In today’s society, just the mere mention of the name “One Direction” can cause a young teenage girl to experience heart palpitations, sweaty palms, and an intense desire to jump up and down. Even during the nineties, with the births of *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, the reception from the fans have not been as enormous as it is now. In terms of fan reception, teenagers are an interesting group as they represent a wide, powerful community that interacts smartly through social media. Not only does there seem to be an established relationship between the bands and their fans, but there also seems to be a strong effect in the fans’ psychological states, creating an infatuation that exceeds the standard admiration. The worldwide infamous boyband, One Direction, was formed in 2010 on the British talent show, the X Factor. Originally starting off as individual artists, the British musical producer Simon Cowell recruited Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik and formed them into a group, where they …show more content…
From life-size cardboard cutouts to graphic t-shirts, the five boys can be found almost anywhere in a store targeted for young girls. What causes this crazed mania? Neuroscientist Stefan Koelsch delves into the reasoning, “As soon as Directioners listen to the music and find the music pleasurable, what happens to the brain is that a neurochemical called dopamine is released and provides feelings of joy and happiness… the girls are not crazy, the girls are just excited” (This Is Us). Quite often, the media likes to pit One Direction fans with the so-called “Beatlemania”. Morgan Spurlock, the director of “This Is Us” states, “[o]nce you get outside of the country wherever they go they are chased by hordes of fans. We were in Mexico City and there were 5,000 people camping outside the hotel… such a massive global phenomenon and it’s only growing”
Through creating such a distinctive approach to music, Rivers has developed a fan base that stands out from the mainstream crowd. For the most part, a Weezer fan has a distinct look, age, emotional status, and social status. The socially inept, clumsy nerds who sport black-rimmed glasses, and are between the ages of 17-28 are usually put under the category of being a Weezer fan. The main characteristic of th...
By going to as many concerts as they can, fans help the band sell more and you help themselves look and feel like a bigger fan. I personally went to all of their bay area concerts and had to drive down to Pasadena, CA for one when they didn 't have a show here. This made me feel and seem very devoted to the band . Socializing is another big thing in the community of directioners, it helps you meet more people in the same community and creates friendships. For example, just last week I visited a friend in Stanford University who I met through One Direction and I 've made many other online friends that i have more in common with than people around me. Many fans devote their time to fan accounts that they have created to be able to connect with fans and talk about their problems and also talk about the bands
Here, they rid themselves of average, familial and school-age problems and bask in the glory of teenagerdom, drinking from their Holy Grail of liberty. Here, listening to “the music that made everything so good” (2), they finally taste the maturity they yearn for.
When the music group Radiohead first burst on to the music scene seven years ago, it became immediately evident through information means such as music articles, album covers, and an extensive website, that this particular band was not just another long-haired, head-bobbing grunge group only out to sell as many albums as they could. This band had a much greater mission than that. It was to inform as many people as they could of their political, social and economic convictions through their personal website. While dozens of other websites have cropped up about Radiohead, this website remains uniquely their own because of its direct listing name and multi-faceted page within a page of personal comentaries, many written in a barely legible free-hand style, of such issues as upcoming protest rallies, animal testing, predictions on Middle East genocides, wrongful government spending, and barely sqeezed in daily journal entries on their current music progress. With Radiohead's political accusations constantly being updated in oversized bold print, their political cartoons of talking teddy bears appearing on a vast amount of web pages, and an often rushed-looking hand-written on their musical progress, it becomes evident that this website was created more as a world news commentary than a self-indulgent display case of itself.
Every famous musical artist or group always has a following of fans, that following of fans is what keeps these artists popular in the industry. Everyone knows that the more fans an artist has, the more successful they are. When the band One Direction was formed on The X Factor, a reality television music competition, it was the start of something big. Compared to the likes of a modern day ‘Beatlemania’, One Direction have taken the world by storm. And so have their fans. With the formation of this boy band, the fans of One Direction have created their own social group.
According to the Kennesaw State University’s research thesis paper, Exploring Dress and Behavior of the emo subculture, Kaci Schmitt addresses the reasoning for music of teenage amos when she reveals, “ Emo kids all have one crucial characteristic in common: they are all drawn into the emo subculture by their love of music. The connection between the emotions and instances of their lives and the music speaks that to them is undeniable for teenagers in general, but for the emo subculture in particular”(7). Schmitt confirms the point of teenage emos liking music due to it speaking to the emotions one carries, which is typically for any teenage out there. Feeling a connection to a song or genre is common for any teenage and aims for one’s internal feelings and is not only targeted at teenage emos. Being an aggressive person is not determined by a certain genre of music, but rather by any individual, emo or not, and how one displays a set of characteristics in public. According to a paper written by Brian Bailey from the University of Rochester, Emo Music and Youth Culture, Bailey describes the real reason emo music is popular among the youth by pointing out, “The behaviors, attitudes, and values expressed through the music[ emo music] involve emotionally turbulent themes often associated with adolescence such as despair, nostalgia, heartbreak, hope, and self-loathing”(1). Bailey describes what the music consists of, showing that it is not an uncommon form of expression for the teenage emo culture. These themes follow all genres and are not exclusive to the emo music drama, but rather to all forms of genres to those expressing what it is like to be an adolescent in today’s
People are surrounded by music every day of their lives. They hear it in their homes, on the radio on their way to work; some people have even caught themselves humming the tune of their favorite song to themselves. But how many people actually listen and not just hear the music they are listening to? Teens in particular don’t realize the message behind the music they are quoting the lyrics to, or the effect it has on them. In today’s culture where rap music has become increasingly popular, many teens aren’t realizing what they are listening to. A lot of teens would argue that the music they listen to has no effect on them, but they are wrong. Rap music, especially, has had a major impact on teenagers in today’s society.
