At the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus performed a highly sexual performance that exploited her as she twerked on her performance partner, Robin Thicke, while wearing virtually nothing. Most of the world was left in shock, asking why Cyrus would do this as she was already a successful Disney Channel star. In fact, Cyrus was blamed for promoting the pornification of women and being a bad role model. Although, Thicke, engaging in the act just as much as Cyrus and being sixteen years her senior, received very little backlash. Why was Cyrus blamed more than Thicke? Why did Cyrus engage in this highly sexual act on a public stage in the first place? Did Cyrus feel the need to do this in order to make herself relevant and prove that she
Whitney Houston is considered to be a legendary singer in the world today. Houston was not just a singer, she was an actress, producer, and model. Even though she is known for her singing voice, Whitney Houston had many ups and downs throughout her life, such as drug and health problems that almost ended her career. Throughout her singing career, she has been honored for her great singing voice. Whitney experienced many things in her personal life from being an outstanding woman, an award winning singer, and an actress and model.
began, there were hardly any female rappers well known. She is a quite recent rapper but it did
Thanks to Victoria, British Columbia in Canada, the world has come to know a talented artist by the name of Nelly Furtado. You'd never gone to have any difficulties reminding her, as her goddess-like face is all that you need to remember. But when that mouth opens to sing songs, then it's a whole new level to like her even more than you expect. Her musical inclination is not just about singing by playing an impressive set of instruments on the likes of keyboard and piano, guitar, ukulele and even trombone.
scandalous behavior would be Miley Cyrus. A daughter of country singer, Billy Ray Cyrus, then as an extremely favored Disney star, Hannah Montana- was just a start to the Miley Cyrus we know today, a tongue-swinging, sedulous-twerking pop sensation. Cyrus has become recognized for recent behaviors, such as, explicit sexual expression at the MTV Video Music Awards, drug use, and rapid mood swings.
For this assignment I will listen to the song “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus and describe it in detail. I will then analyze the song with Parasocial Contact Hypothesis and Regret Theories in mind and find two factors that would predict why other people might choose to listen to “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus.
Whitney Houston to most was a very amazing and talented person who allowed life and its mishaps break her down. As a young girl she grew up in the church where she felt like it was a sign from God that she should be singing. Freud believes that religion is an illusion, an attempt to gain control over the external world. In his eyes saying that anything is a sign from God depends on how you vision life. There were times in her life where she would produce more music just to get thru the thing that she would be going through. She would use her music as a defense mechanism to get away from all of the abuse, problems with her marriage, neglect, and drugs. Defense mechanisms are ways to distort reality to reduce anxiety: Rationalization is giving a positive reason to a stressor and regression is withdrawing from reality and going to pastime.
A substantial influence in preserving this notion of culture as a trend comes in part from the impact of celebrity and popular culture. When discussing celebrity influence in her interview, hooks primarily discusses Madonna’s use of black culture to reproduce her image. Currently, this idea of appropriating culture to redefine a celebrity’s stardom is most associated with Miley Cyrus. In a recent interview with Vibe magazine, Timothy and Theron Thomas, the writers and producers behind Miley Cyrus’s hit single “We Can’t Stop,” discussed her new music. They stated that Cyrus had wanted something “that was urban, something that felt black (Platon),” an arguably good business move because she is now more famous than she has ever been. However, Cyrus’s new level of fame does not solely generate from hooks’ belief in America’s obsession with blackness. It also correlates with hooks’ discussion of the black woman’s experience in Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Black women are presumably the lowest ranking in the social system of hierarchy. Thus American consumers, who are primari...
