Chelsea Gore Block: 4 Music influences people on different levels than just novels, poems, and other forms of text. Music gets the message across and stuck in your head leaving you hopeless of getting it out. March 28, 1986 one of the most influential composer and performer came into the world, Lady Gaga. Not everyone may like Gaga or the way she presents herself or her music, but she has still influenced America today. She developed her interests in the music industry at an early age, so she has had awhile to plan her way to take over the world, metaphorically of course.
Lady Gaga’s Tipping Point In a Rolling Stone interview, pop star sensation Lady Gaga shares, “My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, “I can see you, because you have no pants on.” So I’ll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.” Lady Gaga is famous for her outrageous outfits, blunt personality, theatrical stage performances, and her hit pop songs. Before fame, she performed in burlesque shows in New York bars and club scenes. She was discovered by producer and record executive, Vincent Herbert who signed her to Interscope Records as a songwriter. She worked with famous artists such as Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, and Akon who later signed her to his record label, Kon Live Distribution.
This brand loyalty that Madonna has generated makes her an attractive prospect for record companies - they will sell many more records if they are sung by Madonna than if they were sung by Josephine Bloggs. This means that Madonna is heavily demanded by record companies who know that signing her up will be hugely profitable for them. As she is a unique good, she essentially hasmonopoly power - there is no direct substitute for her, so she can set as high a price (recording contract, wages, takings from concerts, etc.) as she likes (within reason, and assuming continued popularity). A nurse will often only have nursing qualifications and a strong desire to nurse people.
Hatsune Miku is being constructed as a gendered performer through the fan base of mainly otakus. Because many “otakus” seem to like teenage girls wearing little to no clothes, we can see Hatsune Miku take this form. Her image is of a teenage girl that wears short skirts and in different fan art images we can see her even more underdressed than usual. Hatsune Miku can be modified because she herself is just an image. The fans are able to compose and remix their own music and sync it with the vocaloid.
Her style and body language portrays her attitude to life and people which reflect back to her genre of music that is Pop and pop rock. Her hit singles, ‘ Fear’ , ‘ F**** *** ‘ spawned mostly in Europe and because of her ‘ freedom of speech’ attitude Allen and alongside, Amy Winehouse have been credited with starting a process that led to the media- proclaimed "year of the women" in 2009 that has seen five female artists making music of "experimentalism and fearlessness long" nominated for the Mercury Prize Back. , Lily Allen is often seen in gossip magazines flashing cameras and people watching. Some artists feel that they need to produce and share every aspect of their life to gain publicity for their music and other work with their fans and critics through the use of interviews and stories in magazines. For example, in the front page opposite, ‘SEXY BEAST LILY ALLEN & HER WICKED, WICKED WAYS...’ may show Lily Allen as more of a sex kitten than a person and go into detail about her relationships and actions.
Rachel Smith J 209 August 2nd, 2011 Final Paper Lady Gaga: A Growing Media Franchise There are many up and coming singers in the U.S. today striving to set themselves apart from others in order to be recognized in the music industry. Five years ago, this was the case for Stefani Germonotta, a young singer trying to separate herself from all the other singers searching for recognition. Stefani, now known to the world as Lady Gaga, was able to not only gain recognition in the music industry for her singing and song writing, but also learned that she needed to create an image that would completely set herself apart from other pop singers. Now known for her outrageous fashion, daring lyrics, and unpredictable performances, Lady Gaga has gone to extremes to sell herself as a music and media icon. Luckily for her and everyone involved in the brand that is “Lady Gaga,” going to extremes has certainly paid off.
Hollywood’s Whores Music has always been an inspirational outlet for self expression and as a way to let go of suppressed feelings—many of which are not so pleasant. Various songs in the modern rock genre always come to mind when controversies arise in Hollywood. The band Papa Roach is no exception. Songwriter and Papa Roach band singer Jacoby Shaddix introduced the explicit song Hollywood Whore in 2008 and a music video for the song in middle October of the year. The song, directed to various celebrity women, presents today’s modern woman as scandalous, with an unsung claim of reevaluation of oneself and purity needs to be reintroduced in the media.
Robert Hart - Popular Music: History and Politics Lady Gaga: Manufactured Music Mannequin or Political Pop Phenomenon In my Popular Music: History and Politics essay I intend to explore the impact Lady Gaga has had on the significance of Pop music today, and whether her appeal lies within her music or the media frenzy she creates around herself with the exploitation of her flamboyant personality/lifestyle. I also wish to discuss how she has used her fame as a way of helping eradicate major issues in modern day society including the treatment of the LGBT community, of which she has incessantly voiced her support. Maureen Callahan describes Lady Gaga as ‘a once-in-a-decade artist, the rare instant celebrity whose appearance can become a cultural event,’ (Callahan, 2010) this statement is one of many used to describe Gaga’s almost instantaneous impact on the music world. However as you delve deeper into her background you realise that the woman who is now a ‘pop culture provocateur who mixes high-and-low culture, the avant-garde with the accessible, ''downtown'' authenticity with the sheen of glamorous artifice’ (Callahan, 2010) has worked incredibly hard to get to where she is now, and she does so for many reasons. The global superstar and extremely self-disciplined workaholic we see now is a product of years of dedication to her craft.
Certain magazines, like Seventeen, talk about being body positive, but show slim models in their pages (Benowitz-Fredericks et al, 2012). How is an adolescent girl going through changes supposed to make heads or tails of what they are reading? In addition, many television networks talk about going against body ideals, but have only thin actresses on the network. Even within the music industry there are songs about being body positive, yet they come from singers who are relatively slim. Being heavier than “normal” becomes a criticism of character and leaves girls the most vulnerable.
In Coco’s career, she astounded everyone with her fashion creations didn’t let the fame get to her head. Coco hated the way women had to dress at the time because they wore extremely tight clothes so she came up with much more comfortable clothes that had been in the men’s collection collared shirts with ties and boater hats. Coco continued to help women with their wardrobe and designed new innovations. She introduced her perfume, Chanel No. 5, in 1922.