Do you know anything about Bruno Mars? Well I am going to tell you about Bruno Mars. Bruno Mars was a very famous pop singer who was born in October of 1985 in Honolulu Hawaii. He grew up around music; his whole family musical. He got his name “Bruno” from his older sister, Jamie, because he was so, “independent and brute” quote from Jamie. His real name was peter gene Hernandez. Bruno never really got trained to play musical instruments; he learned how to play instruments by being surrounded by the most of his child hood. During Bruno’s musical life he improvised to learn music and how to play musical instruments.
It managed to create a global fan service in a very short period of time. The Kpop wave or Hallyu did not only reach Southeast Asian countries but also Western and Middle Eastern countries. Each region makes a target for Kpop music industry to sell different products based on convenience and culture. There are many artists who were behind the success of Kpop, such as PSY who became global in a very short period, SNSD, EXO and many other internationally successful Kpop artists and groups. Nevertheless, the way entertainment companies represent idols to the media moves by the stereotypes and expectations of each culture and gender which shapes the actions of both idols and fans. Idols go through training systems to shape them the way they are presented in the media for the public audience physical wise and personality wise. However, some idols eventually develop mental illness such as anorexia because of not eating to lose weight and stay slim and maintain the image of a perfect idol in the media. The same issue happens to Kpop fans, who not only refuse non-slim idols but seek to be as skinny as those idols. It is a back and forth influential relationship. However, some idols try to break gender norms but they fail and lose popularity eventually such as the girl group called “The Ark”. Other groups fight their agencies for the unfairness of working conditions and payment, and many law suits were exposed in the media because of the unfair life of a Kpop trainee and an
This description of fans exhibits the intriguing nature and great interest so called fans has for their idols. It is argued that fans are the most creative and active group out of all of the media audiences. This could be because of the lengths fans go to in order to find out about the latest news concerning their idols or to get the latest merchandise provided by their idols. The examples of the activities fans engage in such as waiting in line for hours to receive front row tickets to their favourite artist’s concert is argued to make fans the most identifiable and visible media audience.
Generation y has revolutionized how people think and create music. “The world considers generation y to be generation x on steroids (Sophia Yan).” The adults and teens...
In the world of rock music, there are usually two types of fans - the casual admirers, and the amped up, wild fanatics. But few of them understand the true meaning and zeal of rock n’ roll as the
It’s the time for a never ending debate among pop fans that lived through the late ’90s and early 2000s ‘N Sync or Backstreet Boys? Back in the day, these two groups pretty much ruled the radio airwaves and TV, with their tunes jamming from car stereos and cd players all over the world and their music videos playing nonstop on networks like MTV and VH1. Still to this day twelve years later I’m still being asked to choose between Backstreet boys or ‘N Sync and today so are you. I believe backstreet boys surpasses ‘N sync in many different ways. They have Heart devoted fans, meaningful music, and they stick together as a group.
Americans believe that after ‘N Sync, boy bands were dead and then brought back by One Direction. Although One Direction is a British group, American has accepted them as the return of boy bands. That can be proven wrong by looking over at South Korea. While ‘N Sync lasted seven years a Korean boy band, Shinhwa, has been together for sixteen years and is still ongoing, meaning that One Direction was not the return of boy bands, but have just been added to the list. Kpop has been alive for very long and has found its way into peoples’ hearts. The fame that follows Kpop has introduced people into the Korean culture and has influence other parts of the world. Although KPop is a very important factor in the spread of Korean culture many people do not know what Kpop is, therefore the question would be what is Kpop and who are the biggest Kpop stars?
Imagine being put together as a band with total strangers and blowing up social media and having millions of fans all around the world and saving thousands of teenage girls’ lives by just being there and making music. That band I love was formed about four years ago on July 23, 2010 they are a British-Irish boy band known as One Direction. There are five members of the group, Harry Styles (from Cheshire, England) Niall Horan (from Westmeath, Ireland), Liam Payne (from Wolverhampton, England), Louis Tomlinson (from Doncaster, England), Zayn Malik (from Bradford, England). The members of one direction individually auditioned for the British show, ‘The X-Factor’. When Harry auditioned, he sang ‘isn’t she lovely’ by Stevie Wonder, Niall sang ‘so sick’ by Ne-Yo, Louis sang ‘hey there Delilah’, Liam sang, “cry me a river’ by Julie London, and Zayn sang, ‘let me love you’ by Mario. They all made it through but after a few weeks of the x factor boot camp, The Judges, Simon Cowell, Nichole Scherzinger, and Louis Walsh had to give the boys bad news and tell them they would not make it as solo ...