User blog:Zman12346/I don't understand why in the new episode "Really Loud Music", Luna would choose to pass up such a great opportunity to become famous.

First blog from me in a while.

So anyway. First and foremost I will say that the new episode "Really Loud Music" is quite a good musical episode. The songs are quite good, its good to see every Loud family member play their own style of music.

But sadly while the writers clearly tried hard to make the episode good and heartwarming, there are some things it tries to teach that I personally at least don't agree with.

Namely the moral of the episode. "Being yourself is more imporant than being famous." which is similar to the episode "Toads and Tiaras" with the only difference being that in that episode, Lana won in the pageant for being herself and in "Really Loud music", Luna instead lost the competition for wanting to not change.

I don't like either episode's take on the moral of being yourself sadly, because sadly all too often I simply don't like this moral. There are just too many situations in life where this moral does not work.

The famous scientist Charles Darwin once said "It is not the most powerful species that survive, nor the most intelligent but rather, the one most adaptable to change." From this standpoint at least, Luna (and Lana in her episode teaching the same moral) would both be species that would soon easily go extinct. There's also the saying that no one is perfect and that no one can ever be perfect, but if we don't try to at least improve, we will miss out on the chance for something better. The world we live in today in fact, is only as good as it is today because of changes that have happened over time.

For instance, the fight against racism. Racism is a terrible thing where people are treated as being lesser or inferior simply because of their skin colour which is something they have no control over. There was even once a time where it was perfectly legal for white people to take black people as slaves and to treat them as objects that could be brought or sold, which we now know is terrible and very cruel. But now people of different races have rights. Many of those things are forbidden now. While racism hasn't dissapeared entirely, it would be silly to argue that at least its not as bad as it once was. These improvements could only happen because of CHANGE.

Or take all the nice inventions that we use today like computers and trains which make our life more pleasurable and which I doubt we could manage without. None of these would be possible without change.

Refusing to change when change would clearly be a great benifit is illogical. Take a person who is lazy, refuses to do any work and will go on to fail every one of their test so that they end up as a hobo on the street that contributes next to nothing and only exists to suck a few pennies out of working people every now and again. Clearly things would be better for both them and the other people if they simply changed their attitude to work.

Or take a criminal like the joker who does very inhumane and evil things for the sake of it. Clearly his city would be a better place if he finally agreed to change himself for the better. But he won't change.

Or in a hospital where patients are often killed because doctor's don't have clean hands. It would be silly to deny that more lives could be saved if the doctor's simply washed their hands which would involve changing their behaviours. Since life is a precious thing.

So why should Luna reconsider the option of becoming famous even if it does mean she will have to make a few changes herself to become famous!?

Well here's my two cents on the matter. The Loud family are a big family. Each member of the family has very big hobbies which they cannot live without. That costs a fortune and as Luna herself once said to Lincoln "Big family, small budget". Becoming famous would in this regard at least, let Luna help out her family by providing them with a better budget.

A better budget has many, many advantages.

1: It is common for the Loud's to argue over whose desire should get priority as shown in the episodes "Yes man" and "Cereal Offender".and "Friendzy". More money would lessen this problem since now everyone can get what they want. Look at how much musical equipment Luna has in her room and how many experiments Lisa conducts everyday etc. Those things can't be cheap.

2. Lori said in the episode "Homespun" that this house was literally falling apart. And I agree. If the repairs for the house are not done soon, the house will indeed fall apart and then the family will be shivering on the streets, homeless and sad. (Picture the scene where the family are freezing out in the snow in the episode "Snow way out") This is definetly one area that money can solve.

3. Vanzilla is by now, a very old van. The episode "The Sweet Spot"  shows that each car ride is very uncomfortable and the episode "Vantastic voyage" shows that the van is very prone to breakdowns. One reason the dad may have been so protective of the new van was that it cost a fortune and that he was afraid that if it broke, he'd have no more money left. More money could fix the problem in two ways. It would let the Louds buy a new van and in case that one broke down, buy yet another new van. Or it could be put towards simply fixing the faults in Vanzilla such as putting in a new AC and fixing the windows so they open and close properly etc.

Those are three reasons off the top of my head that more money which would come with fame could be beinficial to the family. So in this regard, by refusing fame, Luna is refusing all these possible great benifits to her family and herself. So refusing fame could be seen as a form of selfishness.

Furthermore, Fame  (not notereity, Fame) is a measure of how well your actions affect the world. With no fame, it means your actions are of either negligible or negative consequence. By refusing fame, you refuse to make the world happier with your contributions. You refuse to make the world a better place for both yourself and others. You refuse in a sense, to become immortal. Well known and praised long after you have passed away because of all the good you did for the world.

Look at people like Issac Newton, Albert Einstein, Barack Obama and even Martin Luther King whose actions were instrumental to making the world the better place it is today. They would not nearly have been able cause such effects if they were not famous. The same with musicians. The popular and highly rated songs are listened to by many people to improve their moods on their sad days while the more obscure ones fade away, causing little to no effect. And is the point of a musician not to entertain as many people as possible with their dulctet tunes and angelic chords?

You wouldn't tell a lazy student who doesn't do his work on time to keep being himself. You wouldn't tell a bully who goes around bullying others and taking their lunch money for himself to keep being himself. For shows like The Loud House and pretty much any other good show or film, to steal a line from a famous reviewer "At the end of every episode, at least one character should be in a different place from where they started at least on the inside." Refusing to change a flaw for the better is therefore, clearly the sing of an antagonist or at best a static character.

Even more sensesless, is this point. Ask almost everyone what they would like and I'm willing to bet a very big amount of money that they'll almost immediately say "WEALTH AND FAME" without even thinking about it.

Without fame, people won't listen to your points. You'll have no freedom and be forced to do as others say and that's ironic considering that Luna believes that her fame was what was taking away her freedom. And without wealth you will only ever have a very limited choice of things you can have. More wealth can be used either on yourself if you are selfish, or to be donated to others if you are charitable. Bottom line, more wealth and fame equals more happiness for both yourself and others.

Most celebrities would have to go through worse than what Luna was put through to gain fame. While it wasn't exactly pleasant, the few changes Luna would have to make to stay famous would be a small price to pay for fame. Even if you use the argument that what you think of yourself is more important than what others think about you, it would still be ard to deny that if absolutely no one approves of your actions, your own opinion of yourself is only a minority compared to a vast majority. And thus at best, only you would like yourself if no one else liked you. It would show you were unable to take criticism well and trying to live in denial.

I understand completely if my opinion doesn't line up with yours. I just needed to get it off my chest. And I did like the episode, I just didn't like the moral they gave at the end.

But for now, thanks for reading and happy holidays. I hope to see you all soon.

'''Finally though, its time for quiz time! For one million dollars. you are to answer whether Luna's life as well as that of her family and friends would have changed greatly for the better had she accepted the changes she would need to make in order to stay famous? '''

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'''A: Definetly. B: Absolutely not. C: Its very much debatable. I could write an essay about it and still not really know which side I truly stand for. D: The characters aren't given enough screentime for us to tell. Too little canon information provided so its simply not possible to deduce an accurate answer without wild mass guessing.'''

'''You already know what my answer is but I'm excited to hear about yours. That's the point after all of these blogs. Please note that I completely value your opinion if it doesn't line up with mine and that you are free to think as you want. And once again, thanks for reading, it means a lot to me. '''