Avril Lavigne

Thomas Edison a famous American inventor, who invented many life influential devices and one of the first inventors who used mass production stated the following quote. “To invent something takes 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” I agree that to make a goal or an idea reality it takes a lot of hard work. Thomas Edison invented many life changing devices e.g. electric light, sound recording, and motion pictures. My reasons why I agree to the quote Thomas Edison stated is the following.…

We all have or will experience something or someone from another part of the world. There are three different ways that America has influenced the world, through culture, american ideas, and music. There are different countries that America has influenced including China and Mexico. China has taken in Mcdonalds into part of their lifestyle and Gap Clothing in their style with music. Africa has made a good influence on the U.S by bringing their cooking, music, and art styles with them. Mexico has…

SEX SELLS Stephanie Stergis MUS-210-220N: History of Rock Music Spring 2015 Stephanie Stergis Professor Todd Campbell MUS-210-220N 9 May 2015 Sex Sells The history of rock music is filled with sex. From the Psychedelic era in the 1960s, mainstream rock and the rise of punk in the 70s, hair bands in the 80s, to a slew of boy bands and pop princesses in the 90s and 2000s, sex appeal has always been the key to success. Sex sells and the musicians who have taken advantage of…

conservative housewife and businesswoman. Today, pop icons such as Jennifer Lopez, Eminem, Nelly, Sean "P" Diddy Combs, among others all influence fashion trends through their own clothing lines. Finally, cultural icons such as Christina Aguilera and Avril Lavigne defy the conformist trends by altering their conservative clothing to represent a sense of individuality and rebellion; thus, no matter one's personal preferences there is always an aesthetic group in which on can relate, conform to,…

Chapter 15- Rock Traditions and the Business of Change The music industry itself developed and introduced a new idea in selling albums. Starting from the 1970s, with the DIY revolution, to the 1990s, featuring digital recording, prices and accessibility to digital music became cheaper and easier to use. Thus, electronic distribution was the first to revolutionize. Internet sales thrived as compact disks became less of a desire for people to travel to buy; the sales of physical CDs declined…