show “Sara Palin’s Alaska” she is bound to attract more followers, her opening night net 5 million plus viewers. It’s self evident that her supporters will follow her any ware. With that said her critics say that this is the explanation for her daughter Bristol Palin’s sudden rise to fame and fortune in this seasons Dancing with the Stars. The accusation that Bristol who is not a dancer, nor a star, is being purpled thru the competition by the Tea party. The media claims that Bristol Palin’s camp and the Tea Party are feeding the voting system with false Email address votes.
This really got people listening and earned her 8 Grammy nomination and 2 wins. This first album is automatically got people attention and many were listening to her, many of my friends and I included. Once you got a taste of what she was about everyone wanted more. Once Lady and Gaga made a name for herself, she never stopped producing more and more for people to love her for. She followed this album with “The Fame Monster” and “Born this Way” both hitting the charts at high levels.
Annie Leibovitz being one of the most famous women photographers in modern history frequently explores the concepts of her personal medium. Conveying a significant amount of technique and skill Leibovitz stuns the world with her extrodinary yet unique images.She is one of the most determined photographers for celebrity pictures and became a celebrity herself that way. Annie Leibovitz has always been interested in the arts sincea very young age. In her high school years she focused on music, then dance. When starting univeristy however she took a great interest in visual artists and considered to pursue her career as an art teacher.
The girls were executing every play to perfection. We won the game, silencing a team of seniors who had taunted us for weeks before the game. Almost sweeter than our decisive win, I realized, was the fact that we were celebrating our win as a group of close friends, many of whom we had just made a few short months
The show later on grew on to presenting sensational stories and outrageous guests to attract more viewers. In the 1990’s Oprah began to devote attention to spiritual values, healthy living and self help this made the program more popular than ever. Driven by her terrifying child hood memories Oprah initiated a campaign to establish a national database of convicted child abusers. As the years passed Oprah kept adding to her great list of achievements. Its not always how you start but how you finish things off and how hard you work to change them.
Lady Gaga's success was built on more than just her talents as an entertainer. Lady Gaga and management seized the power of using popular social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to build a strong support base, fan by fan. To publicize her first single "Just Dance," Lady Gaga and team took to the social media airwaves with a handcrafted approach: she wrote (and continues to write) her own Tweets, and maintained close control over her other social media accounts. YouTube was also used as a promotional tool, management released a series of short two-minute videos on her personal channel titled “Transmission: Gaga-Vision”. Lady Gaga’s team understood that imagery was a large element of her brand and utilized the platform that YouTube offered.
“I am on this stage because I am a pretty, white woman, and in my industry we call that a sexy girl,” says Cameron Russel on her Ted Talk. While people in poorer countries can’t pay for surgery that they need to survive, Americans spend millions on surgery to make them look better. For example, the number of breast surgeries increased five hundred and ninety-three percent from 1992 to 2002 according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons website. Magazines geared toward woman are filled with cosmetic advertisement, which targets women in their teens to thirties. Its main contents are make-up, jewelry, fashion design, and celebrities.
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”.
Hello Kitty was soon on her way to become a celebrity. “Although, Hello Kitty was originally conceived as a character that would only appeal to pre-teen girls. She is no longer regarded as for children only. Along with the likes of Coke and Nike, she has become a brand of recognition.” (Walker) Not only was she popular among the young girls, she is now loved by everyone of all shape, size, and color. “The sales of Hello Kitty merchandise now account for half of Sanrio’s billion dollar empire with her face adorning over 50,000 products, and being sold in more than 60 countries.”(Walker) Simple products such as coin purses, jewelry, and skateboard decks have became popular in sales.
Viral ads, which are also known as guerrilla marketing more often nowadays, are the newest way to get media messages out to the public through the spread on the internet. Many of these are over the top and very innovative. Music is used widely here to make their messages memorable and to keep audience members entertained and intrigues as these messages are fairly longer than normal TV advertisement spots. “The goal of marketers interested in creating successful viral marketing programs is to identify individuals with high Social Networking Potential (SNP) and create viral messages that appeal to this segment of the population and have a high probability of being passed along,” (http://fasttrack2business.com/). One popular viral ad that can be looked at for this discussion would be for the new Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper.