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dancing. Madonna says that New York helped her become tough and that not making cuts made helped her work harder and showed her that nothing is easy. Madonna eventually met a person that took her music serious and she had 45 #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Madonna changed the world with her music. She wore a different costumes everywhere she went to make the people want more. People will always remember Madonna as a performer, a show stopper, and a amazing singer with a number of…

by a female to have made it to the roster. Due to the unconventional story found within its lyrics, it is no wonder that people noticed and hoisted it to several charts such as ARIA (peaked at number 4), Canada's RPM (placed at top spot), US Billboard Hot 100 (number 1 spot) and Dutch Top 40 (peaked at number 1). A plethora of musicians have done their own covers of this very influential song on the likes of Jonas Blue, The Flying Pickets, Boyce Avenue, Amazing Transparent Man, Vertical…

She’s So Unusual was created and sung by Cyndi Lauper. This album is a pop/rock album and, it has a variety of different songs, no two are the alike. My overall impressions of the songs are that they are crazy, funky, weird, fun, playful and, energetic. All of the songs in the album are very catchy, upbeat and inventive tunes. This album has a personality of its own. In this album she usually sang, and had studio musicians play. Her main studio musicians were Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman (of…

Just a couple of days after its initial release, ‘The Heist’ jumped all the way to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 in the second slot. The song ‘The Thrift Shop’ has given Macklemore his very first Top 1 single as this song stayed on the zenith of the charts for six weeks. Songs such as ‘Same Love’ and ‘Can't Hold Us’ is also included on this second studio…

“War” is most famously sung by Edwin Starr. Edwin Star was born Charles Edwin Hatcher on Jan. 21, 1942, in Nashville, Tennessee and died April 2, 2003. Edwin Starr completed two years of military service in the USA and German. In 1962, after his military career was over, he moved to Detroit, Michigan to work on his musical career. By the middle of the 1960s, he had produced many major hits in collaboration with others under the name of Ed Wingate.1 By the end of the 1960s he had reached…

In “Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts” by Jon Caramanica, the author describes the recent trend of people with criminal records becoming sensations in the hip-hop/rap community. The author keys in on three main factors as of why these troubling artists are becoming so popular. The hip hop community’s tolerance of complicated histories, lack of understanding their artists’ backgrounds, and young and misleading crowd stands as the author’s factors as to why these…

Does Rap Have A Negative Heavy Influence On Our Youth Today? Many people believe that rap music and lyrics are infused with both misogynistic and violence glorifying ideologies. This very mentality is often expressed through displaying what others, along with author Gretchen Cundiff view as prevalent negative aspects that are presented within the popular genre. This principle is heavily expressed throughout the analyzation of Gretchen Cundiff’s article titled “The Influence of Rap and Hip-Hop…

She took her first steps in the entertainment industry whilst still a child, when at the age of five she wrote her first song. This turned out to be a success for Debbie, as she continued with her writing talent and eventually hit no.1 at the “Billboard Hot 100” with the single “Foolish Beat” in 1988. Apart from being famous as an 80s teen pop star, Gibson is also well known for her theater career, mainly starring roles in Broadway and touring musicals. Have you ever wondered how rich Debbie…

Adele Adkins was born May 5, 1988, in North London, England. She was raised by her mother, Penny Adkins, a woman who loved the arts. Penny, gave birth to Adele when she was only eighteen years of age. Adele’s father, Mark, unfortunately left Adele and her mother when she was only four years old. He was never married to Penny, and even after leaving, he attempted to be somewhat apart of his daughter’s life through communication up into her teens. Mark’s struggling addiction with alcohol…

Taylor Swift (Billboard The Hot 100). Many Americans know of these artists by some of their more impressionable, repetitive songs consisting of: Sugar, Payphone (Maroon 5), What Makes You Beautiful, Story Of My Life (One Direction), Bad Blood, Shake It Off (Taylor Swift), and Problem (Ariana Grande). Rap artist are mainly affected by the culture of where they are raised. The current, notable rap artists include: Drake, Mac Miller, Fetty Wap, Macklemore, and Nicki Minaj (Billboard The Hot 100).…