Including Akon, who signed her, Elton John, Cher, Nicki Minaj, and multiple singles with Beyoncé. All of Lady Gaga’s music has a strong meaning. Whether it’s just to have fun with life, or accepting who you are, or even a song full of regret. It’s always turns out to be something powerful. It’s not all about one thing, which I feel is very important to listeners nowadays.
Kali Mitchell Mrs. Elliott English 1101 28 September 2012 Madonna of the new millennium “Forbes recently ranked her the most powerful and influential entertainer in the world. She has hundreds of fan Web sites, a video game, a Pepsi commercial, dozens of dolls in her image, a charity foundation, a movie, three hit albums, and multitudinous music videos-all before the age of 21” (Peters). Without a doubt, this is Britney Spears. She is anything but ordinary to the pop music industry. She deserves to be in our hall of fame because she beat her underprivileged childhood, for holding many awards and recognitions for her popular singles, for her amazing comeback from a tragic downfall, and her charity work.
She has a great impact on American pop culture and the lives of women with her empowering music by planting a message in the society that being a female means she is in control and aiming to success comes with hard work. Beyonce Knowles is an influential icon in popular culture with her award-winning songs and top quality performances while at the same time, managing her million dollars businesses and playing the role of a wife and mother. She marks her place as a female artist that will be remembered over many years to come because she sets the standard of perfection in the music industry and she has inspired fellow singers and performers to follow her footsteps. British singer Leona Lewis commented, “Beyonce is great, so lovely and down to earth and talented. She’s inspiring”.
Songwriting Task: Comment on the difference between in approach of four different songwriters who compose in contrasting styles. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, otherwise known in popular culture as Lady Gaga, is a singer-writer who originated in New York. Lady Gaga is most known as a pop singer, composing mainly dance-pop and electronic songs. However, in her earlier years of music, before she met with fame under her pseudo-name, her music was much more driven by acoustic sounds, using real sounds such as piano and electric guitars so achieve a much more rock driven sound. Despite having made a shift in genres, Lady Gaga still manages to achieve a rock sound in many of her songs, working with rock producers and artists like Robert “Mutt” Lange and Queen’s guitarist Brian May.
She believed in empowering women and is known today as a strong feminist icon. Cameron Russell: a Victoria’s secret model that gives TED talks about the fashion industry’s obsession with beauty and weight and is also a great inspiration and spokeswoman for young girls today. Angelina Jolie: a 21-century feminist that was named as the most powerful celeb in the world today and brings together every aspect of female empowerment and liberation. Gloria Steinem: an American feminist, journalist and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s. Nellie McClung: a Canadian feminist, politician, author, and social activist who was one of the “Famous Five” Alberta women who initiated and won the person’s case to have women recognized as persons under the BNA Act.
Events of that sort gave Jett a chance to explore, and maybe enter the Los Angeles musical scene of the 1970s. She chose mothers maiden name, Jett, when her parents divorced, soon after the move to Los Angeles. Joan entered the music scene with the band called “The Runaways”, a band which consisted of only girls with Joan Jett and Sandy West as founders, and in a short time they completed the line-up with Lita Ford, Jackie Fox and Cherrie Currie. The band became quite popular all around the world, especially in Japan, which added a nice amount to Jett`s net worth, although the band wasn`t accepted particularly well in North America. Nevertheless, band was rather influential with teenagers all around the world, releasing five albums until the break-up in 1979, leaving the hit song “Cherry Bomb” and others in
With her determination and sex appeal, Aaliyah won Silver over and was cast in her first major film role. Romeo Must Die (2000) was a hit at the box office. This film led to her being cast as one of the stars of the film based on Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned (2002) and in the two sequels to the major box office hit, The Matrix (1999). During the busy schedule of her film career, Aaliyah took time to record her third album, the self-titled "Aaliyah". July 2001 was a busy time for Aaliyah.
The Lady Gaga brand is memorable, meaningful, likable, transferable, adaptable, and protectable. Gaga’s brand there is no mistake that Lady Gaga’s brand, no matter how different, is distinct. Lady Gaga has developed and created her own brand and image, successfully setting her apart from all of the other artists. Not only is Lady Gaga is a very worldwide and well-known name but she has managed to maintain a very strong target market positioning slot. Lady Gaga's success was built on more than just her talents as an entertainer.
For example Britney Spears gets goggled 500,000 a minute. Pepsi gave each of these stars a million dollars to be a part of their commercial which is only forty five seconds. Another example is the magazine industry will pay millions to either get pregnant stars baby pictures or for a star to tell about a sad time in their lives. In many societies through time the poor worshiped the wealthy. Americans are obsessed with living like the house wives of Atlanta and the Kardashians.
After she became successful in the modeling business she decided to get into the television. Her first TV appearance was acting as Jackie, Will Smith's ex-girlfriend, on the series "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." She's also appeared in the hit movie “Coyote Ugly“. Today Tyra Banks is one of the top models in the world. In 2000, she began executive producing hosting and head judging America's Next Top Model.