selena’s performance of her hit song The Heart Wants What It Wants.

                After starting out the song with an emotional entrance of her crying over her break up with Justin Bieber, she continued the song to perform one of her best shows yet. The emotion that she sang throughout her song with was enough to make the audience tear up, even her best friend Taylor Swift who was shown to be crying at the end of Selena’s performance. The song was originally written about her relationship and breakup with Bieber and the performance was centered on her heartbreak. So what does Justin Bieber think about this song?

                Selena revealed to Ryan Seacrest that Justin Bieber is in fact a fan of her single. He told Selena what a beautiful song he thought it was, even though it was hard to hear those lyrics about him.  Really though, who wouldn’t be hurt to hear lyrics like that about them? Especially with the prerecorded phone conversation about him that is in both the music video and the live performance, that would make it 10 times harder. It’s hard enough as it is to break up, but it makes it even harder when you’re both stars and your whole breakup is publicly broadcasted. That can’t make it any easier of an experience to go through, especially when the couple had been dating for so long.

                As you can imagine, Bieber was hurt to see the intensity of Selena’s emotions on stage during her performance and he tells friends that seeing what he did to her hurts him but he isn’t a big fan of how she portrayed him during the performance. The show was centered on Bieber and made it seem as though most of the faults in their relationship as well as their breakup were all because of him. He went publicly and explained that although he felt sorry for Selena and everything that happened between them, he wants people to understand that he wasn’t the only one at fault.

                Justin did also say how he wanted Selena back in his life and he supposedly went to the AMA’s to surprise her after her performance with flowers. What do you think? Will this vocal power duo end up back together?

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Crisis in Ferguson

                The world has watched on for months as the people in Ferguson, MO have dealt with the tragedy of losing fellow community member Michael Brown who was shot to death by Ferguson police officer Darrin Wilson. People in New York dealt with a similar situation as they mourn the loss of Eric Garner who died after being put in a chokehold by New York City police officer. So how many times do tragedies like this have to take place for people to realize that these things don’t have to happen and that they can make a difference?

                My parents raised me saying that violence was never the answer to any situation. Now granted, most of the time my situations that I experienced were pretty small compared to what is happening right now in Ferguson, but why can’t that slogan relate to what is going on there now? Why do we have to resort to burning down buildings or fighting with others? No matter how tragic the situation, if people could use the experience and join together to create awareness and fight back in a non violent way, then maybe there could be a way to prevent the cases like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Rodney King.

                In all your years of school, you’ve most likely heard the phrase “the US is one big melting pot.” That may be true, but just because we all look different doesn’t mean that were any different on the inside. Wouldn’t it be great if we could live in a world where all the racial barriers that we see today wouldn’t exist? So if we can dream of that world, then why can’t we make it a reality? If people are aware of the racial diversion that’s present around them, then they would be more likely to do something about it.  We can prevent parents from having to grieve the loss of their child or children having to mourn the loss of their parent. There is so much that could be done before we should need to revert to violence.

                The Ferguson situation is just one example. It started out with the death of one young man, but overtime through the series of events that have taken place, more people have gotten hurt than needed. Through the riots and the burning buildings, it's caused an immense amount of hurt on the suburb as well as people living within. Although it may feel good to get revenge and destroy things in the beginning, those initial feelings do wear off and all you’re left with is the hurt that you had in the beginning and a broken city.

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