Parents did not approve of Cyrus swinging into concerts on giant tongues or hot dogs, and most parents certainly did not approve of her licking sledge hammers in the music video for “Wrecking Ball.” She has become known for her controversial appearances at award ceremonies. In 2013 at MTV’s European Music Awards, Miley pulled out marijuana and smoked while she accepted the video of the year award. This sparked a lot of media attention. Cyrus’s twerking at the 2013 Video Music Awards also sparked quite a bit of controversy because she was twerking on stage with a married
"Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive, " Miley Cyrus once said. Her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, knew even as a baby, Miley could sing (Miley Cyrus Quotes). She has an extraordinary story. One day Miley was just a normal girl and what seemed like the next day, a pop star. She was introduced to fame at a very young age and is now still growing up in front of the world. She was born Destiny Hope Cyrus because her parents believed she would achieve greatness (Miley Cyrus Biography). They had a lot of hope and promise for their young daughter. Miley is one of the most successful kids from Disney and now she is rising to fame all on her own. It is hard having everyone watch your every move and being constantly photographed, but she deals with it because she loves what she does. Miley Cyrus has led a very unique life both through her childhood and teen life.
Some might disagree with Klosterman’s view on Perez Hilton and his villainy, but that is because they do not realize the amount of hatred and sorrow Perez Hilton has brought upon the world. Perez Hilton might seem like a bully to some but if we take a step back and look at the big picture we will see that he is in fact the definition of evil. Because he makes spreading lies and harassing people on the internet seem like such a wonderful job to have, people who are reading his blogs and looking up to him as an idol take bullying and harassing people as normal thing. Nowadays internet bullying is such an overwhelming problem for our society and we struggled to find the source of problem because the internet moves so quickly. “The reason Perez
Mariah Carey was born March 27, 1970 in Huntington, Long Island, New York. Her parents are Alfred Roy Carey and Patricia Carey who was a voice coach and opera singer. Mariah Carey shocked her family when she inherited her mother's vocals so she began singing lessons at age four. Today she is one of the most known artist but is also a film actress, music producer, songwriter, and she has won many awards. The day after she graduated high school she moved to New York City to pursue her music career. She started her career as a backing vocalist for Brenda K. Starr who gave columbia records Mariah’s demo tape at a party thrown by CBS records. The goal was to give the demo to a man named Jimmy Greenberg but it ended up in the hands of the president of Columbia records, after that her career took off.
Miley Cyrus is a cultural icon. Since the time she was fourteen the media has been scrutinizing every move she makes. From whom she is dating, to what roles she chooses and what she says. But nothing is scrutinized more than her performances; most specifically Miley’s performance at the MTV VMA’s. Miley preformed her song We Can’t Stop and along with Robin Thicke preformed his song Blurred Lines. This performance led to a huge backlash in the media. Every major new station covered it. CTV even brought in psychiatrists and experts on the media to analyze her performance. The next morning Miley’s news story had even beaten out the Syrian war crimes. The experts all came to the same conclusion that she was out of control, and a slut. Miley was most heavily criticized on her attire, and her interactions with Robin Thicke. Everyone was claiming that she was setting a bad example for young girls; CNN even went so far as to claim her “performance sets girls and women back” (Wallace 2013)
On a sunny day in Los Angeles, California on June 4 , 1975 an actress named Angelina Jolie was born. Angelina was born to an actor named Jon Voight who was well known for his role in “Coming Home” and an actress Marcheline Betrand. Angelina was the youngest of her siblings , she had an older brother named James Haven. When Angelina was two her parents split and she moved to Palisades, New York with her mother and brother.
Twerking is not a new sensation, but the media portrays it to be. By the late 1990’s, hip-hop had been declared as the mainstream of American music. Both Destiny’s Child and other musicians recorded and released songs about twerking. In August 2013, American recording artist Miley Cyrus, caused controversy following a sexually provocative performance during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, in which she twerked during her performance with Robin Thicke. This was one of the most controversial performances on television in the year 2013, as she made it hard for the veiwers to forget. Critics accused her of cultural appropriation, but Miley states she had “hoped to make history” with that performance. "What 's amazing is… people are still talking about it," Cyrus said in an interview with MTV News. "They 're thinking about it more than I thought about it when I did it. Like, I didn 't even think about it cause it was just me being me". Cryus knew she would make history, but probably did not expect the criticism about negatively demonstrating culture appropriation. On stage as well as in her music video, she had black women as her backing singers dancing in a sexual manner. Racism plays back into this performance, embodying black women to be sexual objects. Twerking has been on the rise ever since the media made it a sensation, steadily picking up speed
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